What makes your home, home?
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| Shabby chic, or a hoard? |
For me my Edwardian dresser, an old eBay bargain, epitomises my feelings of 'home'. It houses the badly painted dolls house that my middle daughter was given for her birthday, complete with wobbly wallpaper and flooring as she helped decorate her house all those years ago.
My small collection of china, I love teacup trio's and had started to gather a Susie Cooper 'Wild Strawberries' dinner set back in the day, I can't afford that luxury for now so enjoy what I do have.
There's a small unframed oil painting of a vase of flowers painted by my paternal grandmother whilst she was in her mid 80's. I remember her being so touched when I asked if I could have it, I love it's simplicity and the fact that Nan painted it.
Our loose change jar is the ceramic Marmite pot given to me as a gift by a friend who knows my passion for the dark stuff.
On the middle shelf sits the Queen's silver jubilee mug that all children at my school were given, I cherished that mug as to be given something for nothing was a big deal back then.
There are five sherry glasses that my maternal grandmother, Grandma, gave me for my 'bottom drawer' in the late 1970's and a japanese painted egg that I gave to her as a gift.
Below the Jubilee mug stands a rather kitsch looking gypsy caravan, this was made by my father, he was such an artistic and talented crafter and although they are no longer in fashion it brings me great joy and evokes happy childhood memories of him making and painstakingly painting it.
Not visible in this photo but behind the candle holder given to me by a patient leaving hospital where I did my nursing training is a small carved bone perfume bottle with the lid missing. I bought this for my Grandma with my first weekly pay packet in 1979.
My dresser is like a snapshot of my life, it is full of happy memories and the cupboards hide my knitting wool stash!
Do you have a special piece of furniture or hoard of memories in your home? Do share if you do.
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