Drinking Heavily and Some Other Stuff

Thank you all for your wonderful Valentine's Day wishes, I hope you all had a great day filled with love and surprises.  We spent a quiet evening watching movies and munching on cupcakes...perfection!

One of the nice things about not feeling 100% is the chance to slow down a bit and spend some time at home instead of running around at our normal breakneck pace!  When I was under the weather last week. I spent some time fluffing and re-arranging things in the house.

Although I can buy pieces of furniture and love them for years, I often find myself bored with the accessories in my house, so I'm constantly moving and changing things around.  Up until recently. the ruffled hobnail basket pictured above held my vintage croquet balls, but I thought it might make a nice container for my beach glass and pottery shards found along the beach. 

That little piece of lavender glass, that you can see in the picture, and a few others in the basket are from my dear friend Lili from Fearless Nesting.  Lili and I share a common love for found objects, especially those we find along the beach.  While I'm good at throwing my found objects into a bowl, Lili is wonderful at creating something special like Raku pottery that has bits of sea glass incorporated into it.

This little pewter dish seems to move all around my house, residing in the living room sometimes, in my bedroom at others.  I think it has lived in almost every room of our house at some point.  It was made by my son when he was in elementary school.  He did a project on pewtersmithing and created this wonderful little bowl that I love.  It's perfect for holding a set of tiny silver shells that my sister "M" gave me for my birthday one year.

A milk glass hobnail vase was another find I brought home when we cleaned out my parent's house.  I can't wait until the peonies in my flower bed bloom this spring so that I can fill it with fragrant pink and white blossoms!

This old set of binoculars once belonged to someone on my mother's side of the family.  My brother inherited a pair that once belonged to my grandfather, which I'm glad of because my brother really didn't take as many things as we girls did...I guess he wasn't in to milk glass! ;-) 

I remember sitting on my grandparent's side porch when I was younger and using the binoculars to look at the horses way out grazing in the field or birds on the apple trees.  I've loved old binoculars ever since, and I'm sure these probably belonged to one of my great uncles.  We keep them on the shutter table in our family room, close at hand to watch the swans or a pair of river otters that sometimes swim up and down our creek.

Now I know some of you clicked on this post thinking that based on the title I had taken to drinking heavily...but I hope you won't be disappointed to find that it refers to an old "Whisky" crate I'm using to hold my overflowing collection of shelter mags!  It was one of two we found in my parent's attic, my sister "M" has the twin, and I just love the way it looks and how it gives a nod to my new found Scottish heritage.  I do sort of wonder why my parents had two of these crates lurking in the attic though...just makes me curious since I never saw a bottle of King William IV Whiskey in our house...ever.


 

Although I don't have a drinking problem, I do have a serious magazine problem so this crate will help keep things a bit more tidy and organized.  Now if I could just get the rest of my house as organized...hmm maybe I should start drinking, then I simply wouldn't care right?!

I hope you're having a wonderful day my friends!