What are 5 of your favourite small things?

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I'm reposting on here so it doesn't get missed. It's a lovely thread.

My engagement ring.

A leather bookmark which was my mum’s. I think of her every time I open my library books, (which is every day).

A vintage little china set comprising a chamber pot, jug and basin. Sits on my bathroom window sill.

A photo of DH when he was about 5 years old. He looks so sweet, rather timid. The clothes he is wearing make him look like the boy in ‘Whistle Down The Wind’.

My copy of ‘Gone With The Wind’. My favourite book. Has been read dozens of times, but never tire of wishing Scarlett had ended up with Rhett.

I've been trying to think of more things. We have a shell that our granddaughter brought back from a holiday when she was a little girl. Also a wind chime that she made at school. I have a set of rosary beads that my daughter bought for me at the Vatican. I knew there must be something!

A small card with a four leaf clover my granddaughter gave me when she was very young, it lives in my purse.
A gold cross and chain my Mum used to wear, I rarely take it off.
The keeper ring my husband gave me for a birthday, always worn.
Three pieces of glasswork, one in the window, one with a tea light behind it and one by the window
We don’t have photos displayed or any other ornaments.

3 photos of my little Tuxedo girl cat who went to the Rainbow Bridge a month ago, my very elderly, about 90 years, Tortoise Bilbo Baggage, he is a noisy little terror banging his shell on his food plate for attention so called Baggage not Baggins! Alexa so I can listen to Planet Rock all day!

I'm not a things person so very few keepsakes.I have the piece of coal my Dad first footed us with at New Year 1975/76 .my OH has first footed us with it every year since.

A frame with little self portraits painted by my children and GC for my 65th birthday..needs updating theres one that has a question mark that has been a bright funny wee girl for four and a half years and a new one on the way.

My wedding ring,cost all of £20 in the Argyll Arcade in 1975 ,has been extended after being cut off my finger after I caught it on a nail.
A pair of tiny socks that my son wore in his incubator that were thigh high on him but barely measure 2 inches long ,I have a picture of him wearing them

A drawing by my daughter of a Photography Studio ,drawn when she was about 7 that says Mr Paddy and Daughter photographers above the entrance,she did come work with us and had her own photography business after she moved out of the area
A new one that I love a bronze Banksy statuette of the man throwing flowers not bombs..a gift from my daughter after we saw the Banksy exhibition last year ,I dont "do" ornaments but I love this one and it sits in front of my always lit salt lamp which frames it perfetlt

I love this thread:-
A green carved owl my grandson chose for me . My three rings I wear. One was my mum’s and she designed it . And my three rescue chihuahuas who mean the world to me

A jug I bought in Amsterdam
A glass rosebowl purchased from a place I worked at years ago.
A slate picture of my dogs
My mother's knitting basket
A small lidded pot from my brother's flat
'Mother' plates and a round china pot from my 2 sons when they were young.

I need to exclude my technology because it’s expensive, so not really small. A small infinity heart pendant from my husband. My wedding and engagement rings. My sewing machine and overlocker (although they weren’t cheap either to be fair).

All the cards and gifts my grandchildren have made for me ❤️ and pot shaped like a tomato which has faded that holds bits and pieces. My daughter made it at school not Clara cliff but love it. And family photos up the stairs.

Oh my goodness, only five!! I am definitely a things person and have so many. But I have nothing that means nothing - they’re not all beautiful or useful so can’t quote Wm Morris - and it’s wonderful to have things that mean so much and remind me of people. So here are a few -
A book DS bought me (in a primary school sale) on dahlias.
A self portrait DS did in secondary school.
The little tag with her name on that DD had to wear round her neck for her first days in primary school - she had to go by bus so each bus route had a different colour.
DM’s china mug.
DMiL’s knitting basket.
Numerous painting done by family members - some valuable, some not. Family furniture, ditto.
So many other things even as I look round the garden room I’m sitting in I’m surrounded.
Oh yes, I’m definitely a things person!

A note in my jewellery box from my father to me on the maternity ward saying lovely things about our newborn daughter. He was dying of cancer and was too poorly to visit.

A musical ‘21 Today’ card from Himself to me. We had been married only a few months by then.

My eternity ring.

A photograph of my late mum taken in Ibiza on our last (of many) holidays we took there together in pretty Es Caña. It sits in a frame on my bookcase and I look at it every day.

A small wooden box in our little Spanish apartment. It cost buttons but we bought it the week we bought the apartment - 20 years ago this summer and it reminds me of the joy I felt.

Oh so hard to just pick six! Galway Crystal vase on mantle piece bought at Kylemore Abbey Our wedding China in my display cabinet My wedding brooch bouquet im a vase on the window sill A Steven Brown print of a collie one side of the sitting room window and one on the other side of a cow and a Royal Doulton dinkydoo figurine that was a 21st birthday gift in display cabinet

Meant to say - what a lovely thread MissAdventure! An unusual topic but very interesting to read.

Thank you.
I was inspired by looking around at my flat, which resembles a tombola.

A watercolor antique map of The Cyclades Islands of Greece..

My alphabetised enormous book collection ..

Our wine collection ..

Obviously, our family photographs ..

Our stemware and glassware for festive occasions.

Miss Adventure,

This is a beautiful post ..

Thank you for creating it.

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I have a quilted table mat I made for my dining table, all made out of blue scraps.

I have some beautiful turned wood bowls and ornaments that were my mother's.

The bird bath outside my kitchen window is getting a good bit of custom now.

I made a huge union Jack cushion that's very bright and cheerful.

My lovely white daffodils are just opening. (It's still pretty cold up here in Northumberland.)

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Here are the other things:

A sculpture of a small boy reading a book - it's my husband aged 7, made by his mother.

My collection of little jugs which I started when I didn't have any money to spare; it was me telling fate I didn't care, I was still going to have something pretty.

A Caithness Glass vase which belonged to my late Mum.

A painting by Kathleen Caddick, an artist local to where I live.

My engagement ring, which originally belonged to my grandmother and which was bought for her by my father on his 21st birthday to thank her for being such a strong person (her husband was killed in an accident when he was only 36, leaving her to bring up 3 sons in near-poverty)

1. Family photos
2.The view of our garden and the park beyond.
3. A little fairy figurine with a smiling thoughtful look.
4. Our brand new bathroom.
5. A beautiful Irish jug given by someone special for our wedding 40 years ago.

hollysteers

Ceramic cat from my GD (love cats)
First paperback book of poems I bought when I was 15 (Keats)
My sketches of the family
Pebble from the beach where we scattered DHs ashes into the sea
Letter from the writer H.E.Bates replying to my teenage fan letter.

Envy for your H.E.Bates letter, I love his A Moment In Time, wish it was on Kindle.

Lovely thread.

Greyduster

A parting shot regarding blue John. It’s a corruption of the French “Bleu Jaune” referring to the blue-yellow veining in the stone.
I’ll get me coat!

Also as an alternative to Black Jack which the French lead miners were mining

Frenchgalinspain

Miss Adventure,

This is a beautiful post ..

Thank you for creating it.

Thanks to you and everyone else for filling it with, and sharing your treasures.