The Odd Things We Just Love

Do You Have Some Quirky Home Décor ?

If you have a fun and quirky home decorating side, then you get it. It's those items that are tucked here and there, or even have a prominent place out front and center. Like the special, sentimental Christmas ornaments you make sure to wrap up every year carefully; or the things you pack up for a move and actually wrap and mark that box! Nevertheless, they follow you wherever you go, that strange, sometimes ugly home décor you hang onto just because... Only you know why. And yes, it might be peculiar, but isn’t that the best of what great conversation pieces are made of?Uniquely, it has value to you, it makes you grin and takes you back to a memory that you just want to hold onto. Like the clay object, strung through a golden painted rope my son made me when he was six years old, still not sure really what it is, but he made it for me, with the proudest of looks on his little face, so cute! The glob of clay, thing, not so much! Is it a necklace, or bracelet maybe? I don't know.For some of us, it’s just one thing, and for others it's many… I can remember with just about every move that I’ve had, how I would painstakingly, grabb onto my special sentimental, “things,” that I had to preserve! Despite, eyes rolling, I would tuck, drag, or pile high, those irreplaceable treasures!

Special objects are our reminders of our lives journeys, and part of what makes a home feel like home. It's important to surround yourself with things that take you back, make you smile, and savor those great memories!

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My “to go bag”

I can still remember, on our big move, how my bag weighed down ridiculously, all to save my precious memories tied around each tiny treasure. Holding the glass, looking through it in the light, made me smile every time. And remembering all the fun we had when my cousins found it, fought over who should have it and finally, rested on me, the only girl in the mix! I was honored by their chivalry, they were truly precious to me! The smooth glass conjured such memories of my first trip to cold New England ocean waters, with sticky sand on my feet and teeth chattering, and how the green waters and the sounds of the tide can carry such unexpected pleasures. It was simply a must in my, " to go bag!" 

My Late Twenties - Special Friendships

It was a true sentimental gifting moment that sticks to mind. I can remember pushing my must have, thing into the back of our moving truck! I know I must have looked a little crazy with a shovel in one hand and a tree in the other, as my late husband rolled his eyes (in a smirky, playful way), not understanding the true value of that little tree. The tree was more of a symbol really, my neighbor had come to trust me, not letting many in. He came to regard me in such a way, treating me like family, reading me old letters that he had written to his wife when he served in the Vietnam War. I could see the value he had placed on our friendship, and I was honored to be a part of his latter years. Our shared love of Botany and our friendship were both intertwined within the branches of that little tree and rooted forever.That little tree was odd, it's funny offset form and interesting flair, reminded me of my friends eccentric ways, his humor and extreme thriftiness (hoarding really) made the gift all the more sweet. I knew he never let anything go, and I knew giving something he truly valued was the ultimate form of flattery.

My Thirties - Sentimentality

My special things were a lot about the kiddos, during these years: making sure I had a scrapbook and procured little baby items, such as their little locks of hair saved (weird to some, I know). To be clear, only the very first baby haircut, still weird? Maybe... and the baby hospital caps, booties and such, and of course irreplaceable pictures of the family. My album with an assortment of pictures, sketches and memories of time past, the kind of stuff that conjure up moments you just want to keep forever in your thoughts. Memories, Oh my! Like the way my son would mispronounce certain words: the refrigerator was pronounced as, "fitterfator!" My daughter on her little plastic, yellow phone, at three years old; she would walk around the house, saying that she needed to, "Check her emails!" OMG, I miss it, can you die of cuteness?Goggles and rubber duckies for bath time fun; mommy's slippers on tiny feet; the magic of blowing bubbles, and bedtime stories piled so high with bindings tattered from so many happy reads! And I sigh, for that bitter sweetness of growing up...

Now, in my forties - My Personal Growth

Forties, which always sounds old when I say it out loud… in my head too. Can't I just be, say, thirty-eight forever? I could pass for thirty-eight for a few more years...kidding! My strangest item, thus far, is my cherished little thinker statue. It was a thrift store find actually. Something I picked up while thrifting with my mother. It makes me think of our treasure hunts together, our special bond that can never break, and her ever-giving and adventurous spirit!The kids love to make fun of his tush on the backside…no pun intended.. He..he!  Yes, it’s a cheap knockoff, obviously, there isn’t even an artist’s mark to be found. And I don’t know if it’s a result of several coats of paint that I have adorned him with, or not, but he does look a little saggy in the bottom! Maybe, that adds to the many reasons he follows me where ever we go. Yes, life does change us, I can see the effects of aging in my forties now, and it’s not always pretty. But I do see also, the beauty in releasing some of the outward expectations and looking inward more. He reminds me of the artisans of that era and the great thinkers of the Renaissance Period. How valid the wisdom of Thoreau, Emerson & Walt Whitman are still to this day! This reminds me to look deeper in all things, stay grounded and keep on learning! Do you have any stories to tell, and …

what’s in your, “to go bag?”

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