Dust and Glitter

Thanks for sharing your stuff and a piece of your world with us.

You have a wonderful collection Mariana! Thank you for sharing it with us!

Mariana!

First of all, congratulations for the proper spelling of "tschotskes." This word would bring down the nimblest spelling bee runner-ups. You come out on tops.

I love the carnival characters. Imagine the joy they brought to kids when life was simpler and there was more time between the big hands of a clock.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

I understand completely, Mariana! So many of our things belonged to loved ones: furniture, lamps, pictures, dishes, silver, glassware, quilts ... the list goes on and on. And of course, bric-a-brac, curios, ornaments, what-nots ... tschotskes (WHAT a great word!). I treasure them all and have passed many on to our married daughter. And there are some in reserve for our son, who at 23 and living a bachelor's life, isn't quite ready for them. We love our things ... because of who they belonged to and the memories they bring. Thanks for your wonderful article and photos.

Mariana, this is great love your collection............a little bit of everything!!! I love it all. I am resting (as I gather) from just dusting two book cabinets and cleaning all my what-nots in my husband's office.........notice I said his office...........all the other rooms are full with MY stuff so I had to start in there!!!! I love things too, -- really older things and things of my grandmother and things like she had. (I may do an article on some of her stuff that I was so fortunate to get). I love the the little figurine of the lady with blonde hair, red lips and the pearl necklace.....I could almost die for that one!!!!

Please post more ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!

It is fascinating to see the kinds of things that people collect. I enjoyed these artifacts very much.

I wonder what goes on there at night. Maybe ripe for a new animated movie called "Tschotskes Night Out," or maybe "Home Alone with the Tschotskes." Maybe some of them are Russian Revolutionaries and it could be called "Trotsky's Tschotskes." Or, maybe they compose classical music at night, hence "Tchaikovsky's Tschotskes. I could probably go on, but I'm starting to get ginchy. I think I'll calm myself down with a tschotske of whiskey.

Douglas Quinn
www.douglasquinn.com

Beautiful things! I am the keeper of the family treasures too. When my aunt passed away, her daughter (my cousin) mailed me all the belongings that she had saved from her mother. I feel so blessed to have my collection of old chinas and pretty little decorative things. Yours are so lovely! I bet many of those things are collector items so be careful when dusting :-)

How delightful!!! I'm so glad you have these treasures - they were intended to give us pleasure, make us laugh, smile wistfully, and remember.

Are you not just busting up over Douglas Q's comment? I love your mind, Douglas!

Blessings, friend...looking forward to seeing how your "little folks" re-arrange their villages next. They have truly come to life in your home, and reflect your sense of humor and nostalgia.

I LOVE IT that you used the word: tschotskes. Heard it many times. Never saw it written.
I have tried to clean up my little 'messes' many times over. Much like you, after arranging here and there, I almost never throw anything away. Everything is special.

Thanks all of you and yes I am cracking up over Douglas's ideas which and I'm not just being my usually bull-sheeter self - I was thinking of a cute movie idea - I am searching for a video camera that has the capability of a movie camera and can do fade ins and things like that...cinematic effects.
Oh and I did have this written in the first article but that orange bird up there came from a dear friend, Mona D. who loves the fact that she can see something and it will have my name on it!! This orange bird - Irma Jane came across the country and didn't even break! It's from a carnival - probably 40's...Anyway, I've been so busy lately forgive me folks for not posting and commenting as much.
Pamela - thanks - I actually had misspelled it the first time - I seem to always add a z!
Judy - no telling how they'll want to move around!
Jennifer - oh for sure - I will do that...
more later - it's such a nice day that it's 74 on my patio - am typing a transcript for my book right now - Miz Flora Belle talking about growing up in her little church at Katy...
Salud.

Phyllis - you are sunshine - love to see your smiling face - send me your address so I can send you a holy rock someday - I know you'll appreciate it! I have one that the beach gifted to me for a few reasons - so it's ok for it to move on - good energy! Later gator, Thanks for all your fabulous comments! Salud.

What a lovely collection of treasures. My dear, your spelling is always impeccable! Other people here make so many mistakes with even the simplest words that they make my teeth grind. I just deleted a mail about somebody's article without even reading it because there were 3 misspelled words just in the opening blurb you see in email messages about new articles.

I love your tschotskes too! I have many collections -one time a neighbor came in and rudely said,"OOO, I couldn't live like this....all this stuff"...well, she's not a friend obviously-I told her I didn't know how I'd live without my "stuff"-we are kindred spirits!

Love your collections, Mariana! They are such an expression of your wonderful personality and life! Mine are early ghosttown of course and fortunately early ghosttown means the dust and cobwebs come with the collection so if you don't dust it don't matter ;-) Stop by and see my latest post...life's been an up and down battle the last few days...but I'm pulling through......

Fun photo essay, Marianna. I enjoyed strolling through your collections. Nice.

Dear Mariana,

Honestly I was lost in seeing your photos and collection ..Is this about dust...I think it beautiful despite all things... and see you got a chance to make this as a photo essay..aren't they superb...?
Lovely

I am so envious! Unless I am wrong you have head vases, which had a huge jump in price on Ebay a few years ago. I have an actual McCoy clown on pig planter and some other old items.

I love looking at your treasures and I love that word. Now I know how to spell it!

thanks Robin, JCorn - I have several McCoy pieces but yours sounds really neat - I have about three head vases - I should get on ebay someday - I hate to part with things but I'm running out of room and have already filled up two houses with this stuff! Thanks Bhawana - appreciate! Thanks Lynn, ok Cecile, Patricia that's funny - Miz Dorine - amen to that lol...Salud.

I have a whole cupboard of treasures too, all have special meaning, from special people...

Mariana, your home must be a treasure trove for ideas and inspiration. I really enjoyed the photos. Personally, I'm not a big knick-knack fan because of all the dust. ;-) The stuff around my house gets dusty as it is, why add to that? ;-)

I'm also impressed with your fluency in language. Isn't that one word Yiddish? And you're what? Cajun-French?

paix

you have a marvelous collection of 'stuff'.
those dolls look like they have bisque faces
and are a few of your items composed of bake-o-lite?
i bet you go to some great auctions out there!

Hi Mariana, back again,---- I bet you look great in that cap and booties, there is no way you can look any other way!! Post a picture of you in the crochet cap and booties..........I bet you look darling, - you look darling in anything!! BTW, loved all the videos of the beach, that really comforted me!! Thanks again!!!!!! You are an angel!

Is that how you spell it. I'm with the Colonel in the land of "very impressed"
Your tschotskes are great fun (and like me with mine) I'm sure they bring you pleasure and sweet memories. Thanks for the peak!

I love your stuff, Marianne. Douglas comment makes me think of Johnny Gruelle who wrote the Raggedy Ann stories. He told stories to his dying little daughter about what her dolls and toys did at night after she went to sleep. Your collection gives one the feeling they are secretly alive having all sorts of adventures you don't know about.
A very nice article.

thank you for sharing your dust and glitter... it is very sweet... i have many old family pieces around here somewhere.... i enjoyed seeing yours... Blessings...
thank you always for your lovely comments...and your friendship...

Girly Comments & Graphics

This was so much fun getting to see some of your omniferious treasures, Mariana! Thank you so much! Sending a grateful 10 your way! :-)

This looks like my nanas shelf and every year she has to have a snow baby.
or a precious moments. This brings back memories for me at nanas.

Yes one's imagination could just wander. Douglas is funny. I love all of your stuff.

Very nice!

We have some treasures in common. That Strawberry Girl, mom my has her as a cookie jar. And we have the white dog with blue ribbon and the head vase and lots more headvases. You're right it's fun to go back throught them all, handle them, tell them they are special, talk to them a little.

That is a great collection, Mariana. I'm so glad you shared.

You have a wonderful collection of junque. I just love it. I too am a collector but finally had to have a glass case built because I was tired of dust.

I love the chalk look to some of your pieces, they remind me of winning figurines on the midway of the county fair.

Mariana, I am so glad I picked this one to read, as you know I am packing, so little time on Gather, one week to go, but this is the kind of thing I am dealing with, how do you pick what you save and what to toss or give away, All of it at one time meant so much to someone, but you can't move everything, I love this little photo essay you put up, thank you, makes me feel like I am not the only one who thinks everything is a "keeper"

Dear Miz Elsie - I have everything I've ever owned especially from childhood - we got one thing for Christmas so enjoy it - and I kept it all - of course, they weren't much but the best we could get - we grew up knowing the value of a dollar - anyway, all of these things have a story - I have never gone out of my way to collect anything but folks know that I cherish good memories - and all of these little things are like my animals - anything with eyes is like real to me. I can only imagine how hard it is for you to part with anything - well, don't - not yet - just pack them up and go through them later...if you can - but I understand - take care - best of luck. I'd help you pack if I were closer to your location! Salud.

FABULOUS