Looking treasure
The girls and I were on a walk the other day and eldest little pebble said ‘Oh, some eating treasure!’ She’d discovered the first of this year’s ripe blackberries which she gobbled up. We wandered a little further and spied a Speckled wood butterfly. She decided that it was ‘looking treasure’.
I thought I’d share a little looking treasure that I brought home from our holidays.
Firstly, some hagstones. There is a fair amount of folklore associated with these little holey stones and they are one of the best kinds of pebbles because, of course, they can be used to make things…
…such as a little tablecloth weight, should the sun ever decide to shine with any conviction this summer.
Mr P found the best one - it has a heart-shaped hole for peeping. Can you spy…
..afternoon tea? This afternoon Val, the smalls, the minipebbles and I did. Then we ate it all up.
‘The Glassblower of Murano’ is my current bed time reading. Glass captivates me for many reasons. [Nerd alert] it’s a supercooled liquid and very old windows are thicker at the bottom because it flows over time, it transmits light, it’s made of humble sand and, well, it can be made into beautiful things.
Such as this for example - a vintage Murano glass garland, originally used to decorate a wedding cake. I spied it here and had to have it.
Finally I visited a little junk shop in Southwold and found this vintage bandstand chair.
Sitting treasure.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Oh. I love treasure.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Isn’t it amazing how children discover phrases that make such sense? And such treasure you found.
July 30th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Wonderful looking treasure and the heart in the holey stone is certainly a fantastic find.
Nina x
July 30th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Lots of lovely treasure! So glad the butterfly wasn’t “eating treasure” - can’t always be sure with little ones!
Lucy x
July 31st, 2009 at 3:10 am
Oh that glass garland is beautiful! What a great find.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:01 am
How about chatting and bloggy friend treasure? We certainly found lots of that yesterday afternoon - thank you so much for letting us come into your magical cottage and escape for a couple hours!
Back to reality wuith rather a large thump this morning though - *how* many loads of washing still to do?!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:52 am
‘Looking Treasure’ would be a perfect name for a gallery
All those lovely finds - looks as those Southwold was inspiring for all of you.
Celia
x
July 31st, 2009 at 10:39 am
love it all!
July 31st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
How lovely, aren’t littlies sweet!!
Twiggy x
July 31st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hello there! I’m ready to send your seaside swap parcel but don’t know where to send it to!
If i had your address then i have foolishly mislaid it…could i have it again?
Thankyou!
July 31st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
you’re right - lots of treasure there!
My baby girl is in Suffolk this week, with my parents, she caught 16 crabs in Walberswick, but told me she wouldn’t bring me any home because they would die on the way. Oh well. I should probably go down myself and catch some of the little buggers instead.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Love the chair and the enamel pieces, that is finding treasure.
CKx
July 31st, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I love all the treasures! I especially like the holey stones. I have never found a holey stone and would be so delighted if I did!!! x
July 31st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Thank you so very much for your kind comment.
Your posts are a joy to see, as is your mighty fine silver jewelry!
I have never before heard of hag stones, and now will have to do some research and find out more about them. Thank you for the introduction.
Best wishes.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:34 am
Hello I finally got here to say hello. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your funny word. Looks like you had a great time in Southwold, did you do Walberswick too?
Must go back and add you to my favourites now before finally get to bed. I’ll be back for more reads soon.
Lisa x
August 1st, 2009 at 6:57 am
Best tablecloth EVER. I’ll take it whenever you decide you’re tired of it.
Love the treasure categories! Are there Listening or Sniffing Treasures?
August 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
Some beautiful things. I learnt something today I didn’t know those stones were called that.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
These are beautiful! We ate our first ripe blackberries on a walk earlier this week, too - I’m interested that they’re ripening at the same pace in such different places.
Thanks for leaving your kind comment on my blog - I’ve been very glad to come back over here and discover yours! We have a nightingale (or two) which visit our garden in the winter and sing for us on spring nights. We are incredibly lucky!
August 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
This is such a lovely post. You do write beautifully and I share your love of such things. Gorgeous Murano garland and we collect the hagstones here too, though never such a pretty one as that heart shape. Happy weekend xx
August 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I love the idea of using hagstones as tablecloth weights! I’ve just got mine on a piece of string in the garden. I cannot resist picking up stones - any geologist excavating this site in a million years’ time will wonder at the slippage of rocks from Cornwall, Northumberland, etc. I know we really should not take stones off the beach, but they are SO lovely…….
August 1st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
i love the little chair , have been looking for a couple for ages, but the ones i find are soooo expensive!
xxx
August 1st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Lovely blog and adore the idea of looking treasure, sitting treasure. Might have to adopt it.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
And your blog is reading treasure. how beautiful. I’m so glad you mentioned the windows thing…my son told me that one day after a science lesson at school and i have pondered on it but never really got to the bottom of it. no pun intended here but i’m sure I can make something of being too thick and not just at the bottom…although like the window my material has migrated south and become thicker…(Now who’s waffling?)
August 1st, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I love the heart-shaped hagstone - never knew they were called that!
Southwold is such a treasure trove for gorgeous things - the little chair is perfect for your garden.
Thanks for the link to the Glassblower for Morano - looks like a great read.
Have a great weekend.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
What a wonderful lot of goodies! I LOVE the cute little stone with the heart in it — SO perfect!
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
A post full of wonderful treasure!
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
OOhh , I never knew they were called hagstones , we’ve found a few lately and I’ve got them piled up beside the back door — thank you for the info
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hagstones - now I can put a name to my little pile!
I liked The Glassblower of Murano too.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
Treasures indeed! I see after visiting my blog you went to visit Professor Yaffle, I then in turn came back from him to listen to your recording of a Nightingale. Wonderful. I had only commented the other day that I didnt know what one sounded like.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Oh what gorgeous looking treasures. I love hag stones too and sometimes use them in my work. Love the heart shaped one. It is REAL TREASURE!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I’m so glad you left me a comment, because it’s led me to your wonderful blog! What a find! Love that table cloth, the embroidery is sumptuous, very beautiful. And that pebble is a great find, I say that as a collector of things like that myself!
Love Vanessa xxx (do you mind if i knit)
August 20th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I have been to Murano and I think that you would find it inspirational. The only problem is that they are very, very protective of copyright - I got shouted at for taking a photo of a shop window!