General Chat

Speaking of raffia Tec, I have a woven basket that was my mum's, must be 1940's it is oval with a lid, a sewing basket really I suppose, the colour has all faded on the outside but inside it is bright as a button :-)

When I was a small boy, maybe five, six, or seven yrs old, I spent a lot of time with my grandmother (Nain in Welsh)
Often went shopping to the High St, where she might buy a cake, eggs etc, and place them in her small raffia shopping basket with multi coloured plastic handles.

Was always proud to be allowed to carry this home.

When she died, aged 96, I was helping empty her house.
To my delight I found the basket in the attic. That brought back many happy memories, and nostalgia.
It was the only item I took from the house, and still have it. No value, except to me.

A relic from the 40s - bit like me.

:-D

Tec :-)

I have a room temperture ornament that my Dad gave me, it was a present to him from Mallorca when his best friend went there on holiday a few years ago.
I love it, no monetary value though just sentimental.

proportion to their size or value :-)

I have a little pin tray from the 80s when I worked in a shop which sold household accessories and toys. I think it cost 50/75p or thereabouts, it is only 6" x 4" , Italian, melamine, but has a 'naive' painting on it , sort of Grandma Moses style, of an Italian village scene and people in the snow.

It makes me happy :-D

Do you have a keepsake, ornament etc , that is like that in terms of the pleasure it brings?

( edit another small thing that makes me happy is when I don't leave out the second S in accessories, now added ;-) )