stirring spring
Just when we start getting all excited about the warmer, sunnier days, they turn grey and cool again. That's spring though. Can't count on it to stay the same any day. And really, I'm grateful that it isn't flooding or blowing us away. Church sale season is just around the corner and it's a good day to think about donations. Plenty here to pass along. Love that feeling of dropping off a big box of things that just want to go there, disappear into the church hall stacked high with other bundles of good intentions. On the way home I will congratulate myself for donating, getting it out of here. And begin counting the days until I can go back and buy it all again.
Someone donated these little glass flower picks one year. There were 2 boxes and I only bought one. Now that was silly. First of all, they were a set of 12 and I broke that up. Secondly, they are so pretty and unusual, what was I thinking! Of course, I have no idea when I'll be serving drinks that require these fragile stirrers, clinging to the edges of delicate glasses with their tiny glass hooks. That's what they are, right? Maybe I should donate them back....do you think the other box might be returning too? Then someone might buy them anew and throw a big fancy party for 12. A lawn party with drinks in heirloom crystal glasses where these sweet stems could decorate the rims as they were meant to. Waved in the air like little floral batons to conduct a musing anecdote. And then rest on hand-embroidered cocktail napkins, freshly starched and ironed for the occasion.
Nah. Maybe I'll put them inside a little shadow box. Someday. If nothing else, they deserve way better than a safe spot at the back of the drawer. At least the front. Like I said, time to fill those boxes for the church.
What a lovely post. I just took a trunk load of things to an auction house today and have boxes more to go to the thrift store ... and yet I can't wait for the rummage and yard sale season to begin! It's nice to know I'm not alone!
Posted by: Barbara | March 27, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Charlotte, why not brew up a pot of sweet-tea, invite a few friends over and place those little flower stirrers in for effect? They're very nice!
Posted by: Julie G. Baxley | March 27, 2008 at 06:57 PM
I won't wait till I have guests over to use these flowers! I'll tie them up into a cascading, musical, colurful mobile & display them by the window!
Posted by: Xue Originals | March 27, 2008 at 09:29 PM
a perfect post for spring, Charlotte! Doesn't it feel so good to drop off a box at church, to know that they will sell it to someone else, who will be "thrilled"! The trick is not to buy as much stuff as you donate, isn't it?:)
xo Lidy
Posted by: frenchgardenhouse | March 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM
I swear you're so entertaining!! Love it!!
Posted by: Rise' McKnight | March 28, 2008 at 05:25 AM
oh gosh, i LOVE donating too.
i took 3 huge hefty bags of clothes last week (I watched What Not to wear and got a little out of control with the purging)...
Posted by: Stephanie Howell | March 28, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Hi from Kansas City...your post gets me excited about the thought of spring and garage sales, church sales, flea markets...Oh, how I am dreaming of Spring. Kara
Posted by: Kara Ward | March 29, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Oh, yes! It is so exhilarating to give boxes of things away. You are right though, how to keep from buying more than you brought? I guess that is a double bonus for the church though. Donations and cash are always good things. If you can do both, you are a saint indeed!
PS. Glad you enjoyed the airport drama! Hee hee! Sheesh, it was a doozy!
Happy day!
Melissa
Posted by: melissa @ the inspired room | March 29, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Your flower stirrers are quite lovely!
I have vintage flamingo glass stirrers that I display in a bell shaped glass, like a little bouquet of birds.
Posted by: tricia | April 01, 2008 at 07:44 AM