Hope your Christmas was Merry and Bright as Bing Crosby use to tootle. And may 2014 bring you much happiness.
Here's the last 3 brooches.
A new brooch addition from family up North. I'm routing for the mouse. He looks like he can get the better of the kitty. When our cats catch a mouse, it's a free for all, usually ending in us catching the mouse, and setting him free in the great outdoors - hopefully never to find his way back inside.
I wish more potters made brooches, I'd be buying them. Here is a fine example from Maine, from a dear friend who's Mom had a wonderful art and crafts store there. I love the soft colours and the crackle in the glaze. And the trees sit out from the background. Luv it.
I promised 365 brooches, and here is the last one - my favourite building, my favourite brooch. It's an old brooch. Bought it up North in Ontario decades ago; almost squealed with joy when I spied it. The cream isn't bone or ivory but a hard plastic of some sort, and it still has glimmers of blue in the background. It must have been a souvenir from Paris. I even like the pin style at the back of the brooch. It was difficult not wearing this brooch a few times through the year as I love it so. My Mom always said, "Heather, you don't love things, you love people," so my apologizes to my Mom.
This year has been quite a brooch journey for me. When it was looking like I was going to be a bit shy of the 365, friends made sure that I would make it.
So, thank you dear friends and family, for your generosity and your uniqueness in the gifting of brooches. Thanks to my husband for photographing and scanning them all so I could put them in this blog. He had particular favourites of my rug hooking wool to use as backgrounds. And to Carol, who usually wrote a comment, so I always knew someone was out there.
It's been great excavating my jewellery boxes and finding long forgotten gems. I have found brooches that I've forgotten about, and now that the jewellery boxes are empty, a little reorganization is in the works, so my faves will be all together. Don't worry, I won't forget the rest.
It's also been a challenge to blather about the brooches, about what's happening, about what I care about. Memories have resurfaced. I have to say I've had a blast!
And a BIG THANKS TO YOU! who have been with me; who supported me and continued to read this blog. I hope I've made some brooch fans out of some of you. Take that wee step and buy a brooch, or look in your jewellery box, there might be a few lurking there. I watched the Queen's Christmas message as we do every year. The Queen and I both wear brooches. Come and join the club.
I've been receiving and buying brooches for most of my 62 years. In fact, I received a new one last night from a trio of Bs. I will never stop prowling around second-hand stores, going to craft shows, enjoying the white elephant rooms at Church bazaars, lingering in antique stores, scanning through brooch pages on Etsy, looking for a brooch that catches my fancy.
This isn't the end of the blog, I will continue on when I get 7 more brooches and will post them on the 1st of a month. Come and take a boo on the first of each month, I might have 7 more. A friend wants me to send it to her email when I do the occasional posting. If you want me to send it to you, please email me.
I'll miss touching base with you through my brooches on a "weekly" basis. Thanks again for being on this journey with me.
Heather XO
