I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like…. It’s like Tiffany’s….Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I think I’ve found the place.  Me and my things do belong together because almost all of them have come from someone, or someplace or some something with a story.  Walk around my home and there is the gift of art from MJ, there is the pottery from Chatham Pottery, the photographs from several different artists, including me.  There is pre-war Noritake that I use every day from Grandmamma, there is crystal from my sister, and there are books from everyone.  There is my Grandmother’s kitchen table that serves in my office as my inspiration of all things family.

And there are the spoons.  Hundreds of them from all over the world, all over the United States and literally from almost everyone I know.  Each displayed with care in the most beautiful cabinets and lining my dining room.  My collection was started by our dear friend Jeanette over thirty years ago.  She has a cabinet all her own that contains spoons from her mother’s house in Danbury CT.  They are antiques, they are chachkias, they are very expensive and some cost a mere fifty cents at an estate sale.  Each of them has an amazing story and each of them is quite unique.

Most recent addition is from my friend Justin.  It is a wind chime made with antique spoons and forks by his father.  As I understand it his father made them for members of the family and gave them sparingly.  How wonderful that I have this precious gift.  I’m sure I couldn’t have expressed my gratitude and joy to have this addition to my collection sufficiently to Justin, I was that blown away by the thoughtfulness and perfection of it.   The thing that prompted Justin to gift this to me was the Mother’s Daughter Lunch picture taken in my dining room.  I just love that.  If I didn’t say it with enough conviction before, thank you my friend for this wonderful gift from your family.  You can’t know how happy that makes me.