Vintage Love





I have an old pine cupboard which my hubby painted white.

It holds the 'bits and pieces' of old crockery that I like.

Some of it has value due to vintage or design

but all of it is precious to me.. simply 'cause it's mine :-)

There's very little new in there-it's mostly second-hand.

Why others sought to part with them, I'll never understand!

For I delight in searching for the treasures of this sort

And rushing home to hubby to say "Look what I just bought!"

A case in mind is this here bowl, with strainer and a lid.

It's made by Royal Doulton..so you'd think it'd cost a 'quid'.

But finding it in Vinnies nearly made this lady holler

when I spied the sticker on the lid (o joy of joys!) - one dollar!!

Yes, I love my vintage china and old tins with charm and grace

I like anything that age has softened with it's bygone face.

My home is filled with memories that harken back in time

to when a woman's homelife was of a very different kind.

I often ponder on the ways a housewife's lot has changed.

And how it seems, society has been quite disarranged.

But when I look around me at all my lovely vintage things

I gain a sense of peace and quiet that seeing them still brings.

For I am happy and so glad to have a home like this

where olden days and olden ways can make me reminisce

about the lives that women lived...content to have 'enough'.

A humble model for my heart.. and why I have this vintage love!