Eau de What?

I have always been a collector.  I inherited the tendency from my dad and his carefully catalogued collection of transportation tokens.  Dad caught the collecting bug from his mother, who had a vast and stunning collection of salt and pepper shakers.  They were displayed on shelves below the big kitchen window in the ‘breakfast nook’.  What could be a better treat for a kid … Grandma's pancakes with a side of fun little objects to savor.

 

In childhood, my collections were things I loved … horse figurines, and things I found fascinating … rocks, seashells and bugs.  As an adult, I find myself drawn to things that evoke happy memories of childhood. 

Like salt and pepper shakers.

 

 

Another childhood treat was roaming a dime store with a few coins and being allowed to buy something all by myself.  I was drawn to the perfume ... the Eau de Toilette (very funny to a kid).  Oh, the treasures to be found … the gently curved, cobalt blue glass bottles of  Evening in Paris and the clear heart-shaped bottles with the pale blue rosebud tops that held Blue Waltz.

You guessed it.  I collect it.

 

 

 

 





 Happy Collecting!

 

 

Salt Shaker Trivia - in case you're ever on Jeopardy

♦ From the salt chunk to the salt grinder to the saltcellar to the salt shaker in the shape of little birds took almost two thousand years.

♦ There is a Novelty Salt & Pepper Shakers Club whose membership includes collectors from 47 states plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, England, Germany and The Netherlands.
http://www.saltandpepperclub.com/

♦ There is a Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg, TN. It contains 20,000 sets of Salt and Pepper Shakers from around the world and a 1500 piece Pepper Mill collection.

♦ If you are one of those people who have bags of salt and pepper packets stolen from McDonalds in your kitchen cupboard, you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Satanists Like Picnics Too

My former friends Sally and Steve told me they ran into some Satanists on their picnic last summer. I asked what that meant and she said they had Eastern Star pentagrams on their salt and pepper shakers.

Believe it or not, this is what Sally and Steve believe...............
  ☼ Masons and Eastern Star worship Lucifer as God.
  ☼ Their goal is world domination.
  ☼ Their secret organizations for their kids - Job’s Daughters, Rainbow Girls and
DeMolay are playpens for satanists.
  ☼ If you have ancestors who were Masons or Eastern Star, all their descendants carry the curse of demonic possession.

That explains everything … why I have bad hair and can’t sing.  Why I got divorced.  Why I had skinned knees and cavities as a child.
I always thought my grandparents were really nice people. I had no idea they cursed me with demons. I thought they were Lutherans.