Word of the Week: Charm
When I was a little girl I loved to go through my mother's dresser drawers. In the top right one, along with her boar bristle brush and her pink curlers, she kept a powder tin.
It was almost impossible to open with my little hands, but she would tug on the top until it gave and inside was the treasure:
The tin was lined with an old hankie, and her childhood collection of charms.
Don't you love the detail?
I love the Borden cow, Elsie. Not an actual charm, but a pin. Mom's only job outside the home was in her single years when she was a bookkeeper at Borden, Inc. The pin must have been some sort of employee giveaway that she added to her collection later.
Another icon of the time: Popeye.
He's especially charming to me, as my mother would go on to marry a sailor!
For more charming stories, visit Linda Sue.
It was almost impossible to open with my little hands, but she would tug on the top until it gave and inside was the treasure:
The tin was lined with an old hankie, and her childhood collection of charms.
Don't you love the detail?
I love the Borden cow, Elsie. Not an actual charm, but a pin. Mom's only job outside the home was in her single years when she was a bookkeeper at Borden, Inc. The pin must have been some sort of employee giveaway that she added to her collection later.
Another icon of the time: Popeye.He's especially charming to me, as my mother would go on to marry a sailor!
For more charming stories, visit Linda Sue.
Comments
Sigh... aren't old things the best?
Micki
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see you monday
blessings,
Christine