Pretty Little Things

[livius drusus]

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My best friend from college is travelling around El Salvador with her husband (he's Salvadoran), and she sent me a really lovely little thing she got at one of the local shops around there ---->

It's a glass cayman (http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/images/html/reptiles/crocs/image_data/crocs04.jpg): a beautiful emerald green color, with his tail curled and his head curving back in the opposite direction. It makes a perfect bookweight to keep the pages open when you're making notes or reading on a table, but even if it didn't, it would still be just a lovely piece of art.




Do y'all have any pretty little things of insignificant monetary value which just appeal to you deeply? It's not sentimental value alone, mind you - I love my friend and very much appreciate her thinking of me as she hikes ancient pyramids - but I would love this little cayman even if I found it at a garage sale.

[JoeP]

The first thing that sprang to mind is curled-up cat made of padauk wood given to me by a girlfriend a very long time ago. There's no real detail to it, just ears, back and tail, but the proportions are perfect.

[Ymir's blood]

My collection of dollar store gargoyles, especially the 'see no, hear no, speak no evil' ones. Of course gargoyles aren't really pretty per se.

[LadyXoc]

A little carved jade cat.

[Beth]

Christmas ornaments my kids have made me. A little glazed clay ashtray my son made, I do not smoke, a painted rock my daughter gave me...all these mean more to me than my authentic nutcrackers, $200.00 porcelain dolls, and my antique china.

[maddog]

Well, I'm kind of a collecta-holic, because I just can't resist "pretty little things." The ones I have more of than any others (maybe not so little, but they sure are pretty) are Depression Era glass dishes. I have green ones, cobalt blue ones, amber ones, a couple of jadeite ones, some "crystal" (i.e., clear) ones, one or two in ultramarine, some forest green, some ruby red, some light blue, and I'm always tempted by more.

I also collect coins from foreign countries, esp. if I have been there myself.

Quilts are not "little" but they're pretty, too.

I used to have a whole bunch of baseball cards, but I gave those to my brother several years ago, as he kept up with it far better than I did.

I like little wind-up toys. I don't have as many as I used to. They're not exactly "pretty," but they're little (to reverse my other comment :D ).

I like different kinds of artwork.

I like clocks.

I like little boxes.

See what I mean? I just can't help myself. :P

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[livius drusus]

I have a friend who collects and sells Depression glass. She has cabinets full in every color and pattern. I like the opalescent hobnailed looking stuff. Fenton, maybe? Anyway, they're definitely pretty little things. :)