collection – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Sifting Through a Junk Dish

You might have an actual junk drawer. I do. This glass dish accumulation is on a smaller scale. The items need to be evaluated and most of them discarded.

An old eraser, the end of the curtain rod, Canadian coin, a single earring, perfume sample, a button from a blouse long gone, a knotty necklace chain, a pink polished rock, a rubber stamp square, a game token, a tiny key and an ivory brooch. I need the curtain rod piece. The rock can go in the dish of polished rocks I have on my desk in the hall. Maybe I have the other clip-on earring.

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: accumulation, buttons, collection, home, jewelry, junk, photography, polished rocks, postaday, rocks 8 Comments

Decorative Doorstoppers

Do you have one in your home? Do you have a door that will swing shut if it isn’t held open with a doorstopper? We used to have a cast iron iron.

I saw a window full of vintage door stoppers, mostly painted cast iron. There are animals, people, flowers. Gnomes. Right now I use a concrete (or is it cement?) owl. I bought the owl in a gallery in Mansfield Ohio.

People collect them. Vintage and Antique Doorstoppers or door porters as they are called are written up in Collectors weekly

Holding the living room door that opens onto the front porch

Vintage Doorstoppers in a Nantucket shop window

October 8, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: antique, collection, door, doorstopper, home, home decor, owl, photography, porch door, postaday, travel, vintage 7 Comments

A Prancing Lamb

A vintage ceramic prancing lamb has been in my friend’s home at least fifty years and in her mother’s home long before that.

I visited my friend Tookie today to share our knitting projects progress and sit on her front porch.

We even talked about our gratitude for sheep and the wool they provide for our use. The. She showed me this vintage ceramic lamb. We checked it out on eBay to get more information on Kay Finch.

There’s a book by Mike Nickel about Kay Finch Ceramics going for $99.99 on eBay.

Kay Finchh “Kay Finch Ceramics were made in Corona Del Mar, California, from 1935 to 1963”

July 30, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Ceramics, collection, figurine, Kay Finch, Kay Finch Ceramics, lamb, photography, postaday, vintage 3 Comments

You Can’t Look Away

More yard art down the block from Laura’s house. In the afternoon sun. An eclectic mix. A few crops below, so you don’t miss the details. I took just one quick shot cause I wanted to get home before dark.

July 29, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Barbie cars, bowling balls, city scene, collection, Columbus OH, neighborhood, photography, postaday, toys, travel, Yard Art 7 Comments

Matchbooks

“A matchbook is a small paperboard folder enclosing a quantity of matches and having a coarse striking surface on the exterior.” Wikipedia

I found this matchbook when I visited my family.

Do you have a collection of interesting matchbooks?

July 26, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: collection, family, matchbook, matches, photography, postaday 4 Comments

Souvenir Guest Gallery

Guest Contributions to Today’s Souvenir Gallery.

A follow-on post from Tuesday’s Post- Souvenir

Sometimes you purchase the souvenir yourself, and sometimes a souvenir is brought to you as a gift from a traveling friend.

________________________________Souvenirs from Mary

Coney Island

Colorado

Mexico

____________________________________Souvenirs from Joanne

Tiny bowls and St. Antonio figurine from Barcelona, Spain.

Santorini Greece

Vintage Scarf- Thanks Mary

Wine carafes from Italy … 1970 … when restaurants would often give you the carafe from your dinner table.

_______________________________Souvenirs from Vincie-

Windsor Telephone Booth England

Lighthouse from Florida

A present from the family from their vacation

______________Terry’s souvenir mug from Norway, just over a month in her possession

Trollejorden Norway

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____________________________Yvette’s Souvenir Refrigerator Magnets

___________________________________Bobbie’s Souvenirs –

China

England

Morocco

Germany

Uganda

Italy

Trivets around the World

Postcard from London from my sister Mary. I found it on my fridge today.

April 16, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, TravelTags: around the world, China, collection, England, family, friends, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, postcard, refrigerator magnet, souvenir, souvenirs, travel, Virginia Beach 9 Comments

Souvenir

Souvenir-

a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.

There are two pronunciations of souvenir (soo-vuh–neer or soo–vuh-neer) Which do you say?

Perhaps you avoid collecting souvenirs, adding to the accumulation. I have a few examples. A salt and pepper shaker from Yellowstone Park purchased in 1963 by me. A Volksmarch Stein and a ceramic tile from Grafenwoehr Germany where we lived for three years 1983-1986. A dish towel. Christmas ornaments (from my Ohio family’s collection) a refrigerator magnet with Beignets.

In our city there is a shop up on Mt. Washington called love, Pittsburgh where you can get Pittsburgh themed gifts. The Florida pillow was in the U of Florida bookstore but I did not purchase it. The demitasse cup and saucer from a favorite restaurant, La Cucina Flegrea, no longer in business.

Do you keep a souvenir or two or three? Any special mementos of a place you have visited? My sister’s Coney Island Paperweight was a souvenir in Saturday’s gallery.

When my friend Ann sees this post she will write and say “Pitch them!”

April 13, 2020April 14, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Clarion PA, collection, Croatia, gift, love Pittsburgh Shop, Magnetic Hill, magnets, memento, New Orleans, photography, postaday, souvenir, travel 7 Comments

“Just get rid of it” my friend Ann says

“Just get rid of it”.

“No one wants it.”

“Collecting dust on a shelf means you have to clean it.”

”Sell it.”

Why is it easy for some people to get rid of things?declutter? downsize with no difficulty?

September 27, 2019 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bunnies, Ceramic, collection, dust, figurines, home, Porcelain, postaday, rabbit 14 Comments

Anyone Still Collect Matchbooks?

Anyone still collect matchbooks? Do restaurants still have them in a large glass snifter for the taking? I know people who’ve collected colorful and interesting ones from fancy or fun establishments-but years ago.

Brides and Grooms names on matchbook covers were once a popular wedding favor.

I saw this matchbook at my son and DIL’s home, and wasn’t sure how long they’ve had it. I keep the same brand of kitchen matches in a drawer- like box.

January 4, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: candles, collection, Columbus OH, John Adams, matchbook, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, President, restaurant, travel 18 Comments

#CreativeSprint Day 5

Day 5“What do you collect? Work with a collection of your own or borrow one.”

Day 5 an easy one.

I’ve lots of rabbits. Some live at Laura’s home now. The wooden ones with the clothes. The family.

I missed Day 4. Take a 5 minute walk and make something for someone else to find. It was raining, did I think I’d melt?

Creative Sprint

April 5, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #creativesprint, collection, creativity, family, home, photography, postaday, rabbits 7 Comments

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