Keepsakes No Longer

My grandmother, Ruth Johnson McConnell, left her childhood tea set to me. She would have played with it 120 years ago!

It's Bavarian Lusterware, created sometime around 1900, decorated at the Greiner & Herda studio in Oberkotzau.  

The blue pitcher and orange candy bowl were hers, too. No markings on them.

I love that these belonged to her. But what do I do with them? Keep them in the cupboard? Leave them to my daughter so they'll end up stored in her cupboard? Give them to my granddaughters and tell them they can't touch them?

I don't want to make money from these pieces. I'd like to find someone who would love to have them, just because they think they're beautiful. Let me know if you're that person.

My NYTimes-ish Tiny Love Story

I've submitted pieces to the NY Times. Got a cover caption published in The New York Times Magazine a few years ago. Every Sunday, I read Tiny Love Stories, "Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words." I've submitted a couple of them and never heard anything. 

This is my year of no-more-waiting, so here is my Tiny Love Story in 54 words. 

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My 3 ½ year old granddaughter, Georgia, and I bobbed in the pool. She of the goggles and arm and chest floaties announced, “Starfish!” Onto our backs, we reached out our starfish arms and legs forming one large X and one small x, the symbol for kisses at the end of our postcard perfect vacation.