I recently came across this photo from Country Living’s website of a pickle jar full of old tomato pincushions. I couldn’t get the image out of my mind for days.
So, I began collecting vintage tomato pincushions. I picked up a few at the second-hand craft store (yes, there’s such a thing in our area, The Legacy in Sebastopol.) Then I started scouring eBay and Etsy for reasonably priced ones. And within a week I had my collection. Ok, sort of a cheater-collection, but I have a thing about instant gratification.
I even found a fun pickle jar for 5 bucks at the antique fair last weekend. So now I’m overflowing with darling functional produce and so many ways to display them!
Do you have a quirky collection? I’d love to hear about it!
And speaking of pickling, I thought I’d dig up a post from the past that I did for my guest mom stint on the Design Mom blog, enjoy! LINK
23 comments:
They look super cute in the truck!
Hm... I can't think of anything quirky I collect. I really don't collect much at all except funky artwork and vintage stained glass windows.
Now that I think about it, I do have a small collection of antique glass insulators. I made them into hose guides for my flower beds!
That is so stinkin' cute!!! What a great idea. I'm a sucker for pincushions, anyway...
thats funny, I saw the same pic and loved it!!!
I've been collecting those tomato pincushions for years, I've got a big jar of them and love them madly. Quirky? Maybe. Fun. Absolutely!
I don't really have any quirky collections but I do have an obsession with buttons. LOL. I have tons of them!
We have several collections. I collect old wooden gears and wheels. We hung them on the wall of my dining room. I also collect old printing letters and ampersands. Oh, and suitcases too... I could just go on and on. ;-)
Oh! and Potato Mashers, Valentines and Road Maps. Wow. I really have a collecting problem. :-)
What a neat collection! I never thought of collecting pincushions. I collect thimbles. I have about 250 that I have collected over 40 years.Have a good day!
I collect vintage tooled-leather purses. I have them displayed on the shelves of my kitchen hutch. Kinda strange, but I love them! All the workmanship that went into each makes them works of art.
I love your tomatoes in the pickup! So cute.
Collections are so fun. I collect teapots, snowmen, lighthouses, but my quirkiest would be miniature chairs. I love them!
These are awsome! I've always loved pincushions, but I think I only own one. Maybe now I'll have to re-think that!
I have jars full of dominos and jars full of Anagrams..and now the grand and I have a collection of ROCKs going on..I have a collection of 'church keys' and a collection of buttons...srabble letters, smashed bottle caps..I can just keep going if you want..lol..Love the pinnys in the jar! That rocks!!
My goodness! I have not even made the cushion for the back of my hot rod yet. Now you have me thinking I should put my three measly tomatos in it instead and find more. You come up with the best ideas. Thanks!
I collect rescue animals...and they are ALL quirky! I love the pin cushions...especially in the old truck! Red is my favorite color.
ah Cathe that's so funny - I think we all have a thing about instant gratification when it comes to crafts! :-) Great post as usual!
These look doubly cute since you could actually can tomatoes...My pantry has 10 glass jars of various ingredients. My sewing room has jars of yo-yos, empty spools, ribbons, buttons, Scrabble tiles.
It just occurs to me that I have a collection (of 3) of the strawberry-type pincushions - gotta go and put 'em in a jar.
--Vicki K.
I collect tea pots, buttons, blue & white pottery, unusual kitchen or knitting gadgets... my son collects bottle caps... my daughter collects rubber ducks and everything pink.
Funny thing about the pin cushions, my father-in-law read a story about someone hiding money inside an old pin cushion, so he is always buying them at auctions and CUTTING THEM UP :(
hmmm, let's see, glass shoes, teapots, little chairs, frogs, woven baskets, glass baskets, bunnies, chickens, gloves, purses, perhaps i have a problem!!!! lol well, let's just keep that between US! LOL but i AM getting better! i LOVE your little tomato pin cushions! i know i have AT least ONE of those too! lol Thank you so much for sharing the FUN! :) Have a WONDERFUL weekend! :)
The red houses fabric you have in one of the shots, is on eof my FAVORITE prints!!
I can't help myself with jars and wooden bowls. I just picked up some really cool one today from a yard sale and thrift store.
My quirky collection is shopping bags (the fancier, the better) which I display as a border around my studio. My walls rival 5th Avenue!
Ellen
I have a very small inkwell collection - maybe 8 to 10 and my cute husband gave me one for Christmas.
I am almost ready to figure out a way to display them. Any ideas? Anyone?
My daughter has a collection of coin purses
I have a collection of goofy souvenir plates, but I'm pretty much done (I only collect plates from the places of significance in my husband's and my lives.)
I have such beauties as Johnstown, PA that features a large center image of the Inclined Plane (go ahead, look it up). And a plate featuring the Turnpike. Yup.
I think flower frogs would be a cool thing to collect. Not that I even have ONE.
Do we have to count the 700 boxes of rocks in our basement?
Carol
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