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New Rock Addition: Lake Tahoe July 2009

July 20, 2009 by Ashley Hackshaw

Here is the new rock Sienna picked out for our travel rock collection! Isn’t it a beauty? It is a good thing we label them all….all our Lake Tahoe rocks look the same!

New Rock Addition: Lake Tahoe July 2009 via lilblueboo.com

I’m going to have to find a large glass container soon for our collection….I don’t think the glass armoire shelf is strong enough to hold them all!

Vintage Charms and Trinkets – Charm Giveaway II

May 23, 2009 by Ashley Hackshaw

Someone Else’s Story

Charm bracelets often tell a story and represent different events and interests in a person’s life. I’ve come across a few vintage charm bracelets in antique or jewelry stores that I just couldn’t pass up. It just hurts my heart a little bit when I see “orphan” charm bracelets or even “orphan” photos (see my 2003 artist statement). Who did this bracelet belong to? Was someone looking for it somewhere?

The bracelet shown below was put together by someone I never met, each charm was picked out for a reason I’ll never know (a trip, a hobby, an event?), and for some reason they had to part with it (money, death, a relative who didn’t value it as much?). I love this bracelet because it spans many decades. It has very vintage charms on it from the 1940’s and 30’s, lots of detailed moveable charms, and more modern ones including buildings and mementos.

Here are some closeups of some of my favorite charms on this bracelet:

1930/1940 Vintage Charms

Sewing machine, manual movie camera, spinning wheel

A great little lantern with red glass

Amazing little camera with leather around the outside (keep in mind this is the size of a fingernail!)

How cute is the ice cream cart? It opens to show 2 colors of ice cream (although I’ve never seen dark green and dark red ice cream before!)

Piano man that moves back and forth along the keys, typewriter with a roller that moves back and forth on a spring, rotary phone with moving dial

Was the previous bracelet owner a twin or have twins?

Can you guess what the above charm is?

Leave me a comment with your guess!

If you are the first to guess correctly I’ll put 10 extra entries in for you for the drawing.

Extra entry for all followers….just leave a comment letting me know!

Enter before this Monday, May 25th at midnight (eastern time). I’ll announce the randomly generated winner on Tuesday. US and Canada shipping only.

The winner gets the cute little charms shown below!

airstream trailer, high heeled shoe, cowboy hat

The mystery charm is…..

May 20, 2009 by Ashley Hackshaw

….a vintage typewriter eraser! My grandmother went to secretarial school and I suppose that is why she had one on her charm bracelet.

Erin was the only one to get the correct answer! Yay Erin! I think the most popular guess was a pizza cutter/pastry brush combo. My favorite guess was the paintbrush/pizza slicer combo…too funny. Below is what an actual typewriter eraser looks like if you are curious:

The mystery charm is typewriter eraser via lilblueboo.com

Photo borrowed from here

The winner of the random drawing for the cute little silver charm set is Christy Klein! Congratulations Christy!

Erin will get the charms shown below for being super smart and figuring out the answer! A cute little chair, a sardine can, and a little cherry on a stem!

Thanks to everyone who entered and good job on the guesses! I’ll be posting another set of charms soon with another charm to identify soon!