What Do You Keep?

I'm hoping to start a new feature on my blog called: "What Do They Keep?" My favorite artisans and shops create or collect such beautiful items and it often makes me curious about what they choose to make or keep for themselves.

I hope feature a new shop weekly. To start it off, I'll share a few items that were initially intended for sale in one of my shops, but ended up in use at home instead:

A cup cozy that I made for Vivid Texture. 

It was my first needle felting project and turned out to be so cheerful and fun that I decided to keep it. 

When not in use, it sits happily on my desk.
 

 

Most items that I collect for my vintage shop and choose to keep are pieces that are sitting on my inventory shelf awaiting their turn in the shop and turn out to meet a storage or organizational need. Boring, but true.

Less often, I will keep something like this McCoy pitcher that I just adore.

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I hope to feature one to three items from a handmade or vintage shop weekly. My requirement from the shop would be one or a combination of the following: excellent photos; excellent photos with a caption; or excellent photos with a brief story. While I do have some specific shops in mind, I'd love to hear from you if you have a story to share. Please contact me through my Etsy shop.