Pretty-pretty

Well now, todays offering from the Attic is this charming, captivating, pretty-pretty piece of jewelery that I scooped up yesterday from my favourite charity/thrift shop (British Heart Foundation).
Now this may sound odd, but I originally went in the shop to buy a multi-stranded necklace of little round orange wooden beads. I am not intending to wear an orange multi-stranded wooden beaded necklace you understand. Oh no no no, what I have done is to chop it with scissors and free the little orange beads from their strands so that I can make them into bird feet. Yes, thats right :: bird feet. You see I am in my usual nutty place, thinking up all sorts of weird and wonderful things to do with my afternoons. I have been making birds. Little fabric birds with stripy legs and (now) orange beady feet. Too cute. Will show you them when they are finished.

So whilst I was paying for my orange multi-stranded wooden beaded necklace, whilst I was standing at the glass counter waiting for the rather dippy BHF shop assistant to void all the mistakes she kept making on the till, I spotted this little porcelain brooch in the glass cabinet.
And I fell in love. I just swooned on the spot. I asked the dippy shop assistant if she wouldn't mind getting it out and telling me how much it was, and it was £3.25. So of course I had to have it.

Isn't it just the most delightful little brooch you ever laid eyes on? It's only small, oo maybe about 4cm across, and quite delicate, but something about it stirs up some sort of deep, long forgotten, childhood nostalgic memory/feeling that I can't quite put my finger on. And I love it. I'm not sure yet if I shall wear it, or whether I will display it in my bedroom somewhere somehow. And I would love to know if anyone else collects these brooches and if you know anything about them, ie how old they are? This one is a Crown Staffordshire one, I found a little bit of info here, but would especially like to know roughly how old it might be.

Just before I leave the Attic (and it's bloomin cold up here this afternoon), I'd like to say *thank you* to all of you who left a comment on yesterdays post and shared in my rather ecstatic yarn love. Oh such fun, such excitement! I began on my blanket last night and ooooeeeeee I am incredibly pleased with the whole darn thing. The yarn is a dream to work with, the colours scrumptious, and I cannot wait to share my vision with you all. Tomorrow then? The Blanket Project Reveal?? See you then ((squeeeeeal)) SoosSOSososoOSOsooo excited!
xx

Comments

[Yvonne]

Beautiful, you're so lucky to find a posy brooch as they're quite hard to come by especially in charity shops and are often sadly chipped. Can't help on the age of them I'm afraid.
Yvonne x

[simone]

I like the teeny forget-me-not in the brooch. The brooch reminds me of a Victorian Posy. I am looking forward to seeing your fabric birds with stripy legs and orange bead feet! I am also looking forward to seeing you reveal your next woolly project.

[Hen]

Hi Luce,

I love these brooches, been trying to collect some for a few months, they're often chipped but so long as they're cheap enough, I still can't resist them! Might send you a piccie so we can share "china-flower-brooch" love...
Hen x

[Roo]

A bargain! The brooch reminds me so much of my childhood. My grandad was collector of Aynsley china and my mum had a couple of similar brooches. I loved your yarn post yesterday... I had to go into House of Fraser today to look at all the beautiful Rowan Pure Wool colours in real life!

[Alexis]

I love it! I used to have a brooch like that when I was a kid.