I love taking photos of small things, like old wooden thimbles. They often get “lost” when among all the other larger, showier things in my home, but a photo lets all the focus zoom in on little things, where they can be appreciated more.
I wrapped a bunch of old, empty spools with baker’s twine. Don’t they look beautiful? I love the colorful assortment of spools that still have thread on them. I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again…..
I wish companies would stop producing plastic junk (and I’m not using “junk” with the usual fondness I normally say it with), and would go back to making the packing, etc. out of better quality products, like wood, pretty glass, etc. I’m sure all empty plastic spools made these days end up in the trash…because they are ugly, but wooden ones with pretty labels – those are more likely to be kept.
I know I would buy some products, just because I think they look pretty!
Blessings,
Angie
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I have a little collection of these that belonged to my grandma and I love them too. At times I’ll put them out on a shelf or in an old jar. It really is the little things 🙂
Jeanette
I agree!
I like how the old things look…so appeal. I think the natural elements appeal more to my senses.
I like the idea of these in an old piece of pottery…like a bouquet of little wooden blossoms!
enjoy!
Pat
I can’t tell you how many of those wonderful little wooden spools I have sitting around. I just love them! xo Diana
You’re so right. I love the cotton bobbins! It reminded me of when I was small. I was born in Paisley & my grandfather worked in the cotton mills. They often gave the workers a load of broken bobbins for their fires and we used to build houses, roads, forts etc with them! They came in all sorts of colours too…white, red, black etc… Thanks so much for reviving such good memories. Joan
very true…and there is so much more you can make with the wooden spools, and glue, and paint, that you can’t do with the plastic one. I remember my mom putting small nails around an old wooden spool for my first “knitting” machine. lol
Debbi
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I agree – I recently was given a gift of several boxes of spools of thread. Many were lovely old wood, but a good many were plastic or ugly metal. They went into the trash, but I kept all the wood ones. I have some projects in mind for them for my Etsy shop…
I couldn’t agree more.
Love what you’ve done to these!!
Susan
I agree! These are so pretty!
Let’s start a campaign against plastic spools!! haha!
I love wooden spools, I have them in all colors in my sewing basket. Thank you Angie for sharing these, they so old fashion and I love that. Thank you for the lovely party. Big hugs,
FABBY