Home: Creating A Table Of Memories

 T really didn't know what he was getting himself into when he married me. When we made the last move after the honeymoon he was amazed at how much I had. As I unpacked seemingly endless (in T's mind) boxes he would always ask, "Whats that for? Where will we put that?" Or just plain out "What is that?". Thankfully after a year and a half of marriage when I come home from the flea market or thrift store with some stange oddity he knows I will find a use for it, I'll find a place for it, and whatever it is it makes me happy to nest our home with these "treasures".  A few examples of my finds? A gumball machine, this odd glass vase, this lonely pepper shaker, a tub of old wooden thread spools? Yes please!

The picture above is our current centerpiece on our table. Yes, it changes. That amuses T too. It's made up of  a small cake platter I got on clearance from Restoration Hardware/Pottery Barn Outlet, an old milk bottle my mom found half buried in our yard when I was little(We used to live in a really old plantation house in Alabama), leftover billy ball flowers from a friends graduation party, and an assortment of corks. Some corks have dates and friends names that we shared the contents of the bottle with written on them. Such a random assortment of items but all together they create a centerpiece that makes me smile.