It's Let's Get Real Monday!
Randi at I Have to Say is once again hosting Let's Get Real Monday. Posting a dirty closet last time was a piece of cake compared to our assignment this week. ;-) Randi! What are you thinking??? I mean, seriously Randi. It’s Get Real Monday – Get Real!!! (And I mean that in the nicest way!) Do you have any idea how hard this topic is for me? I love everything. I have favorites of everything. This is a huge topic – Randi, were you thinking this would be easy???
Think about it – how many times do we use “favorite” in our normal everyday conversations? “Hey, there’s my favorite store.” Or, “This is my favorite poem.” Or you ask someone for a recommendation, “Who’s your favorite plumber?”, “Who’s your favorite Dr.?”, or “Who’s your favorite caterer?” (Ok, maybe that one’s a stretch, just had to throw it in there.) Or someone is trying to get to know you…”What’s your favorite book?" Movie? Food? Dessert? Main Dish? Ice Cream? Vegetable?
Technically, I could have a slam dunk here. I’ve already got a head start in this category – I could just defer you to my "favorites" category in the side bar. You can check out my favorite cookie, chair, baby gift, and hostess gift. And there are many more favorites planned for the future. But in the meantime, I’ve been tortured by favorites all weekend. Like the good and bad angels that sit on your shoulders, they’ve been yelling at me. “Pick me! Pick me! Me!Me!Me!Me!!!”
But finally, I slept on it. I took a deep breath. I said, let’s think about this here blog. Its name is Thimbleanna. Hmmm, thimble. There’s been little mention of thimbles here, so, perhaps it's time to bring them up. I do have a very small collection of sterling silver thimbles. My mother started me collecting them and she has a bigger, very small collection of sterling silver thimbles. And in my very small collection, I do have a favorite:
In 1998, we took our boys and my parents back to
So, there. I found a favorite. And Randi, how ‘bout a little break for the next Get Real Monday? Maybe we could list bad habits? Projects? Hmmm. I see your problem. Life is just too BIG.
XOXO,Anna
8 comments:
I totally agree - How can you pick ONE Thing? Impossible! Love the thimble - beautiful details. Thank you for Sharing!
Love the thimble and especially love the news that a German thimble is a Fingerhut. I shall never forget this, though it might be one of those items of vocabulary that one never quite gets to use. For example, it's engraved on my mind that the German for "fresh eels" is "frische Ahlen". Really useful...
Awesome thimble! Mine is plastic...
Enjoyed your post! Nice blog!
I have heard the word fingerhut before but never knew what it meant. That is a very cute definition!
I know what you mean about the topic being a bit hard. At first I thought it would be easy, but I spent a lot of time going over what to do as well! Oh well, we shouldn't shy away from challenge, right? ;)
What a cute post. Char
I love your thimbles! Thanks so much for sharing them. Lidy
I thought this was going to be easy as well and had to stop myself from getting soooo carried away! Great post.
My favorties are here.
I, too, had to limit myself to only a few favorites...it seems that I have a lot of them. Of course, I ended with my favorite protein, which is unlikely to show up in many other blogs...
That thimble is definitely worth a spotlight post. And I love the German 'fingerhut', too. XO, Jill
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