Salt & Pepper

  Posted on February 1, 2010  by Leslie Blythe  3 comments

Not a lot of people know that I have a fairly extensive collection of salt & pepper shakers.  I started my collection with one simple set of Holstein cows, then a set of lobster claws from my trip to Maine and then I made the HUGE mistake of mentioning my new infatuation to my friends.  Within a few years, it got completely ‘out of control’.  Where can I display this fabulous collection?  I started in the mid eighties and stopped by the time I got married. 

I needed to GROW UP!  It turns out, that growing up is rather boring and completely over rated.  Who was I fooling anyway?  I still don’t feel like a grown up, even though I am the mother of two wonderful daughters. 

My daughter, Zoe, is in charge of taking the photographs for my blog header.  I was at a complete loss.  Of course, I should have shot some lovely heart shaped Valentine’s Day cookies.  We actually did that.  It was just too predictable.  So, while I was stumbling through the “pig sty” of my garage, I espied my three carefully packed boxes of salt & pepper shakers that I have had packed up since we moved from our last house in 2000.

Dare I un-wrap them?  It’s a Pandora’s Box of my life.  Anyway, I did open all three boxes.  Here is just a very small selection of them.  My particular favorite is the White Castle Diner, that my good friend Sandy bought me from an art gallery.  It’s a ‘one of a kind’.