Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Marketplace: Do you have an Etsy Shop?

Or an Online Store?

Then come on and link up!
The Marketplace 
is open to everyone who has an online store or Etsy Shop.
(Hi Everyone, hope you had a great weekend!)

 Here are some great links from last week:

from Red Hen Home



by The Brown Shed
by Antiques and Teacups
from Vintage Goodness 1


from the Lazy Peacock
Today's sponsor for The Marketplace is talented watercolorist, Christie Scibior. Her soft and fluid color palette, and precious subjects from the English Countryside, remind me of the work of Beatrix Potter. You'll want to browse her shop to see them all. Full of rabbits and ducklings, and adorable babies of the animal variety, you'll feel like you are stepping back in time. Christie has art prints and also a line of note cards that you'll just adore!




Cows Watercolor Print




Thank you, Christie! 

You're welcome to link up to three of your individual items, or a link to a selling site. Please give information  for people to purchase your items if possible. You don't have to have a blog to join in, but if you do, it would be so nice for you to be a follower, and to grab this image for somewhere on your blog, letting your readers know about this shopping link-up.

So glad to have you here to shop, and since the link is open all week, please come back to see all the new items being listed throughout the week. I still have sponsor space available if you're interested in becoming a sponsor of Common Ground, just click on the menu below the header under "Advertise".

thanks everyone for coming by,






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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Love Tokens

I've posted about this wonderful gold locket that was my paternal grandmother's before, but when I was looking back through some February magazine issues I really enjoyed this article in Martha Stewart Living about Love Tokens, and wanted to share it once again.


Lockets of all shapes and sizes were very popular gifts to loved ones in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Often they contained photos, an inscription, and a lock of hair from the beloved. Given when soldiers went to war, engagements, or the birth of a child, lockets and charms were highly valued tokens of personal affection, and worn daily.

(click on the image below to enlarge then click again to read)









I love coming across antique pieces of jewelry, charms, and lockets, and I have several personal pieces that I wear frequently.



This large gold locket was an engagement gift to my grandmother with my grandfather's photo and a lock of his thick gorgeous hair. Her initials are inscribed on the cover, Irma Gertrude Russell.


They were married around 1910, and my daddy was the last of 6 children born to them. I had an uncle born in 1912 (the first) and then she had 4 stillborn babies before my dad was born in 1929. They hadn't expected my daddy to live and so he had very few pieces of clothing as she didn't want to get her hopes up, but there he was; tiny, but healthy; a little miracle.





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