Friday, December 28, 2007

One Of My Presents

Look, what I got for Christmas.




No, not the Shih Tzu. The Chinese pincushion.

My mom had one of these when I was a kid. Actually, I think she had two of them because I remember a bigger one that had a lid that you could remove and there was a compartment in the middle where you could keep your sewing supplies. Every time I go to Sublime Stitching to buy one, they're sold out. (They're in stock now though.) So I was excited (it doesn't take much) to see Pier 1 had them. And, when my mom and sister went there for something else, they ended up getting me the pincushion. Yay! Unfortunately, mom doesn't know what happened to hers.

I just found a Chinese pincushion with lid on Cyber Import. It looks like they make them with different amounts of children/men/acrobats (I've seem them referred to as all three on different sites). Interesting.

I should start collecting them.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The doggie is so cute! But a bit confused looking as to why there's a pin cushion right there.

Patty said...

Thank you! I'm always making the poor thing pose with stuff so I can take a picture. I'm glad she puts up with me.