Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

I love going around to the thrift stores and antique stores where I live. What I’d REALLY love to do is go to the flea markets in Paris. I love the old, vintage and antique. I stroll around the aisles looking, sometimes touching, ever so carefully and lightly, items that catch my eye and spark my imagination. Who held this? Who wore that? How many tears were cried into this hankie? What secrets were whispered over this teacup? Were ardent love letters written while sitting at this desk? Who painted this, and why?

Oh, I get all tingly just thinking about it, my friends. I think that if I owned a shop filled with antiques and linens, hand made soaps from France and exotic food stuff, I would have a hard time letting any of it go. I know because I’ve tried buying things at garage sales to sell on line and some are still sitting in my house and the ones that I did sell, I wish I could buy back. Sigh, oh well.

The worst part of all this? My husband thinks antiques are just really old used furniture and can’t understand why I would want to buy someone else’s cast offs. I laugh. I think he has a better understanding since we both have been delving deeper into steampunk. Steampunk (this site is one of my favorites) creates technology that never existed. Remember how, before the invention of nasty plastic, everything was marble, wood, glass and brass? Well, the people who create steampunk use those elements to recreate today’s technology in yesterday’s glamour.

I tried to have each steampunk word link you to a different website of someone’s workshop so that you may see what it is about which I write.

Happy surfing while you sip!