I don’t know when it started, or how it started, or why it started for that matter, but over the years i’ve somehow accumulated a collection of mushrooms, fungi, and|or toadstools.
My eye is always drawn to botanical type mushrooms and I mentioned my fascination long ago to a friend and alas it’s her gift of choice for me. LOL.
Although most of the collection is enabled by my friend the first ones I bought are these garden stakes.
I got them at target a gazillion years ago and usually reside in my succulent planter on the patio. {I just brought them all together here to showcase the collection I have inadvertently amassed.}
This little assembled cloche I created a long time ago when I had booth space in a couple of shoppes and I usually crafted some accessory for vignettes.
Most of the cloches included birds and nests under glass but this one spoke to me so I kept it instead of selling it and it now lives in the guest room.
The rest of them really don’t have a home so I’m in the process of creating a vignette and thinking of ways to incorporate them somehow into my holiday decorations. Stay tuned.
But before I even owned any of these, my fascination already existed. Here are a couple of memory pages I journaled about the wild mushrooms growing at our new home when we bought this house.
seems to have some symbolism for me; i guess.
For Christmas I’d collect a few elves/gnomes/Santas and those tiny presents to hide under the mushrooms. A few small glass balls–maybe a large serving dish lined with moss to keep all corralled. Mirror for an ice rink…oh, right, this isn’t MY project!! Would love to see how you “style” them!
love all those ideas kathy! thanks for sharing. I’ll share when I set up my holiday decor for sure. xo- mj
I have had a fetish for mushrooms for some time as well. My collection is growing, but is a bit more whimsical. I adore these! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
hugs,
Jann
so many different ones in your collection as a collector and lover of antiques I often look for odd collectibles I happen to think yours is rather nice thanks for sharing it
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