A BIT ABOUT US...

Walking through The Wade Creek House, you  get a sense about what we all love.  Old, unique and who knows what clicks when you see something  that makes you want to keep it and collect more.  It happens to all of us and we thought you would find it interesting to see what the members of The Wade Creek House are collecting.

Recently we asked the members of the Wade Creek House what they collect and here’s what we learned.  Since there are so many of us I will post a couple a week and then ad them to a page  on the side of the blog so you can catch up if you have missed some.  
 

Linda has been a member of The Wade Creek House since 2008.  She has a very unique collection that brings her great joy and fosters her sense of honoring the value of the past. She resides on some property that was once part of the Philip Foster farm land claim. Because she is an avid gardener she is always finding shards of old glass and pottery in the soil she tills. She says the shards are pretty and they remind her of the people who came before her. She keeps her shards in containers throughout her home. Undoubtedly the shards she finds were once part of very precious items that were used to “work the land and harvest food”. Linda even composed a poem expressing her feelings about what these shards symbolize. I will try to get that poem to share with you.

 

 

 

Debbie I. also joined us in 2008, and has a number of collections including an assortment of antique canning jars. She has a variety of sizes, shapes and manufacturers. Her jars are displayed on a shelf attached to a wall above a long window in her home.  It is easy to imagine the light bouncing off the glass jars in a delightful way.  She says she collects jars because they remind her of an era of history that has always appealed to her. Being a “farmer’s wife” during the late 1800’s or early 1900’s sometimes seems like a better match for her then her current modern lifestyle. She also notes the other benefit to collecting jars is that when she finds one while she is on a trip she can easily fit her “prize”  in her suitcase.

 

 

Collections offer a great way to add interest and excitement to your home or office décor.  Many people collect items that remind them of people or times gone by. Collections are unique and personal. It is fun to hear what our customers collect when they come into the shop “treasure hunting”! 

 

What do you collect?  We would love to know......