These are a few of my favorite things...

… Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens 

Brown paper packages tied up with strings 

These are a few of my favorite things…

I have always loved that song. As I was cleaning the other day, I would clean and something would catch my eye and I would think of that song and how that particular item was one of my favorite things in my house. So I grabbed my camera and decide to take some pictures of a few of my favorite things around the house to share with you.

My Fenton hobnail milk glass flower basket. The candles mean the world to me because in 1989 my husband started work at a candle shop that hand carved each candle. He did both of these himself just for me.

One of my favorite tea for two sets. We always went to Toby's World of Gifts in Little River, SC when we would go to the beach. They had a room in the back that had tons of tea for two sets. One year hubby surprised me and picked this up and bought it for me when we were in there. 

These are my two favorite tea sets and they both mean the world to me. The one on the left was a gift from my son and daughter-in-law. It is from the Lefton Company and has my two favorite things....cardinals and dogwood flowers. The one on the right is my first official teapot and teacups ever. That is what started my collection. Hubby bought them for me for Valentine's Day. They are Royal Dalton Old Country Roses. I had always wanted them and we were in their store at a local mall and he said "Do you want them? I'll get them for you." I hesitated about a nano second and said YES!

This set was when I bought my Bombay & Company tea cart and wanted one entire complete tea set. I have had this about 30 years. I still love it as much now as I did then. It was another gift from Hubby.

One of my favorite candy dishes that I love. It's vintage but other than that I don't know the history on it. Ironically enough, I never put candy in it because I don't want to risk breaking it when I reach for candy.

It sit on my coffee table with another vintage candy dish and a flower arrangement I have had for a long time. It was from Walmart but it has daisies, which are my favorite flower. FYI the little book case by the chair are my favorite books. Some are for my exchange at McKay's but a few I will never part with. Especially one called Karen from 1952. That's a blog post for another day.

Of course you know my Pyrex shelf is going to fall into my list of favorite things. Most of the pieces on this shelf are either Town & Country pattern or the Harvest Wheat pattern. These are a couple of my favorite Pyrex patterns.

But my all time love from the list of Pyrex patterns is the Colonial Mist. Special memories of the bowl set on the right. I love the little rooster in top of the bowls on the right. The regular mixing bowls in the came in solid blue with white flowers but they also made a set of alternating blue bowl/white flower next size would be white bowl/blue flowers. So I want to find the ones with the white background as well.

I have posted several times about my three tier stand and I redid it for a few holidays. But I have fallen so in love with it with my kitchen stuff that I won't be trading it out for holidays anymore. I still need a couple of things to fill the bottle shelf around the back side.

I also have numerous tea for one sets all around the house. But the one on the middle shelf is my favorite. My daughter-in-law is one of the best gift givers you will ever find and she got this one for me one year from the grandkids. This whole setting makes me happy because my younger brother actually made the corner shelf for me, even cut out the little hearts. He is very talented. 

I love the blue and white pitcher and bowl. It belonged to my mother-in-law who has been gone around 27 or 28 years now. I got if for her one year from Home Interior and when she passed away, it was the one thing we asked for that belonged to her. 

I got this cat at some yard sale for around a dollar, but I just absolutely adored it. I still do. It has the colors that are in my bedspread.

And last but not least is the top of my refrigerator. First, I love this because the brown pitcher belonged to my Mamaw Eden who has been gone since 1988. Me and my cousin Patty bought it for her and when she passed Patty got it and then gave it to me. Then the two chickens on the shelf belonged to one of my grandmothers as well, but Mom can't remember which one. I have had them forever.

Well, there you go. Some of my favorite things. Things that make me smile.