Pumpkins and Plaid

I have found that people collect most anything. Several years ago, I saw a picture in a "Country Living" magazine of a bookshelf with several plaid tins stacked together. Being a child of the 50s and 60s, I had an immediate attraction to these plaid tins and to the plaid lunchboxes and thermoses. It was then that I decided to begin my own collection. To date, I have thirty five thermoses of various plaid patterns, five plaid lunch boxes, five plaid tins, one plaid cooler, and one plaid grill. Yes, I said a plaid grill. So cute and very unusual. I keep the plaid collection out all year, as it looks especially festive during Christmas.

A happy pumpkin full of mums standing tall atop the plaid cooler, accompanied by a metal barn lunchbox and a pair of pumpkin clogs.

The barn lunchbox is a duplicate of my very first lunchbox, taken to first grade with me. As you can see, I've loved plaid for a long time!



Another touch of plaid and orange!