I don't know what it is lately but I have developed a tin obession. Bad enough that I already suffer with a box obsession but to start a TIN box obsession. Ah, well, sure I could be doing a lot worse things in this world than collecting old tins!
Not all of them are old of course, this one was found in a charity shop and contained some really BITCHY cards and stickers. I could not resist it even though it is just vintage style.
Angie gave me similar tiny one that says "Mother's Little Helper - better living through chemistry" It contained mints.
I use it to store my chill pills! Love the graphic on it.
The next one you have seen before but hey...good enough for another outing.
This one was filled with embroidery threads. Burstin' with treasure!
Here's a close up of the pic on front.
It was made in France according to the stamp on the bottom of it.
Now, this next one was bought from Debbies' English Treasures...I bought lots of things from her for Christmas presents but this tin just called my name and so I had to keep it.
She also gave me three, yes, 3 free gifts for buying from her. She also packaged them so beautifully... this is what tumbled out when I opened the box.
I can't show you everything as they are for Christmas presents for my sisters and they read my blog!
The small tin below holds my snap fasteners..it was originally a tin holding fairy coasters but I nicked it for my collection.
So that's it for now. I will leave you with a photo of the vintage wallpaper covered box I did recently ...(whas' that got to do with vintage tins? I hear you ask. Nothing, but hey - it's my blog and I call the shots! Have a nice day!
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Tins apparently are in now. Martha did a 'collecting' piece about them a while back, so of course, everyone is all about them now. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I get to see lots of tins that others are finding. On the other hand, I'm having a much harder time collecting them for my work! It amazes me that after buying literally hundreds of tins and rejecting 10 times that, there are still so many I've never seen. You have snagged some really interesting ones. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Christine | September 15, 2009 at 09:36 AM
They are lovely... I've always resisted buying tins, because I know if I start I'll catch the collecting bug!
Posted by: Lace hearts | September 17, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Lovely as always....How are you? XXX
Posted by: Tracey | September 18, 2009 at 05:06 AM
Once a collector, always a collector! There is always something 'new' to collect! ;-)
Love the tins and the box looks beautiful!
Posted by: Lorraine | September 18, 2009 at 09:56 AM
a girl can never have too much storage!!
Twiggy x
Posted by: Twiggy | September 19, 2009 at 02:33 AM
I really go for tins..these are great! Love the "bitchy" ones :-)
Posted by: Colleen | September 19, 2009 at 09:48 PM
Voila, I can now use 2007 as if it was 2002,
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