I love bright vibrant color. I love to look at it, I love to wear it and I love to be surrounded by it. One of my favorite bits of color in our home is the large marble collection I have. It began quite simply. Every trip to the city with my husband, then boyfriend, included a trip to the infamous toy store FAO Schwartz. I'm sad to say the San Fransisco location shut it's doors back in 2003. Whenever we would go I would drool over the huge bin of marbles they had there. I loved picking each one up turning it over and over in my fingers and looking at it's colors from every angle. They remind me of big jars full of
candy. Matt would buy me just one each time we went. I would look and look rolling each one through my fingers holding them up in the light of the huge windows until I had decided which one I could not do without. It was always such a hard decision to make, I remember not being able to decide and having to force a decision when I was told that we absolutely had to leave and there would not be time to buy one if I didn't do it now. It was like trying to decide which friend to take and having to leave the rest behind. I just wanted them all because together the looked even more beautiful. Years later my grandfather heard about my love of marbles and gifted me his childhood collection. I then became the owner of the marbles my grandpa had played with and collected since he was an eight year old boy. Some of the marbles in the collection are even made of clay. Later a friend of mine gave me a
book all about marbles which I have enjoyed greatly. Who knew there was so much information on such a simple thing as a marble. I started buying marbles for our children when they were too small to play with them. Now I get to watch them play the games my grandpa played as boy when he was their ages. I induldge now and again too, after all your never too old to play.
Come to think of it I guess you could say my
grandpa still
plays with marbles...
*the third picture down is of a marble I bought from a glass blower. I got to watch him make it, so amazing!
3 comments:
It was fun reading about your love of marbles. I hadn't remembered the full story around them. I like your tie in to grandpa's present day recreation. I remember seeing the marble made by the glass blower, but had forgotten how beautiful it was.
Thanks for taking us down memory lane.
Mom
I don't think I've ever given them much thought but really they are little works of art. Thank you for sharing your story with us! What a special collection!! I wish I had a marble to give you now! :)
You are so sweet Bethany.
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