[HairOfTheDog]

You're pretty close, AAM. :~)

The mystery items, made by my Grandma, were shelf doilies (unless they have a more formal name) that are linen with lace butterflies. The linen piece sits on the shelf, and the butterfly hangs down. The note says my grandmother made these when she was 15, to fit a shelf her mother had. There are four of them.

She said that one time when Grandma was visiting, Grandma saw that her secretary desk had shelves that were just the right width for these doilies and brought them over the next time. She's had them for years now, and is downsizing to move to an assisted living apartment, and wanted them to go back to us. It was really nice of her to think of us and track us down. :~)

She also gave back to us some rolling pins made by my grandpa, a lefse pin and a pastry pin. We all have these, nearly everyone in the county has one of Grandpa's lefse pins, but we'll keep it till we find someone who needs one :~)

And Barkley got to go for a walk on the beach. I brought him up alone, Dad and Dona hadn't met him yet. He was a good boy and came back to me... mostly ;~) There are an awful lot of interesting smells to follow on the beach :~)

There were lots of scattered pumpkins on the beach... Evidently that's one way to get rid of them after halloween ;~)

Beach house and pumpkin ;~)

[Duchess47]

Very pretty doilies. I had some doilies and embroidried pillow cases and dish towels my grandmother had made until last week. I gave them all to my niece :)

Wonder why people are throwing pumpkins on the beach, kind of wrecks the view and they take a long time to decompose.

[AnAmericanMother]

Those are beautiful shelf doilies! I've never seen any with butterflies before.

Of course, you'll have to find a desk with pigeonholes to fit . . . . like buying a hat + a whole outfit to go with a hat band . . . .

Barkley is a GOOD dog to come back to you from so many fascinating smells!

I guess the pumpkins make interesting punctuation marks on the beach, but not really . . . . do you suppose they fell off a passing container ship, like the 200,000 Nike shoes?

[FrogInABlender]

I love the doilies! Even if you don’t actually use it, it’s so nice to have handwork like that from a loved one. I’ve got quilts that my Grandmother and Mother made and even though I don’t put them on the beds, I like to take them out and look at them every now and then.