Temperatures are dropping and it has been a freezing cold and windy day with intermittent showers of hail so I stayed indoors. Even the dogs turned back on their dog-walk and went home.

After an early lunch (and I have no idea why I decided it was lunchtime when it was actually 11.30 – odd!), I went to my shed and made the little chap on the far right.

And then I decided to try an experiment.  I have been looking at all the family things that I brought home with me when my mother died and am trying to decide what to sell – I just have so much stuff.

Transcribing Great-Great Aunt Kate’s diaries has made me realise that Kate sold things she didn’t want and maybe I should too.  She was always going to shops and flogging jewellery and books, etc. while I seem to hang on to everything regardless.

While I was considering what to do with all this “stuff”, I found an old “Polyfoto” booklet of Aunt Kate, so I took it to pieces carefully and made a rough film of the photos – I think I will make a better one using the scanner.  This first one was just an experiment to see if it would be worth it. I think it would.

So here is an example of something I could sell ….. I have no idea how to describe it.  A vintage toy – the head is made of bisque with hand-painted face and a silk material stuffed “body”.  The tongue protrudes and wobbles – ugh!  That can go.

And I love these but I don’t really need them….. They live in their little box in a drawer. I find them occasionally and think how cleverly made they are but possibly sell?

I also have a plethora of old jewellery.  Mostly Edwardian, like these antique 1900s diamanté filigree dress adornments.

I was thinking I could buy a large oval gilt frame and display all the pretty sparkly jewellery in it on a blue velvet background.  Well, that’s the plan.

I am rambling because I just can’t make up my mind and I hate selling family things but then my house is full, full of stuff that lives in boxes that I rarely look at.  I am a failed minimalist.