Friday, December 4, 2009

Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home

Hello! Myrtle & Eunice is this weeks chosen theme queen for Pip's meme. I admit this initially had me stumped. Largely as since we moved mid-09 I seem to have many beloved treasures still in my old bedroom at my folks house.

So... upon roaming the house (with 3-day-school-camp brain I might add!) something jumped out. This little ceramic elephant was given to me by my cousin when I was probably 14 or so. We grew up practically in each others pockets when I lived in Melbourne. My cousin and I were inseparable on weekends, and spent most of our school holidays together.

So many treasured childhood memories were spent with my cousin, including making bathroom moosh (the art of using up copious amounts of lotion, makeup and toothpaste to whip up batches of 'new' and 'improved' bathroom products), playing cow-pat cricket in paddocks, making nasturtium leaf meals on huge rocks by the stream, sewing then wearing black satin face masks and glitzy rhinestone gloves for Michael Jackson's History concert in '97, and taking turns at pretending to be Don Burke and guest gardeners on their acreage.... to name a few. I'm chuckling away as I type this as so many moments were so fun, messy and downright brilliant!

The elephant is now quite well travelled - when I moved to London with my family, the elephant came with me for 3 years. It's now found its way on our shelf in the entryway in Adelaide. It is a nice reminder of my childhood and good times.


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13 comments:

  1. What a cute little elephant! I just picked up a cutie at the opshop the other day (pic on blog). I love your stories about bathroom concoctions and adventures with your friend. You reminded me of my kitchen concoctions and more dangerously, my shed concoctions. LUckily I never managed to blow anything up. Even though that was what I was trying to do! Lucky there was no internet back then to guide me ;)

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  2. Lovely little effalant! Great memories too, I love to hear these special stories and you reminded me of throwing cow pats when I was little. Gorgeous blog xo

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  3. He's a very cute little reminder of good times :)

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  4. Your elephant and what it means to you is lovely - and elephants are also good luck!

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  5. Perfect! I admit I'm chuckling over the Don Burke guest gardening bizzo too!

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  6. I used to have an elephant nearly like him! Cute as!

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  7. Another giggling at being Don and the Guest gardener. Too funny!

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  8. what a cute elephant, and even more special as it was given to you by someone nice! I, too, spent weekends and holidays with my cousin! some of the best memories of my life were made with her :) Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories!

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  9. Lovely memories of growing up are held in that cute elephant. Also brings back memories of what my cousins and I got up to as kids.

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  10. Oh he is soo cute! Love to hear the cousin stories, reminds me of all the fun I had with cousins too. x

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  11. Elephants are the most wonderful animals. Lovely to hear your story about him.

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  12. I think you'd make a great Don Burke! x

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  13. Gorgeous, totally beautiful post;)

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