Thursdays This and That: Flea Market Stuff

 

I love red and white in a kitchen.  The old ad above is similar to my kitchen which has yellow walls and white appliances and cupboards.  Imagine my delight when I FINALLY found a rolling pin with red handles at Renninger's Farm and Antique Market.

Beth gave me some blue fabric in the perfect color I was searching for:

Besides pickles and produce the other thing I found that intrigued me was a heart shaped sachet.  Just when I thought I had seen everything up popped this:

It's big-- 9 inches long and about 9.5 inches wide.  In the back there is an opening held closed with a snap.  Inside was a gauze bag of potpourri.

Peggy--the lady at the stand said this was not just a sachet but that people kept them on their tables and put hot platters on them when serving food.  It's a sachet and a trivet.  The heat of the food made the potpourri infuse the air with the floral fragrance.  The sachets are quite flat as if to attest to their job of making the house smell sweeter.

I had never heard of this.  My great grandmother and my two great aunts just about sewed every kind of doo-dad you can imagine but they didn't do this.  I also never saw this in any of the old magazines I studied for years.  I couldn't find anything in newspapers.com.  Do you have knowledge of this?

It's an interesting idea.   Still, I'm not sure I want my meal to smell like flowery stuff.  Beth and I finally decided that a nice use would be to put a tea pot on it and fill the interior sachet with clove and cinnamon.  What do you think?

Have a safe and happy day!