Tuesday's Treasure with Melody

Good morning all. Terrific Tuesday is here again which means I get to link up with the wonderful MELODY (who recently celebrated a Birthday by the way) for Tuesday's Treasures.
My 'treasure' this week is a couple of little things that I love and inspire me. On a road trip with some friends many, many, moons ago just after I started making quilts we visited a little quilt shop can't tell you where and I was taken by these gorgeous gift cards and just had to buy three (they were very expensive). They featured the art work of "Diane Phalen" who grow up in the Amish district of Lancaster in Pennsylvania. All three cards have gorgeous quilts featured and I just loved them. I very selfishly could not give them away and so popped them in little frames and I have them in my sewing room where looking at them constantly delights me.......but wait there is more! You knew there would be!

A few years later whilst visiting the quilt and craft show here in Brisbane I spied a tin with one of her designs upon it. I picked it up only to have it ripped from my hands by a very aggressive woman who told me "she saw it first" I was so shocked it rendered me speechless, something that doesn't happen very often to me. Next thing my friend whom I had gone to the show with along with numerous other customers at the stall expressed there disappointment at this woman's behaviour. She flung the tin at me and stormed off. I was so embarrassed and felt I  just couldn't buy the tin after all that. I was so disappointed because I had really admired it but it was only a tin for goodness sake. I walked off to peruse another stall and try to forget about it and enjoy the rest of our day. I am a great believer in if it's meant to be or I am meant to have something it will happen. and I certainly was not going to get into fisty cuffs over a "Thing".
My friends and I sat down to have a coffee and our lunch and then my best friend pulled the controversial tin from her bag and placed it in front of me saying "I knew you really liked it". She had popped back when I wasn't looking and bought it for me because she knew I wouldn't. So that little tin has for many years held my quilting cotton, thimble and quilting needles. It also reminds me of a friends kindness.

I do treasure this little tin with it's lovely artwork as I certainly didn't think it was coming home with me that day. What's your treasure today?
"Things are just that things and they come and go but special people and memories stay in our hearts forever"
Enjoy your day.
Blessings Michelle x