♥ PiNk SaTuRdaY! ♥ -- My Hope Chest

Thank you so much, Beverly, for hosting PiNk SaTuRdAyS!



In a recent post Claudia at Mockingbird Hill Cottage asked if we had any favorite pieces of furniture, and you know, I do!!! I thought today I would share with you my hope chest which my father gave me when I was nine years old. It has taken a beating in all the many moves it has gone through.

It began it's journey in Macau, to Lisboa, Portugal, to California. When I moved to Washington State for a brief time, I left it with my father, but when I returned to California I brought it back home with me. In California, well, it's been MOVED numerous times and it shows it's scars here and there, but it's still beautiful.





It is hand carved out of mother of pearl and ivory. It looks peachy in the photos but it is pink. I often take it for granted but in taking these photos I thought to myself, wow, this beautiful hope chest is mine and a treasured gift from my dad!

It's a little bittersweet when I look at the memories packed away in it, yearbooks, my diary from when I was a little girl, autograph books, newspapers with major headlines like the day President Kennedy was assassinated (and this one is in Portuguese as we were living there at the time), memento's from so many years ago . . where have the years gone . . . .

For some more beautiful pink eye candy, please be sure to visit Beverly's Blog How Sweet The Sound!