Show and Tell Friday

Finally bit the bullet and am going to join in the joy of Show and Tell Friday from Kelli's blog http://kellishouse.blogspot.com/

I thought about this a bit before I decided to do this, wondering what would be a good thing to share.

Here is a little story of childhood wonder...

When I was a little girl we had visited some historical sites, lots of them in New England, but this one had some archaeological digging going on and it fascinated me. I came home and wanted to dig up our back yard. My mother, who was very bright, decided that a shovel might "damage" any treasures so gave me a proper tool to dig with, a spoon ! Naturally this project was going to take a lot of time. Maybe the entire summer. I set to work, digging carefully by the back door of our Victorian home. Bit by bit I moved the hard soil, when suddenly I hit something.... with care but plenty of excitement I carefully removed the item...a tiny metal tea cup. I ran into the house yelling of my discovery. My mother told me years later that it shocked her that I found something and then for it to be a girls old toy was even more amazing. I cleaned the cup up, but would not scrub it or polish it for fear of damaging it. In my zeal, I headed back out for more digging and soon uncovered a tiny metal spoon to go with the tea cup. For the rest of the summer I dug into the soil with hopes of finding more treasures but to no avail. I had found two small items from the early 1900's. To this day they are still counted as treasures.

my tiny treasures, a cup and a spoon, the penny gives you an idea of their sizes