Farm treasures

As young children, we spent many holidays on our farm Klipplaat collecting buckets full of all sorts of treasures! Old rusted screws and nails, bottles and jars, shoe horses, tins and then of course the most valuable objects by far - the porcelain shards scattered in the veld around the farm house. These beautiful old chips of porcelin left by previous owners of the farmhouse and old cottages.

After collecting pieces, we would spend time sorting them, cleaning them, trading and trying to piece certain chips together. Sometimes we'd be thtrilled to discover that we had a few pieces that appeared to come from one single plate!

 A small flower design on a single chip, the only reminder of a once beautiful tea cup.

I still find these shards to be amongst my beautiful treasures.

For the love of beautiful old tea cups.