Cool & Collected

Alison over at the Polohouse is hosting her monthly Favorites on the First party with this month's theme collections.  I collect a lot of things, like the gold plated brass ornaments I just showed you for Christmas here, but one of my favorite collections is my perfume bottle collection.

I love the way that glass plays in the light, so I have them on display under my ridiculously long ranch home windows in my bedroom on top of mirrors.  I bought the mirrors then built the shelf to fit 3 of them.  Some bottles are handblown and signed by the artisans, picked up at art fairs.

I have a vaseline glass bottle that glows under blacklight, and bavarian pieces picked up at antique shops and flea markets.

Some are Fenton pieces from right around the corner here in upstate NY or Egyptian glass from half way around the world.

 Right now I have them displayed ROYGBIV rainbow style, but sometimes I group them by origin or age.  I love picking them up and polishing them up, which is weird I know, but I like to think about the trips where I picked each one up.  For the older ones, it's fun to think about who might have owned or used them.

Thanks for popping in and sharing my perfume bottle collection.  Check out some other fun collections at Alison's party.