Eventually I'll stop collecting, and to be honest I am not a huge collector of things and when I do collect. I'll usually only pick up a few of one thing, but recently I have fallen in love with retro baby themed planters from the 1940's and 1950's. What is really lovely about these planters is that they're never all the same because parts of the planters were hand painted. So the glaze dots for eyes and flowers are slightly different on every planter.
These planters were plentiful in the five-and-dime stores back in the forties, but after the U.S.'s entry into WWII dried up the supply of these ceramics from Japan, more U.S. manufacturers started pumping them out by the hundreds of thousands.Unfortunately finding them isn't all that easy, but this summer I'll offering up some of my favorites to any new babies on the way.
