Adding to my glitter containers

Mar 17, 2011

Oh how I love to see my glit­ter inside these salt shak­ers and sugar dis­penser BUT when I was in Frisco Resale not too long ago I found these adorable ceramic houses. They were only .50 a piece and were scream­ing TAKE ME HOME with YOU! I had to fig­ure out what I was going to do with them as believe me I have enough lit­tle pret­ties here and there around the house and I do NOT need any­more. Well I was look­ing at the chim­ney on both houses and instantly thought they would be per­fect for pour­ing and then BAM new glit­ter con­tain­ers came to mind. Hon­estly, they are per­fect and look so cute sit­ting on my shelf in my scrap­room. I took these pho­tos in our liv­ing room to get some much needed extra light as it is way cloudy here today. But they will sit in my scrap­room hap­pily on a shelf wait­ing for me to use them.

I plan on fill­ing both of them with crys­tal coarse glit­ter then I don’t have to worry about pick­ing up the wrong glit­ter and pour­ing away. I could label the back of each house but I would rather just grab and pour. Then once I’m fin­ished with the glit­ter all I have to do is form a fun­nel with the paper I place the piece to be glit­tered on and the glit­ter goes eas­ily back into the house.

I could so live in a house just like either one of these… to, to cute.

Aren’t these just so cute. If any­one knows what they are sup­posed to be used for or where they came from I would love to know. Now run to a thrift store near you and try to find some unique glit­ter con­tain­ers and make sure you share your finds with me. I would love to see.


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  • http://prairiesedgefarm.blogspot.com cindy mar­quis

    Very good use for those cute houses. I also like your jars filled with glitter.

  • Deb­bie Blanken

    Lisa, these are small canal houses made by Deflt Blue. These are big col­lec­tables for the Dutch peo­ple. My husband’s fam­ily is from Hol­land and he still has fam­ily there. We have quite a few pieces of the Deflt Blue pot­tery. As far as I know the canal houses were col­lected in sets — most of the houses in Hol­land are on canals and look sim­i­lar to the small houses shown. If you ever find Deflt Blue prod­ucts at resale shops they are great col­lec­tables, pretty expen­sive to buy some­times. There is a Hol­land Michi­gan — where they have a store in the US where you can buy their pieces. The canal­houses come in small and large. My hus­band said there was not really a pur­pose for them except to dis­play in their homes — or his mother or aunt from Hol­land never kept any­thing in them. Hope this helped some. Alot of the Dairy­men where we live in Dublin, TX have lots of this pot­tery too.

  • http://ineedtostamp.blogspot.com Riet (harikini)

    Hi, my name is Riet, and I live in the Nether­lands (Holland)

    The answer to your ques­tion is, that they are sou­venirs from the Nether­lands (Hol­land).
    They are made for pep­per and salt.
    Here is a link where they are for sail.

    http://www.hollandsouvenirshop.nl/hollandsouvenir/product_info.php?cPath=38_124&products_id=465

    The blue and white is a very old way of paint­ing porce­lain, cold delfts blauw (blue).
    Delft is the city in the Nether­lands where this spe­cial paint­ing still is done.
    On very old pieces of porce­lain it is worth a lot of money.
    And col­lec­tors will pay thou­sands of euro’s for just one plate or item.
    But your two piece pep­per and salt is just made for the tourists.
    Deb­bie is rite, it are canal houses from Ams­ter­dam, our capi­tol city.
    But there are not a lot of peo­ple that live in these houses.
    Most of us live in reg­u­lair houses in sub­burbs, just like you.
    The canal houses are mon­u­ments from our past, and we take good care of them, so we can save them as our his­tory.
    Enjoy your pretty Delfts blue pieces, and have fun with them.

    Regards, Riet (harikini)

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  • http://www.vintagearabesque.blogspot.com Mar­i­anna Larew

    These are really cute and I also use vin­tage salt shak­ers for glit­ter.
    If you would like to see how I “bling” up my fairy dust/glitter shak­ers, stop by here:
    http://vintagearabesque.blogspot.com/2011/03/fairy-dust.html

    mar­i­anna

  • Becky Gar­ling

    omgosh, LOVE those! I hear the flea mar­kets are the best in TX & CA.
    MUST visit when I win the lot­tery. Last time I trav­eled to another city to go to flea mar­kets, we had to rent a trailer to bring home. I love fur­ni­ture! LOL

  • Shahrazad

    These are orna­ments that are given away on KLM flights when trav­el­ling on first and busi­ness class… if trav­el­ling from a coun­try that doesn’t con­sume alco­hol, the bot­tles would be empty but if trav­el­ling from other coun­tries they would be filled with some sort of drink… I have 10 – 12 of these houses and they are cute …