The Key to Happiness

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Keys to happiness and ever other thing.

I have a thing for keys, love taking photos of them.

 

 

Clasp-key

 

 

Only wish I could see each and everything they opened before they were left here, there and wherever.

 

 

Keys

 

 

Thank you for the wonderful stories you left yesterday, and for the funny notes about losing marbles and losing keys.

 

 

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I asked Mimi to pick a number for me to count through the comment section (first comment on up) to find a winner.

She picked her wedding day which corresponds to MARTINA! Funny but true Maritna's comment was:

 

 

House key

 

 

"The key was sewn into the hem of her wedding dress. The key to the carved walnut box that contained the loveletters from her gentleman friends-one who became her husband. The only child, a son, had no heirs. He saw no reason to keep the dress after she passed. He found the locked box and sold it and the dress to a brocante dealer. At the brocante, the key was purchased by a charming lady from Willows. Her friend coincidentally had purchased the dress for her own wedding. The bride found the key while she was mending a tiny tear at the hem of the dress.
Losing marbles is worst. You can always find a locksmith to make a new key."

 

Pretty good huh!!!

 

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Martina and, the other two random winners:

Tatiana and Marilyn,

Please send me your addresses and I will send you a key.

 

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I asked my 83 Year old Mother in Law who has perfect skin without wrinkles what her beauty secret was… or in other words her key to glowing young looking skin. She said, "Herrings, eating herrings…. everyday."

 

 

 

Decorative-keys

 

 

She didn't say that really, but since she has been here we have been eating marinated herring everyday.

So I am thinking it is not just for healing my broken bones. Instead it is a two for one deal.

Good skin and good bones.

 

 



Comments

8 responses to “The Key to Happiness”

  1. I love all you share.
    Heal well my lovely friend.
    Jeanne
    X0X0

  2. You know… the first time I ate pickled herring was when a German friend made it for me… in cream with apple, gerkins, onion… then eaten with warm potatoes. I thought “YUCK” but then I ended up rather liking it. She made it for me again and I loved it and I still crave herring in cream.
    Now that I know it’s also a wrinkle eraser, I will eat more.

  3. OMG – herrings every day…. LOL – no wonder i’m starting to get wrinkly 🙂
    wonderful post – great little keys – but the closest story to the REAL one was definitely JILLane…. brings tears to my eyes
    But I found all the invented and shared stories beautiful; I read them now.
    Sadly I cannot re-send my comment as I never save them… Too bad, it had a nice theme about keys from my grandfather whom we called ‘Schlossi’ (lock-maker in Swiss German child language) and who had hundreds of keys and locks in his shed where he worked…

  4. I’d rather have a couple wrinkles than have to eat herring every day…gulp…

  5. Love herring. We make them with oil and onion, marinated, with sour cream in a curry sauce, and many other ways. As for the wrinkles, I am not sure, I think I do have some, but they are mostly the laughing lines, so I don’t care :-).

  6. Well I’m doomed because I don’t like fish, any fish. I remember when I was younger, my Nana told me the best looking faces are the ones covered with wrinkles from laughing and smiling 🙂

  7. How exciting! I hope I am the Marilyn that won a key. I have sent you my address. Congratulations to Martina, what a perfect story.

  8. Yuck!! Mr. CCC loves those ugly, smelling things on crackers. Phew! Not me! I also have a passion for French gate/door keys and locks; haev a large collection and they are also VERY popular in my little shop. Many of my customers buy the little ones to use as a necklace on an antique chain. Tres chic!!

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