Mrs Cranky has always loved opalescent glass and perfume bottles. There is a company in France called Sabino that has made opalescent glass (or maybe it's opaline?
) for over 100 years and they make perfume bottles Mrs Cranky loves. A very long time ago when Mrs Cranky and I had much less money than now I somehow saved up enough money to buy a Sabino perfume bottle and surprise Mrs Cranky for Christmas. At the time we were living in a very old house in rural Kansas that was heated almost exclusively with 2 fireplaces. This necessitated us to have fire wood delivered...except in the cases when I was in Wichita (60 miles away) and stopped to fill the trunk of my car with mill ends from a pallet company...
Our local firewood guy was unbelievably cheap even compared to when I was young and my brother and I cut and sold firewood. The real issue was most of the wood was black walnut and it broke my heart to have to burn such beautiful wood. I did manage to save a very few pieces to play around with. I carved a cute little fairy figurine...that the cat would steal and carry around until it got broken and some other things.
One of those other things was a box for the perfume bottle, which is actually the first box I ever made.
So I figured I'd take the time to show that off today, although I can't swear it's black walnut but that's how I remember it.
