What objects do you find pleasing?

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Following an earlier discussion, I and @LadyDuck were just commenting on our button tins, both of which are family heirlooms by now, and how we used to play with the buttons as children, and now my daughters do the same and in due course perhaps their children will as well. There’s something very pleasing about buttons, their different shapes and colours and textures, and how you can sort them into groups based on different characteristics, or try to find all the ones of the same kind. I always save the buttons off any discarded worn-out clothes and then enjoy rummaging in the button tin to find something suitable when I make something new. That conversation made me think about what other objects we find pleasing and just enjoy having around, even if they are not really necessary. For me another pleasing object would be marbles. I’m always tempted to buy a few marbles when I go to a toy shop. I still have all the marbles I had as a child, then I gained a lot more when I was at the recycling centre one day and a man was literally throwing away everything from his childhood and I rescued several items. Then I couldn’t resist buying some more when the toy shop had some attractive new designs. I also still have a ‘marble run’ made by my Dad when I was little and now and then we still get it out and race the marbles down it or try to stack them all up then let them all go at once. Harmless fun but very noisy! What unnecessary but pleasing objects do you keep? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.