accidential or unintentional collections

Sometimes I buy something I like and then I see another similar and buy it and  then another and before I know it I have a "collection." That is what happens with my white pitchers, vintage tins and marble cutting boards.  But I didn't realize I had been  doing it with tassels until I started this move and finding them on windows, curtain rods, lamps, etc. around the house

As I came across them I began just hanging them in the laundry room at the new house and suddenly I had a bunch of them.  When did this happen?  I wasn't consciously doing it.  Just one here and there over the years at thrift stores and really never noticed how many I had hauled home.

But I realize I love tassels. Tassels are so elegant and opulent. I began thinking that after this move is all over that it would be fun to start embellishing them and looked at some on line...

There are a lot of really cool tassels online,

I love them all beaded and fitted with fancy braids and I certainly have a lot of that left over from CQ and I think I could do it...

 

 

 

And I absolutely fell in love with these  little tasseled birds.  I have to do this!!!!

 

And not all tassels have to be used on window treatments... Look at this cool use of them?

 

 

 

 

 

And I saved the best for last... How about this valance of crazy quilt squares combined with tassels.  What a great theme for a round robin.