Cottage- A Home Where Love Resides

Cielo at House in the Roses is hosting Show Off Your Cottage.  And see  Mosaic Monday posts over at  Mary's Little Red House.

Cielo asked what cottage meant to us.  For me it's welcoming and  comfortable, homemade and vintage.  It's folk art and collections.   It's children and pet friendly.  It's taking care of things that your great grandmother made.  It's where faith and imagination can flourish.   It's a home where love resides.

Top row: Quilt made for me by my Great Grandmother, embroidered linens, hand painted platter and blue and white dishes.

2nd Row: Wooden spoons in a crock, folk-art bird painting, potted flowers and herbs on the deck.

3rd Row: Shawnee pottery bluebird, heart wall plaque,  chinese-checkers game.

4th Row: Folk-art carnival painting, cat on crocheted afghan,  green depression glass.
5th Row: Wooden pig cutting board, metal star,  enough flag decor to make Betsy Ross proud.
6th Row: My daughter's nesting dolls,  santos,  guest bed with another quilt my great grandmother made and embroidered pillowcases.
7th Row: Cobalt blue nesting hen,  crewel sunflowers stitched by my mother,  my grandparents chime clock.
8th Row: April Cornell and vintage tablecoths, hand painted  metal tray, my son's favorite stuffed shark.

What is cottage to you?

See  Mosaic Monday posts over at  Mary's Little Red House.