the focus on this picture is off....
but this bottle of bols, with a little ballerina inside, has been in my family for at least 20 years. i'm not sure where it came from, but when i left home to move to ny i took it with me because it was one of the things i remembered always being around from my childhood. which, means a lot to me because i have a very vague memory of my early years for some reason (i never understood ppl who remembered things from when they were 3!). and being in ny, quite far away from tx, i wanted something to make me feel...closer to home. or something like that...anyhow, eug always hated it. he's threatened to throw it away quite a few times, including this last time when we were packing up for hong kong. i almost succumbed, but stuck to my guns...and then when i unpacked it, i discovered that some of the liquid had leaked. i couldn't figure out from where and was pretty sad about it...i took it as a sign to say goodbye...but couldn't. i cleaned it up and it was fine. the leak must be pretty minor...
so anyways...last week we went to visit amours antique and lo and behold there is the little ballerina in her little red tutu, with her little dangly legs in the bols bottle sitting in the window...and while it is not worth a fortune, it was going for about $300 USD. of course, i just had to point it out to eug....
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