The Loving Spoon Blog

  • November 21, 2012

    Not all those who wonder are lost

    My friend Kate was looking for a present for her sister who is going to live in Australia for one year. She needed something personal and small, that she could easily fit in her suitcase and travel with. They met at Vancouver's airport yesterday, in between her flights, as she had a lay-over here on her way to Australia. This spoon is to wish her luck during her year of adventures!

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  • October 23, 2012

    Guess what I found while cleaning a spoon...


    I feel like I don't emphasize enough how fascinated I am by all those antique spoons and cutlery. I can spend hours dreaming about what they were used for, by whom, how many decades or more ago, and where about in the world. I was just cleaning a big batch of very old, (very very) tarnished spoons this morning, and as I was rubbing the "black" off of one, a hand-carved name appeared on the back of the handle. It reads "Gladys Kirwin".
    Imagine my excitement when I saw that!! 

    I did some research and it looks like it was a quite common name; most of the Gladys Kirwins I found were located in the US (Texas, Nebraska, Massachusetts and Arkansas mostly) and were born between 1900 and 1920. There are quite a few in Queensland, Australia in the 40's and 50's and a lot more in England. 

    Was is a little girl who wanted to make this spoon hers, so that her brothers and sisters wouldn't use it? In the 1920's? In Worcestershire, England? I can make up so many stories like that. I would be curious to read what your story would be?!
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