Everyday Objects Enjoy Five Minutes of Fame

This week, Ritva has proposed Common Objects for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge. I’m offering a few, such as these coffee shop cups and saucers in the feature photo, served to us by a barista who clearly thought we were Baby Bear, Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear out to enjoy a morning coffee.

Back home, here’s our washing line: featuring the underwear of a colourful guest. And then the washing line itself – or rather its shadow- on the ground below.

Here are common objects put to less common uses. Like these cutlery items re-purposed as decorative works of art in a restaurant in Premia de Mar.

Then there are pillar boxes. I do like the first one, transformed into a slightly surprised face. And the second, from Ripon, reminding us of the D Day commemorations earlier in the summer.

Then there are the everyday things that have become display items. The garden tools in a display of Edwardian gardening implements at RHS Harlow Carr; the padlocks re-purposed as love tokens in Liverpool; and the toilet bowl that’s become a planter in Saltburn.

Let’s finish off with a clutch of jolly handbags parked by the dance troupe 400 Roses as they entertained us all in Masham during the last Sheep Fair.

I am joining Becky and Brian on a mission to get rid of that subscription pop-up box that appears every time someone leaves a comment on your posts. Can you go to ‘Newsletter Settings’? You will find it listed in the main Settings menu on the Dashboard. Then unclick the one that says ‘enable subscription pop-up for commenters’.  You may not even be aware that you have this feature enabled – I didn’t. But it’s an irritation we could all do with getting rid of.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

65 thoughts on “Everyday Objects Enjoy Five Minutes of Fame”

      1. I have some too, from my mother, never used and silver plated. Also a pretty decorated cake slice. I am thinking that cutlery items re-purposed as decorative works of art is an interesting idea.

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  9. What a super assortment! I love the coffee cups and the knife as ‘art’ but I’m not sure I could bring myself to use an old toilet bowl as a planter in our garden 😁

    I think I’ve disabled that pop-up some time ago but please tell me if you’re still seeing it on my site.

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  20. as everybody else, I love the colourful and ‘shady’ underwear…. and I adore the Roses’ handbags, did already in the post then and would upvote again!
    I’m also one who sees the ‘funny, uncommon, ordinary unordinary’ in everything. I still have a photo of a brocante in Lutry (Romandie, Suisse) where a stand-holder drew quite some attention with a truly oversized but real pair of underpants, white, with laces around the leg openings….. makes me still smile now!

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  22. What an enjoyable collection. I particularly liked the post boxes – not everyday items here I’m afraid. In the village where I live in SA, there have been no street postal deliveries for years, and the actual post office in our village was permanently closed last month!

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    1. Wow. No postal deliveries? Admittedly, everyone gets less post than in former years, but where do you collect from? We too have suffered the closure of many post offices. Our village gets a post office van just once a week providing a sales service.

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      1. Most people rely on privately run courier services as our national Post Office is in disarray.
        In this village they closed the PO boxes when the local post office closed, but there is talk of reopening them to receive weekly deliveries from the nearest still-existing post office that is also rumoured to be closing soon!
        Sad to hear that post offices in the UK are also closing – even the PO counters in the corner shop? I guess corner shops are also closing 😟

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  23. The corner shop counters are often the first to go. The PO won’t pay the staff costs. Corner shops as such are generally doing ok. They still perform an important service.

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