Rose of Sharon I. Family

This blue transferware sugar bowl traveled long and far before settling in North Carolina. First owned by my paternal great grandmother Maria Brennan Osborn, it was an item she could not leave behind when she, William and the girls emigrated from London to Canada in the late nineteenth century. The sugar bowl and the spoon (which bears the monogram MWO) , were among the few household items not stolen from the dock as they traveled by ship from London to Montreal to Toronto.

The flower is a descendant of a Rose of Sharon on my husband’s great grandparent’s farm in Lenoir county, North Carolina. These transplants have flourished in our yard, and each plant’s flowers are of a single color, either white, pink, or lavender. It is always interesting to see what color the blooms of a new plant will be.

The pearls were a gift from my husband Chuck on our 10th wedding anniversary and the bunny box, also from him, contains childhood treasures including a bejeweled American flag pin commemorating my naturalization as a U.S. Citizen in 1971. The vintage bud vase is hand-blown Bohemian lead crystal.