Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home hosts “Show and Tell Friday” asking “Do you have a something special to share with us? It could be a trinket from grade school, a piece of jewelry, an antique find. Your show and tell can be old or new. Use your imagination and dig through those old boxes in your closet if you have to! Feel free to share pictures and if there’s a story behind your special something, that’s even better! If you would like to join in, all you have to do is post your “Show and Tell” on your blog, copy the post link, come over here and add it to Mr. Linky. Guidelines are here.
My husband and oldest son were in Brazil last week: my husband had a business conference and invited our oldest to go along. Jim doesn’t usually bring souvenirs home from trips — he travels too much for that to be feasible. But since this was a foreign country he thought it would be nice to get something for everyone.
The trouble was finding something distinctly Brazilian. He was in Sao Paulo, and most of the markets and street vendors had things that looked like they came from America or China. But he did find a few nice things. He got everyone else t-shirts, but I got these:
This is a hair clip, but I want to try to either remove the clip part or somehow add a pin onto it so I can wear it like a pin rather than in my hair. I think it’s cute!
This was from a street vendor.
This is a cute little box. He knows my tastes well, doesn’t he?
While I was showing international gifts, I thought I would show these, too. I’ve shown before things my middle son brought home from Africa and my Venezuelan basket, a gift from a missionary friend.
This little windmill was from my husband’s one other international trip: he had gone to Austria but I think he may have gotten this during a layover in Holland.
This is from another mission trip my middle son took with his youth group to Mexico. It’s supposed to hold tortillas to keep them warm, but I haven’t used it for that purpose: the tortillas we get are larger plus I don’t want to mess it up.
My middle son’s girlfriend is an American of Indian descent, and her mother took a trip to India last fall and sent this back for me. I think these kinds of elephants are a big deal over there: she also sent a couple of keychains for the boys with elephants like this on them.
I think this came from one of my husband’s coworkers who was from the Philippines or had taken a trip there. It has some pretty detailed carving but was ridiculously inexpensive. I smudged out our last name. 🙂
And I think that’s just about everything I have from other countries.
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Stray Thoughts 
I love the box with the roses…and the windmill? I think I now covet that little treasure! LOL
Super fantastic Show N Tell this week. Hope your Friday is treating you well…..have a good weekend.
I think that wall hanging is so pretty. I love that it has your families names on it. You have some very neat things from other countries!
WOW! You’ve got some nice treasures there! I always bring back a little something for our grand-daughters as well as sending them postcards. I LOVED the tortilla keeper. Our son-in-law is Mexican and his parents are always cooking home-made tortillas when we all get together. I have a tortilla press and thought I would try and impress my family that I could make tortillas too. Mine came out like pancakes! Later I found out that it is for CORN tortillas! ha ha!
Connie
How wonderful to have treasures from around the world. I especially love the picture of the roses and the little rose box.
Thanks for sharing and have a lovely weekend.
Love these treasures from all around the world! Some of them are so unique!
I love that little windmill! 🙂
My favorite is the box with the roses. Beautiful.
~jen
what a variety. I love the little hair clip. I think it would look so cute in someone’s hair!!
I love your pretty treasures! What a great trip to get to go to Brazil! I bet your husband and son loved it! Thanks for your prayers for me. I really appreciate you doing this. Love and ,Grams
Hi Barbara,
Everything you had share is very interesting! Thanks for showing us. I like the tortilla pocket the best! 🙂
I enjoyed seeing your treasures – I was in Campinis, Brazil a few years ago and we got to go up into the hills to a town full of knitting mills and shops. I got some lovely things.
I have lotgs of gifts professors and missionaries have given me from all over the world. I plan to show the ones I’ve had in my office before I retire in two weeks.
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You have so many beautiful souvenirs, very special things from very special people. Thanks for shoving! I love your show and tell.
Ruuta
Thanks for sharing pictures of these beautiful souvenirs! I enjoy viewing them every week.
I am not sure which treasure I like the
best but I’ll have to pick the heart box
and the rose print. I like roses and
flowers painted on china & the drawings
too!
Nice heart doilie. would be nice to get a pattern for that. Favorite flower of all are the roses. They are such a royal flower!!!
Fun treasures. I like your crocheted clip/pin, and the elephant is great. THanks for visitingmy blog!
I am late visiting the show & tell group because I was furthur south Friday and early Saturday. I didn’t really use my computer much yesterday, just to check in with Honey Bear.
these are all lovely and unusual pieces. You can by the pin backs at hobby stores and I believe you’ll be able to sew it on. It would also make a good fridge magnet if you wanted to go that route. He chose the Rose theme which you love so well.