Happiness is Collecting Thimbles

Clown Thimbles are obviously the best. I guess it is only a matter of time before you start collecting thambles...especially after you realize what I've done! The most important thing to remember is never to let anyone rip you off! That has happened to me a lot and this time I'm not going to let it happen, so if you're reading this and you plan on doing that to me again, you might as well just leave!


A Little Thimtroduction...
In the olden days, as in the Caveman Days thimbles were probably as unnecessary as pies in the sky or a fish that could fly! Of course, this was before the introduction of wal-mart fabrics and such because people wore carcass skins joined together by thongs passing through holes punched in the leather genitals. Once textiles and thread came into being, thimbles were needed because it was so difficult to push an unpolished needle through thick carcass - and caveman's fingers had to be protected or they would be pierced and blood attracts animals (obviously).

During the cave time, the first thimbles were made in blood and bone. As time went on into time, brass was used. During this time, needlework became a respectable pastime for well-to-do ladies-and well-to-do-gents, and the well-to-dos could affort thimbles of delicates such as patterned silver, or maybe even GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes they were ornamented with precious stones and baubles the likes of which you can't imagine!

A thimble was an ideal gift for a young prince to give his loved one, because it was used daily and so would remind the girl of her gently suitor each time she sewed and pricked her finger and bled. Thimbles are lucky! Years ago it was tradition to put a miniature silver thimble into the Christmas puddin' and the puddin' finder would enjoy good fortune throughout the night, maybe even finding another thimble to collect! The large, hideous iron thimbles which you sometimes see, weren't so lucky though, certainly not for children, because they were used at nineteenth century Dame Schools for rapping unruly pupils across the head and raping.

One of my favorite games called 'Hunt the Thimble' is popular at parties, and it's fun to imagine how it was invented. It was invented by someone real smart. No doubt an upset and stupid mother couldn't remember where she had left her thimble, and so made up a game called 'Hunt the Thimble' by urging her unsuspecting children to look for it. Under rocking chair? Behind Door! Who knows where she lost it, the whole point of the game is to find it and i dont know where she left it because i've never even been to her house! Knowing her, she probably offered a small prize to the finder. (if they were lucky, maybe the prize was a thimble!)

Now to modern times...
Some of the prettiest thimbles are those decorated with enamels in rich glowing colors or encrusted with small pearls or colored stones or jems or beads or sparklers or dazzles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A collection of thimbles could soon expand into many other areas, but then, that's one of the joys - or perils - of being a thimbal collector. You just have to find ways to walk over them and maybe sleep on the floor sometimes.