Crafts, content strategy, flatware, and dogs. Not necessarily in that order.
This spoon is one of many created to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on July 29, 1981.
I probably shouldn’t call it THE Charles and Diana Wedding Spoon, seeing as how I have about 8 of these. I’ll just have to get creative with the others.
Happy World Penguin Day! To celebrate, here’s a spoon from the Portland Zoo with a tiny penguin on it.
Back before Portlandia “put a bird on it” the city of Portland famously “put a penguin on it” in a campaign to help raise awareness about our friends in the south. This spoon was one of those penguin-adorned souveniers, probably made sometime in the mid 1960s but definitely before 1976.
Located in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, the zoo first opened in 1888 under the name “The Portland Zoo” and changed its name to the “Portland Zoological Gardens” in 1959. In 1976, the city held a naming contest and ended up changing the name to “Washington Park Zoo” and then in 1998, renamed it to “The Oregon Zoo” (for which we featured a spoon in February!)
Not sterling and not haunted, this spoon is just happy to have a penguin on it!
This London Underground spoon comes with a fun fact: the London Underground is totally haunted!
Farringdon Station, for instance, is haunted by the ghost of a little girl named Anne who met an untimely death in the mid 18th century right where the station sits today. Those who have heard her shrieks have dubbed her the “The Screaming Spectre of Farringdon.”
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that spirits who haunt train stations don’t also haunt spoons.