My Blue Pot

In yesterday’s blog, Ginger http://enchantingcottage.blogspot.com/ wrote about my blue Martha Stewart pot. So I decided today I would write about it.

Of course there’s a story behind it. Isn’t there always a story behind everything? Anyway, here’s the story about the blue pot.

I saw one on display at a Macy’s store – in fact I saw it on display at two different Macy’s stores. I thought they were really pretty and I had been wanting an enamel coated cast iron pot that size. So, I looked at them at both stores for a long time, and finally walked away without purchasing one. They were on sale for half price too. I thought, I’ve got a birthday coming up, maybe I’ll ask for one for my birthday.

So when my daughter asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told her I wanted a Martha Stewart blue pot. When she went to get one at Macy’s they told her they were all out of them. In fact, there weren’t any in any store in Arizona. I guess Martha Stewart had featured them on one of her TV shows, and every woman in Arizona had to have one. Well, I had already wanted the pot, but when I found out they were unavailable, I wanted it twice as bad. I thought, “Why didn’t I buy one when they were available which I almost did.”

Anyway, I got something else from my daughter for my birthday, a gift card from Sur la Table which I was very happy with. Sometime later, my dear husband, knowing how much I wanted the pot, called around to all of the Macy's stores in the area to see if they had one. Macy's is the only store that carries that line of Martha Stewart stuff. He finally found one at a distant store. We went there and purchased the pot. I'm glad he was with me to carry it to the car. It was quite heavy.

The blue pot that Ginger bought is really pretty. She got it at a great bargain price. If you haven’t read her story, click on http://enchantingcottage.blogspot.com/ to read it.