canesisters
Garden Master
It's been several years since Mom passed and I've been putting off cleaning her things out of the house.
I gathered up her clothes a long time ago and sent them off with some friends to a mission church in West Va. But all of 'HER Things' have been sitting.
My sister and I tackled her 'craft room' this past Saturday. It was an all day memory quest. We laughed a lot, cried a little & packed up her car FULL of stuff to take home or drop at the donation site.
I brought home a couple of boxes of things and spend most of yesterday afternoon 'decorating'.
This is one of those old $5 wardrobe trunks from a yard sale this past summer. The hanging quilt was pieced together by my grandmother when she was a young girl. She made the blocks, but never finished it. Mom sewed the blocks together to make the top and put a backing on it just a few years before she passed. The cookie tin (and 2 of the drawers in the trunk) are filled with her sewing 'notions'. She made the 2 dolls. There is a spaghetti sauce jar full of buttons that I remember playing with as a child. The little wooden box of drawers was made by her father. The metal pitcher (and a few other matching pieces that we didn't find) sat on a shelf in her kitchen under a giant wooden hanging fork and spoon for as long as I can remember. It's now full of her knitting needles.
The mirror came from my Grandmother's house. It's just a cheap plastic frame but I remember it hanging in her dining room over a book shelf FULL of Readers Digest Condensed Books. It's been sitting in a closet for years but I thought that it looked just right for that spot.
The quilt poking out of the drawer was rescued from a barn years and years ago. It's pretty ragged and REEKED of cat pee when I first found it. I don't know anything about it's history, but it goes well with Grandmother's quilt so now it has a place to live and be displayed too.
I gathered up her clothes a long time ago and sent them off with some friends to a mission church in West Va. But all of 'HER Things' have been sitting.
My sister and I tackled her 'craft room' this past Saturday. It was an all day memory quest. We laughed a lot, cried a little & packed up her car FULL of stuff to take home or drop at the donation site.
I brought home a couple of boxes of things and spend most of yesterday afternoon 'decorating'.
This is one of those old $5 wardrobe trunks from a yard sale this past summer. The hanging quilt was pieced together by my grandmother when she was a young girl. She made the blocks, but never finished it. Mom sewed the blocks together to make the top and put a backing on it just a few years before she passed. The cookie tin (and 2 of the drawers in the trunk) are filled with her sewing 'notions'. She made the 2 dolls. There is a spaghetti sauce jar full of buttons that I remember playing with as a child. The little wooden box of drawers was made by her father. The metal pitcher (and a few other matching pieces that we didn't find) sat on a shelf in her kitchen under a giant wooden hanging fork and spoon for as long as I can remember. It's now full of her knitting needles.
The mirror came from my Grandmother's house. It's just a cheap plastic frame but I remember it hanging in her dining room over a book shelf FULL of Readers Digest Condensed Books. It's been sitting in a closet for years but I thought that it looked just right for that spot.
The quilt poking out of the drawer was rescued from a barn years and years ago. It's pretty ragged and REEKED of cat pee when I first found it. I don't know anything about it's history, but it goes well with Grandmother's quilt so now it has a place to live and be displayed too.
Very nice, thank you for sharing your precious memories and treasures with us.
