Rather than cluttering up tonight's blog with pictures of my grandchildren, taken this afternoon at the birthday party, I thought I would clutter it up with some things I came across as I was making a feeble attempt to clean up. When I moved the bookcase from the hall to the studio and displaced 50000 quilting books and other stuff to the dining table, I created a monster. I displaced not only the books, but the stuff on top of the bookcase. Here are some of the wondrous artifacts I came across just a little while ago, in an old cigar box on top of my studio ironing surface.
1. A relic from WWII - 1942, signed by my mother and with a description of my father, who was then 26, 5'10" and weighed 10 lbs less than I now weigh. I am neither 26 nor anywhere close to 5'10". Quite a few of the stamps are still intact.
3. Jumping back to a more pleasant topic: I found the brochure that came with our family's first dishwasher, somewhere in the early 1950's. My mother swears that we all stopped getting colds as soon as the thing was installed in the remodeled kitchen. The countertops were salmon with little boomerangs on them.
So much for today's trip down memory lane. Back to my feeble attempt to straighten up...
3 comments:
Nah, that was the color of the day, like the countertops in the kitchen.
I could easily print them onto fabric but don't know if I will.
Take a hair dryer to the fabric for instant drying gratification!
cool stuff rayan! i havne tfoudn anythign nearly as fun in my cleanup....
maybe i will ceom help afterall!
We had that boomerang formica in our kitchen when I was a kid too! Ours was turquoise.
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