I live in a wonderfully terrible turn of the century farmhouse, wonderful for the practical simplicity & old-time charm, terrible for the upkeep and drafts. If you live in an older home you know exactly what I mean. I don’t think there is a straight wall in my house…rest assured it is solid & strong,Continue reading “NINETEEN HUNDRED HOUSE”
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1800
Old Victorian era cabinet photographs make my heart skip, chubby little children posing angelicly with giant paper moons, mustached men all dressed up in their woolies getting ready for the long hard winter and plump schoolmarm bosoms bursting with buttons, tatted collars & lace pinned up with a lovely cameo. My family doesn’t have very many old photos, so I adopt these left behind instant relatives every chance I get. Sometimes I thinkContinue reading “1800”
A Merit Badge
I have always had a thing for pinback buttons, brooches & badges. I love them huge, I love them tiny, I love them kitschy, I love them silly, I love them sweet. Some I don’t love at all, but still keep them, how can you throw away something so useful! Here is a super project to put those oldContinue reading “A Merit Badge”
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