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Saturday, August 8, 2015

L is for Love

I don't know what I would do without my sweet

Charlie

Always helping!

with photo shoots

Guarding my collections!

and checking my camera angles

I love you Charlie Kitty!

Joining Alphabe-Thur

Wishing you JOY,

Linda

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Family Treasures #4

This time I'm sharing sweet items from my Mom's childhood!

My Mom was born October 18, 1930

The first of six children!
I am so blessed to have her baby book.

This is the book and this photo of her parents holding her. I was very close to my Berkeland grandparents and so love seeing these photos.

Taped inside the front cover is the receipt for the Dr's bill for her home delivery $15

and the birth announcement

I love the illustrations

Being the first child, her parents kept up with lots of her firsts!

This photo is important because it is one of the few where my Granddaddy had hair. He was bald at a very young age, so Mom loves this photo.

My Grandmother was only 18 when my Mom was born. If you think the baby photos of my Mom look like my Granddaughter Rosemary, I think you are right! Blake has said since she was born, she looks like GrannyB!

I love this photo with the bonnet!

My Grandmother was very sentimental and sent my Mom these baby clothes to her after she was all grown up. These little gowns were made by my Mom's Aunt Golden.

I adore this bonnet with the old ribbons. So sweet!

These photos are so cute!

Virgie age 3 and 5 1/2 yrs old!

She still has this great smile!

Her family! Well one more 'surprise' girl was born in 1940. The only boy (in Grandmother's arms) was suppose to be the last child.

This is my Mom in 1st grade. They had a contest to see who dressed up as the best baby, and she won! The dress was made in 1903 and was an actual Christening dress from her Aunt Golden.

The dress which is over 100 years old is not in the greatest of shape, but is a family treasure.

My Mom was a very small girl and able to wear this at age 7. I love the details of the collar.

All the little tucks and small stitches

Those of you with vintage fabric expertise might tell me how to preserve this even more if possible.

I have more treasures to share from my Mom next time!

Joining

Vintage Inspiration for their 200th party!

Wishing you JOY,

Linda

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Changes!!

Changes...yes many changes in my life

Sara has gone back to school/work and so I am helping out with these two while she and Blake work. This week it's both kiddos and can I tell you how tired I am? Wow, that 4 year old is an energetic whirling dervish! I am not use to having two at once but I'm hanging in there and getting it done! Next week Tiger goes back to school and I will just have Miss Rosemary.

So that will be a bit easier for me!

Until then blog posts will be sporadic as I'm missing in action!

Linda

Saturday, August 1, 2015

K is for Keene

I think most of us have read Nancy Drew Mysteries!

They were my first mystery books and I loved them. I could not wait to read more and more. Mostly I checked them out of the library but my parents did buy me a few.

Over the years I acquired a few more until this was my collection!

Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym for the author of the Nancy Drew Mysteries and also the Dana Girls Mystery Series. These were written by several authors including Mildred Wirt who wrote many of the first 23 books in the series.

I found some interesting history about the series here.

How many of you read Nancy Drew as a girl?

Joining Jenny at Alphabe-Thur

(I am so late with this post)

Wishing you JOY,

Linda