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Faded Memories

taken for Our Daily Challenge - Vintage

 

Waupaca Nov 10, 1881

Dear Mary,

Remember me always as your sincere friend.

Lucy Looker

 

This old family heirloom stays in the drawer most of the time. It has a brilliant blue cover that chalks off and stains anything it touches. Its fun to read the inscriptions though and wonder who the people were and what they might have been wearing when Mary asked them to write in her autograph book.

 

In the top of the photo are an antique porcelain victorian style boot that I saved my allowance up for when I was a tween (the price tag is still on the bottom, a whopping $4.50) and an antique kerosene lamp which we press into service now and then when the power goes out.

 

A texture by Kim Klassen lightly applied in multiply and soft light modes at low opacity

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Uploaded on March 23, 2011
Taken on March 23, 2011