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on my bed...I have had this cat for almost 28 years. My mom made if for me and we have pictures of me with it when I was one yr old. I think it used to have a dress that is long gone now...I'm just impressed that both eyes are still intact.
Front cover of "School Years," a keepsake book that covered my progression from kindergarten to 12th grade, 1982-1995, containing pictures, report cards, school projects, etc.
Found this keepsake box at Daiso for $2. It's covered with a diamond patterned paper. The embossing is subtle enough to accept quilling pieces easily.
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"I can't get used to living here
While my heart is broke, my tears I cry for you..."*
As the sun streams through the window on the day after Bastille Day, Wyn is surrounded by shadows and light, a juxtaposition that reflects her mood. Her family thinks of Wyn as their little angel because of her positive and hopeful attitude. Yet, after the latest of what seems like a steady outburst of national and international tragedies, even an angel can feel dejected.
Wyn contemplates a medal that she has come across from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and contemplates the words engraved on it: "Guardian angel, protect me."
These words play over and over in her mind as images haunt her:
The man sitting on the ground next to the covered body of a child...*
The babydoll laying next to the covered body of the child who loved it...*
The drawing of the babydoll crying as she touches the lifeless hand of the child who had treasured her companionship...**
*"Photograph" written by George Harrison, recorded by Ringo Starr
*Photos taken the aftermath of the Bastille Day massacre
***Cartoon tribute to Bastille Day victims reprinted in The Telegraph
My great uncle received this box while serving overseas during WW1.
Decorative brass tin sent by Princess Mary to members of the British, Colonial and Indian Armed Forces for Christmas 1914. Over 426,000 of these tins were distributed to those serving on Christmas Day 1914. The tins were filled with various items including tobacco, confectionary, spices, pencils, a Christmas card and a picture of the princess.
The idea was the initiative of Princess Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary organised a public appeal which raised the funds to ensure that 'every Sailor afloat and every Soldier at the front' received a Christmas present.
Due to the strong public support for the gift, which saw £162,591 12s 5d raised, the eligibility for the gift was widened to include every person 'wearing the King's uniform on Christmas Day 1914', about 2,620,019 servicemen and women.
Cotton swatch for fabric collection Postal Romance/Heather
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at the end of the each school year my son's class was given a little elephant from their teacher Renata. I think she was the best teacher he had in a primary school.a
P.S. using my new bird feeder/candleholder in the background :)
Jordan may look solemn but she's very happy to wear her new dress and to have these other wonderful Halloween items sent by Elise/liveloveyarn.
* Unfortunately, my IPad is photographing things in a very fuzzy way today and I can't get it to improve much.
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End result of Chris Chen's and my efforts in producing a keepsake for the 2006 American Typecasting Fellowship meeting in Los Angeles. Chris cast both the Bradley Combination Ornaments from the original ATF mats at the Dale Guild and also the 30 pt Monotype Garamont on our Monotype sorts caster. The Linotype is 14 pt Garamond #3, and this was printed on a 10x15 C&P new style press, now entering its 50th year in my ownership and use. Chris did the hand setting and layout and his expert planing meant there was no makeready, though on gross enlargement possible with a scan, I see we could have added some more ink and maybe about .002" in packing. Schiller was noted for his complex pictures made entirely from type. Schiller remained active all during the 1920s into the 1960s, and the Inland Printer featured many of his type creations over several decades.
Trying to use up scraps of wood in my shop. This small box is made from Myrtlewood from Oregon and Walnut from Southwest Wisconsin.
A small part of the train garden that my father put up each Christmas.
"Christmas gardens. Like duckpin bowling, sno-balls, and Crack the Sky, the Christmas garden is one of those Baltimore traditions that's been embraced locally with great enthusiasm while somehow failing ever to migrate--or even attract much attention--outside the Greater Mobtown metropolitan region.
If you're not from around here, you probably have no idea what Christmas gardens are. Mention them to even the most acclimated out-of-towner, the one who's enjoyed an egg-custard sno-ball while duckpin rock 'n' bowling to "Hot Razors in My Heart," and you're likely be greeted with a blank stare, or perhaps some prattle about holly, evergreens, and outdoor lighting displays.
Think again, hon. The Baltimore holiday garden is set up indoors, not out, and doesn't even involve plants, except for the Christmas tree around which it's clustered. Typically it takes the form of a tiny idealized village, set amid a plaster-of-Paris landscape and peopled with miniature citizens. Model trains are usually involved. Almost invariably you will find a Nativity scene, although some traditionalists believe train gardens have become too secular and remove the creche, relocating it to a place of honor elsewhere in the room. "The custom is known only to Baltimore and many of the smaller towns of Pennsylvania," according to a 1936 article in The Sun, "particularly those settled originally by people of German origin."
~ Michelle Gienow, writer for the Baltimore City Paper
This link from last year shows some of the items in detail:
Letter writing lesson at school, looking for something else, I found this, written in pencil it was difficult to photograph after all this time. Son dobbing in his sister......
‘Ground Control to Major Tom. Commencing countdown, engines on…’
This beautifully painted nightscape box is about to blast off, as the rainbow rocket orbits into out space. The sky really is the limit as to what goodies you could keep in here.
This sturdy, square box is hand crafted from mdf, then carefully hand painted with non-toxic paint, so it is safe for small people
In history we brought items that told about our own histories and what is significant to us. We had our own personal history museum.
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place."
~ Emily Dickinson
Stoneware pottery is made from clay which, when fired to the appropriate temperatures, create vitreous or semi-vitreous fine-textured ceramic ware. It is opaque, stone-like, and absorbs very little water compared to earthenware. Usually a glaze or combination of glazes are added to the surfaces which, when fired, add colors and finishes of the potter's choosing. Stoneware is commonly used for functional pieces but is often artistically embellished through creative use of decorative elements, unique designs, carving, incising, and pressing of patterns into the clay before firing.
When sorting through my father's home after he passed away I was looking for a special keepsake. I wanted something that would have been special to him. Finally it dawn on me that nothing meant more to him than his home. That was it, I knew what I wanted. Before the house went up for sale I replaced the house numbers on his front gate with some generic black ones and brought home the ones he had put up. They are now hanging up on my back patio right over the bench he had in his garden. When the weather is good I will usually take my morning coffee out to that bench and sit and have a wee visit with him before starting my day. Today has been the first day in months that I have been able to visit that bench with my coffee and ironically it is two years ago today that he passed. More things in heaven and earth than we shall ever know.
This MOC uses two copies of the small 40266 Mini Keepsake Box set. I built it for the Friends Bricks "Keepsake Box" Building Challenge.
Upon leaving the viewing chamber, additional exhibits convey specific stories about the making of the Star-Spangled Banner: its meaning as a family keepsake, the efforts of the Smithsonian to preserve the flag for more than 100 years and how Americans have used the Star-Spangled Banner, both the flag and the song, to express diverse ideas of patriotism and national identity.