Gentle Friends sorry to have been off the Blog for a couple of days. I was almost sick - by that I mean I was still up a moving about but felt like hot crap on a stick!!! I was a sneezing, dripping, watery eyed mess, lets just say "it wernt pretty!!" I've not stitched a stitch since Monday, I did however decide on my next start, that's a little something at least. I had to order some silk, so I will not be showing that until I actually begin it, but, I have my needle and linen ready to go!!
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Yesterday I got my delivery of things from my Mom's, and it was, to say the least on the odd side. Odd, to see me Mom's stuff unloaded at my house, odd, to unpack and remember were the things sat in her house - in Florida and Maryland... just odd all around. It was the same way with my Granny's things when I got those, and still is when I start to think about the "stuff." I guess that's why we "hoard" our family treasures - they are just things, but they are things that connect us to the past and to those that are gone. Enough of that... here are some snaps...
This little Renaissance Revival side chair was bought new in 1876 and sat in the Parlour of the then just built Farrar-Martin House - 500 Trade Street, Tarboro NC (it no longer stands) In the early 1930's my great aunt Mary decided to redo and redecorate the very high style Victorian rooms...... so out went all the original furniture bought for the house when it was built in 1876, all to the trash heap - and in came loads of Colonial Revival stuff. My grand mother Margie, Mary's sister, rescued this chair and took it home to Greenville NC. When she passed in 1958, my Mom took it (not without a fight from Aunt Mary contending that it was "just a loan" and "really wasn't tossed out on the heap") My mom was a tough old bird even then and so the chair went with her to Norfolk VA, then onto Oxford MS, then to Upper Marlboro MD... then to Ormond Beach now it sits at my house in San Francisco.
This ladies rocker is the mate to the gentleman's
Morris chair (I also have that) that belonged to my Great Grandmother Davis - the set started off as a wedding preset in 1882 and went from upstate NY to Galesville Wisconsin in 1887 - then in about 1900 came south to Tarboro, NC, in 1947 when they broke up her house it went to Norfolk VA - to my Great Uncle Wilson's - then my Great Aunt Sue sent it to my Mom were it's path coincided with the little side chair, MD, FL, CA.
This is a painting my Mom bought about 1980 - it is by one of the
Florida Highwaymen,
Harold Newton - The Highwaymen are a school of painters that has become really famous. I have always liked this painting as it reminds me of how the Tomoka River looks in the morning - and this type of scene is getting more and more rare and hard to find with all building going on in North Central Florida.
After unpacking one of the dish packs - my dinning room table (also from my mom's, but originally from my Great Grandmother Warren's house) looks like a yard sale!!
There is lots more stuff, my second bedroom is piled high, so this weekend will be spent sifting through things and putting it all away, the best I can.
That's about it for today sports fans, thanks for stopping by - have a super weekend and do stop again!!
Take care,
edgar
