Well hello there, it's been a while! I've been really enjoying keeping up with what everyone has been making, even though I've had no time or space to sew for a while.
We are now all moved in to our new home and enjoying the chance to decorate as we wish - well, that's the royal 'we' I'm using there as I'm now a bit too big to be of much help with painting and furniture moving! So far Oliver has painted all the rooms and they all look really great! We still need some furniture - specifically a wardrobe and chest of drawers but I'll be hitting up eBay and our local charity furniture shop once I'm on maternity leave to try and find these. We've got a lovely long hallway that is going to house my sewing space - once we get a plasterer in to do the walls and someone in to lift the floor and sand the original floor boards. With just under two months until the baby is due we're pretty hopeful to get done by then. I'll share some photos once everything is a bit more settled and ready. In the meantime all my sewing stuff is still packed away so no sewing for me for a while.
I was recently back up in Scotland visiting family and finally got round to sorting out all my stuff in my Dad's garage (a task I'd been meaning to do for the past few years!). In amongst the boxes I found this photo album of my mum and her family during holidays in 1958 and 1959. It was such a nice surprise to find this and get a glimpse of my mum's family life. The captions let me know that this album was put together by my mum, I wonder if she did it when they came back from these holidays or is she put it together years later, maybe rediscovering the photos herself and wanting to do something with them. I'm really going to enjoy sharing these photos, along with my own memories of my mum, with our baby. For now however I'll share with you if you don't mind?! Is anyone else this good at putting photos in albums? or are you like me and buy the albums but never actually get round to putting the photos in them?
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| My mum is on the left in the top photo, Sheena was one of her friends from school. The other photo shows my Aunt on the left with my mum in the striped shirt |
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| I love both my mum and my Grandma's outfit's here - that yellow dress is such gorgeous fabric! |
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| close-up of my mum. I love the whole look - the cropped trousers, the gingham top, and she looks so happy, and young! She would have been 15 years old here. |
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| Love my mum's stripey top in that top left photo, and my Aunt's bikini in that centre photo is just gorgeous! |
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| I never met my Grandfather but he was a keen amateur photographer and we have quite a few of his prints up in our house. That's why he doesn't appear in more of these photos - as he would have been taking them! |
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Oh what a wonderful find that you can share with your little one when they're older. My husband's aunt was showing me photos of her and my in-laws in the late 50s. My FiL and his 3 siblings all married at about the same time and there are photos the 4 couples have from shared, newly wed holidays. I love looking at the clothes - many of them were handmade and I get all the details of where fabric was purchased, how long it took to make, who knitted what for whom as christmas/birthday gift - those photos too are annotated (something I am rubbish at and should make an effort with!) :)
ReplyDeleteI did wonder if any of the clothes in these photos were handmade. I don't think my Grandma was a sewer but my mum was, though I don't know what age she was when she started. That's lovely you could go through the photos with your husband's aunt and get all the details on the clothes. The fact that she still remembers shows me how special hand sewn clothes are!
Deletewhat a lovely find. Old photos are just so intriguing. Glad you and bump and house are well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Charlotte! Yes, old photos are fascinating aren't they. Even when you don't know anyone in them!
DeleteIt sounds like it is all coming together with the house. How great that you found these photo albums. I've been trying to put together an annual album - for us - but also for the Frenchies. Real photos are always so much nicer but I just do a photo book.
ReplyDeletea photo book is a great idea too. Maybe I should try that as might be more chance of actually getting it done!
DeleteOld photos are such a pleasure, it's a pity that we don't print out our digital photos these days. I really should get round to organising my kids' photos and getting some of them printed and put into an album. I love looking at my parents' old photos. Somehow the quality of old black and white photos was better than that of photos taken in the seventies, where the colours faded all weird.
ReplyDeleteHi Erin! Yes, we're really going to have to try and make an effort to print off some photos when we have our new arrival, though I think Kirsty's idea of doing a photobook and getting it printed off is great too so maybe we'll just do that.
DeleteI love old photos!! I have always printed them and put them in book but I haven't kept up on it in two years. This post inspires me to get back at it. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Margo, happy to inspire you! That's pretty good going keeping it up until the past few years!
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