more vintage photos

Kathy:
I played with your pictures and I am all done!

I made a few enlargements for you

and I have your originals.

Want to pick them up tomorrow?

Family faces are magic mirrors.

Looking at people who belong to us,

we see the past, present, and future.

~Gail Lumet Buckley

xoxo

Vintage Ironing Board ... New Purpose

Here are the before and after pictures of the vintage ironing board destined for the dump ...

a perfect addition to our front porch at Christmas!another piece of recycled yard art ... this cow was picked from a neighbors garbage and was totally pink ... turned him into a bit of a conversation piece (he'll be moooved off the porch out to the pasture soon)!

have a great rest-of-the-weekend!

xoxo

Bryan is a summer sports writer for
The Daily Utah Chronicle! Check out his first article!

http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2008/05/14/Sports/U.Baseball.Battles.Byu.For.Deseret.First.Duel-3371086.shtml

~ (The Daily Utah Chronicle is an independent student newspaper of the University of Utah at Salt Lake City)

this Mom is so proud!

xoxo

Happy 81st Birthday in Heaven MOM!

... your 18th birthday present from Grace & Rich,

your first trip to New York City, the Latin Quarter, 1945 ...

miss you!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Happy Mother's Day

All that I am,

or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother.

~ Abraham Lincoln

5/13/27 ~ 6/23/05

xoxo

May 10th, 1980

Happy 28th Anniversary

Christopher and Ellen!

where does the time go ...

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love,

trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.

The order varies for any given year.

~ Paul Sweeney

congrats you guys on 28 years!

xoxo,

the FAMILY

Jammy Day and ...

... the beginning of a new creation!

A vintage ironing board destined

for the dump ...

I so want to find a new purpose for objects that have served their masters well. If only this ironing board could talk. Her legs had seen far better days, but as for her ... she is destined to become a work of art.

She could be turned into a tall thin Santa ... she is the perfect shape

and I love to paint Santas. Or ...

she could become the backdrop for the Holy Family.

Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus fit nicely within her perimeter.

She was primed today and the sketching has begun.

What are your thoughts, Santa or Holy Family?

xoxo

Ellen please Blog with me!

Come on El ~

please blog with me???

You had a family website long before I even knew what a cursor was. What happened to that site? Please blog with me! What better way to keep in touch with your East coast family and friends? We would love it! It's free and way easy (even I can do it)! pleazzzzzzzze !!!??? https://www.blogger.com/start

xoxo