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Treasure Chest Gift

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by jeannerondeau in Inspiration, Vintage

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costume jewelry, Ebay, gifts for kids, gifts from great-grandmother, Gram, great-grandmother, inexpensive gifts, The Great Depression, vintage, yard sale

NecklacesMy late great-grandmother gave the best gifts.  She would show up to every family event with brown paper grocery bags full of vintage costume jewelry, old toys and flowery hats.  I remember a particularly amazing pin that contained a real bee encased in clear resin.  The bee horrified the adults at the dining table but I thought it was beautiful.  Gram was an incurable yard sale addict and she never paid much money for any of the treasures, but they were always my favorite gifts.  She seemed to know what would be magic to us little girls.  As woman who survived the Great Depression with three young children, I am sure she enjoyed being able find and give these treasures to her great-grandchildren.  I found a bunch of inexpensive costume jewelry on Ebay and have been putting them in a box for Christmas for my girls.  (Here are a few listings).  Maybe I should wrap them in a brown paper bag.

Here are a few other posts about Gram and things her thriftiness has inspired:

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Stitch

19 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by jeannerondeau in Likes, Projects, Vintage

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balls of string, darning, great-grandmother, Irish immigrants, mother during Depression, parachute slipcover, potatoes, repairing wool blanket, Saint Patrick's Day, wool blanket

Gram’s Blanket.  Baking potatoes for our Saint Patrick’s Day party on Saturday reminded me of sitting in my Irish Great-Grandmother’s kitchen.  She was a child of immigrants and a mother of three during the Depression.  She saved every scrap that could be of potential use.  I remember her balls of twine – meticulously pulled, knotted and wound from the strings on teabags.  She had two pale pinkish slipcovers that she pieced together from silk WW2 parachutes.  She showed up at family gatherings with paper bags full of costume jewelry and vintage toys for us kids, (which made her by far our favorite visitor).  I loved her house and her strange and beautiful collections.

Gram darned little holes in this wool blanket thousands and thousands of times using different color threads.  She was fixing moth holes, but the effect is the look of stars, or the ocean, or handwriting.  I love the humble repetition yielding such beauty.  She would like that the blanket has been saved and used by my children as she used it for her own.

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