Somethings Old, New, Green, Redo!: My Month of Good Intentions!

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

My Month of Good Intentions!

I have always used January, as my month of Good Intentions!

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A sort of dreamy, sleepy, nesting time...

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A time to incubate....thoughts, dreams, intentions!

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But life and this season...rolls on, whether I want it to, or not.

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From our non-white Christmas...

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to the cold JANUARY SNOW we finally had last week.

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To Sunshine and a freezing thaw---hopefully someday.

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I try to use this stalemate of all seasons....to reorganize---plan---

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Sort, Label, and Dispose of...

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...but, I'm afraid I accumulated more VINTAGE treasures

than I let go in 2018.

I'm in my 70's now and all these family things---and the newly acquired finds, need to be gone through, sorted, sold, or saved.

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I can't blame it ALL on my great grandparent's on any side.

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I have OODLES of family ephemera I need to go through. I have photos, records to sort and decide how to preserve. Above is a photo of the family fish market in 1946. Look at those trolly tracks---my goodness, I remember the State Street trolley from my childhood.

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From Denmark, this is a photo of a possible family home-----all my ancestors knew whose it was---so why bother writing on it...

when, where, or whom?

I have joined several 'history' sites of our hometowns and our ancestors' home countries. That's a few months of a 'Good Intentions' project right there.

My Danish family church (Furreby Kirke) has been active since the year 1200 on the same spot---and if you can read them, the church records go back to at least to the 1400's. I have genealogy searches going back to the early 1700's, and yet my 20th century grandmother's 'sisters' may not be her sisters at all?

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My husband's family have been in Wisconsin since 1853 coming from an area outside of Prague. Before that---it dries up---because of the 'iron curtain' that still keeps records closed in many Eastern European countries.

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Then there are ALL our own 'things'....!

I do blame Mom (don't we all), yes----she acquired a lot of stuff and never let go of anything, but that horde included three generations of family items she chose to ignore and keep.

We love this desk, but it is crammed in a corner and unusable---and we are planning on a new sectional sofa this year---

OY! Where will the desk go?

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The antique brass plate is very old (noses are polished off). It has found a spot in the hall, but, the vase is from Grandmother's coffee set of silver-plated over brass (which is showing through from all the generations of polishing-not me, lol.). The brass candlesticks are from the mid 1940's and were my mom's favorites.

Honestly, I don't want to part with them, even though they are not 'IN' right now. "Everything goes around, comes around"---as my mom always said. (She was buried in her Revlon-Real Red lipstick color she chose in 1943 and wore every day). Of course she was right---Red lipstick was back in style in 2006,

even Revlon Real Red.

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I have contributed bunches of stuff to the family piles of treasures.

I found this bathroom shelf and redid it my first year of blogging.

I never wear jewelry, so this is the last time I looked at it.

Now, the shelf is in a pile in the basement!

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I don't know what happened to this great box of buttons?

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Here's a fabulous old print I found a few years ago----needs to be reinforced and have new non-glare glass. Where is it? hiding in the extra bedroom on the floor facing a bookcase.

I know it will cost some bucks to redo it, so I keep putting it off.

I have sixteen bins of fabrics I promised to go through for donations for a friend's quilting group three years ago.

Where does the time, specifically my time go?