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MY WORLD OF SUITCASES

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  My high school graduation gift from my parents was a matched set of luggage because I was headed for a five-week music camp and had nothing to carry all my clothing and etc. in except duffle bags which we’d always used when we went camping in the mountains.  But this music ‘camp’ was being held on a college campus and we were staying in the dorms so duffle bags wouldn’t do it.   The set was beautiful in a black, white, & red tweed vinyl with red satin lining. Ten years later the largest of the set was strapped to the top of my new husband’s car as we set out for his home in northern California the day after our wedding. Twenty-nine years after that, the largest case was serving not only as a clothes carrier, but as a writing desk in my tent when I was camping with my Mom at Lake Tahoe in 1997. Eventually the clasps on the carry-on and train/toiletries case belonging to my original set of luggage broke, so I found this classy duo in a thrift shop to use for week...
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POSING ON ELBOWS

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  Three beautiful grandchildren posing on elbows. The granddaughter from the photo above a few years later.  My youngest daughter at 4 1/2 months. Okay – shoulders, hands, & forearms can count too.  Youngest daughter on top, her older sister beneath her, and their brother under both of them.   Me lifting my head from my shoulders to peek out of a sleeping bag in 1954 My husband's grandfather, Poppy, aka  Henry (Harry) Edgar Brasier  as a young man on a camping trip.  He may not be posing  on his elbows, but an elbow is prominent in the photo, plus he's in a tent.  J :-> La Nightingail Speaking of elbows!  I think I was around 8 or 9 here, but I'm not sure?
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MASTER BEDROOMS

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  In 1982 I, with 7 other chaperones, accompanied a high school students’ history trip back east.  This was Martha Washington’s bedroom at Mount Vernon. Betsy Ross’s bedroom in Philadelphia. Mrs. Alice (husband, Cornelius) Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “The Breakers” mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Cornelius Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in The Breakers. Mrs. Alva Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in the “Marble House” mansion in Newport.  She was married to William Kissam Vanderbuilt, son of William Henry Vanderbuilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. Mr. William Kissam Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “Marble House”. Getting a little more ‘down to earth’ is our master bedroom when we lived in Soulsbyville, Calif.  Like Alice Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “The Breakers” our bedroom also had a rounded bay with three windows at one end and was rather large at 14 x 24 feet with 10 foot ceilings, but we didn’t have such fine elaborate furnishings to fill it.  Then again, she didn’t have a television in her be...
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ARE THEY APRONS & PINAFORES

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  Aprons or pinafores? Same question? A true pinafore, of course, would be one like these which go all the way round. Pinafore or apron? Inconclusive. Is this a pinafore or an apron?  Whichever, it’s beautiful. Short, cobbler aprons go all the way around and became popular in the 1950s & ‘60s.  My sister is wearing one here while she makes what I think was banana or maybe pumpkin bread.  But with all those nuts on the counter behind her, I’m more inclined to believe it’s banana bread. My Mom’s wearing one while she prepares the turkey for Thanksgiving in 1967. An apron was part of a dancing costume I wore when I was 12 and danced with a folk dance group. The remainder of the aprons shown in this post are simply ones I’d love to have just for the fun of it.  Most of the aprons I have now are pretty much utilitarian.  One of these days I’m going to splurge! I've always wanted a white, yellow, and blue kitchen.  Never had one, never will, but if I di...
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