Friday, September 7, 2012

Beautiful Old Handwork

Hey friends! 

 

Hope you have had a wonderful week and are all doing great.

 

Our family…we are good, we are busy, we are blessed.

 

I wanted to share something today that I recently found and fell in love with.

 

Let me start by saying that I love old handwork.  I love things that were lovingly made by somebody’s hands.

 

I love thinking about the lady or gentleman or young person that took their time to make something handmade.

 

I have a thing for items with someone’s name stitched onto it and usually will bring it home if it is reasonably priced. 

 

For example, a sweet little tea towel with the name Dorothy Howington made its way home with me from the flea market recently.  My family thinks I am crazy, but I loved it and felt like it should have a home. 

 

Ms. Dorothy’s  little towel hangs from an old medicine cabinet towel bar that is in my laundry room.

 

This week, I found these two beautiful pieces of handstitched artwork.

 

picture 1

 

picture 3

 

 

I am told that these pictures were from around 1920 and hung in the same house for a whole bunch of years.

 

Aren’t they beautiful?

 

Not only are they beautiful, but they speak Truth.  “The Lord IS my Shepherd”.

 

bed 2

 

I love them hanging on either side of our bed. 

 

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I also want to take a minute and say welcome to several new friends of my blog.  Thanks so much for coming over from Debra’s beautiful blog,Common Ground.  She is such a sweet and thoughtful lady.

 

God bless you all!

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