My favorite wall in my sewing room.

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02-23-2011, 02:22 PM

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mcdaniel023

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That is awesome. No wonder you love it.

02-23-2011, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AngieS

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This wall means a lot to me because of the history with it. The treadle sewing machine was my great grandmothers. The ironing board we found on the side of the road, we brought it home and sanded it. The doll dress hanging on it my mother made me for Christmas 1973. The baby dress was mine 1969. Shelf to the right has a cast iron gasoline iron made in 1903, my parents gave us. The cabinet to the left has old sewing items we have picked up here and there, as well as, some that was from my family and my husbands family. The giant scissors bought at hobby lobby and painted, the giant needle my dh made out of a dowel rod on his wood lathe. The big needle were knitting needles I painted. the BIG buttons we made on my DH wood lathe. The dress was my mothers dress from a sweet heart banquet she and my father went to in 1962. Just wanted to share.

I love it all but that dress your Mom wore is awesome!! :)

Thank you. Mom as kept it boxed up all these yrs, I told her when something happened to her and Daddy I would like to have it if my brother and sister didn't care. Well, she talked to them and they said they didn't care. So they gave it to me. (The family keeper of things) My husband picked up the former coat rack from a neighbors trash ( he turns wood and loves to reperpose things) anyway, we found the dress form at a thrift store one day and it fit perfect.

02-23-2011, 02:39 PM

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Mariposa

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Wow! Neat display! Thanks for sharing the history of the items~

02-23-2011, 02:39 PM

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cashmommy11

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oh i could look at that wall all day love to hearing the story that goes with each thing

02-23-2011, 02:41 PM

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Izaquilter

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Incredible! Love all of it, the history as well!

02-23-2011, 02:41 PM

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ssgramma

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I love the look and the fact that so many items are very special to you is just icing on the cake!

02-23-2011, 03:12 PM

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mim

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I ironed with one of those gasoline irons -- You pumped it up with an air pump and lit it with a wooden match. -- I shudder now at the danger it must have been -- I was 8 and my sister was 10.

We lived so far out in the country that electricity didn't come until after WW2. We didn't think anything of gasoling washing machine ot irons

Mim