52 Card Project 2022: Week 2: Legacy

[pegkerr]

When my parents moved away from Chicago, I received my great-grandmother's buffet:



My sister Cindy was given another item of furniture from the same set, a highboy, which she used to store clothes in one of her bedrooms. Cindy has been doing some remodeling recently, and she asked if I would like to have the highboy. I eagerly agreed, and she and her husband dropped it off this week. I will fill the highboy with some of my china, which will be a relief for my overflowing kitchen cabinets.



I am so pleased to have these legacy pieces from this set reunited in my dining room. They look great together! Owning these lovely pieces makes me feel closer to that previous generation, to a woman I never met: Helen Babcock, the young mother (furthest to the left) in the four-generation picture below. (The baby in the picture is my great-aunt).

In a stroke of inspiration (if I do say so myself), I used the high boy's gracefully tapering legs to create the frame for the collage. Although it's the highboy that's new to me, I ended up using the picture of the buffet instead, because it has the photographs of my girls and a family collage displayed on/above it, which I thought would be a good counterpoint to the four-generation picture below. Originally, I created this collage with a photograph of the buffet, but then it occurred to me to re-do it converting the photograph to a sketch, using an on-line app. I like the effect.

Legacy



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Comments

[pameladean]

That's one of my favorite cards at once, and the furniture is really lovely.

P.

[minnehaha]

Thought I'd commented but it seems not. I love how those old pieces of furniture have wide wide drawers so that one can store tablecloths with the fewest possible creases. A different age, to be sure.

K.