September ALL ABOUT ME Challenge (2024) - Vintage objects

[Cassel]

Let's continue this new challenge. We might be the ones taking pictures but we are not the feature of our layouts, so let's change that since we ARE important and have lots to say.

Every month or so, the layout will be about YOU, and a prompt will be given. If you have taken the Story Week Challenge, you will find some similarities but it won't be the same.

For the September layout, tell us something about a specific object that you still have from your childhood or even older than you. What is it? How did you get it? Was it from a particular event or occasion? Let's share. It might be a trip down memory lane for most of us!

Remember that if you want to create pages for previous prompts, those threads will stay open. There is no right or wrong order to share about you.

[Daniel Hess]

It sort of tells the story itself but there is some additional "back-story".  When my siblings and I were VERY young, my mom's sister, Aunt Molly was into ceramics and made each of the three (at that time) kids a figurine.  She painted them and made sure the hair color was correct for each kid.  Mine was the baseball kid.  (PS, my brother Rick's is in one of the pictures, the blond astronaut).  After my Mom passed away in 2005, I came back into possession of "my" figurine".  Also, I had always loved the three gold leaf paintings they picked up in Spain and I now have them displayed in my home.  One item each inner corner with two additional photos, showing the item displayed in my parent's home back in the day, and one showing the item displayed currently in my home.  Additional note...with the figurine, when I joined the Navy, my Mom incorporated it into the home decor whereas previously it had always been in my bedroom.  Also, my grandmother made each kid a ceramic lamp with the same hair color thing (I think Molly and she were attending a ceramics class/workshop together at the time).  Mine was unfortunately broken at some point in the past.

[Ann Seeber]

I'm sure this qualifies as vintage! 

[Anne Lamp]

I thought about all the "stuff" I still have and decided to use this one.

[Anne Lamp]

On 9/15/2024 at 10:18 AM, Ann Seeber said:

I'm sure this qualifies as vintage! 

Interesting tidbit about the having to drive it backward. 

[Susan Ewart]

On 9/15/2024 at 9:18 AM, Ann Seeber said:

I'm sure this qualifies as vintage! 

Awesome.  I can't imagine driving backwards for the amount of time it must've taken.  What a beautiful car!

[Corrie Kinkel]

I have already mentioned that I grew up in Rotterdam in the years just after WWII. In the bombardment of the city and the fires that erupted my father and his mother and sisters lost everything and were staying with my dad's brother and his young family until they got an appartement in a undestroyed part of the city. They got furniture and titbits from people that had something to spare. They had only the clothes they were wearing, so they had to buy or make new ones too. Later in the war next to the house where my mother, her parents and sister were living was a school that was confiscated by the Germans. One day there was a air raid by the allied forces and that school was a target. In those days there wasn't something as a precise bombardment and the house of my mom's family was hit too. The front part of the house was in ruins but the backpart remained standing and the rescue teams found my granny hiding under the stairs. When the building was made more or less secure my granddad was allowed in to see if he could get some stuff out. Amongst it was this mortar that I later always have seen in my grandparent's house. My parents married after the war but it was extremely difficult to buy household goods, most things were still rationed and you could only buy with coupons that the gouvernement distributed. Because of all this my parents always emphasized that I should not become attached to things; in an emergency you could always loose them. I'm indeed not a person that accumulate "things" very easy and I have nothing personal from my childhood. Anyways I wasn't very fond of teddies and puppets etc.

For this layout a made a tight diagonal background from a pestle and mortar that I had in my stash, the font is Classic Vintage and the elements are from Jessica Dunn's kit Vintage Blooms

[Ann Seeber]

Wow, beautiful, Corrie! It's almost 400 years old. We were just rowing ashore in the New World at that time! 😉 That tight diagonal is quite effective here; I'll have to check out that Lab. (I think the word you want is "aftermath"... possibly just a typo?)

[Corrie Kinkel]

13 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Wow, beautiful, Corrie! It's almost 400 years old. We were just rowing ashore in the New World at that time! 😉 That tight diagonal is quite effective here; I'll have to check out that Lab. (I think the word you want is "aftermath"... possibly just a typo?)

Ann you are right, I often think quicker than I type which results in a lot of typos. Thanks I'll rectify!

[Corrie Kinkel]

6 hours ago, Sharla said:

I enjoyed this layout. It was nice to take some time to think about my father who died many years ago. The photo of him is dated 1947 which made it a perfect fit for this layout. The papers are from the bundle called Egypt by Marisa Lerin.  I’ve not used any shadows because whatever I tried made something else look odd. 

 

Sharla, so great you still have your father's cigarette case and a lovely layout.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I created these pages for the Alphabet Book Challenge. These are the vintage items for which I have photos.

 

[Julie Magerka]

This lamp was bought by my mother during the early 50s at an auction sale. I always loved it and after she died I was able to bring it to my home where it has been for many years. I keep the photo of her with the lamp beside it.

Several years ago I got to attend Antiques Roadshow in Detroit. I wanted to take the lamp to learn about it, but it was too heavy,  too fragile, and too valuable to me, and it stayed home.

Edited September 24 by Julie Magerka