Yesterday, Maria and I went to Basel to the now-empty apartment of the old aunt of friends. She has had to be moved to a care home, and her home of many decades is being cleaned out. She was a book lover (danger bells ring here), and folk art painter (more bells!), and quilter and needleworker (give up... ), and we were asked if we wanted anything before it was given away to Brockenhouses or trashed. YUP. We did. I came back home with ten plus crates of colour-sorted fabrics, plus miscellaneous stuff. Maria came back with loads of fine old German books. And furniture is there if we want it.
It is sad what happens to a lifetime of work, creative products, collections of fine things, when someone has no progeny to pass it on to (or the children don't care about what their parents did). Most of what is that home no one wants. It is not the current fashion.
But I am looking forward to using the abundance that I got.
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| Light effects for a winter morning, which we do NOT have here. |
Those book shelves.....!!!
ReplyDeleteAwww! Well, glad you two could make some use of some of that. :)
ReplyDeleteThe watercolor is lovely! It looks familiar, too, like it's similar to one of the ones I've saved to one of my Pinterest boards?