nostalgia

70 years ago............ from Exuberant Color

70 years ago this was my Christmas present. I was 10 years old and my dad was an amateur photographer. My older brother got a camera like this too but I don't think my younger brother got one.

I took the camera to school with me occasionally. My dad developed his own films and sometimes he would develop mine too but usually I took my exposed film to the drugstore and picked up prints a week later.

I have had many different cameras since the early 1960s as cameras became smaller and easier to carry around.

I don't ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 years, 4 months ago. under food , nostalgia

Yard work, basement discoveries........... from Exuberant Color

I mowed my front and side yards yesterday and couldn't help but notice all of the blooms on the Lungwort/Pulmonaria plants. There are lots of these plants near a tree at my lot line.

I went back out later and started cutting down volunteer trees, about 50 of them so far and that was just one corner of a flower bed.

I was doing laundry so while I was down there I started going through things in one corner of the basement. I found these 2 little leftover bargello pieces from 30 years ago. I made my oldest ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 years ago. under nature , nostalgia

Happy Easter!............ from Exuberant Color

Three vintage Easter postcards from my collection given to me by my grandma. I'm not sure where she got them. They are all addressed to Gerald Dudley, one postmarked 1908 and one 1911. The other must have been hand delivered to him.

My indoor garden has blooms for Easter too. The white one has more buds but the other 2 plants just have the one blossom.

I finished the hand sewing on the binding of my table runner last night, too late to have the light from the window to show the texture. It is 15.5" x 24 ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 years ago. under nature , nostalgia , tablerunner

Valentines and miscellany........... from Exuberant Color

My grandma used to collect postcards and when she decided she was done with that she gave them to me, a little girl living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. This one was in the box.

It was sent to my great-uncle Oliver, a bachelor who lived with his mother, my great-grandmother in Bristol IL. This one is postmarked 1928 and is from Iowa from 2 of Oliver's brothers. Somebody pulled the stamp off of this at some point.

In my own mailbox I got the Valentine on the left this year and the one on the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 years, 2 months ago. under baby quilts , basting , nature , nostalgia

Visiting 5 years ago.............. from Exuberant Color

I finished basting the zipper quilt and chose thread for the bobbin, ran errands, and really didn't have anything picture worthy for my blog today so I decided to look back 5 years and see what my recap for February 2015 was. I had 3 quilt finishes and I have gifted all three of these quilts, 2 to friends and one to a great-nephew.

I also made 2 quilt tops.

I started out the one on the left as a Trip Around the World but ended up making it more like a bargello. It is all Kaffe fabrics. I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 years, 2 months ago. under nostalgia

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