A Small Change in The Living Room

The BIG change was moving the furniture around

The small change is the secretary

From the moment we brought it home, we've put the old small antique books on the bottom shelf

And blue and white on the top two.

Most bought by Husband Jim when he did his Air Force Annual Tours in Asia.

But some, were found here -- the jar on the left on the top shelf

The "brick" on the right on the middle one.

And our piece of ivory is there too

Brought home on one of those trips.

And the eggs -- they my great great grandmother's eggs

You've seen them out at Easter

the rest of the time they reside in the secretary.

I've "neatened" the space.

Instead of birthday cards and note cards and bills and "to do's" in the cubbies

I've filled them with pictures

A lamp, because every desk needs a lamp,

a bouillotte lamp

a last year's Christmas gift from Husband Jim

not an old one -- a modern interpretation of one

from the 60's or 70's would be my guess

Bought by him at an estate sale

because he "noticed" that

I often looked at them

And that I had a couple!

It's the only one I've got with a metal shade

And a "fake" mechanism to raise and lower the shade!

A violet

because my mother adored them

violets are special at Linderhof

A Waterford pen holder

because we adore old Waterford

I've had it "forever"

And a magnifying glass

and an English page turner

(which was my birthday gift to Husband Jim 

because he looked at them in every shop we were in in England

but never bought one)

The pictures are all in the small antique frames I collect.

A favorite is the middle one

It's Christmas 1930 at Linderhof!

Given to me by the old man who was a little boy in the picture

when he came for tea one day.

I treasure it!

I'd love to see more of the room!

And the pictures on the left?

Daughter Sarah's wedding picture

My mother, my maiden aunt and their brother

taken around 1929

My precious Lucy

And the pictures on the right?

A wind up carriage clock

(and no, the face isn't broken -- that's a reflection from the blinds)

A relative of Jim's although we don't know who,

And Aunt Matt

(Martha was her real name -- I'm named after her!)

It's Tuesday and I'm joining Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday.