Lessons....
We teach our kids lessons all the time. How to be kind. How to be honest. The consequences of not doing what they should have done....like homework. These are all lessons that as adults we get..we have been there done that.
The other day I was at an auction. It was a GREAT one! There were pieces I really wanted and I bid to win.
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| Victorian dresser with square nails......the antiquity and craftsmanship is lovely |
I can get kind of geeeeeked at an auction. If you have not been....well the energy is palatable. You can taste the competition. I talk about this obsession in one of my posts...http://joanniedoors.blogspot.com/2012/05/hunt.html
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| Dont worry...I am not going to add more layers of paint...this guy needs to be stripped..cant wait to see what is under all that paint. |
There was a sweet little victorian dresser that had great lines. It was heavy and it needed me. As I marked it I heard a conversation in hushed tones behind me. I tried to ignore it but it was hard too because it was about me.
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| each drawer has a lock and key............sigh |
The little dresser was at auction because a family was liquidating their grandmothers estate. There was a gal on the phone from across the country who despiritely wanted that dresser. She remembered it from when she was a child and could not bare to think of it being sold at auction.
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| This is how you know you have an old piece....always check out the back....thick solid barn type blanks.... |
I froze. All these treasures were obviously someones at one time. That is the whole point. The idea that things can be repurposed and reused and loved again. But the heartache...the memories that are infused into the table that you had tea at with your beloved grandmother. The dresser that held the hand mirror that belonged to your mother. This is real ....the stories are inside of each piece. They maybe dusty or covered in layers and layers of old paint...but the stories live on in the treasures and in the hearts of those that loved them before.
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| Dove tail.............stay tuned on this one...it will be for sale ...Most likely $350, but I need to see how much fun I need to put into it. |
So...I want to thank all those old pieces that I have repurposed and loved on....thank the folks that kept them so that I could do what I love....and thank the customers that always become friends for keeping the story going.....it is humbling and i promise to RESPECT THE STORIES......always.
