Hello
everyone.
How goes
the middle of the week? It seems to
pass so fast and I look at my to do sheet and still it’s got a bunch of stuff
not crossed off! I keep telling myself
it’s a journey, not a race.
Front
entrance! Does that fill you with horror? School bags, piles of shoes, mud, dog hair.
It’s all there, when really what you want is a serene welcome, something
stylish, yet practical. And of course
for the family members to listen to your request that they put THEIR shoes in
the basket you so stylishly provided!!!
The other
day I put up a post of how I transformed that flea market gold picture frame.
Now all I need was a place to hang it.
What better
place than the entryway into our home. A place that tells whoever enters our
home that we are a family and that family means everything, a motto I try to
live by every day.
So with
this in mind I cleared off my entry table.
This is an old Singer sewing table, without the wooden top. Years ago The Hubby snared a large slab of
marble and this has become the top of our sewing table.
The worse
thing about the entry way is that the builder stuck the light switch, DVS thingy
and security thingy, all on the same small wall. Why couldn’t he have
put it on the wall the door opens to, or at least around the corner, I don’t know? I’m sure it must have been a man who wasn’t
thinking about where to hang pictures and art etc.
So the
first thing I need to do is try and hide those darn switches. This is the brass bullet case I used in that
winter collage here. It has some dry branches and the straw
flowers in that I brought in Russia years ago.
They are a tad worse for wear now, but have very sentimental memories
and I can’t throw them out.
I think it
hides the switch plates reasonably well.
I have seen people hide these offending items by hanging an art piece
over them, built out with a small wooden backing frame, but that to me was too
much work. I’m all for ease.
Then to
give a little bit more height, I put in an old wooden box that is made up of
different kinds of wood and atop it is a slightly battered clay man which was
purchased another lifetime ago in Rio de Janeiro. Maybe it’s ironic since the Soccer World Cup is on there are the
moment.
Next came the lovely golden frame and it’s new art piece. A perfect announcement to visitors about our home’s motto.
Fluff and
design is all very well, but practicality has to have its place too. Keys, locks, garage openers all get put
dumped here! So these are now corralled
on a lovely 1950s Carltonware plate.
I’m a huge collector of Carltonware, and this was a piece that was in
storage for lack of room to display it. (Note to self, don’t buy any more
Carltonware!)
So this is
the finished table. Not cluttered, but
hopefully its display of memory pieces tells a little story about the family
who live here.
What
vignettes have you created that tell your family’s story?
Happy days
everyone.
Jane
PS just as an aside, here's a peak at what is in my picture hanging box. I used to use hooks all the time but find I prefer using the 3M Command velcro strips now, because they don't leave a mark, nor do they put holes in the wall. There's a tape measure, thumb tacks, isopropryl alcohol which is used before you stick the Command stickers on the wall, a bag full of plate hangers - gotta put that Carltonware somewhere. The little box of picture hooks and nails i've had for years. I really like having all this in one place, it's my little slice of organization.
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