It's the Little Things....

The photos below are from my shadow box. I purchased the printers trays for $5 each about 18 years ago. I love these trays. I still have two of them. I think my Mom has one or two and I think Grandma and Grandpa might have had one. Anyway, I love the things that we put in them...they each have their own little story.
This one is a little hard to see, but it says Happy Holidays. It is a small metal pill box.
The one with the cardinals on it, is like the one above it...a small metal pill box.
The wooden container is called "Junkett" (I think that's how you spell it). Grandma told me it was what cooks used to thicken up sauces and such--kind of like corn starch. I am still blown away by how small it is...only about three inches tall and very small in diameter...it's hard to picture how much they would have used.
This photo is very blury...but it is a "key" I think to a heater. It is very heavy and says, "Columbus OH" on it.

Sewing Notions

This is an old Rick Rack packet. Grandma said it was her Mother's. She ordered it from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. There is white small rick rack inside.

I discovered this little "treasure" tucked inside an old book that was in Grandma's house. The pamphlet is an "ad" for Insurance. On the left inside flap, it says: "About 33,000 people are killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents each year...One Person Killed every sixteen minutes. Over a third of these Fatalitities are PEDESTRIANS..."

The strip that is diagonal says: "If you WALK or RIDE You Need Life & Casualty Automobile Accident Insurance"

And the box at the bottom left says: "Worse than War: Almost 100,000 more people have lost thier lives in motor vehicle accidents in the last 10 years than were killed in all the Ars in which the United States has taken part."

The right inside flap is two "Mercurochome Bandages" for "Protection Against Infection".

This is the front of the pamphlet. I did not photograph the back cover, but thought I'd share it here:

Protection Everyone Should Own

For less than a Penny a Day

You can own a little Life and Casualty Travel and Pedestrian Accident policy
which pays for the loss of:

Life.............................................$1,000.00

Both Hands.................................1,000.00

Both Feet....................................1,000.00

Sight of Both Eyes.....................1,000.00

One Hand, One Foot.................1,000.00

One Hand, Sight of One Eye....1,000.00

One Foot, Sight of One Eye......1,000.00

Either Hand..................................500.00

Either Foot...................................500.00

Sight of Either Eye.....................500.00

Provided such loss occurs in accordance with the terms and provisions of the
policy.

I'm not sure the date of this...although I would guess in the 1940's. I CAN tell you that I am glad I wasn't an insurance agent back then!! ;-)

Tulips, Oil Cans, and Glasses

This shelf has a couple of things that came from Grandma AND Grandpa. The tulips were made for me by Grandpa around 1995 or 96. They had some like it in their plants in Spring Hill and I commented about tulips being my favorite flower. The next visit, he brought me these tulips that he had made for me.

The glasses were given to me by Grandma. We found them when we were cleaning out her house. I can't remember whose they were and why she still had them. They are neat, though.

The oil can is something that Don and I got at an auction one time. I am not sure its story...but it is old and I thought it had "character".

Another Treasure

A few years back, Grandma asked us to look at things in her house that we might want someday and put our names on the back. This was something that I "wanted"...I always loved this picture that she painted. On the last Christmas that Grandpa was here, I received this from them for Christmas. I love it and was so happy to get it.

I am hoping that she will add to the story of it.

:-)

More Treasures...

Here is a painting that Grandma gave me several years ago. We were visiting her house in Spring Hill and she was showing me some of her craft room...she told me she didn't like this painting. Well...being an apple person...I told her it would be perfect in my kitchen. And, in my opinion, it is!!

Here are photos and the descriptions that I have so far

1. This is the stand that Grandpa Curt Callahan made. He made it sometime before I met Grandpa Callahan. It used to be natural wood..but Grandma Verna Callahan painted it the white color....Grandpa Allen callahan and Aunt Rachel said she painted everything she could get a paint brush to...no matter what. I think we are safe in saying that it was made in a bout 1935, in Richwood Ohio. He used for his tobacco "things"..His cigarette papers, his tobacco, and the Cigarette Roller that rolled his cigarettes...Don't know where that got to...I think maybe Aunt Rachel had it at one time. I got it when Grandma Callahan died in 1962. I used it in my kitchen in Mt. Gilead Ohio....there was a place beside the stove and sink. It fit just right there....by the inside back porch door. I usually kept my sugar, flour, salt, etc..there...Baking materials...etc.

2. The Cow Drinking mug....Grandpa and I bought that during one of his travels that he took me with him.....He started traveling in 1952.....I worked, so couldn't go as often as I would have liked....so sometimes I just got some time off.....OR vacation time to go with him...Went with him to Mexico, Louisiana, Texas, Canada, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, N. and S. Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Georgia, New York, Indiana, Illinois, and probably many more. I met a lot of his working friends, from the owners of the business, to the working people in the plant...and it was interesting, and fun. One time we were traveling in Oklahoma and heard of a funnel cloud that was heading in our direction.....a tornado...for sure......Grandpa said the best thing to do in that case was to stop when we saw it and lay down in the DITCH!!! I looked over there in the ditch and it was fu full of water...NOT ME!!! I would have stayed in the car....Well , the tornado went the other way...and we were safe once more.....O.K> enough of that....



3. The flowers on some wood shingles. Alady in Helena Georgia was burning something when I went by her home in about 1980,,,I stopped and asked her why she was burning them...She said to have heat in her home...Someone had given them to her when they tore down their house. I asked her IF I could have some of them....She said,,,of course,....so I picked up some of the best and widest ones.....to paint on.. I hadn't been painting very long..and didn't really think I did a very good job...but the shingles added a lot of distinction to them.....I had done quite a few of them...but don't know where the others got to.....I had several bundles left in the garage when Grandpa died...and I moved to Ohio..so don't know what happened to the other ones.

Welcome!

As my Grandmother and I sat cleaning out her stuff a few years ago...I acquired some things that she had. I also have some special things that she has given me over the years.

A while back, I decided that I would take photos of some of her things and let her tell me about them so that I could pass them along to my kids someday with their stories. It is, afterall, the stories that make them special.

That is my intention with this blog. I want to post the photos and record the memories that they evoke.

It's another way that I plan to leave a legacy to my kids.

Enjoy!!