Family heirlooms..

I have some obsessions in my life.

I’ll admit it.

I am absolutely obsessed with Mason jars. Not the ones you can buy now at Michaels per say, but the ones I find at estate sales from the 1920’s-1940’s.One day I should take count of just how many I have scattered throughout the house. My beautiful friend Kylie laughs at the fact that she can be sitting in one place and see at least 10 jars all over! I am also obsessed with beautifully warm smelling candles, along with warm music -think Frank Sinatra. Oh yah- delicious food, but especially preparing the food for ones I love. Lastly, I am IN LOVE/obsessed with having family heirlooms. Anytime my mom offers me to have something from our family, even if it doesn’t necessarily go with our style, I take it and try to make it work! One heirloom in particular was given to me and J by my grandpa for our wedding. It was his and my grandmas Gorham silver made in 1940. It is such a beautiful set of silver, but its definitely missing some pieces, so not necessarily easy to work with. I was reading one of my favorite design blogs yesterday when i saw this post. She made a beautiful shadow box of her grandmothers silver and it totally inspired me to do the same, especially because its not me ruining what would have been a full set.

Sorry for the glare but here is my version of it in our dining room.

I love Love LOVE it and especially love that it represents family. Anytime I can have something that is beautiful and meaningful- its great! Just knowing that these beautiful heirlooms came from your grandparents, and even great-grandparents is truly something that money can’t buy. Even being able to tell your own children and grandchildren about these heirlooms is something special. Oh, how I wish my grandparents could live forever because they just tell the story like no one else will be able to. To this day, I still remember saying goodbye to them. I even attended their funeral. It was beautiful. I remember overhearing my mother telling others that she was ever so grateful that they had decided to look into companies like Final Expense Insurance to enquire about their burial insurance plans so the family they left behind were able to afford the funeral costs. This was incredibly thoughtful. But that is just the type of people they were. Always thinking about others. And they were definitely thinking about others when they gifted us with their heirlooms. I will treasure them forever!

On a very sad note..our little Boomer got neutered today- and this is the poor little guy afterwards. So,so sad:( But we definitely don’t want him to be making any puppies..even though he is so stinking cute.

Love,
Adri