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We live in a lovely tiny old house. It's about 100 years old; it's about 1000 square feet. We've been here for nearly 30 years, and we raised our three children here. This wall, just to one's left as one enters the back door, tells a lot about us. John and I are Irish American. The sign spells out the original Irish version of our last name, Coughlin. We bought it on our honeymoon in Ireland to give to his parents. When these two wonderful people passed on in their old age, the sign came back to us. Our three children were adopted as infants from Korea. The lucky bamboo in the sconce represents our luck in having these children and how we are now also rooted in Korea as well as Ireland. Our son made the key-keyhook in Boy Scouts when he was little. Eventually, he became an Eagle Scout, and (at 22) he now owns a business. It holds, along with our keys, the SpongeBob keychain that has our neighbor's keys--we take care of them, and they take care of us, so we have each others' keys. I made the basket at an adult ed class many years ago. It holds the the envelopes for Sunday donations to St. Dominic's, our church, which is very important to us. So much in a few feet of wall space! I used Sun Faded Photo just to warm it up a bit.
We live in a lovely tiny old house. It's about 100 years old; it's about 1000 square feet. We've been here for nearly 30 years, and we raised our three children here. This wall, just to one's left as one enters the back door, tells a lot about us. John and I are Irish American. The sign spells out the original Irish version of our last name, Coughlin. We bought it on our honeymoon in Ireland to give to his parents. When these two wonderful people passed on in their old age, the sign came back to us. Our three children were adopted as infants from Korea. The lucky bamboo in the sconce represents our luck in having these children and how we are now also rooted in Korea as well as Ireland. Our son made the key-keyhook in Boy Scouts when he was little. Eventually, he became an Eagle Scout, and (at 22) he now owns a business. It holds, along with our keys, the SpongeBob keychain that has our neighbor's keys--we take care of them, and they take care of us, so we have each others' keys. I made the basket at an adult ed class many years ago. It holds the the envelopes for Sunday donations to St. Dominic's, our church, which is very important to us. So much in a few feet of wall space! I used Sun Faded Photo just to warm it up a bit.
What a special wall, just shows how much you have to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! :)
ReplyDeleteLots of life in that bit of wall space!
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