"The thing that your aunt gave you that you don't know what it is."
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Here's what I'm betting, because I have something that MY grandmother made when she was SEVEN: handmade lace or embroidery.
My grandmother at age seven embroidered a border on a length of beautiful Brussels lace (the real stuff). When I made my first child's christening gown, I let the lace in to the skirt. There was JUST enough to go around the entire gown, about 6 inches about the first set of tucks.
(Yeah, I spent pretty much my entire pregnancy making the thing from a Vogue pattern . . . ARRRRGGGH! those are the most difficult patterns in the world!!!!)
just went and looked . . . the pattern is still in their catalog, 20 years later!!!!! It's really pretty, if you can handle the assembly process . . .
You're pretty close, AAM. :~)
The mystery items, made by my Grandma, were shelf doilies (unless they have a more formal name) that are linen with lace butterflies. The linen piece sits on the shelf, and the butterfly hangs down. The note says my grandmother made these when she was 15, to fit a shelf her mother had. There are four of them.
She said that one time when Grandma was visiting, Grandma saw that her secretary desk had shelves that were just the right width for these doilies and brought them over the next time. She's had them for years now, and is downsizing to move to an assisted living apartment, and wanted them to go back to us. It was really nice of her to think of us and track us down. :~)
She also gave back to us some rolling pins made by my grandpa, a lefse pin and a pastry pin. We all have these, nearly everyone in the county has one of Grandpa's lefse pins, but we'll keep it till we find someone who needs one :~)
And Barkley got to go for a walk on the beach. I brought him up alone, Dad and Dona hadn't met him yet. He was a good boy and came back to me... mostly ;~) There are an awful lot of interesting smells to follow on the beach :~)
There were lots of scattered pumpkins on the beach... Evidently that's one way to get rid of them after halloween ;~)
Beach house and pumpkin ;~)
