We used to have a mobile grocery van (or two) come to the cove where I lived, it was the 1960's version of Tesco online shopping I guess! Now and then, (well maybe twice in my childhood, but it felt like more), Mum asked them for a used banana box if they had one and I got to use it as a cooker..a far cry from the yellow blown plastic Fisher Price version of the last 25 years, but hey, I thought it was perfect..
Other times I remember digging earth out of the wall at the old crab-pot stand between our house and the Nook and using that as a cooker, I'm not sure if I had pots and pans, but I just loved having something to occupy me while my Dad was making crab pots.. Mum must have enjoyed it too, not having me on her apron strings for once!
I used some of the first backing paper I ever bought, pure vintage styling, with Cored'inations papers, brown revealing a lively (banana) yellow, perfect... I love the sand papering effects you can achieve. Last month at Just Scrapbooking we played with altered art dominoes and I covered some in embossed foil and accented the '64' as I guess it must have been about then that this picture dates from.
Lovely to see the detail as I scanned and made the photo larger... I took the pictures this evening (yes, new camera at last, all I need now is a new computer which will read the memory card!)... and warmed at the feeling when I looked at the image.. 'I just so loved that man, would swap a lot of stuff to have another day to speak and share life with him'
People who don't do nostalgia never lost someone from their childhood, wh0'd they'd like to ask some questions of...
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