Putting Fingers to Keyboard....#WQ Theme: Memorabilia/Things/Month End Review

It's another week of  Wednesday Quotes, hosted by Marsha from Always Write. If you're interested in joining, you can find more about #WQ here.

Wow....it's been almost a whole month since I posted to a #WQ challenge. I really like to take my time on these and time just hasn't been on my side. Here's hoping this week I get it finished. Today would normally be my day off, but I am working for someone else. 

This week's theme is a bit of a hodgepodge, and at the moment, 8:04 on Wednesday morning, I'm not sure the direction I'll go. I'm thinking it's going to be along the lines of memorabilia and things.

I snapped photos of these two things real quick before I left for work this morning. These linens and pieces of doilies were from my mom, some I know were from grandmas/great grandmas. The box of doilies, I think I'm going to find a way to frame. The bottom piece is a fairly good size square table cover that I think my mom did. 

I've discovered that as I get older, I'm 55, I'm becoming more sentimental about things. I wish I had kept more childhood momentos, or had more things from my mom, dad, grandparents. I wish I had asked more questions and kept more stories, cards, etc, written down. Side note: A lady came in to where I work yesterday and was mailing some books she had made for her grandkids, they were 50 years worth of Christmas letters and I thought that was such a cool thing to do. I would have loved to receive something like that. It makes me wonder "what can I do?" I find myself being more drawn to old things in thrift stores and antique/vintage shops. I find myself wanting things that have a history, while still liking the new. I love incorporating the two together. 

I couldn't find many quotes about "memorabilia" so I'll look for other synonym words, but I found this one and I disagree.. I don't buy memorabilia to live in the past, but to simply remember it, to have that feeling of nostalgia once in awhile. Especially now that my mom and dad are gone, and my closest grandma, things that remind me of them hold a more special meaning now. I've thought about this a bit more, and I suppose that they are speaking more along the lines of "collections" of things from the past, maybe sports memorabilia, or things about a famous person, or maybe someone collects something from every place they visit. However, while I do look at it that way, I also see it in terms of things that bring about a memory.

I didn't really have time to find photos or take photos of my own things...remember, I don't have much, however, I'm sharing photos from an Antique Toy Museum we visited in Queechee, Vermont. It was so cool. If you'd like to see videos, you can visit my personal FB page and I've share them all in an album titled 30th Anniversary trip. (Kirstin Bozich Troyer).

I firmly believe this to be true. That is my goal. Even as we have been in the new part of our house for 2 years, there is a lot of bare spaces, waiting to be filled with things we love. I'm taking my time (much to my husbands dismay). 

Again, I love this and believe so much in it. I don't want to just have things to have them. To follow trends. I want things that I truly love, that speak to who I am, that draw me in and call to me.

There are so many things that I wish I still had from when I was little. Things I did collect. Holly Hobby things, all my books, my sticker and button collections. All gone. I don't know what ever happened to them all. It's sad really. At least to me. I know people who have no attachment whatsoever to things from their growing up years, no desire to "collect stuff", but I wish I had. There are some things that I hope my girls will want after I'm gone...or my grandkids. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin