Grandmother's Hat

Lately I've had wonderful friends give me inspiration for paintings. It's pure bliss for me. Particularly because everyone who has asked just wants me to do my own interpretation of whatever their idea is. So lucky, lucky me!

I love that this piece is about cherishing something that belonged to someone special. It's about how a thing can become precious merely by association. My mom recently gave me a small box of my grandmother's jewelry. And when I wear a piece I feel so close to both of them.

Links to the past...so wonderful!

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Officially "Vintage"

Spent a lovely day celebrating birthdays with my mom today.  We ate good grub and then we went shopping at a vintage store.  I went through rack after rack finding tons of amazing things that were way too high maintenance for little old me (i.e. required dry cleaning and/or ironing), but happily, I did find a few must-haves.  At one point we were chatting it up with one of the owners and she mentioned that they're getting stuff from the 80s and earlier because they are a "vintage" store, after all.

Um...80s, eh?  So the clothes I wore in high school are now considered "vintage"?  What?  And then I looked at my mom and thought, "No, clothes from when she was in high school are 'vintage'.  That's how it's always been."  But I kept my pursed "vintage" mouth shut and figured that, hey, I've got some stuff in my closet that's officially worth something.

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