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My old living room has come a long way from the messy photos I shared a couple months ago. It still has more work to be done.

I found this Craftsman Style Glass Door lawyers bookcase on Craigs List for a super low price. My house is not Craftsman style nor are the antiques I am putting in the room. However a bargain is a bargain.

I love it! I'm trying to get DH to build one of those on a scale to fit the area I need it in to display my folded quilts!

This is my Mom's sewing cabinet. She made my clothes on here from when I was a baby through my wedding gown. Then she made some drapes for me about 10 years ago. She even made the first 2 pairs of pants that I wore to school.

Those of you who are younger than I may not realize that girls didn't always get to wear pants to school. My last year in elementary school we were allowed to wear pants on Fridays. The previous year it was the last Friday of everymonth. It wasn't until 7th grade that we were allowed to wear pants everyday. That is the time that my Mom stopped making most of my clothes.

This picture was taken with the extension up as I was sorting through all of her sewing supplies.

This is an antique dressing table she had in storage. I will use it as my embroidery/beading/sketching station. It is set in front of my picture glass window at the front of my house.

I have a couple more pieces I will take pictures of soon. One is another antique from her storage.

At the moment I am not sewing anything. It is hard to sew in my current cramped area, knowing that soon I will have plenty of space.

pb

Nice pics. Thank you for sharing. You are going to have a wonderful Creative Space!!!

re: pants in school....we were never allowed to wear pants or shorts to school, unless it was freezing or below outside. Then we were allowed to wear pants UNDER our skirts/dresses, and had to remove them when we got to school. Our skirts/dresses had to touch the floor when we kneeled down. If they didn't, we were sent home!! The only time I wore anything other than a dress/skirt to school, was senior year, when we had 'beach day for seniors' just a few days before we graduated. We were allowed to wear shorts or capris, but the shorts had to touch our knee caps!!! The guys were NEVER allowed to wear jeans either!!!!

Ahhhhh, the good old days. LOL

grami

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Those are some beautiful antiques, and your mom's memories that go with them will make them even more special. I love seeing how people actually use old things rather than storing them "for the future."

Pants in school? Finally, when I was in high school. Of course, in Houston, we didn't have the luxury of snow days as an excuse. Actually, they were an excuse: schools are shut down if we get snow!

My mom too made all of my clothes until she got tired of my tireless requests for lace, ruffles, etc. She taught me and decided I could do my own!

Butterfly, you're going to love your new space. And I'd use that bookcase for fabric in a heartbeat!!!!! Hurry up and get it finished so we can see, okay???

Lovely....can't wait to see it all done. That glass front cabinet is just begging for some eye-candy fabric inside, LOL!

My house is mostly Scandinavian modern furniture, but I do have antiques mixed in, especially in my sewing room. I have the drawers from old sewing cabinets & lots of old tins & jars to hold supplies. I have old thread spools from mills (the big spools), old loom shuttles, and antique wooden shoe forms. I even have Grandma's handmade (by her father) sewing chest & the contents that were hers.

Pants in school (for girls) didn't happen in my school district til I was in 9th grade. Boys could wear jeans before that, as long as they were neat. Nobody could wear shorts, but we got out of school in early June when it wasn't hot yet, and we didn't go back til after Labor Day.

My mother always cringed when she'd see little girls in knee socks with bare knees in the winter. So when I was in elementary school, I had to wear tights under my skirts/dresses AND snow pants over the tights while I walked to school! The snow pants were wool & itchy & I couldn't wait to get to school to get them OFF!

Can't wait to see your studio all put together. The new CL piece is terrific! And what neat memories of your mom and the clothes she made over the years.
I went to high school in FL with no a/c (or at least if we did have a/c, it was broken for a while). We wore very short shorts - some called diaper shorts with no side seams, just overlapping flaps (not modest. at all). I know 'cuz the yearbook is full of photos of long legs. Yikes! My DD's don't get to (or want to) wear that style now. Their shorts must be longer than their fingertips (my rule).

I love that Barrister bookcase...wonderful piece and great for a sewing quilting room....it is nice to have your Mom's pieces to go in your new sewing studio....good memories there.

Your new room is going to be great. I love the glass front cabinet.

We were never allowed to wear pants or jeans to school. Our dresses and skirts had to hit the floor when we knelt. I graduated from high school in 1968. Times have changed!

Butterfly what lovely furniture! I can't wait to get back to CA and come up to visit my DH's cousin and come visit your crafting space! You too of course!!!
My mom had a dressing table EXACTLY like that!!! Hers had a huge mirror attached and actually belonged to a set the bed was four poster.
About pants...we couldn't wear 'em either except on "gym" day. In HS not at all and boys HAD to wear belts with their neat jeans.

I just love seeing these photos. Beautiful! I am sure I'm not theo nly one who enjoys seeing the sewing rooms/studios/areas that other people have.

I really like the lawyers cabinet. Great for storing fabric or quilts.

Your new sewing area is going to be so cool!! I can't wait to see it all ready. You're so creative and will have lots of fun in there. I love your new bookcase! It will be so pretty with quilts/fabrics in there.

I'm so glad you are feeling crafty again and sound good too! You were such a sweet secret sister to me!! I think about you often and hope you're doing well!

Hugs,

Pam

Ladies,

Thank you for your kind comments on my new furniture. My plan all along is for the lawyers bookcase to hold my fabric. I live in an extremely dusty area, so the only way to display all my gorgeous fabrics is behind glass.

Still a work in progress, slowly working on the rest of the room.

As for Starry Skies and diaper shorts; you must be younger than me. We certainly didn't get to wear clothes that revealing when I was in school. I know a couple years after I graduated high school the girls went super skimpy. I will say that in my high school years, girls were pushing the rules on clothing as far as they could.

I hope to have new pictures soon.

pb

Pam,

There was a large mirror for the dressing table. However mine is in front of our large window in the front room so I didn't take the mirror. We just sold all the rest of the antiques and other oddball furniture and lights we had left to a person that resells at the big flea markets. Mirror is long gone now.

You are one lucky gal. That L Bookcase is beautiful as well as those other pieces. I know you will be very happy with your new space.
It was 1970 before I could wear slacks or pantsuits to work.
nuquiltr

That dressing table sure brought back memories - my grandmother had one of those with a huge round mirror over it in a spare bedroom all the years I was growing up - wonder whatever happened to it? Probably auctioned off after DGF passed and she went to live with an aunt - that was 20 years ago. I didn't find out about the auction until it was a done deal so I missed it.