I thought I'd link two ideas together in today's blog post.
This photo is terribly grainy. It comes from my old Nokia phone before it died 2 years ago- I had saved it to my computer. It shows my Godmother and her Mother.
So many of my most precious and happiest Christmas memories and traditions involve my Godmother's house. We and 4 other families would always get together a few times over the Christmas holiday- perhaps we'd go over on Christmas eve, New Year's Eve, Christmas day eve, Boxing Day eve- one of those. We'd go over, eat food, chat and play board games. My Godmother is hilarious and I always loved the get together with them and their children,all girls -we ranged over an age gap of 5 years, I was the youngest.
I attribute my love of party and board games to these groups of friends-- we used to play Party Edition Pictionary (you play on two large Dry-wipe boards), HumBug, and other games and it would be utterly raucous, innocent fun. My Godmother's laugh is so loud. Her mother (lady in the ears), who sadly died this year, was also hilarious.
One of the families moved to Ireland, one moved away a few years later and all the 'children' were married and moved away and because My Mum, sister and I stopped spending Christmas together, possibly when CBC and I got together, we stopped going over there for the Christmas days, probably about 4 years ago, particularly if I went to Northumberland with CBC but my heart still yearns for those wonderful years of innocence, games, laughs. And Party edition Pictionary
Onto the other non-Christmas bit.
I haven't shared a Style imitating Art outfit on here for a while. Somehow, I didn't get around to it and a few of them were a little bit boring so I didn't go there, but today's one, I was rather inspired over.
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| Freedom from Want, by Norman Rockwell Oil on canvas, 1943 |
I love this painting as it is all about sentimentality. I am definitely a sentimental person, definitely to thE chagrin of my husband sometimes! "No, you must not chuck that mug because it means..."
The curtains immediately suggested this Per Una skirt to me. I am rather sentimental about this skirt. When I used to work at the Academy, I used to wear this skirt quite often. There was this incredibly sweet, rather shy and awkward professor who sometimes used to talk to me. One day, he saw me coming down the stairs in this skirt and I was glancing back in delight at it trailing on the ground. He told me later that I looked like a Princess in it. He said it in this really shy and sweet way and later dropped me off a cup of tea and a cake to my office, "Because I looked so pretty in it!"
On various other occasions, he would always smile when I wore this skirt and another Similar Per Una one so forever, this skirt will be associated with him and his sweetness.
The white lace cardigan is my last charity-shop purchase- I have been rather dissatified with my current white cardigan- too big but weirdly fitted and just not right, so I was glad to find this one for £2.50 a few weeks ago- it represents the net curtains.
The celery brooch (made by me) was a nod to those leeks sitting proudly in the middle of the table and if you look closely, you will see the tiny blue and white milk jug round my neck- a nod to the fine tableware.
You can head over to Jess at Animated Cardigan to see how everyone else interpreted it.