Item #78

This old-school sewing machine lives with my friend Heather now…she’s still trying to figure out how to work it, but I found it a nice home. This was my grandmother-in-law’s machine. I would have kept it but I already had my mother-in-law’s Husqvarna and I figured I didn’t need two sewing machines.

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Item #50

These curtains were our closet door at the blue house.

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Item #43

J received this book one Christmas when it seemed that everything she got made too much noise. This book DROVE ME NUTS...the batteries started failing and J was happy to give it away.

Item #41

We got these boots for J when she was a baby - we gave them to J's cousin baby C who LOVES them....

Item #38

J got this awesome tricycle from her grandparents...it was second hand and it was great, but the wheels were balding and it was hard to ride on the sidewalks around our house. When J got a balance bike for her birthday, we gave the tricycle to her old daycare. We'd been taking it there almost everyday anyway and it worked way better on their paths than on the sidewalk. It's nice to know it's still being used and that when we were done with it we could give it to someone who would be able to use it.

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We gave this to my cousin and her husband at their wedding this summer. Her sister and I had talked about it beforehand and decided it could be the traavelling family wedding gift. The recipients have to take good care of it and then send it along to the next cousin who gets married. In theory it could live at someone's house for a few years or a few weeks. The names and wedding dates are recorded on the bottom of it. Even though it never lived at H's house (she got married two months before me), we decided that hers would be the first date on the bottom because she concocted this plan with me.

Items #17 & #18

I was very sad to get rid of these table clothes. I got them both at a lovely shop called Drinkwater that doesn't exist anymore. Most of my table linens are from there and so are my most favourite, beautiful casserole dishes. One of these was actually a gift from my sister Kelsey when she stayed with me (maybe when she got flooded out of her apartment?). It's fitting then that I gave them both to her. They don't fit on our new table, but the old table went to live at Kelsey's house, so it made sense to send the table clothes over too!

Item #16

This got mailed to Edna...I think if I'm going to give away any more books, I'm going to do it locally...every time I mail something I flabbergasted how much it costs to send parcels within the country....internationally isn't so back, but locally sucks!

Item #12

I found these as I cleaned out our bathroom cupboards the other day. I haven't used them in close to two years...but I didn't know what to do with them. My cousin came over with her new baby, so I sent them home with her.