24. rescue something.

my grandma is the queen of estate sales. if you're looking for her friday or saturday you''ll find her scouring dead people's houses. she actually finds some pretty marvelous stuff and knows how to get the best deal (read here about the experience paige and i had with her one saturday).

i'm the benefactor of this obsession and recently got my hands on some old, very mid-century modern tables.

cute! but i couldn't just leave them the way they were, grandma-style. i took this as an opportunity to rescue them from their current state and thereby check another item off my 25 things list >>> rescue something. 

i had a 50s vision for them but also wanted to accentuate the art-deco detailing, picked a color, sanded, painted, sanded again, painted again and voila!

i have new tables.

the big 80.

my grandma wood is turning 80 years old this month!

of course a birthday like this merits a big party! i was blessed with the task of making the slide show. i say blessed because it gave me the opportunity to look through scads of old pictures, one of my very most favoritest hobbies. 

look.

grace kelly? no, my grandma.

this is just the cutest little scene. and isn't that dress to die for!

little lisa looks like little courtney here.

two things to point out in this gem: 1}that is marion g romney with my family {cool} and 2}look at my mom's hair!

 

hippies.

 we'll end with a picture of my mom opening up the best present: the family quilt. most comfortable thing in your life. sadly this was the early 80s and what was left of the quilt has long since been thrown out. here's to you quilt! nothing will ever replace you on our beds or in our hearts.