A Few More Treasures . ..

So, Heidi and I convinced Mom that our project today should be to get rid of extranneous wall decor in the house today. Starting in Mom's office . . .here's what we found:

Okay, so the little paddle lookin' thing is actually from the kitchen, but it's just as hideodorous. Our other favorites in the office were a way old version of the YW theme with pen marks all over it and stuffed handprint thingys from 4 of Mom's kids. I found out that Mom used to belong to a craft club; every month she'd get a package of supplies and instructions to make certain crafts. I'm pretty sure her entire office was decorated in those tacky crafts.

So, after going around the house, somehow I realized the second time passing through the living room that we had somehow passed over this little gem. Um .. . .right. My favorite thing about this one is how totally random and ugly everything in all these compartments is. Mom claimed she loved the shape of the octagon thing, so she found things to put in it. I didn't even let her consider keeping it because even if she did like the shape and took out this ugly stuff, . .. she's prolly refill it with more ugly mismatched stuff. Notice the broken hands of the praying boy . . .

The changing of the wall decor wouldn't be complete without playing our little game . ..namely, swapping decorations or items around the house waiting for Mom to notice and laugh. This game started a few years ago when we were taking down Christmas decorations, and occassionaly we like to play it again. But when you have a pile of ugly wall decor that we're getting rid of . ..oh, it makes the game so much more fun! Here's a couple of my personal favorites:

(featuring the lovely Young Women rainbow thing that used to hang in the Master bedroom)

.. .and this one . . .

(That's a little picture of me with painted pasta on the homemade frame . .. also from Mom's office. I'm pretty sure I made that in girl scouts.) I also put the Steeles in the bathroom, and I swapped the wheat thing from Mom's office (see above picture) with the fake flowers in her bathroom.

And if that wasn't enough for today . . ..we also cleaned out Mom's clothes!! Here are some great gems we found there . . .

This is a lovely pantyhose holder from Aunt Lynette. If you look closely, you can see the little pocket where you put stuff in. Can you believe there were still panty hose in there?!

How about this dress here:

Does this dress ring a bell to anyone? Let's add some peeps, and see if you see what I'm seeing! =)

That's it folks! The exact dress Mom was wearing in this picture. And let me tell you, when she was my age (which is how old she was in this picture), she was rill small. My bust barely fit, and believe it or not my arms almost lost circulation putting on this thing. But, it was definitely fun.