I started looking for inspiration for today's photo and i remembered part of the reason i created the "SheCave" was so that i could fill it with things that inspire me and make me feel happy. Some times i pair things together that other wise make no sense any where but the "SheCave", like this green vase whose shape and color i love where i stuck a paper flower and my Pepe's sock darn. I love having something with so much history close by and some times i touch it and imagine the stories it would tell if it could. Back when my Pepe used it to repair socks 60 or more years ago people didn't have the luxury or money to run out and buy new socks if theirs got a whole in them. Pepe was a carpenter by trade and had big, rough, wrinkled hands and i love to think of those hands doing something as delicate as fixing my mom's socks.
So where do you find your inspiration?
Claudette, I remember my first sock darning lesson. It came after I spent the night at my Great Aunt Catherines house. I got a hole in my sock and went to throw it in the garbage. Aunt Catherine saw me and asked what I was doing? She could not believe I would throw a pair of otherwise perfectly good socks away, so out came the needle and thread. She sat me down and showed me how to darn those socks! I couldn't have been more than ten years old, she was my grandpas sister and is long gone. Great memory & I can honestly say that I have repaired more socks & other garments than I care to admit because of that. Does anyone even do that anymore????
ReplyDeleteNot sure shelly we live in such a disposable society - we could all learn something from our elders eh!
ReplyDeleteJust interviewed a "sock darner" in business today. :-)
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Carrie that sounds funny - were you looking for one or did that just happen to be on their resume? I am always surprised when people even know what that is, a sock darner that is.
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