A few highlights:
Cornhusk dolls: These are some of the folks who lived in my dollhouse. My mom made the man and the baby, I think.
Answering machine: My sister says that we were the first people she knew with an answering machine and this was it.
Diorama of flower fairy: This was not for school, but the kind of thing a kid like me did for fun. Originally there were dried and pressed daffodil flowers as part of this I think, but they had long since crumbled and fallen away.
My first knitted projects: a bag/purse, a bear, a lion.
Pegasus: yes, this was mine.
Macrame: my mom made this and I think it's great. It definitely speaks from a certain era, doesn't it?
Apache roadster: I don't actually have any memories of this, but I'm guessing it was my older brother's.
More in another post.
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I, of course, made the exact same type of lion and purse! Not the bear, though, so that must have been a post-3rd grade project, after I'd already left Waldorf. I also have a real soft spot for macrame wall hangings b/c my mom made several as well, and I loved them as a child.
Camille
i love the notion of "nostalgia triggers". never thought of it quite like that. so true though!polly
Funny about the bear, Camille. Before coming across these items, I remembered that I had made a purse and a lion. When I saw the bear, it seemed familiar, but not like the other two. Maybe I didn't make it. Or maybe we were supposed to have given it away; maybe you made one and gave it away?
Yay for macrame! Sadly, Justin suggested I hang it in the garage... He also ran away from crafts camp as a child, so he doesn't have the same appreciation for the fine handicrafts of the '70s as I do.
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