Memory Jug For Harry

                                                                                                                     
               HARRY WALSTER                                                

 

 

Shortly before my Father passed

he asked my sis and I to go through his workshop

to see if there was anything we might want.

Dad was a rockhound, gem faceter, and junk gatherer.

This is the memory jug I made from the box of stuff I gathered that day.

Lots of stones, garnets mostly............

rocks, tools, this chain, and curious junk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dia de los muertos .....2014

THIS YEARS ALTAR                                                                  

                                                                                  

 

Celebrating the life of my father..........

                                                                            

 

Harry William Walster

1925-2014

 

 

 

 

Father's Voice

 

"No need to get home early;

the car can see in the dark."

He wanted me to be rich

the only way we could,

easy with what we had.

 

And always that was his gift,

given for me ever since,

easy gift, a wind

that keeps on blowing for flowers

or birds wherever I look.

 

World, I am your slow guest,

one of the common things

that move in the sun and have

close, reliable friends

in the earth, in the air, in the rock.

 

William Stafford

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tallest ........

AND THE DIRTIEST MEMORY JUG EVER............(at least in my collection)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This jug appears to me to be quite old, which reminds me.......

lately I have seen a jug or two on Ebay that

the seller has described as old, or as

coming from an estate sale.

A couple of these I questioned as to whether they

really were as old as the seller was saying.

One actually looked fairly new to me.

I am certainly no expert, but just wanted to pass along a

warning to be careful, look the jug over closely if you are

thinking of buying and age is a factor in

whether you want to purchase the jug or not.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dia De Los Muetros

ALTAR................2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

In  celebration of.............

 

Jay William Hajek

 

Edith Carolina Walster

 

Rudolf Jay Hajek

 

Steve Dayton

 

 

 

 

I Found This...........

When I was out and about a couple of days ago.

                                                                                

 

I was junking around looking for a few mens ties to

use in a project.............

 

 

I found other ties to cut up,

but I don't think I can cut this one.

 

 

Fish with bling.....................

 

 

This one I might have to wear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMORY JUG

               REMINDING ME OF MY GRANDMOTHERS BUTTON BOX.........        

                                                                          

 

 

Using my Grandmothers, my Sisters,

my own, and some found buttons....

including some black mourning buttons.

Tintypes, religious medals, crosses,

rosaries, and a small icon .

 

 

 

GARDEN RUIN.......

I think I need this..................


                                                                 

 

 

We just redid two of the raised beds in our garden.....

a mole had gotten in and raised havoc ,

so as the peas ended we dug out the beds and put down wire

to keep them out.

As each bed finishes we will redo it.

A lot of work all because of a mole!!!

 

 

 

Then I found this on Pinterset..........

When I showed these pictures to Gary he just groaned.

 

Please Gary, I NEED this!!

I think our vegetables will taste so much better

if we have this..........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY .........HIS HOLINESS .......

  TENZIN GYATSO..................      
 
   THE 14th DALAI LAMA...........
                                                      

                         

 

Born July 6, 1935

(Lhamo Dondrub) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The planet does not need more 'successful people'.

The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers 

and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places.

It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make

the world habitable and humane and these qualities

have little to do with success as our culture has set."

 

H.H. The Dalai Lama

 

 

Happy 79th   Birthday  Your  Holiness!!!

 

Long Life to the Dalai Lama......

 

The world needs you!!

 

 

If you are interested in what life is like for Tibetans inside Tibet

today............you might enjoy this short video.

Video footage from inside Tibet is rare,

it is not allowed by the Chinese government.

 

http://www.france24.com/en/20130520-china-tibet-demonstrations-buddhism-beijing-dalai-lama-human-rights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAPPY 4TH!

 

BE SAFE!

BLUE STAR CREEPER.....

MY BEE BAROMETER.................?

                                                                                        

 

Our front yard is planted with Blue Star Creeper.

What started out as a memorial of sorts to my Grandmother,

(she had a "blue lawn")

became over the years our answer to conserving water, and not using fertilizers.

 

 

The last few years it has been a "bee gauge" of sorts.

We used to have to warn children not to walk or play on the "blue  lawn"

unless they had shoes on, because they were likely to get stung.

It wasn't unusual to have several types of bees working it at a time,

and the buzzing was actually quite noticeable.

 

 

This year......... not many bees at all.

 

 

niche update:

 

We finally got the niche placed in the yard, but

haven't been able to find a madonna to put in it.

 

 

 

 

A LITTLE MAKEOVER...............

Of the mudroom, which had become very........
well.......mudroom like............

                                                                                          

 

Our mudroom was in dire need of a sprucing up.

After tossing around lots of ideas,

I decided to decoupage the walls with pages from the book

"Cabinet of Natural Curiosities"

by Albertus Seba.

 

This is the biggest wall in the mudroom, and it is

a lot to take in. However there are two large bookcases

that stand in front of this wall,

so really most of it won't show.

 

 

Here's the upper corner of the same wall (before molding), and

I couldn't resist hanging the bookplate of

old Albertus himself.

 

 

From inside you enter the mudroom thru a wide opening from

the kitchen.

(white door goes to laundry room)

(brown dutch door goes to backyard)

 

 

You can see that when I started putting everything

back in, the walls sort of receded a bit and

weren't so "in your face".

 

 

I think all the books help.

 

 

I have always hung these museum posters in there

and I didn't think they were going to work with the walls....

and maybe they don't.......

but I decided it was an interesting mix,

so I am leaving them.

 

 

We rescued this old dutch door from Garys

grandmother.....they had bought a new door and sent this one to

a corner of their garage.  

 

So what do you think?

 

I had seen this on ......where else.......

Pinterest!

 I thought it was perfect for us.

 I was a bit leary of doing it because I

knew once it was up.......it was up for good!!

Then just when I was  starting it a friend told me 

that the new issue of Country Living

featured a home where someone had done a powder room using

the same book. I am guessing they saw the pin on Pinterest

or online and couldn't resist it either?

 

Hearing that gave me mixed feelings.  A bit of valadation, 

I mean if it was good enough for Country Living........

however......I think if I wasn't already so far into the project,

I probably would not have gone ahead with it.

I'm a bit contrary that way.

 

Anyway, it's done now, and trust me.....it's

not going anywhere.....

but that's ok,

'cuz we really like it.

 

 

 

 

*"Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the

18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains

one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though

it was common for men of his profession to collect

natural specimins for research purposes, Amsterdam-based

pharmacist Albertus Seba had a passion that led him far beyond

the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of

animals plants and insects from all around the world gained

international fame during his lifetime.

After decades of collecting, Seba commissioned illustrations of each

specimen and arranged the publication of a four volume

catalog detailing his entire collection."

 (Amazon)