Show & Tell Friday.....do you know Sew and Sew!lol

Time for Show & Tell Friday, thank you to Cindy at,http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ ,

for hosting us.

Be sure and check out her fabulous blog and the other posters who are showing

and telling this week!

This week I thought I would show and tell my Great Grandma's sewing box.

I remember when she passed away and later the family had to go deal with her things.

My parents gave me this sewing box of hers to keep as they had given it to her before.

She was actually my step Great Grandmother, one set of my grandparents were divorced and both remarried, so I always had extra grandparents when growing up.

I have many family things besides just things I have found and collected stuffed in this sewing box.

The wooden rug or large crochet hook is one that my Great Grandpa Cannon whittled out of wood. He made them for all his grandchildren and they have been passed down.

Some of the old thimbles are family pieces too.

And my love for old paper things and buttons combines when I find old buttons on

their original cards with great color graphics.

This silver engraved thimble is a family piece. Belonged to the wife of

a Great Uncle, Ida Foster-McLellan . But before she was married as it has

the initials I.F. engraved in it.

Here is another card of buttons, look at the cute baby graphics.

Card reads at the bottom Lady Washington Baby Pearls.

And this old metal embroidery hoop, first time I had seen one that was not

wood.

Lots of goodies stuffed inside. It is displayed right now in our laundry/1/2 bath but when I get my craft room and larger laundry room built in it will have a place of honor in there.