Let's Backtrack: June 2012

Friday, June 29, 2012

Corgi Love

I have high hopes of finding a corgi puppy of my very own before the summer is over.

The little dog with a big smile ♥

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

My great-grandmother and grandfather had these slides taken of "home life" to send to their son (my great uncle) while he was serving in the south pacific. They're a little staged and very fun! So happy we have these.

I've been busy sewing new merch for Let's Backtrack which I hope to post this weekend :o) So stayed tuned!

Friday, June 22, 2012

When I was a Cleaning Girl

I came across this slideshow I made 4 years ago. Back then my twin sister and I were 21 and we worked as housekeepers at a big old manor house where 17 senior citizens lived. It was a very unique "old folks" home. It was a real home setting with one big dinning room table, living room and parlor. The house wound about like a maze and when Rachel and I started working there at 19 we had a time finding our way around! While most young people our age were at college we were here. We cleaned up after the residents we grew to love and consider family. I loved the big old house whose floors I scrubbed and whose hidden stairways and rooms and nooks my sister and I discovered as "the housekeepers". It wasn't a glamours job and we took it out of necessity when our Dad left in order to help Mom keep the house. I don't say this in a woe-as-me kind of way because looking back I can see how beautiful it all was. Rachel and I worked there for 3 1/2 years. Some mornings as I tied on my apron and started collecting the trash I was scared that I would never amount to anything better than a cleaning girl. But then one of the residents would say "Good morning sunshine! How's my girl?"

Those years were like a mini life time all their own. It seems like it was all a wonderful dream. I miss it. I wish I hadn't worried so much back then about what people thought or what I'd become. Things rarely turn out the way we think but they always turn out. :o)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Doris Day

Gingham Camp shirts are back and this is a fad I just couldn't resist. I fear it will be short lived. I couldn't help but picture Doris Day. They seem like just the kind of shirts she'd sport with jean clam diggers while singing a cheery song. I just ordered not one but TWO. I know. Here's to sunshine, gingham, and song!