Fun Monday - Do Your Walls Talk to You?

This week's Fun Monday host is the kind and creative Jan of The Prytz Family. Jan is asking the Fun Monday folks to tell about their walls.

For my Fun Monday post, I have decided to show you my bedroom walls. The paint on the walls is the neutral White Linen from Sears. When we moved in our home, this room did not exist. Our little family of three, myself, Daddy D, and one-year old Dean, fit nicely in to our two-bedroom home. Two years after arriving, we added a another member to family. Since Luke was a little boy, we stayed with two bedrooms and one bathroom until our older son reached the seventh grade. Seventh graders, as some of you may know, take the longest showers so after Dean finished the seventh grade, we decided to add another bedroom to our little home and more importantly another bathroom. The new bedroom became the master bedroom. That was a few years ago...in 1985.

Over our big brass bed that I inherited from my parents, hang these three floral prints. The prints come from a collection of loose prints in a hard bound cover titled House & Garden's Flower Prints, which also belonged to my parents. This is the kind of document that the experts on the Antique Road Show would say, that in perfect condition, the collection would bring five to six thousand dollars, but with these staple holes in the corners of some of the prints, the collection is worth $2.59. In any event, since there are several prints, sometimes I rotate the selections.

Over a small bookcase, hang pictures of little Budgee (Daddy D's childhood name) and little Molly.
On either side of our closet hang the next two pictures. The first is a cross-stitch picture that my mother embroidered as a young woman. Featured in the stitching are women doing various household chores. Even though the cross-stitch portrays women in a domestic light, my mother was quite a feminist and worked outside the home for much of her adult years.


On the other side of the closet is a framed magazine cover of the February 1914 edition of Woman's Home Companion.

The oval frame is displaying dried flowers from Austria.

I won this framed Footprints of God at a state education meeting.

Finally, every time I see the picture of the big brass bed or when I say the words,"big brass bed," I remember this famous song by the great Bob Dylan. You might be humming the tune yourself.

Listen and then scurry on to visit our other Fun Monday particpants. See the list of good people at Jan's The Prytz Family.