I love time spent with my ancestors…choosing favorite pictures, writing a bit about their lives…a little “visit” with them in my mind…
{when I first saw this photo, I was stunned…the little girl, Ida, looks just like me when I was her age.}
Two more pages added this week to my Character Album…rather like small windows into their lives. On this page,two of my favorite women—my 4th great-grandmother and my 2nd great-grandmother—her granddaughter.
Taken on an extended visit to her grandmother, I’m sure Louisa held this image very close to her heart when Ida was far, far away…
Louisa was a skilled tailor and dressmaker. A very old needle and needle package from her time was just right to illustrate this…
Some Victorian-age black buttons that I’ve been holding on to…seemed like a good time to finally use them.
{not every picture has to be straight, does it?!}
Another one of my favorite women. My husband’s grandmother, Vie…
A Wisconsin farmer’s wife, ardent suffragette, and member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union—occasionally elected president in her area…quite a busy woman!
A bit of very old crocheted lace was just the thing for her border, along with a partial string of an old pearl necklace…I liked the clasp just hanging there like that…
{I love these keyholes from the Tim Holtz collection—beautiful!}
As with my other pages, a word or two chosen to describe the women placed on their photos…
Looking forward to time spent with more of these wonderful women who went before me in the pages ahead…
Julie
