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Showing posts with label post-a-comment. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2015

Like a museum to you . . .


"Creating something beautiful is compelling and addictive. It's meditation of sorts," writes Hilary Robinson. “The assemblage process, adding that you don't need anything except your eye and your chosen objects. Even if nothing else in your room pleases you, you can transform one surface to your own satisfaction." She said, “The resulting still life is like a museum of you. It's more personal, more likely to trigger funny anecdotes and less bogus than a single mass-produced aged brass bowl or vintage hourglass cranked out by Restoration Hardware. There's a longing for individuality out there."
Herein lie the reason for creating your family museum, “a museum to you.” But not only you. Your family. Your heritage. Your history. Reading Ms. Robinson’s take on creating is compelling. I feel that my blog is convincing, persuasive and influential to empower you to stop throwing your memories away and encourage your family members, other relatives and even friends to save and display their heirlooms and collections.
As always, the main challenge in creating a museum is having the space to do so. Many of my blog posts address this task, therefore, if you haven’t read them, do so now. Step-by-step directions, suggestions and examples will give you the information you need to get started. As then and now, if you have any questions, please send a comment and I will answer them. I also appreciate your ideas. Have some to share, send a comment and I will write about it in a post if you would like me to.
After you read the posts, take a walk around your home, scrutinize available space –  be it in a closet, on a bookshelf, or employing a curio cabinet or more –  where ever you display your treasurers, it will be fine. This quote by Walt Whitman, an American poet, essayist and journalist, hits it right on the head: “Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”  So envision, imagine, and delight in the creation of your family museum. And don't forget to send me your comments. Thank you.
 
 

Monday, March 23, 2015

Happy Spring!


Spring is the time of plans and projects.” 
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
 
And so we start again the annual spring planting and cleaning. But I want to espouse something more than the planting of flowers and vegetables and the cleaning of pantries and closets. I want to champion and encourage you and your family to start creating your Family Museum.
 
As you start to organize this project, I want to offer you a word of caution: If you desire to seek out some assistance by way of a book on how-to manage your stuff, you will discover that there is an overwhelming amount of advice out there. I also discovered that each and every one of those books tells you how to get rid of your things instead of keeping them. Sure, we all accumulate far too much paraphernalia, bits and pieces, equipment, personal effects, along with junk, mess and matter. However, within all of these things are keepsakes, and they should be saved, preserved and most importantly, displayed. That is what all these books don’t tell you how to do. But my blog does! So go back through the past posts and read about how-to and why and where you can display your saved things. 
 
The first step in truly easy. Make a list. In fact, make several lists. And not only you but everyone in your family; spouses, kids, grandkids, grandparents, aunts, uncles,  cousins and friends. What kind of lists, you may ask? Lists of everything you want to save.
Why? Because you want to keep things that you treasure the most. Start with small lists so you do not become overwhelmed with guilt for having stashed away a mountain of stuff. There is nothing wrong with saving things, especially those that are important to you as a person and to your family.  

As you tackle this project and you have questions,
please do not hesitate to let me know how I can help you. Sometimes all we need is a little encouragement.
Good luck and most of all, have FUN! 


ATTENTION PLEASE: There has been a glitch with my post-a-comment. It has been corrected and now you will be able to post your thoughts, reactions and questions about any and all of the past posts. As soon as I am notified of your comment I will reply.  Thank you.