Reuniting my Aunt with her childhood teddybear

This is my Aunt, as a child, with her teddy bear.  My Grandmother, her mother, had saved it, and kept it in the room that was my Aunt's for years and years after she had married and moved from town.

When my Grandmother died, my Aunt didn't want the extra things, but my Mom kept it along with other remembrances.

When my Mom died, we split up family things, and I took the teddy bear.  Going through bins of old family photos, I found this one.  Since I had the bear, I decided to put it into a shadow box type of assemblage along with the photo, and added a ladybug, which are favorite's of my Aunt's too.  I gifted to her on her 92nd birthday.

She loved it, and when I was hanging it in her bedroom, she noticed that the chair in the photo she is sitting on, was the same childhood chair she had in her bedroom now too!  It was fun giving her back this childhood treasure!

More Art in the Narthex

Our Church, Christ Episcopal, Delavan, extends an offer to artists of all ages, and mediums, to use our narthex (entrance/greeting room), to display their works of art that offer an artistic glimpse of God, of the Holy, and Sacred.
  These next few months, we are helping promote the 2019 Bible Reading Plan that our priest Father Pedro has challenged the congregation to do.  Father Pedro likes us to also concentrate on the theme he feels God is calling us to... from Matthew 6:33  "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness...." 

The art currently being shown, reflects that theme, as well as some art installations that reflect stories from Genesis and Exodus, the first two books of the bible.

Some of these I made, others are items I found, and repurposed, adding things to them, to create the installation.

More will be added as the weeks progress to further highlight scripture passages from the Old Testament, and into the New Testament.

Memory Jug for Alysha

This was a fun memory jug to make, for my soon to be daughter-in-law, Alysha.  Using many of her personal trinkets and memories of her own and her parents and grandparents, as well as a few trinkets to fill in some places too.  There are some of her cat's teeth, her own baby tooth, diaper pins, jewelry from relatives, and from her childhood, and other fun memories.  I found a cool silver pedastal to attach it to as well.