March Photo Challenge – A Corner of Your Home.

From left to right:

·        The big wooden bowl on the floor holds magazines and current reading material.  It was turned (made) by our good friend Ken and given to us several years ago.

·        The garden basket was given to me by Cali.  Inside of it is the gift of a primitive stitched pillow from my sister Marcia that says:  “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

·        The open 1828 Noah Webster was given to me by my sister Rachel.

·        On top of it is a pocket book called “Lincoln Devotionals” given to me by my niece Rachel.

·        The Emancipation Proclamation was given to me as a gift from Calvin.  He bought it while we were at West Point one year.  

Ty made the frame.

·        The blue chair is a gift from friends and family

·        The round basket of a home in the Philippines hanging above the door is a gift from Abe when he returned from his mission.

·        The secretary desk/bookcase was found at a yard sale and bought with birthday money.

·        Inside of the bookcase are antique quilts and a folded 3’ x 5’ (or so) hand crocheted American flag from my friend Eleesa.

·        The floor lamp was a gift from Abe and Ty

·        The couch is a hand-me-down from my sister Lila.  It’s hard to get rid of because it’s so comfortable.

·        The crocheted throw on the couch is a gift from my friend Mary.

And there you have it.  This corner is a gift in more ways than one.

I like lots of corners in our house:

• the cookie jar corner in the kitchen
• the pie safe corner in the dining room
• all of the corners in the fort, but especially the one with scrapbook paper and twinery
• the corner in the family room with the world wall map and globe on the antique wooden desk chair
• the corner in the family room that is the laundry room with its white cupboards and enamelware buckets
• the corner by the bookcase at the end of the hall that has two, little, wooden, children chairs sitting in it

but this corner of the living room is where I begin my day and, next to the supper table, we have the best conversations.  And to me, good conversations help make a great home.


What's your favorite corner in your house?