Monday, February 21, 2011

Birthday suit

As I had hoped, CJ was feeling much better by Friday afternoon,

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and the weather was nice this weekend! YAY!

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Ever since the family reunion last summer, I have had this picture in my head.

Bathtub reinactment

At Cliff's Family Reunion in Arizona, the great-grandkids all acted out scenes from his grandparents life history. In the above picture, Alex (being the oldest great-grandchild, and having been born on her birthday) was chosen to play the part of Cliff's grandmother, who had a picture taken of her in a bathtub (bathtub part being played by other cousins)wearing nothing but her birthday suit! I know, right?! She was completely covered, but it was still a bit saucy for the time, I am sure. We all got a good laugh from watching the kids act it out, but immediately, I had the idea that I wanted that picture to put in the girl's bathroom!

Cliff's mother tracked down the original picture for me and sent me a digital copy, and I had a picture made.

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It has been in my unfinished projects pile since maybe ... August. But not anymore!

Here it is in one of the frames that was crying for a facelift. Oh, the wonders of high-gloss black spray paint!

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It is one of my new favorite things in my house. I think I can hear it saying "How ya like me now?"

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so fantastic I can hardly stand it! Seriously...I am LOVE LOVE LOVING this!!!

kg said...

I love it too, the pic, the frame, the story :)

Lori said...

Me too! I love when you have pictures in your house that mean something or tell a story.

Emily H. said...

I first scrolled down and saw that awesome pic- then read and found out it's his grandma? how cool! What a fabulous picture- and for the bathroom too!

Jessica M said...

That picture is fantastic! And how delightful to have things in your house that speak such sentimental volumes. Love it love it.

Elizabeth Moon said...

Love it.

Michelle said...

What an awesome picture!

Karen said...

It's priceless. I love it.

Quincy Sorensen said...

Only her husband would have taken a picture like that.

danakat said...

I literally blushed. LOL