Comments on: What I unearthed from the boxes http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/ Stories and how we tell them, through words, pictures, spaces... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:36:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Swimturtle http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Swimturtle Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:52:32 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-19 Hi Kloe, thanks for the suggestion. I've never been the scrapbook type. Interestingly, though, I have saved a box a year for each child with all their school and art work for when they leave home to take with them. We call them the "memories". Mom, put this in the memories, is a commonly heard phrase in our house. kisses to you too Hi Kloe,
thanks for the suggestion. I’ve never been the scrapbook type. Interestingly, though, I have saved a box a year for each child with all their school and art work for when they leave home to take with them. We call them the “memories”. Mom, put this in the memories, is a commonly heard phrase in our house.
kisses to you too

]]> By: Kloe http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Kloe Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:30:35 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-17 Hi Turtle, Here's an idea for the drawings: Take the few you think are the best. Cut them down, because I assume they are on large paper stock, and paste them into a blank book or sketchbook. (Use archival corners, or even acid free glue stick.) That way you can keep your drawings as momentos, but they won't need framing or protecting otherwise. And you'll have more pages to fill when you find more stuff that might be worth saving. Personally, my sketchbooks are the first things I'd grab in a fire (and you know we in SoCal think about fire often). And I'd hope your kids might love to have a self portrait of their mother someday. kisses. Hi Turtle,
Here’s an idea for the drawings:

Take the few you think are the best. Cut them down, because I assume they are on large paper stock, and paste them into a blank book or sketchbook. (Use archival corners, or even acid free glue stick.)

That way you can keep your drawings as momentos, but they won’t need framing or protecting otherwise. And you’ll have more pages to fill when you find more stuff that might be worth saving.

Personally, my sketchbooks are the first things I’d grab in a fire (and you know we in SoCal think about fire often). And I’d hope your kids might love to have a self portrait of their mother someday.

kisses.

]]> By: Mario Kluser http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Mario Kluser Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:48:58 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-13 @Sherman, You are totaly right. There is something about this picture. In fact it has nothing to do with the fact that it is a selfportrait. It's just in one way or the other very impressive and that makes it a peace of art to me that shouldn't be thrown away. I like the way you described it. @Sherman,

You are totaly right. There is something about this picture. In fact it has nothing to do with the fact that it is a selfportrait. It’s just in one way or the other very impressive and that makes it a peace of art to me that shouldn’t be thrown away.

I like the way you described it.

]]> By: Swimturtle http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Swimturtle Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:08:40 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-12 Mario, I have not thrown them away yet, but I do think that something I will most probably never look at again should be discarded. I think about my death one day, not in a morbid way, but I do not want to leave my children with the burden of dealing with tons of "stuff." As life goes on I just keep the minimum of things and get rid of everything else. We need so little in this life, and we always have much, much more than we need. Mario, I have not thrown them away yet, but I do think that something I will most probably never look at again should be discarded. I think about my death one day, not in a morbid way, but I do not want to leave my children with the burden of dealing with tons of “stuff.” As life goes on I just keep the minimum of things and get rid of everything else. We need so little in this life, and we always have much, much more than we need.

]]> By: Swimturtle http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Swimturtle Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:06:52 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-11 Sherman! I didn't know you had such a delightful blog yourself. I spent a little time there and I will definitely be going back. I'm going to subscribe, in fact. Thanks for the comment! Sherman! I didn’t know you had such a delightful blog yourself. I spent a little time there and I will definitely be going back. I’m going to subscribe, in fact.
Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Sherman http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sherman Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:52:28 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-10 Ilaria, your final self-portrait is fortunately not the "final" one of your life. Maybe the portraits are now more in words than lines. There is something Ilaria about the drawing, and I like the proto-cubist feel of it. Ilaria, your final self-portrait is fortunately not the “final” one of your life. Maybe the portraits are now more in words than lines. There is something Ilaria about the drawing, and I like the proto-cubist feel of it.

]]> By: Mario Kluser http://turtlehaus.com/2008/11/15/what-i-unearthed-from-the-boxes/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Mario Kluser Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:07:36 +0000 http://turtlehaus.com/?p=139#comment-9 Would you also throw the picture away, if there where a certain smell on it. I mean just like it is with books. The smell makes them often attractive for me. Whilst reading I always must put my nose in a book so now and then. What is about the pictures? I know that you are good in letting things go, but do you really throw them away or have you changed your mind? Would you also throw the picture away, if there where a certain smell on it. I mean just like it is with books. The smell makes them often attractive for me. Whilst reading I always must put my nose in a book so now and then.
What is about the pictures? I know that you are good in letting things go, but do you really throw them away or have you changed your mind?

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