My in laws spent a couple of days cleaning out their crawl space, and I thought I’d show you one of the items that came to our house! Remember how I asked you to keep your eyes open for me? Well, this Bentwood steamer trunk is a lot larger than I was thinking, but it works, and it comes with a lot of history… look what we found inside!
The Sun & The Province newspapers from when Kennedy was assassinated.
I envision it sitting at the foot of one of the boys beds as a toy box or storage for dress up clothes eventually, but since they’re currently sharing a room it’s a little tight on space upstairs. This is a good landing spot, between our front entrance and living room, giving us storage for extra jackets and shoes, etc. You can never really have enough storage when you have kids, can you?!
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Wow! What a find – the trunk, and even more, those newspapers!
I think I have trunk envy, the only cure is to find one myself. Off to Lynden again!
How perfect is that. If only you knew how easy it is to get what you want right? Looks fabulous and I love the old paper. Do you have something cool planned for the paper?
Treasures from the attic – or in your in-laws case, the crawl space!!
What a terrific trunk! Funny & cool about the old papers… I have an old Sun issue marking the Queen’s coronation that was tucked away in my Grandma’s hope chest (a special treasure of mine) so I totally understand how cool it is to find special things like this ~ items our ancestors thought were important enough to keep.
Victoria
Thanks for visiting my blog Victoria! How great to have your grandma’s hope chest full of memories!
TOO COOL!!! I love it!!
Very cool! Not that Kennedy was killed, but that the old papers inside make it seem like a real treasure. Let me know if anyone in your “keep your eyes open” circle comes across something girly!
Yah !! I love finds like that!
Rosa…thanks for the comment on my blog! Looks like you scored with those suitcases…I used to have tons and used them all the time in my decor…..another thing I have done is paint them …Have a great Easter
Sherry
Vintage suitcases are one of my favourite objects. How fun it must be to find an extra treasure on the inside!
Beautiful! I love it! Check out this link if you get a chance – I have the twin!
http://peacelovesweater.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html