Pink Saturday ~ 2-5-11

Inez Rosella Luce ~ 1868-1899

Inez Rosella Luce was my grandmother on my father’s side. She married Eugene Rodolphe Hornot in New Orleans, Louisiana, they had three children: Celina, my Aunt Cenie, Eugene, my father, and Roger. Both my grandmother and little Roger died in the great flu epidemic. She was only 31. My Aunt Cenie died in her late 90’s and my father lived to be 100 plus a few months. There is something about the pink in these flowers on her dress and little purse that really touches my heart.

Please be sure to stop by Beverly’s How Sweet the Sound to see all the many lovely pink posting for this Saturday.

Vintage Thingie Thursday ~ 1-13-11 ~ My Grandmother’s Sterling Silver Compact

This is another of my little family treasures, but this time it is from my mother’s side of the family. The compact belonged to her mother, my maternal grandmother, and as a child I just loved it when Mother put it in her pocket book. It is sterling, but shows lots of wear. There are dings and dents, but they just give it more personality and charm. The chain is gone and the mirror is broken, but I will not replace or fix either of them. I simply do not want to change anything about it. The large circle on the bottom left  is where mother had her powder, and the smaller circle on the right was where she had her rouge.The section with the 1924 date on it opens, and that is where the mirror and rouge parts are housed. The little silk powder puff is pretty much in shreds, but it, too, is so dear just the way it is. I would not think about replacing it, either.  The sweet little flower on the top is cloisonne and is still in perfect condition. The section with the 1924 date on it opens, and that is where the mirror and rouge part are housed. I just love this compact. Yes, it is one of my special little treasures.


To see more beautiful vintage things, be sure to stop by Suzanne’s The Colorado Lady.

Veteran’s Day ~ 11-11-10 ~ In Memory

Eugene Marseilles Hornot
Born 1893

My Father’s WWI Portrait

Corp of Engineers

France
The Great War

This picture was taken outside the Smithsonian Museum of American History on my daddy’s last visit to VA. We pushed him into where the aging American Flag was hanging in all of it glory. My frail daddy sat erect in the wheelchair, removed his beret, and saluted his flag never saying a word. In 1993, he died at 100 years 7 months of age. He did not talk about the war, but I know he never really got over what he experienced while serving with the Army Corp of Engineers at the height of WWI. On this Memorial Day in the USA, Remembrance Day in Canada, and Remembrance Day on Sunday in The United Kingdom, please let us not forget the sacrifices our American, Canadian, British, Irish, and Scottish veterans made while serving their countries during what was known as “The Great War.”

This special post is linked to Coloradolady’s Vintage Thingies Thursday.

Vintage Thingie Thursday - My Daddy’s Silver Pencil Holder

Last week I posted pictures of my love token necklace. It carries so much of my ancestry on my father’s side in its engravings. This week I am sharing with you a sterling pencil holder which belonged to my daddy.  It was a birthday gift from a dear friend of his who later became a nun. Her name was Aloise, and she gave it to him March 6, 1914. His name was Eugene Marseilles Hornot, and I was named Eugenia after him. He and my mother, Mattie Lou, tried 3 times hoping to have a boy. I was the third daughter so they decided to quit trying and just name me for him. I wear his pencil on a white gold chain, and it is another of my “family treasures”. Please excuse the quality of the pictures, but I am finding it terribly difficult to shoot silver successfully. I always get that glare. Maybe one of these days I will figure it out.

Once again I am linking up with Suzanne’s Vintage Thingy Thursdays. Be sure to stop by and see what the other girls have posted.

Vintage Thingy Thursday

One of my FAVORITE pieces of jewelry is a necklace I had a silversmith friend of mine make for me from my daddy’s family’s love tokens.  During the 1800’s,  people would deface one side of a coin - mine happen to be dimes - and engrave initials, dates, and pictures on the that side. They also placed engravings on rounded pieces of silver.  I have been struggling for years trying to identify the initials and have been successful in some cases.  All of them come from my father’s side of the family. The Hornot’s were French and lived in New Orleans.  Several years ago I spent a week in the genealogy section of the NOLA Pubic Library researching family history, and that is where I was finally able to identify some of the dates and initials. This necklace is one of my “treasures.”

 The following are the pieces that “responded positively” to be photographed!  In other words, I couldn’t get the other shots to come out clearly enough to post. At least these will give you an idea of why this necklace is do full of meaning and sentimentality for me.

I am linking up with Suzanne’s Vintage Thingy Thursday.

A Rednesday from My Childhood

It is Rednesday again so be sure to stop by "It’s a Very Cherry World" to see what all the other gals have posted for the day.

This is a special Rednesday collage made from my little girl Hallmark Doll Album. Going back through all of my family photographs, I found this one of my most-favorite-of-all- time Uncle Edwin and me about the time I was probably starting to collect these little cards. 

Each of them has its own page and the back half fits through a slit in the page.  Since they fold at the top, you are able to stand them up. I am missing 3 cards for this book and would love to find old ones for sale: Peter Piper, A Little Girl with a Little Curl, and Bobby Shaftoe. I continue to search EBay and Amazon hoping they will show up at a reasonable price, but up to now I have had no luck. It would be so nice if I could finally complete the collection as I’d love to give it to my little granddaughter, Eloise. I can still remember how I would save my pennies and other change so I could buy another card for the collection, but most of the time my family would give them to me on special occasions. The cards are absolutely precious, and I keep thinking how cute they would be if I were to scan and copy them to make one of Elizabeth’s banners.  They are probably the only truly vintage cards I have other than my paper dolls, but many of those I actually made by hand. One of these days I will have to upload them as they are pretty neat, too.

Here are closeups of the cards in the collage.

Ann of England did not belong in this book which means this slot is for the third card I am missing...the one for Bobby Shaftoe.