Tuesday, November 20, 2007

FIT and More To Come....

First, I want to thank sweet Rella for the wonderful art piece she gifted me. It is an honor sweetie! It is so lovely and I will share pictures tomorrow. My camera ran out of batteries this morning and I need to make a trip to the store for more. I should know better by now to ALWAYS have them in bulk! LOL!!!

I also want to thank sweet Kari and Kijsa for blogging about the beautiful tags they made with some of the blue ledger paper I sent to them. Thank you so much sweeties!!! They are fabulous so go run to their blog and feast your eyes!


I only have a limited time tonight but I have found the most wonderful ledger!!!! It is a store ledger from 1887 and it is so facinating. Just like a novel for me. The handwriting is very clear and legible. I have been reading over it most of this evening. The FIT for today is a page from the ledger and I will share more pages with you tomorrow. This page is an example of the things the store provided the community and the prices.

I have learned so many things! Like you went to the store to get a tooth pulled and it cost .50!! And when a loved one died you had to go to the store and purchase the nails for their coffin. I never really thought about that. So sad! There were a lot of deaths and I think it was an influenza outbreak, but I am not sure. I am still doing some detective work:)

Anyway, I am sooo excited to share this with you and I hope you enjoy learning about this community along with me:) Love, Jamie

9 comments:

Rella said...

You are so welcome, Sweet Pea.....and you are so right about the ledgers and learning such amazing things. I read all the entries on the sheet you sent me in awe.

Have a wonderful holiday!!

xo Rella

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kari and kijsa said...

Hello sweet friend,

Thanks for the link and the wonderful paper, too!

Here's wishing you the happiest of Thanksgiving's ever....thanks for all your sweet comments and your wonderful blog!

smiles, kari and kijsa

Anonymous said...

WOWWWWWWW! How lovely! Thank you for sharing it with us! You have such wonderful and interesting things from such a long time ago. Papers..etc. Thanks again for sharing them with us! *HUGS*

Anonymous said...

I forgot to say....HOW could I FORGET!!! Have the happiest Thanksgiving ever!!! *HUGS*

Anonymous said...

I am soooo tempted!!! But I still have my ledger paper that I bought from before so I'm going to try and control myself! Happy Thanksgiving Jaime!

Pam Aries said...

Jamie! I ave been a bad blogging friend! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! It is chilly here today... Yes! did you know I am planning to move to Portland,O in the spring! Can't take the heat around here!

Lori said...

hi sweets!!! i hope you had a nice turkey day and that the dear boys are all better now...that's a GREAT ledger, of course...what other kind would you have:)

Lena said...

Hello,
I discovered your blog awhile back and forgot to bookmark it. I'm so pleased to have found it again and would like to say thank you very much for sharing all these wonderful old images, and for making a difference in the world, in all the ways that you do.
Your own artwork is lovely.
Best wishes to you!

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