well I must admit I'm always hoping to get to retell the story of this bed...so thanks!;) It all began when our friend Retno gifted us the two carved figures which she had from her family in Indonesia. We loved them and had them on the wall over our bed for a long while. Then at Salvation Army we got bedroom furniture...and I found this bedboard...and you would not believe what it looked like before...it was shiny coated lacquer-ish dark brown...but I loved the shape of it and thought it had potential if we could sand it down.. Then one Christmas I went to visit my family in forida and when i returned, Brent had created this!-sanding and painting the bedboard to match the figures perfectly...and they seem to BELONG there...it's one of those things that just mean so much to me...an integration of sorts over time...without the pre-plan of it all...a nestling of times and memories within times...a valuing of then and now into a sort of always..hard to explain but lots of feelings:)
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Date: 2007-01-06 06:05 pm (UTC)well I must admit I'm always hoping to get to retell the story of this bed...so thanks!;)
It all began when our friend Retno gifted us the two carved figures which she had from her family in Indonesia. We loved them and had them on the wall over our bed for a long while. Then at Salvation Army we got bedroom furniture...and I found this bedboard...and you would not believe what it looked like before...it was shiny coated lacquer-ish dark brown...but I loved the shape of it and thought it had potential if we could sand it down..
Then one Christmas I went to visit my family in forida and when i returned, Brent had created this!-sanding and painting the bedboard to match the figures perfectly...and they seem to BELONG there...it's one of those things that just mean so much to me...an integration of sorts over time...without the pre-plan of it all...a nestling of times and memories within times...a valuing of then and now into a sort of always..hard to explain but lots of feelings:)