Alchemy of Clay

Sepia Saturday:
Ah, trying to remember tea parties.  Mine were with little china cups and saucers, on a quilt laid over the grass, serving my dolls.  China you ask?  Yes, with "Occupied Japan" imprinted on the bottom.  Of course none of them lasted to my adulthood, because I was a normal boisterous girl with a younger sibling.

OH, there were some tea sets which I threw for my own granddaughters a few Christmas's ago.  Let me see if I can find pictures of them for you.... here we are.









But rather than tea party pictures, I offer a collage of my relations.  Most of these people have gone from life on this earth, though I think my cousins may still be around.  Sadly out of touch however.

My parents and sister (baby) and myself upper left.  1946 DallasThen me on 6th birthday with cake.  Houston
Then an interesting shot of my mother's mom (center of clipped photo) with her Uncle Jack and father "Daddy Webb" who died when she was small.  1926 near San Antonio
Upper right are baby sister, cousin Claudette, myself and cousin Sandra. 1947, Houston
Lower left is great uncle Chauncey Sweet, a banker in Galveston (uncle of my Dad's mother, maybe in the 20s, I never knew him)
Then my father standing behind his parents and myself sitting Dallas, (1946 probably)
Then my mother's mother and myself at around1944, Dallas.
Lower right, my mother's mother's mother taken before1931, probably San Antonio.  I was named after her.

It's fun to shuffle people's pictures into a collage.  We sure had lots of Texas blood in our family!