This is the bag lady that we bought for Pat at the Covent Garden Market. It was a wonderful picturesque open air emporium that we visited on Saturdays. The doll maker used equisite detail and we were completely taken with this bag lady. Pat always said that when she got old she was going to be a bag lady as she liked to collect all manner of bags. We eventually bought a couple of dolls for ourselves that they are all reunited at the top of our kitchen cabinets.
This is a tapestry that Pat and Bruce purchased when they visited us. We made a trip to France and spent one day at Omaha Beach (of the D-day Invasion). In the nearby town of Bayeux they found this tapestry, which we have always loved and think it looks quite nice in the Birdhouse.
The boys divided 12 of Pat and Bruce's sets of china amongst the five of them and we added these bird plates to our own growing collection of china. (We have another three plates on the other side of the door.)
It is bittersweet to have these things...but they hold a special place in our hearts as they did for them. They remind us of these two wonderful people to whom we owe so very much.
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