Momma's Chair; 3rd Part of 3
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Let me reiterate the reason for this and the two previous projects using pieces of Momma's chair. She died 8 years ago at the age of 82, and was one of the most wonderful women I've known. You are thinking I am saying that because she was my mom, but I'm not the only one who says that. My Mom did not have one prejudiced bone in her body. She could not have cared less what religion you practice, what color your skin is, what language you spoke, if you were heterosexual or homosexual, how much money you had or didn't have; NONE of it mattered to her. She treated every person she met with the dignity and respect she wanted in return for herself and family, and she got it, too, and so did we as her family. My mother was an amazing woman in more ways than one. She never turned away someone we knew that had fallen on hard times, and at one point for almost a year there were (not counting herself) 14 people living rent free in her four bedroom home! She made room for whoever needed it, and she never complained, nor allowed them to complain about the others. She always made room, some how, for those who needed it. She gave clothes to families, and fed whoever was hungry. Am I making her sound like a Saint? Well, she sure did act like one, most of the time. So when her chair broke apart not long ago, 3 parts of it were used to honor her memory. This is the 3rd and final installement of that process, and below are two pictures of her chair BEFORE I began the process:
The chair she would sit in after coming home from 12 hours of working on her feet, 6 days a week. Her feet would be sore and her ankles swollen over the tops of her shoes. She would sit down with a cup of coffee next to her, put her feet up on a footstool and watch the news before bed. Over time the a brace in the chair broke but she insisted on keeping and using the chair her eldest grandson bought for her. One day, long after her death, one of her grandsons came over, sat in the lopsided chair, and it fell sideways, breaking off the arms and the back. Below is what I had to work with, in her honor.
For this last part of what I wanted to do, I saved the easiest for last, but it by far not the least important. As mentioned above, she would make room for anyone we knew (or she knew) who may need a place to stay until they can get on their feet. Sometimes it was just overnight, and once it was almost a year! She would say, "Well, we will make room for them some how.", and she did. She would create a space for them and their stuff, whether hanging on hooks she'd put in doorways, or putting a box or two of their treasured items into a freed up nook in her basement. And she made sure the home stayed reasonably clean on top of it all. So this task begins with cleaning that old chair she loved to sit in by the window after work.
A bit of hot water, a touch of soap, and a splash of white vinegar, et voila! A clean rack of rungs 
Then it was off to the closet, turn the back of the chair sideways, place it over some coats hooks that were there, add some shower curtain hooks that weren't needed anymore, and hang up what was on the floor. There is still more room (and a few more hooks) to hang more, if needed, and the floor is now cleared of clutter, too. Momma would have been happy.
That's it. Fast, easy, AND simple. No need to complicate it. Life is complicated enough without that.
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What a fantastic idea and special way to keep your mom with you always
May her memory be blessed
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