the contents of my top drawer
inspired by gracia’s recent treasure finds in her drawer i felt like having a look at the top drawer of my chest of drawers. for years this has been my “things i don’t know where to put drawer”, resulting in a chaotic mess of pretty postcards, pencils and pencilcases, old letters and other stuff.
an old polaroid camera i have never used since the film is extremely expensive. some postcards from a chinese poster exhibition i attended a long time ago and a wooden pencilcase i have never used but like anyway. (you can see the overloaded drawer in the background)
another more victorian looking pencil case and a heavy brooch both bought in london
a close up of some beatles souvenir song albums my dad bought in the 60s
the first photo shows a print i did while studying art history. we went through all kinds of drawing and printing techniques. second image shows a book from first grade where me and my classmate rasmus are saying: “attending school is fun, we do lots of stuff”. i even remember looking forward to get homework like the older kids did. this phase was very swift.
do you have a drawer like this one?
March 5th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
fantastic blog, I love it. Can’t stop looking at your pictures
March 6th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Yes I do have such a drawer! I got quite a few of them actually. I don’t really dare opening them, but maybe one day soon I should. Then I will show you if there’s something interesting. The book from your first grade is so cute. I love how you practised the words on the left side. :)
March 6th, 2009 at 10:16 am
So interesting to see… thank you… and I particularly like that last photo.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
fanny: thanks! i’m glad you stopped by, you have a fine blog yourself!
katrine: i must confess my mess is spread throughout the other drawers as well. i rarely look into them as well…but i always get nice surprises when i do. i like that first grade book too…very fun to look at.
gracia: your welcome and thanks for your inspirational drawer post : )
March 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I think almost all of my drawers are “I don’t know where to put this”-drawers… and after moving around a lot I have a lot of moving boxes, unpacked, filled with “I don’t know where to put this” stuff. I have to do something about that. someday…
beautiful photos lea!
March 7th, 2009 at 1:42 am
kristina: thanks kristina. yep, all my drawers are like that as well..but this drawer is the jewel in this respect : ) and it really is hard to get rid of those boxes!
March 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
i agree with gracia + i looove the beatles stuff!