An Old Leather Rocker

I recently brought home from my aunt's house a vintage leather rocker.  It's a dark yellow color with dark brown arms.   I placed it in a cozy corner of my family room and bought a small dark brown hassock to go with it.  This is my new reading nook.  This chair had been in my grandparents' house since the 1940s. 

When I set up the blog, I was sitting in the chair musing over it's history.  I looked down at the hand rests and saw how they had been worn over time.  My dad's family had 11 brothers and sisters and I can guarantee you, at one time or another over the last 60 years,  every single one of them sat in this chair as well as their spouses, their children and grandchildren., nieces and nephews and family friends.

If I ever decide to have the chair recovered, I will leave the wood exactly as it looks.  This chair is just one of countless other family momentos now spread out among all of us cousins (there are 13 of us).  We all treasure what we've recieved over the years from our grandparents' home.  Oh, there were never any grand items such as sterling silver or fine china but we cherish the pieces of their life; a chair, the bed in which my grandmother gave birth to 11 children, photographs, a candy dish, a deck of cards & an old set of poker chips, my grandfather's blacksmithing tools, my grandmother's favorite scriptures written very neatly on a folded up piece of paper and tucked into a small ledger of household expenses.

Ok, back to the reading nook!