mid century toys

These are photos of my cousin.  I love the mid-century curtains, wish I had some.  Check out the monkey and the odd clown doll.  Gypsy was a single mom and had to make do with little.  She didn't have an easy life.  She worked harder than many of us do, went through the Great Depression, had both of her parents die, her mother just after WWII.  Her father some years before.  She struggled with weight issues, worked as a cook in a restaurant, had a genetic disease and adored her only son.  I think the saddest thing was that all that was left after her death was a makeup case full of photos and old letters.  We could not find her son to return them to him.

I think old photos that go adrift with no owner are so lonely.