Interior walls are going in, the toungue and groove pine boards are looking beautiful. The idea is that the walls look like those of any cabin built along a pond at any time in the first part of the last century.
Now time to think about what will go in this house...
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
Depression glass was created as an inexpensive but pretty, alternative to imported china, cut glass, and other more expensive dishes. It was simple colored glass, pressed into molds, and made into useful glasses, plates, and serving dishes. Often, the glasses were part of a free gift with a purchase of some other commodity, like gas, or something else in the five and dime. Families bought gas and collected the whole set of pastel colored pink, green, blue or yellow glasses or plates, one glass at a time. There were several depression glass designs, from a Greek theme, to an elaborate curlique, harkening back to a time when emphasis was on style rather than utilitarianism. Now, in 2009, original Depression Glass must be sought out. Depression glass has been copied, and it can be hard to determine what the replica is and what is the real thing. The original glassware is a popular collectors item.
During the depression in the 1940’s, regular people could not afford anything. They had to get used to living with less, making their own, or living without. I imaging it as a time where creativity was important, to be able to make do with what was there. Value people, relationships, time spent together, because that was what people had. As now. If we don’t have everything we want now, and we have to work more for the same money, we have to just live with it. Simpler living. Get up, get the kids ready, go to work. Come home, feed everyone, clean everything, go to bed. Get up. Do it again. Every day. We have to make each day a unique, special experience. Each day we have the chance to be together, understand each other a little more, experience nature, or experience emotions, or learn something about the world. Being together in a genuine way is what is important. One day, if I end up getting paid more, or end up working less, I will have the time to travel the world, buy whatever I want, or, perhaps to send our children to the college of their choice. In the future, will I recall the time we built this house as a simpler time, or a more complicated one? Will the chaos of each today unfold in the future into simpler, clearer moments? Or will this unbelievably stressful, busy time for me be recalled in 10 years as the simple, quiet young childhood of my children?
Now, Depression glass is not only beautiful, it is expensive. I can’t really afford it. I’ll seek out imitation Depression glassware and dishes to put in our house. Depression glass seems to fit at Poverty Pond. I want to recreate the time period it is from. It is a time before life became automatic, plugged in, fast and furious. I want the green glass and the blue glass. It is elegant. It matches our color scheme. What is more important still, is it has a history to which I can relate. Life was unbelievable difficult during the depression. Yet, it is recalled as a simple time, where families were together. I want to take this lesson and recall each stressful, hectic today as one where my children are happy and healthy. I want to value each busy, expensive day as one where I can get in my car and drive us anywhere we need to go. I hope I sit in the sun and soak up every ray when I have a millisecond to be still. I know enough to know that I’ll look back and remember this time as one where I was the healthiest and most energetic I have ever been. I want everything, always, and I’m sure that won’t change. But for now, mostly, I am going to remember to save what I have today, so I don’t have to look for a replica later on.
Depression glass was created as an inexpensive but pretty, alternative to imported china, cut glass, and other more expensive dishes. It was simple colored glass, pressed into molds, and made into useful glasses, plates, and serving dishes. Often, the glasses were part of a free gift with a purchase of some other commodity, like gas, or something else in the five and dime. Families bought gas and collected the whole set of pastel colored pink, green, blue or yellow glasses or plates, one glass at a time. There were several depression glass designs, from a Greek theme, to an elaborate curlique, harkening back to a time when emphasis was on style rather than utilitarianism. Now, in 2009, original Depression Glass must be sought out. Depression glass has been copied, and it can be hard to determine what the replica is and what is the real thing. The original glassware is a popular collectors item.
During the depression in the 1940’s, regular people could not afford anything. They had to get used to living with less, making their own, or living without. I imaging it as a time where creativity was important, to be able to make do with what was there. Value people, relationships, time spent together, because that was what people had. As now. If we don’t have everything we want now, and we have to work more for the same money, we have to just live with it. Simpler living. Get up, get the kids ready, go to work. Come home, feed everyone, clean everything, go to bed. Get up. Do it again. Every day. We have to make each day a unique, special experience. Each day we have the chance to be together, understand each other a little more, experience nature, or experience emotions, or learn something about the world. Being together in a genuine way is what is important. One day, if I end up getting paid more, or end up working less, I will have the time to travel the world, buy whatever I want, or, perhaps to send our children to the college of their choice. In the future, will I recall the time we built this house as a simpler time, or a more complicated one? Will the chaos of each today unfold in the future into simpler, clearer moments? Or will this unbelievably stressful, busy time for me be recalled in 10 years as the simple, quiet young childhood of my children?
Now, Depression glass is not only beautiful, it is expensive. I can’t really afford it. I’ll seek out imitation Depression glassware and dishes to put in our house. Depression glass seems to fit at Poverty Pond. I want to recreate the time period it is from. It is a time before life became automatic, plugged in, fast and furious. I want the green glass and the blue glass. It is elegant. It matches our color scheme. What is more important still, is it has a history to which I can relate. Life was unbelievable difficult during the depression. Yet, it is recalled as a simple time, where families were together. I want to take this lesson and recall each stressful, hectic today as one where my children are happy and healthy. I want to value each busy, expensive day as one where I can get in my car and drive us anywhere we need to go. I hope I sit in the sun and soak up every ray when I have a millisecond to be still. I know enough to know that I’ll look back and remember this time as one where I was the healthiest and most energetic I have ever been. I want everything, always, and I’m sure that won’t change. But for now, mostly, I am going to remember to save what I have today, so I don’t have to look for a replica later on.
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