I (Ildiko) wanted to share with you these incredibly amazing photos that I love so much. In the first picture there are my great-grandparents-my mother's grandparents- with one of their children, Kato. My grandmother had seven brothers/sisters and Kato was one of them. She got married to a hungarian man that she met in America when she left Romania. This was in the 1940s. Her husband was a pilot and they owned a plane factory. Unfortunately we don't know too much about them because communication was very difficult in those times,because of the communist regime.
My grandmother and her sisters started a small business after their father died in pneumonia at the New Year's Eve, they were very little and they had to support somehow the large family they had. They repaired dolls in their house. At that time there weren't so many toys as today and people had their dolls repaired, also because they cost a lot, as they were rare. Afterwords at the age of 16 my grandmother became a dressmaker. I really loved her very much, she was a wonderful person and a talented woman. She used to sew for me many fabric toys. I like these pictures because they somehow reflect the light of that period, the times they lived, it was so different and lost. They only live through our imagination and memory.
My grandmother and her sisters started a small business after their father died in pneumonia at the New Year's Eve, they were very little and they had to support somehow the large family they had. They repaired dolls in their house. At that time there weren't so many toys as today and people had their dolls repaired, also because they cost a lot, as they were rare. Afterwords at the age of 16 my grandmother became a dressmaker. I really loved her very much, she was a wonderful person and a talented woman. She used to sew for me many fabric toys. I like these pictures because they somehow reflect the light of that period, the times they lived, it was so different and lost. They only live through our imagination and memory.
Kato as a bride
My great-grandparents
thank you for sharing the wonderful family pictures, the bride photos are just so romantic
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Karey
How beautifully you honored your family ~
ReplyDeleteBeautiful family pictures - you are so lucky to have these. What treasures!
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i just adore old photos like these. so beautiful and everyone looks absolutely elegant. happy to have found and to be following your blog. i love your artwork. thank you for being so inspiring! xoxo, juliette
ReplyDeleteI love these pictures. The sepia and gray tones make them very dream-like. What a nice tribute to your family!
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Thank you all for your lovely comments! These pictures are really important to me.
ReplyDeleteI love those pictures too... have a few of my family. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteJust found you on the front page of etsy. I am very inspired by your work. Love it! Love it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting these wonderful pictures.
ReplyDeleteHappy days, Joanie
Wonderful photos showing a time that passed long ago, a moment captured on film for all to look back upon with marvel. Some day our photos will be held by grandchildren or great grandchildren and they will have a glimpse into what our day and age was like.
ReplyDeleteYou've a lovely, lovely blog and it is a true pleasure to now be following it.
What a wonderful post. Thank you for sharing this little bit of your family history with us.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs and how wonderful that their story echoes in your life with the dolls.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, touching photos and story. You are so fortunate to have them.
ReplyDeletei always was a lover of the vintage photographies. I keep lots of them in boxes, i love them.
ReplyDeletehow lucky you are to have those old photos...kato is soooooo gorgeous in her bridal attire!
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