My journaling reads:<BR><BR>I actually came to possess this dining table and chairs a little more than a year ago when my parents had sold my grandparents' house. They were selling it furnished, but I told them that there was no way they could leave this there. To me it was a piece of them that I could keep with me.<BR><BR>It would always bring back memories of them when I looked at it or used it. I had lived with my grandparents when I was a senior in high school. I had done this because my high school was about a half a mile from their home. With my sister being at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and us sharing a car, I did not know how that would work with our school schedules. So, after having discussed it with Mociute and Dede (who were all for me being there) I just had to "convince" my parents. Luckily, they agreed. I lived there during the school week, but went home on the weekends.<BR><BR>This table and chairs was in my bedroom upstairs. It was used my me all of the time when I was studying! I remember my grandmother even bringing up a sandwich for dinner for me because I was so busy studying. I even still have the lamp that was on that table way back then.<BR><BR>The only thing that I have changed about it was reupholstering the chairs. It had been needing it, so this was a welcome change. The wood still has its nicks and scratches, but that will be part of its history.<BR><BR>Recently I found out that this set actually belonged to my dad's uncle (Uncle Dan) before it ended up in my grandparents' home.<BR><BR>To me, I feel I have been doubly blessed...I possess what has belonged to both sides of my family! I hope the tradition continues and this table and chairs will end up with one of my children.<BR><BR><BR><BR>I used new techniques for this: made my own bottle cap (designed), transparency on a LO, staples holding the fabric to represent reupholstering the chair (and having to literally staple it underneath), and using fabric.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Let me know what you think!