Shoe Love

 Hi Everyone

 Happy Monday
♥
Don't  you

{Love}

 these adorable vintage shoes

  Vintage bronze baby shoes are hard for me to pass up at any sale

It was very popular in the late 40's early 50's to bronze your child's first pair of shoes
a traditional way to preserve  the memory of your babies first steps

♥

Some bronzing company's even date back to the late 30's

It is becoming popular again to bronze babies shoes

but did you know you don't have to just bronze shoes?

You can bronze almost anything

 via
{Love}
 the idea of bronzing a baseball or 
 a football
If you don't like the bronze patina
 there are many other options including
 gold, silver, pewter
 even porcelain

These bronze baby shoes were our

 Son and our Daughter's

 very first walking shoes

♥

I aged them by polishing them with lemon juice
which took off part of the shine

You may ask why we only had one shoe bronzed

I lost one of the shoes for our son
{how it disappeared is still a mystery}
 so we just did one for each of them

Can you guess which shoe belonged to our daughter and which one belonged to our son?
giggle

I recently found these bronzed baby shoe bookends

It is fun to imagine who they once belonged too
They are so cute
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romantic saying for today
 "I prize thy Love more than whole mines of Gold"
Anne Bradstreet

♥
Pam