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Hi everyone
I have a photo of my son when he was in Year 6, a photo of me, OH and son and family dog which was done in a studio a few years ago and a photo of my horse when we came first in a show class. I've got lots of family photos on the sideboard.

Yvonne
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Looking around our living room we have 3 watercolour paintings with scenes of Indian life. My husband's grandfather was an engineer in India and in the 1920s he commissioned students at the Bombay Art college to do a number of paintings to remind him of his time there. My husband inherited those plus a big painting of the bungalow in India where his mother was born.
So those are treasures.

Then over the mantlepiece is a painting of some mauve poppies I did years ago and my husband wouldn't let me sell that one.

There's a lovely drawing of one of my daughters done by a pavement artist. It belongs to her but she hasn't got space for it yet.

There's an aerial photo of our village which shows an expanse of the Somerset Levels and reminds me how rural it is here.

I've also got a pretty print of an illuminated map of part of Anglesey showing local birds which my sister (who lives near there) gave me.

There are photos of our wedding on the mantlepiece and various pictures of the kids on the piano.

Most of the rest of the paintings in the house are oils I did but we've got a little dormouse photo (used to be in a calendar LOL) on our bedroom wall.

Sue
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In my lounge.......Photos of my kids, my wedding photo (people ask who it is) !! A handmade slate mirror that my Mum gave me one Christmas. A water-colour painting which I bought.....love it 'cause it has water and trees. Finally, I have a slate wall-hanging that I treasure. A friend gave me after her mother had been ill and died. It reads as follows:

A Gift of Friendship

Friendship is a priceless gift
That cannot be bought or sold
But it's value is far greater
Than a mountain made of gold

For gold is cold and lifeless
It can neither see nor hear
And in time of trouble
It is powerless to cheer

It has no ears to listen
No heart to understand
It cannot bring you comfort
Or reach out a helping hand

So, when you ask God for a gift
Be thankful if He sends
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
But love of real good friends

Above my desk i have a black white pencil drawing of a cat - view is from the back it's tail hanging down and looking back over it's shoulder ......... no special meaning just liked it.

By the front door i have Monet's Jardin Giverny

Above the sofa my newest - The Little Chick by C E Wilson ......... a young victorian girl sat outside a cottage nursing chicks - got it in the PDSA shop for £6 :O)

Photo's - my Granddad as a handsome young man on my desk - elsewhere - Mum & Dad's wedding day - Gt Aunt & Uncle as a courting couple - my niece & nephew as youngsters and one of me and some friends when i looked good lol

I have photos of the kids at various ages, a photo of me and OH dressed up Victorian and a print of a woodland clearing in the snow with a little dear stood there. We bought it with some money we got as a wedding pressy and I love it -it's very calming and when I'm hot I could just jump into it to cool down
Carol

Oh Linda snap ..............my Dad died 4 years ago and my Mum has Alzheimers....and we have 4 grandchildren.

Photos af all of them in our sitting room.

Not the in-laws though, sadly they died years ago now and we only have a couple of snapshots of them.............they are in our bedroom.

i have a photo of my mum &dad its to remind me of them as dad passed over 4yrs ago &mum has
alhimzers.then i have my 4 grandchildern at differrent ages & mum &mum inlaw to gether .the last supper & a very old print of victorian dining .picture of my 3 childern &a photo of myself & peter in evening dress & a collarge of all the family in the hall lastly my great aunt in her wedding dress & another aunt who died in a road accident

In my dining room where I'm sitting I have our wedding photo, and family photo taken at Butlins in 1995 behind me (me, hubby and both kids). I have my silver wedding photo at the right and above it a flower tapestry that I did years ago. Above the computer in front of me I have a big family tree poster.

Oh dear this sounds a bit sad, only what I have painted before they go off to be sold.So I dont really have any favorites, I just hang them to see if they work.

ooowa, forgot all me buddahs

got baby buddah on fireplace, and lots of others, tiny ones, bigger ones, ones with gold bellys
and a beautiful chineese/japanese lady elegantly sat kneeling, bought the only ornametnt i rescued that our daughter never broke as a little one

very little.......I only go in there to switch the lamp on....lol Jen your nosey than me...

lounge i have the sofa against the wall to the hall, with large photo of myself and hubby at the alter on our wedding day, him in his best no 1 uniform, me in me white lacey frock,
resting above it is photo of grandaughter
on opposite wall is huge mirror above fire place with pics of the kids, and on of the 4 grandchildren and howie, on his 70th birthday
theyve all changed alot since then

In the living room I have a pretend pub sign with a line drawing of my grandad's head and the motto 'All Brains Fully Matured in the Wood' on in (ie he was regularly pickled!! LOL
It was painted by a friend, A Pollard, I believe when he was in te Navy during WWII (he came out of retirement) and has the names of his other 3 drinking buddies on it.
On the mantlepiece there is a lovely very small caricature of my daughters drawn by my youngest's now fiance for mothers day in 2002.
Also have a photo of the girls taken at nursery school and my grand daughter's first school photo - it's difficult to tell her and her mother apart at that age!!
Up the stairs I have framed old song sheets from the turn of the century up until WWII.
At the top of the stairs I have huge 'portrait' photographs, in original frames of 3 of my great grandparents, interspersed with photos of my gran and my other g grandparents.

maggie

yea, I have pictures that remind me, seems like lots of you have as well, lovely XX night XX...

On the walls I have a beautiful painting by my daughter of Glastonbury Tor, and a lovely cross-stitch picture, by my best friend, of a kitten on a branch with a full moon behind it - which lights up the tips of the kittens fur.

Dotted around on bookshelves are family photos.

i have so many pictures of my children my wedding, engagement, family, neices n nephews and my aunty i couldnt possible name them all but each are as special as each other
i also have a digital photo frame which conects to my laptop so i can change daily the pictures it flashes up usually of the days out with the children

luv
stray
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I have a print of Monet's Wheat Field, A cross stitch of a lady with a horse id made, a tapestry my mum made me of cats and numerous photos of my loved ones in the living room, some pebble and flower pictures my kids and myself made on the stairs, a dolphin scene in the bathroom, my bedroom a print of an angel and a print of a picture a friend painted for me.

The one that means the most to me is the picture I have on my desk of my mum as a small child she looks like an angel in it, will always treasure it.

Going to share a special picture with you, painted by my Son Stephen, who was fantastic at art, but had no career interest in it. At the foot of my stairs, I have in a mahogony frame, a picture of a vase of flowers, signed by my Son, to Mum, with love, I will treasure that picture forever.XX..

Wow! seems like you are all sentimenal like me, night folks XX..

in my hall, two pictures of my son's wedding and three water colour paintings

in my lounge - a picture of Pendyrus Male Choir [with OH in it] on an American tour, a set of pictures of my lovely OH doing his national service in Singapore, a photo of my great grandmother, a photo of me, my lovely mum and my sister, a picture of my Dad carving a lovely stick - a hobby of his