This happy little chickie belonged to my mom. I know it is quite old. I don’t know exactly when she got it; if it was when she was a child or later on.
The Barbie bikini bottoms are courtesy of little Elisabeth, in order to keep Chickie’s butt warm. Chickie’s backdrop today is the remains of the flowering bulb basket that I got a while back.
I have to say, men's boots may have been the only article of clothing back then that was more of a hardship to put on than women's clothing. I could see the bootery shoeing all of the other family members in the amount of time it took for the Mister of the house to try on one pair!
Most formal pictures from the past don't show people smiling because camera exposures were very long back then and smiles could cause more blurring in the picture.
But this candid shot of my grandma with her head tipped back and smiling from ear to ear makes me happy.
This picture probably wasn't too long before she died. She looks close in age to pictures of her taken two months before she died of cancer at age 53.
I wish I could have met her.
