For the theme “Metal” I decided to take a picture of a vintage classroom handbell that I received as a gift from my mother-in-law. Growing up, my mother loved antiques and we had a lot that were passed down from family members over the years. As a child, I didn’t really appreciate these things, probably because antique shopping was thrown in on our family vacations. As I got older though, I began to appreciate the unique items that had been passed down through the ages. They had a history…a story. Now I find myself filling my house with special items that were once used by my grandparents and great grandparents.
The story behind this bell is that we homeschool and I’ve been wanting to display a few vintage school items in our classroom. I was dying to buy an old bell. Well, my mother-in-law happened to have this bell and has wonderful memories of it with her mom. How neat that now it can grace our classroom and be passed down with stories of the memories Grandma had with her mother.
