When Cal and I got married and decided it was time to begin our family, one of the things we strongly agreed on was that we wanted each of our children to have a family name. We felt like that would help them create a connection and always have someone to look up to.
Abigayle's Attic- let me share with you a little family history. Five generations back in Nauvoo Illinois, I had a great, great...grandmother who created, with her husband, a home and a family. She was the great-great-grandmother of my grandmother- her name was Abigail Abbott.
On another line was my great-grandmother- Alveda Luella Anderson Fryer-but her husband, my great-grandfather called her Abbie. She passed away when my grandma was only 7 years old. I only found this out when my then-88 year old Grandma Afton (who we named our third daughter after) shared this with me. I have thought so much about these two women, both with whom I feel a great connection. When my great grandma passed away her sister took some of her things to give to her daughters when they were older. Unfortunately they remained in the aunts attic and never made it from sweet "abbie" to my grandma to my mother to me! It was then I decided to call our Abigayle (named after Abigail Abbott) Abbie. All these thoughts morphed together along with my love for taking old things and making them beautiful to create a cozy home have created for me, and hopefully you-something to enjoy. This blog will host ideas on how to create a home with easy and inexpensive ways to do so. My background is in interior design but in recent years it has been in raising 5 children (4 daughters, 1 son)
and keeping my husband and son sane with 5 females in the house!
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