For my son’s birthday, I focused on some remodeling for his bedroom.
Since his old choo choo quilt terribly worn out and outgrown (seen tossed in the corner), I asked my son what he’d like for a new quilt.
Shopping with me on our last trip to The Old Quilt Store, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he chose bright jewel toned water color fabric for a Lone Star Quilt.
Endeavoring to sew that gorgeously complicated quilt, it skewed so much, it was impossible to complete as one giant star.
Somehow I cobbled the pieces to applique on a background of blue, one of his chosen background colors, which coordinate well with the blue and white striped valences I bought for him a few years ago.
Over the bed are gorgeous maps of Virginia in 1781 when Lafayette chased Cornwallis, resulting in the French-American Alliance victory in Yorktown.
Also military in style is my son’s hoplite shield he made during our dialectic studies of the Ancient Greeks.
Also relevant to the Ancient Greeks is the telescope, which they would have loved as they studied the heavens.
Between the windows I displayed all his hats from his Becoming History presentations, most of which my son made himself.
Opposite the bed are all his collectibles, the largest of which includes his Fife canister and hoops from Colonial Williamsburg.
At the top right of the wall is his geology collection.
On the top shelf of his bookcase are his oldest collectibles, mostly from Becoming History presentations from the Ancients to the Middle Ages, including the shofar and Roman mosaic cross he made in dialectic studies, and a French horn.
The next shelf down are his 18th century collectibles including the Virginia Gazette, a spy decoder, compass, drumsticks, and quill and ink well.
Below that shelf are his 19th century models he made of the Monitor and Merrimac and a canteen.
On the next shelf down are the 20th century airplanes, including a biwing and corsair, and other collectibles for the century.
