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hi everyone it's cece welcome back to my channel
in today's video
I will show you what I found
in my old grandmother's trunk
so
so my grandma passed away
a year and a half ago
and just now
we are emptying her house
so my mom and I
and my sister, we
went
to her house yesterday
and we
dug in her closet
in her huge
wood trunk
and we found
a lot of things
and we tried not
to throw most of them away
and I really really wanna keep
most of them
and I also really wanted to show you
what I found because
I found some really interesting things
and unique things
I feel even more connected to her
I didn't know we were so similar
in certain aspects of our
habits and things like that
also our love for fabric and
fashion and
little diy projects
I think I am totally like her
and btw she is my mom's mom
so first of all I found
I found this bag
which my mom had made
when she was younger
and I will probably take these handles off
cause I don't really like them but
I like the style of the bag
and the fabric.. this is like me
these flowers are me
so I will just probably cut it here
and change it a little bit
and inside I put
some fabrics that I found
in my grandmother's trunk
and that I will use
this is a very very thick
cotton fabric
very raw
you know
I really wanna like
put embroideries on it
and do something with it
but I really like it and it's obviously
clean and new and stuff
then I found
this very tiny
stripe of fabric
with this pattern here
damask
this is like
my favorite print of all time
I don't know what I will do with it but
something because I really like it
then
something really really special
I wanna put this in
a frame on the wall
this is
an old pillow case
oops it was upside down
from
more than 100 years ago
and it was from my
grandfather's sister
so my mom's aunt
it is a very old pillow case
handmade
I don't wanna ruin it so
I will not use it as a pillow case
but I really wanna frame it
then I found these
and my mom said
that these are
little towels that
were used for
newborn babies
to cover the belly
and the belly button of a newborn baby
these are new of course
I don't know I just
I think they're really cute
it's so cute the way that she kept them
with this little bow here
I don't know really really cute
what should I do with them?
they must be from when my grandma
was pregnant which is
64 years ago
and now you know my mom's age
ok then another fabric
with flowers, because my grandma
loved flowers
just like me
it's this one
and I think
and there's a lot of this so I might
end up using this for
a jacket or a dress or something like that
and with this my grandma made
the blanket cover for my sister
and this is the leftover piece
as you saw in the clip a the beginning of the video
there were in the trunk
two huge rolls of
cotton fabric
I'll show you the tiny one
cause the other one is too too heavy
this is a huge
roll of
raw raw cotton
tela (canvas)
it's not white it's that
light beige color
really raw and handmade
it was made by I think
my ngrandmother and her sisters
or anyways someone in the family
this is the tinier roll, there's anotherone
which is double the size
I think I wanna use this tiny one
as fabric to use
and the other one
a little puff
the one you put your feet on
more for decoration not to really use it
as a puff but a tiny decoration in the room
then I found
a blanket
which my mom
doesn't like so I will keep it
I didn't ask my sister but
I know it's not her style so
I will ask her and I will probably keep it anyway
and it is this
damask as well
pink and white blanket
this is not handmade
by anyone in the family
or anything like that
but it's just really my style
and it's brand new because
my grandma used to like
buy very pretty things and then she was afraid to use them
so her house was full of
brand new vintage old things
my mom is like that as well
I' not I like to use
everything that I have
I've always been using my
my mom things and now my grandma things as well
when I was little I used to go to
my mom's old bedroom
at my grandparents' house
and find brand new things that she was
when she was young she was afraid to use
and she wanted to save them
so she basically saved a lot of things for me and my sister
but I have more her style so
I'm using most of her things
I think it was very nice of here to
think: I will keep them for
if I have daughters in the future
then she had daughters so now we are
using her things and my grandma's as well
so another thing
that my grandma saved for
my mom or for
her granddaughters I don't know
is this huge towel set
from Borbonese
my mom doesn't like the color
so she said if I want to keep it
I'm scared of using it
I think I might just use it as a decoration
and it's like perfectly intact
the packaging as well
it looks like it was never even opened
so let's open this
yeah it's
brand new
still has the tag on
it's this
tiffany light blue, greenish light blue
set and it made my face red
there are two small towels
two huge towels
and also an even bigger towel
then I got something really cute
these two wood
thingies to knit
with huge thick wool
I saw that now
there are people on instagram using them to make huge blankets and stuff
I wanna try and learn how to use them
because I also found a lot of wool
thingies in her trunk
so we need to use them
as I was saying she had
saved a lot of cotton
cotton and wool
and these are
three boxes of
egyptian pearled
cotton and they're like that pearly
shiney white
they're brand new as well
I found three boxes
because these are
brand new and they were not opened but
there are other
bags with already opened
-- like those
then I found this bag
it's like blue
plastic
sort of fishnet
it's really old and
used and
it has lost most of its blue color
but it looks like it's made on purpose
if you know what I mean
it's old like white and grey-ish
but it's really cute for the summer
I will definitely wear this
it's really vintage
this is just the funniest thing ever
this looks like something from the muppet show
but these are really really old
wool socks
Idon't know who made them
they look kind of ethnic
but maybe my grandma made them I don't know
something that my grandma and I definitely have in common
is labelling everyhing. here it says
newborn nightgown
with white veil
so she used to have an idea
a tiny bit of fabric and stuff like that
she sould put it in a tiny bag like this
write down a note on what she wanted to do
with it, this is so me, I do it as well
so this is basically something
she wanted to do with some
OMG
what
how cute is this
I hadn't opened this and I thought it was
a little project cause she has
a ton of little
bags like this with fabric and a
project name
but this is actually OMG
where these from
my mom when she was tiny?
omg this is so pretty
she was a sort of
handkerchief collector
and these are just some of the ones
she has and they're all
basically brand new
most of them
I really wanna keep them and
I don't know what to do with them
for example
these are really pretty
and they're all handmade
and then yeah she has
other embroidered handkerchiefs
in so many colors
for example I love love love this
and this
I might use them as
bag decor you know
in a bag and let it hang like this
and then I found
a lot of bags with
all of her knitted laces
and these my mom she used them
at the end of a curtain
in he bottom of a curtain
I wanna put them in some clothes
obviously
they're really pretty
and she has a lot of them
so my grandma was
a tailor
specialized in men's clothing
but she loved
shoes bags fabrics
making
pillows or aprons
anything really
but the cutest cutest thing
I found was this little
cardboard box
with these projects here
look at how she lept them they're so cute
these are like
little projects
paper models
here it says
ITalo was my grandfather
so her husband
this was like
a project for a sweater
Idon't wanna open it cause I don't wanna make a mess of it
Rosella is my mom
so this was a paper model for a
tight skirt for my mom
this is for a night gown for my mom
here is says
she basically signed her own paper models
before I was born
before she started working my mom used to do these
things as well
she used to do her own clothes just like I do
but then she used to work and
the was busy so she stopped
but she knows how to do them
how to knit, do embroideries
she just doesn't have time
I feel like I wanna do this for the rest of my life
I don't want these things to be a hobby for me
I wanna do them, it's what I like to do
and it makes me feel like I'm connected to my past
and my family, I didn't realize this
omg this
this thing here
yesterday I was like if I make a clothing line
which symbol could I use with cece couture
because it's like cece couture three c's
and I drew it on a piece of
no I was at the beach and I drew this on the sand
to see if it looked good
isn't this a powerful sign?
so I'm destined to have a clothing line
no 'm just kidding. it's a family thing for me
it's my past but I also want it to be my future
in that kind of way
these are so so special for me
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