This stool has become somewhat of a family heirloom and has lots of stories to tell. It was made by my sister Anita during her last year of primary school at a woodworking class 64 years ago. Since then the stool has had a colourful life. The original seat had to be replaced because the cat that we owned at the time used to sharpen her claws on it and ruined the seating. The seat was replaced by a blind man who used to be a customer in my Mum's grocery shop.
When Anita's and my children were small it very often doubled up as a high chair when it was upturned and tied to a normal chair to sit our young children at the dining table when we visited my Mum.
As the kids got older it became lots of things to their vivid imagination, including a turtle shell when they used to crawl inside the stool and crawl around the house on all fours pretending to be a turtle or a snail.
When Mum died in 1994 I shipped the stool out to Australia in a tea chest along with other mementos and it has been in my house ever since.
As you can see here I have now had a play with it in Photoshop and turned it into an optical illusion photo.
I thought it would be a nice idea to post it on 365 as today is Anita's birthday. Happy Birthday Anita and I hope you like what I have done to your gorgeous stool. I haven't really bent the legs, :)
PS No stool was harmed in the making of this photo. Amazing what a bit of Photoshop can do.
Foxed me completely, spent a few minutes studying the stool to figure out how it was constructed, only then read your narrative, great piece of seamless creative editing Babs:)
I bet your sister never imagined this would be so well used when she made it all those years ago. And now it's the subject of a very interesting edit in Photoshop, I like it!
@karlow75