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My teddy bear that is called Sid.
 * My special object in my life at the moment is...........**

Apparently I was crazily excited on my 1st birthday when my father gave me a teddy bear that was rabbit. Everywhere I went Sid had to come with me and when he didn't come with me I used to go all shy and not say a word. My pa told me one day that if I don't let go of Sid soon he will fall apart and all the filling will fall out. I still have Sid today. Sid has a bit of a hole in his leg but he is still holding together fine though.

media type="file" key="Family Meat Safe.wmv" width="300" height="300" That is the story of my Small Object Big Story object.
 * Small Object Big Story**
 * Who orignally owned this object?** This object is a family meat safe. It orignally belonged to my great great grandmother. It is now 4th generation.
 * Has the object belonged to different people? If so, who**? Yes it has. It belonged to my great great grandmother first. Than it belonged my nanna's mother who passed it on to my nanna. She passed it on to my family.
 * With which country is this object connected**? It was made in Australia. It is over 100 years old. ﻿do you know the history of the meat safe? where was it made? was it made commercially or did someone craft it at home?
 * Where has this object been kept? Where was it found**? When my nanna got it, it got put in the woolshed. It was used as a storage cupboard. It had handpieces, sheep drench, cow branding stencils and combs and cutters for shearing.
 * How has this object benn used**? It has been used as a meatsafe, then a storage cupbord and then a cupboard to store homemade goddies such as busicuts and cakes in. ﻿Can you describe what a meat safe was? some people may have no idea. Don't assume people know what you are talking about. Give as much detail as possible
 * Has this object meant different thing to diferent people, overtime? Explain**. For the first two generations, it was a precious resource before fridges were invented. To my nanna and my family it was a sentimental item.
 * How has the object been lokked after**? In 2001 the cupboard was restored to it's original state.
 * Is the object very precious to anyone? Who? Why**? It is very precious to the whole family because it s a family heirloom. Imagine all the stories that cound be told. It has survived the Great Depression, both World Wars and the Vietnam War. It has been through adverse living conditions. For example when it was housed with my great great grandmother there was no running water, no power, no refridgeration and no sewerage. The only mode of transport was pushbike, horse or by foot. ﻿ You could actually write a little narrative about this time - as though you were there. begin in action, have the family arriving in from a hard day on the farm, chatting about what they were doing out there, mentioning the pushbikes or the horses or the crops etc. This could be a couple of paragraphs, just to transport us back in time and actually have a sneak peak into the past.
 * How has the object changed over time?** It has been fully restored. It was brought from the brink of falling apart. The doors were falling off, the shelves were broken and the leadlight door was smashed to pieces. When my father decided to restore the cupboard, he went to a demolition and antique collectable business with no measurements or dimensions, only with the thought of trying to find a replacmennt leadlight door. He walked out of the shop with an identical leadlight door for the meatsafe just like the one that was originally on it. He couldn't believe what he had in his hands.