tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16350967996374217902023-11-16T08:40:15.429-08:00the pretty pea henSweet and happy living.Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-78279581073618759032015-02-22T12:05:00.000-08:002018-06-14T07:59:34.391-07:00The Blizzard of 2015!<br />
Staying cozy INSIDE!<br />
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Spuddie still looks like a puppy! Trying to think...Got him in April 2009 or 2010 and he was 2 or three then. He will always be my puppy boy!<br />
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A little winter time stitching:<br />
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Enjoyed an amazing stitching retreat in January with my wonderful stitch friends at Huston Woods - a day full of friendship, fun, stitching, food, and meeting new friends!<br />
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This is Leslie, Cathy, Pat, me, and Melissa. It was still all decked out for Christmas and was beautiful!<br />
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Doggies waiting to get in out of the cold:<br />
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(Guess I should have cleaned the window... :) )<br />
TuTu still won't let us touch her. But she does come sit near us when we are in the living room, and she will sniff us now and then. Tiny steps!<br />
Robin's Christmas pillow:<br />
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Also started a SAL with cross stitch and discuss #2 on facebook called new year - new start 2015. I was attracted to the robins in this one, it is Blue Ribbon Designs sampler "Blue Jeans and Daisies" on linen. Miss the aida cloth! Haven't gotten very far.. it's a bit of a challenge. I'll work on it a little here and there...it has some specialty stitches which are fun. <br />
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-9944669231740226522014-07-22T15:43:00.001-07:002014-07-22T15:43:14.360-07:00It is Summer, AfterallIt always seems like Summer blends in too well with the rest of the year, working straight through, not going on a vacation - unlike everyone else we know. But at least once each summer, there are moments, or experiences, that make it feel like summer after all. Last week, when the weather was perfect: sunny and in the low 70's...we were leaving work, Robin was with me, and she invited me to sit in the shade under a beautiful tree on a hillside. It was truly perfect. I have the best daughter in the world. I will never forget that! Here we are:<br />
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I am also participating in a Stitch A Long - called Old and New. I have until the end of August to finish an old wip, and start and finish a new wip. Making good progress on the old wip: Little House Needleworks These I Hold Dear". This photo shows an earnest start, though I have gotten a bit further now. <br />
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There are nine blocks altogether - I actually only have 2 more to go. It's very enjoyable.<br />
Made a cartoon of myself - fun. <br />
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I also participated in a SAL in the facebook group All About Smalls. The pattern was chosen for us, but I changed up the colors:</div>
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Posting more later. Remember to carve out some sweet summer moments for your own "memory" album. <3</div>
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-18791793200341186252014-05-28T11:04:00.001-07:002014-05-28T11:04:29.196-07:00All My Stitching 2013It's May already, and I'm just posting a recap of everything I stitched in 2013. Here it all is. Everything here was begun and finished in 2013 except the Cottage Sampler, that was started in 2012. Not too shabby for someone with carpal tunnel all year. (got that taken care of a couple of months ago).<br />
A freebie from Little House Needleworks ( I love Raggedy Anns!)<br />
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A Prairie Schooler freebie:<br />
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A kit from a British Stitching Magazine last year:<br />
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pattern download from Sewingseed on etsy:<br />
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another Prairie Schooler:<br />
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design from British magazine:<br />
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from a very old British pattern I got on ebay a few years ago:<br />
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Last year's Frosted Pumpkin monthly Woodland Sampler:<br />
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a beautiful free pattern from Plum Street Samplers blog:<br />
Mary's Sampler<br />
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Made these into Christmas Ornaments: Patterns from "The Little Stitcher"</div>
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<br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-6219739170319279182014-05-28T10:45:00.000-07:002014-05-28T10:45:02.887-07:00May (I say hello)?Robin successfully completed her first year of college, and turned 18. Wow. I am so proud of her!<br />
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I had saved a draft of what I wanted to post with all of my stitching pics, but the draft disappeared! I did participate in a Springtime Cross Stitch exchange through Dixie Sampler's blog, which was a lot of fun. Here is a my wonderful package from Amy:<br />
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Here is the beautiful pin keep she stitched for me:<br />
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This little sweetie is from the new Spring kit from Lizzie Kate - Song of Spring. The ornament was for my exchange partner, and then I also made the little scissor fob. <br />
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-66201097397123283562014-04-11T19:58:00.002-07:002014-04-11T19:58:38.908-07:00Poster GirlWhat fun! I got to be a poster girl (not a pin up girl tee hee!) for the Boone County Public Library's new promotion. It was a lot of fun to be photographed with some of my favorite movies! The posters will be on the library facebook page and in all the branch libraries starting next week for National Library Week. Just so you know, I recommend these titles: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Casablanca, and Harvey. <br />
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-51819443543059169592014-03-23T18:42:00.002-07:002014-03-23T18:42:10.896-07:002014...So farAfter putting it off for a few years...I had to get carpal tunnel surgery. I couldn't use my hands effectively, dropped things continually, and was in serious pain. I didn't want to do it! But, I had no choice, and had both hands done at the end of January. I am so glad I did!!! I had a wonderful doctor who always played music in his office and during the surgery. He asked if I minded Willie Nelson, and I am a big fan of Willie's so that worked out well. The surgery went quickly, and the doctor even sang with Willie during the procedure to Georgia, and other songs. I opted to have both hands done at the same time, and was only able to because my daughter is the finest person on earth. She lovingly did everything to help me, and I cannot well express my gratitude to her. I am at last going back to work tomorrow, and I am stitching again! Yay!!!<br />
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Big news: we have a new member to our family. We got Trudy this past Monday. The little darling was at our favorite rescue place: Barely Used Pets. Holly and Honey came from there also. Trudy is 7, nearly 8, and has spent every day of her life in a tiny cage as a breeding dog in an Amish puppy mill. I am so livid that these places are still in existence and allowed to continue. You will surely here me rant about that more later. Here is the photo that was posted of her that made me fall in love:<br />
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Robin named her Trudy, but of course she has many love names and I call her TuTu. She is beyond amazing, and so very brave. By the second day she had bonded with the others, two days ago she learned how to go up and down stairs, and today, day 7, she actually asked at the door to go out and go potty. She is so tiny, maybe 6 lbs. or so. Today she also discovered squeaky toys and had a wonderful time. I'll share more about her later!<br />
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Robin meeting Trudy - St.Patrick's Day 2014<br />
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Our first moments together! <br />
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I missed posting for the second half of last year - meaning I didn't do it and I wanted to do it, but ongoing issues with carpal tunnel prevented me. Highlights: Robin started college! I kept my stitching goals, including one Christmas ornament per month, as well as other pieces. I'll share photos as soon as I can figure out this different computer and how to get photos from camera onto it. Many blessings!<br />
Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-48997053035552603622013-07-05T09:12:00.001-07:002013-07-05T09:12:55.220-07:00Springtime and 17Posts have been so sparse as the at-home computor will not allow picture posting, and I havn't stayed after hours at work. Such a lovely spring! This morning as I was leaving the house, the sky was bright blue with fluffywhite clouds, the sun was shining brightly, and there was a sudden gentle downpour of rain. It was magical. Maybe I'm just in a romantic mood. The flowers everywhere I go are so lovely. I am working on my annulment, which feels really good. Robin is apply to colleges for fall, and enjoying her drawing and artwork, as well as working on another shockingly difficult puzzle. 2000 pieces that all look alike, and to top it off she's doing it on top of the last two puzzles that are still on the desk upstairs, making it even more difficult - too busy a background. I don't know how she does it!<br />
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Robin turned 17 on April 18th. We celebrated by going to one of our favorite eating establishments = Red Robin. <br />
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We also had a little party, it was so fun. She did a little happy dance!:<br />
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The dress, robin necklace, and shoes were her birthday gift from me. So cute!We decorated with homemade banners, played games, and served chicken salad croissants, chips, green beans, salad, cake, and mango punch. It was so good! She was gifted with some gift cards, so we got to do a little shopping. She found this beautiful butterfly dress and owl necklace at Charming Charlie - a really girly fun place to shop - both for $20! <br />
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There is a pre-school where I work, and one of the moms took some photos of Robin. They are truly lovely. I'll share a few:<br />
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A few months ago Robin saw a really cute knitted crab hat in my Molly Makes magazine, and has been determined to knit it. We finally found the right yarn and she knit the whole thing in less than 24 hours. I sewed the eyes on it. Isn't it just adorable silly sweet? I'm so proud of her! I haven't knit in so long since I've gotten back into counted cross stitch in a big way - to stay! I'm working on a Little House Needleworks Christmas freebie chart, "Merry Hearts", which I love. <br />
Here's the hat part:<br />
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and here's the final crab hat, on a not at all crab:<br />
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(Of course, it's pulled down for comic effect!)<br />
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<br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-44265135344702217262013-03-21T10:06:00.000-07:002013-03-21T10:06:13.236-07:00Almost Easter!This Lent has flown by. Many blessings. I made a big change last week. After vowing I would NEVER cut OR color my hair - I did both. Here is the before and after:<br />
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Anyway, this is a big change for me. Wow is it easier. Really seems to help with the hot flashes too.<br />
I do miss my white hair a bit too, but I can grow it back sometime (may have to wear a hat for a few months to do it :)). Here is my lovely girl in a top she bought herself with babysitting money:<br />
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Anyway, my big project, stitching the Country Cottage Needlworks Cottages of the Month was completed last night. I really loved stitching this and it makes me so happy. I can't stop looking at it! I started it in June 2012 and stitched on it everyday since then, excepting for a couple of days here and there. It is done on 14 count white aida cloth with DMC floss. <br />
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Whew. This is very special for me for many reasons, and my absolute favorite part is that my darling girl agreed (even though she is definately not a stitcher) to make one stitch in this for me. She did the top of the "r" in December - my birth month. Thanks sweetie! I also love that in April, Robin's birth month, the birds have been changed to Robins. Now I'm already on to my next project, started within minutes of finishing this one! Photos to follow, of course. <br />
Here's one last view - who greeted me on my way in to work yesterday morning. A very friendly crow. We had a lovely exchange of morning wishes! Same to you, friends! Wishing you a blessed Holy Week. <br />
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<br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-35103970653481431172013-03-21T10:00:00.000-07:002013-03-21T10:00:16.808-07:00The Non-existant Ground Hog Day BrunchWe finally have a computer at home again! Yay! Lots of catching up to do. New Year's Eve was so fun - as usual we got to go to the home of our dear friends Jackie and Laurel. They have the best parties ever, best games, best food, best company. Robin and I are so grateful to be included in their gathering, we thought it would be really fun to have them over to our house. Robin saw the cutest ground hog day pancakes on Pinterest and we hatched a plan for a Ground Hog Day brunch. Skip to the punch line, we hadn't heard back on a definitive answer so we thought it was off. I really should have called the night before, but I didn't. Then I forgot. Ground Hog Day - sleeping in for the first time in many days...2 days worth of dirty dishes in the sink (that does happen, not a lot, but it does), the living room floor covered with bones, toys, and dog hair, the couch cover askew, no food in the fridge. Ding Dong. Best friends we are in awe of and want to impress are at the door. Oops. We all messed up. Being the sweeties they are, they forgave us. I'll laugh about this someday!<br />
The culprit:<br />
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Work has been busy, we have been busy with college applications, and I have been squeezing in stitching whenever possible. I joined a Stitch-a-long blog to cross stitch a Christmas ornament each month (every other month is my choice, then there is a schedule of topics). For January, I had a little kit for a pineapple that I got in Colonial Williamsburg a few years ago and still had it. Here it is finished:<br />
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For February, the suggestion was for a reindeer, so I made this one by Lizzie Kate, just left the words off. I used rick rack to trim the edges, matching the color of the reindeer's scarf:</div>
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Another little project I made was a little lamb from a kit from the JustAnotherButtonCompany called Eugenia Tuffet. I think she turned out pretty cute:<br />
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My darling girl has been very creative lately with her art, and surprised me a few days ago when I looked over and this is what I saw:<br />
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This girl definately has a sense of humor!<br />
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<span id="goog_972107806"></span><span id="goog_972107807"></span><br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-12405436959165591012013-01-12T15:31:00.000-08:002013-01-12T15:41:28.550-08:00Advent and Christmas 2012I'm writing after the fact, here is a little look back on the best Christmas we have ever had, filled with love, presents, surprises and dear friends. We even got to ride a camel! Robin and I had never been to the Christmas walk before, but when we heard there were camel rides, we had to go. We would have had some great photos, but I mistakenly had left the camera on no flash after taking some dog pictures (the dogs don't like the flash, of course) so here is an impressionistic view:<br />
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This was great fun! I want to do it again, definitely. It would be great to ride one over a distance or at a little bit of a speed - maybe - but Robin had an advantage sitting in front of the hump. I was right on the hump and keep sliding. So if you ever get the chance, avoid the hump if you can, but don't miss out on the fun!<br />
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We prettied up the house of course, and have been enjoying the lights, tree, candles, and warmth. One evening in particular, I was sitting in the living room with just the light from the Christmas tree, I had a cup of tea, the dogs were all snuggled up with me, and I was looking through to the kitchen, lit by candles, and watching the snow falling softly through the kitchen door windows. It was truly blissful. </div>
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Robin and Spuddie (photo above), and me with Honey, Spuddie, and Holly. Gosh I love my children!<br />
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The stockings were hung, you can see the folk Santa to the left, the one I mentioned last post from the craft show, painted on an old tobacco drying stick - a bit of Kentucky history...and all the plants in the kitchen were if full bloom, all four cacti and the violets. It was lovely.<br />
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It wouldn't be Christmas around here without the nativity sets, this one by Jim Shore is in the living room. We also each have one in our bedrooms. <br />
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My set in my bedroom is my favorite. Robin bought it for me all by herself a few years ago from her own money and it is the most beautiful one I have ever seen. I have it on the shelf on my bed headboard:</div>
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Robin and I also decorate our bedrooms for Christmas. Here are a few kitchy little corners in my room - yes mine is more cutesy and Robin's more sophisticated.<br />
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This little gourd Santa is painted by the same folk painter lady who did the tobacco stick Santa, though this one I've had a few years now. Here is my vintage red reindeer, I think probably about the same age as me! <br />
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Well, maybe someday I'll come back and fix this the right way! Notice too the darling little skunk, same age. Both of these are stuffed with sawdust. <br />
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Robin got a puzzle again, you can't see it but she actually put this together on top of the last puzzle she did of St. Basil's Cathedral. I couldn't even look at it - too confusing - but she did it in about a day and a half or so. This puzzle is of one of our favorite paintings. It is Sunday afternoon on La Grand Jette by Seurat. There is so much to study and enjoy in this painting. <br />
Of course I have been stitching as much as possible. I am still stitching on the Country Cottage Needleworks cottage of the month series. I'm not doing them in order, really, except June and November. At Christmas I was actually working on August. I am doing them all on one fabric piece, just as I obtain the right floss colors. I have had to change some of the colors, though, as I am stitching on white, so in place of the white flosses I'm mostly using DMC 3033. <br />
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This is a close up of November, and I also want to show what I did for April, my favorite so far, as it is Robin's birth month. I have changed the birds to Robins!:<br />
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I hope to finish July this weekend. More to come about this. I have also joined two stitch along blogs for 2013, I'll post those later - one is a Christmas ornament SAL and the other is for a series of Sheep Virtues by Little House Needleworks that will be similar to the cottages - one each month. I do get great joy from my stitching! I also love to read stitching blogs, and I have noticed something that nearly all stitchers do - I have done this for decades, myself. We all save the little snippets of floss in a jar or some receptacle. Who knows why? They are just lovely, and make one feel a sense of accomplishment - plus who doesn't love floss? Here's mine, for all my stitch friends who also share theirs (don't even try to understand this if you don't stitch). This is a vintage planter of Cosmos flowers I found on ebay quite awhile ago just for this purpose. :). Well, more to share, but time to go enjoy probably the last night of the Christmas tree. I'm glad to be posting again, now that there is a computer in the family once again...(thanks Robin for sharing!) Blessings and Peace for your Happiest New Year yet, God Bless 2013!<br />
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<br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-30055658167234739222012-11-08T08:37:00.002-08:002013-01-12T15:39:45.390-08:00Autumn BlessingsAutumn is all around us, we are immersed. We have had Halloween, fall-back an hour, our annual favorite craft show, and plants blooming everywhere. One of the best highlights was costume-making. I was lucky to make our two favorite little people into their choice of character, Brian a bat and Lilah a ghostie. They are the children of my dear friend and co-worker Maria. <br />
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Robin surprised me with her choice for a costume this year: Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Definately different than Robin Hood last year!<br />
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We googled how to do the exact hairdo from the movie, got it down after an hour. I should have taken a photo of the back of her head!</div>
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Here is the official "pose":<br />
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I was pretty surprised that not one, not one! person at her party had ever heard of Audrey Hepburn or Breakfast at Tiffany's. I thought it was a classic! Anyway, I think she looked fabulous and we had a great time putting it all together. Here is what she looked like last year when she was Robin Hood. We made everything from scratch, even the arrows. I think she made a fabulous Robin Hood!<br />
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They did the trick-or-treat so kids can eat again this year, colleting canned goods and non-perishable food items for the mission, but it was raining pretty hard so we skipped that part this year. <br />
We also enjoyed our favorite fall craft show, our four favorite venders were there, Gail the knitting and antique brooch lady, another brooch lady, the crocheted animals lady, and the gourd painting lady. Robin got a lovely pair of alpacka fingerless gloves from Gail, and I got a really neat rustic painted santa on an old tobacco drying rod. Definately a bit of Kentucky folk history for $5! <br />
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This month, on Thanksgiving day, will be my baby sister's 50th birthday. I made her a little sumptin-sumptin to remember me. I love that girl!<br />
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One of the things we love about Thanksgiving time is Pumpkin pie. I didn't make one this year, but we definitely had some - we spent the day with our dear friends Amy, Ryan, and Charlie Beth and their family. This outfit Robin is wearing is her "pumpkin pie" outfit. The coat is the crust, the shirt is the pumpkin and the hat is the whipped cream.</div>
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Holly is taking a nap in one of the "houses", the doors stay open so they can nap if they want while we are all in the kitchen.<br />
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Here's little man - Spuddie, and then here is Honey:<br />
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Another special day this fall was little Charlie Beth's Baptism. Here are a couple of pictures:<br />
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I havn't blogged in so long I forgot how to rotate. I got it to rotate before I inserted it, but somehow it goes back when I try to add it. Anyway, here it is sideways. Just tilt your head to the left :). I was lucky and got to make her gown and bonnet. I was really happy with how they turned out. The lace I found online from Lyon, France. It was made on a lace machine from 1800 and has been made and then stored on a roll for about 50 years. It is pristine white, and the lovliest lace I have ever seen. There was enough for the hem and the sleeves. The yolk is fully smocked in white, and there is a tiny cross charm added at the neck with a little white ribbon bow.<br />
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Here is a close up of the bonnet, this was from an old pattern I found online from the 1930's. <br />
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Here is the family with Father Jeff. It was definitely a very special day. We were honored to be included. Next up, Advent and Christmas!<br />
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-25542862046914031562012-09-19T09:17:00.000-07:002012-09-19T09:17:41.678-07:00Peahen SightingA few minutes to create a post...still living without a computor. I like it, really. I have more time in the day! I do admit to checking Pintrest rather frequently...I recently spotted a peahen there...<br />
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This is pretty amazing! There are lots of peacocks, not many hens. Sort of makes me want to work in the garden. I know I have lots of rose bush pruning to do this fall. Robin is so gracious about mowing for me. Here she is mowing last weekend - I was in the kitchen and overheard her singing over and over - "all I want for Christmas is a goat". Pretty funny. <br />
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We have an old fashioned push mower, so it's a bit challenging if the grass is long like it is here.<br />
I don't have any cross stitch photos today, though I am still working on the Cottages of the Month. My mind is on English Smocking lately, as I am gearing up to make a Christening gown for our friends Amy and Ryan. I'd better get busy - the baby is due next month!!! I finally convinced Robin to dig out the box of her baby clothes that I had made her that I hand smocked - for inspiration, and also to copy a few techniques. I really want to find the photos of her wearing all of these, but for now, I took some snaps of a few, wrinkles and all. This one is my absolute favorite and the one I'm going to copy. It's a Grace Knott pattern, a baby gown with raglan sleeves and a smocked yolk. I used Imperial Batiste cotton, satin ribbon, and pink floss for the stitching on the pleats, as I no longer had a pleater, I hand pleated the fabric first, which is what I will do with the gown I'm going to make soon. <br />
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Here is a close up of the smocking, maybe you can see the little gold heart charm at the neck.<br />
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and the yolk:<br />
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also, a detail of the smocked bonnet, which, the day I finally finished, was the day she decided she didn't like bonnets anymore! <br />
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While we were in the box, I did a little snooping for fun. Robin really liked Pooh Bear. Here is a little winter hat she had...it's a little small now.<br />
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She also had a Pooh bathing suit...<br />
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Here is her very favorite dress, her elephant dress, we found it at a garage sale, and it's pretty tiny. After all, she started out at 2 1/2 pounds! This is pretty cute - I would have liked one in my size this past summer. My grandma Mee Mee hand made all of her summer dresses, very similar to this with the high yolk with gathers, and pockets. Another project for next summer...<br />
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She says "what? so I have varied interests!" This from the girl who just finished a book on Thermo-Dynamics and is studying Calculus. Variety is the spice of life, after all!<br />
One last little thing - a little miracle - got this plant at Kroger on the mark-down table for $1.00 last month. I love succulents, they are my favorites, and this little darling decided to bloom for me!<br />
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Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-39825319104624209572012-09-06T09:58:00.000-07:002012-09-06T09:58:08.678-07:00Something's FishyWe had the most fun ever one afternoon last week - so that became our summer vacation. Our dear friend and Seminarian Bill took us fishing. The day was lovely, temperature mild, and it was so peaceful. Even though Robin is a vegan, (I was too in the days of consuming gluten), she proved a gifted fisher and caught 4 or 5 bass. I caught a large bluegill and a bass. Luckily for the bluegill, it got away. <br />
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Robin with some of her fish:
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Bill commented on what a great team Robin and I make, since I won't touch the fish or the bait, and she won't eat the fish. Ideal. Bill is a fantastic and patient teacher, and we learned so much. I think the most important thing we learned was to step out of the ordinary and enjoy the beauty of God's creation and have a lovely summer afternoon together. <br />
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Conversing.<br />
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Speaking the language.
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Smoochy smoochy. She said she didn't really kiss this fish, but it sure looked like it to me!<br />
All in all, a day I will never forget. Thanks Bill, and we are keeping you in our prayers.<br />
Well, this whole post is quite short, as we are currently enjoying a computor free lifestyle at home. I still have much more to share, but for the time being here are just a few photos for my stitchy friends - these are just a few samples of vintage Swedish cross stitch pieces. I am very fond of Swedish folk art - mostly cross stitch and allmoge, folk painting. Here is a lovely cross stitched piece of some Linnaea, or Linnea flowers, native to Sweden. <br />
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The Linnaea flower or Linnaea borealis is named after Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist from the south of Sweden in Smaland, around 1778. Fascinating man! Here is another sample of some linnaea's from Smaland - an older piece:<br />
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This long delicate fringe is common on many Swedish pieces. Here is a photo of the actual flower, which not only blooms in Sweden but also on this continent in Alaska. Isn't it lovely?<br />
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and a close up:<br />
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This makes me want to stitch! Maybe this will be a "three dog night" - you know the Australian term for a night so cold it takes three dogs to keep you warm? Well, at our house, every night is a three dog night, we curl up and I get to stitch. Look who's waiting for me:</div>
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Thanks for sticking around, posts may be shorter and posted a day or two late each week while we live computor-less, but I'll keep showing up. Peace and Joy, Shari</div>
Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-70151548607284710702012-08-26T17:59:00.001-07:002012-08-26T19:36:25.549-07:00Happy National Dog DayI just read that today is National Dog Day - yea!!! I'm all for it. Around here every day is National Dog Day. Here are some piccys from this week of my three fur heroes:<br />
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Spuddie, Holly, and Honey dining al fresco.<br />
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I'm done with mine...can I have yours?<br />
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Time for my after breakfast nap. (Honey Biscuit)<br />
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Me too, yawn...(Holly Moonbeam)<br />
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Whatcha doing Mom?<br />
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Wanna snuggle? (Spuddie) Yes!<br />
Summer...and flowers even bloom indoors. My violets are very happy right now. These darlings were rescued from the 1.00 bargain table at Kroger awhile back. Patience and love work wonders. We all CAN rebloom. <br />
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Aren't these lovely? Here is a close up:<br />
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Also, I made a new friend this week. This little green one showed up on my magazine this morning:<br />
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I finally finished my cross stitch project last week - it is called The Queen's Crowns by Plum Street Samplers. I learned a lesson. When you stitch with silk, Belle Soie, it is not colorfast. Hum. I've already started on my next project and the red is running on this one too. Any ideas? <br />
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Next project - in progress:<br />
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Next time I'll share some things I've already finished. Here's one of the places I can sit and stitch with a cup of tea - the kitchen table. The roses are from the garden and smell so very beautiful - much more fragrant than store roses. Care to join me?<br />
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We had a very special week this week, the end of the Novena to Our Lady of Knock, and a special Mass today. The statue was dedicated, there were bagpipes - and the most beautiful chanting in Latin. Very nice. Here is my darling Robin with Bill (Seminarian), the Eagle scout who built the grotto and waterfall, and Father Jeff. <br />
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I love this photo! Here is another one of my darling girl:<br />
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and a close up of the statue:<br />
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I have LOTS more to share next week: English Smocking, some antique folk stitching pieces, and lots of photos. Blessings and Peace, ShariSharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-32106473564898726452012-08-19T18:53:00.000-07:002012-08-19T18:53:03.155-07:00A Week of Prayer (a short post)This past week has been a very good one, busy and simple. Busy, because we are having a Novena at church - nine days of prayer, like the nine days of prayer the apostles had in the book of Acts. Simple, because of the structure and routine of each day, and soothing and comforting because of that, like re-reading a story you know by heart, but seeing it in a different way each time. There is a new grotto, Robin has been doing some landscaping. I havn't taken many photos. We have also been enjoying some cooler days, so welcome. It is good to have intention in prayer. For the Novena, each day we go to Mass, pray for the overall intention of religious freedom and for our personal intentions, and light a candle. I wrote my intentions on a piece of paper and put it in the basket on the first day, and though the last day of the Novena is on this coming Tuesday, my first one has already started coming true. I am so thankful! I'll have more to write next time, after the Novena is over. Prayer is so powerful. Give it a try! <br />
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The grotto in the process of landscaping. You can see the lovely waterfall cascading from the statue of Our Lady of Knock. <br />
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The statue. When light hits the white it seems to glow. I love how happy she looks as she raises her eyes to heaven. I am very blessed because this lovely view is visible from my office window at work. I have lots to tell you about and photos to share later. Remember,<br />
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Have a lovely week, Shari<br />
Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-38011311985614727962012-08-12T15:00:00.000-07:002012-08-12T15:19:17.255-07:00Day of RestHave you ever read the comic strip Mutts? It is my absolute favorite, and I have the strip of the day sent to my email everyday. I really look forward to it. It's all about animals, specifically a cat named Mooch and a dog named Earl who are best friends. Yesterday the strip had a kitty on the beach, and it had a lovely quote, actually a Spanish proverb: "How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward." I really love Sundays - when I was young it was just understood that it was a day of rest, a day to write letters, read poetry or the comics, or walk through a cemetary. No noise, no shopping, no technology. Just simple easy food and relaxing. How wonderful. Today is so different for most people. I still love to have a day of rest on Sunday - after church and lunch, we can nap with the dogs, write letters (or emails), and now for me, write on this blog every Sunday. It is a comfortable rhythm, and I so clearly see God's wisdom in giving us a day of rest, and a day for family. I treasure this time, more than I can express. Sometimes on Sundays we do a leisurely craft or project, and I'd like to share one with you today. Though I enjoy getting on the website Pinterest very much, nothing takes the place of an actual pin board or bulletin board. They are in some ways an art form, yet fluid and thought provoking. Robin has been keeping several boards in her room for most of her life - she started out taping pictures and cut outs from magazines on her closet door when she was around four years old, then graduated to boards, and currently has 18 of them in her room right now. I have two going, though recently I've had an addional six that I've taken down because I plan to paint soon. Here are my two:<br />
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I have lots of room to add more to this one, Robin made the background and I'm sort of adding things in the same color scheme. It's a lot of fun. I guess it's like 3-D scrapbooking, sort of. Robin's are more detailed and interesting, and some of them have history, quotes, and pictures, some are biographical - about people she admires or have read a lot about. This next one has some famous faces you might recognize - I love the sketching of Victoria and Albert near the top right.<br />
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Do you see the photo at the very top left of this one? That's Robin at age one between Pooh and Tigger! We also like to add other little things to the boards such as brooches, stamps, prayer cards, stickers, and postcards, as well as vintage illustrations printed from the internet or greeting cards or notes from friends.<br />
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It is fun to look at these, and to see the way they ebb and flow over time. Have you ever made a board? I highly recommend it. Just put one up and add to it gradually. See what develops. <br />
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This artistry has also managed to express itself on the refridgerator door. I read somewhere a long time ago that a busy and full refridgerator door was a reflection of a happy home. I've found that to be true for us, and now just see how busy and happy our refridgerator is:</div>
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Here is the side, covered with those tiny word magnets you find in bookstores:</div>
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a close up:<br />
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and the front:<br />
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No particular order here, just little things added here and there. <br />
I've been working away at my cross stitch daily - here's a progress photo of the Queen's Crowns, nearly finished:<br />
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It has been a lovely and restful day after all, it started out right, too. We got to church a little early, so Robin took me to the park and showed me a lovely foot bridge. I realized it's the only place this summer I have gone outside of the normal schedule - what a gift. Thank you, Robin for sharing this lovely morning with me!<br />
Here's Holly patiently waiting for me to get off the computor, so I'll say bye for now, see you next Sunday. Have a restful day!<br />
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Peace! ShariSharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-50332644516108250842012-08-05T16:55:00.000-07:002012-08-05T16:55:04.234-07:00More To CelebrateI have a weakness for really dark chocolate, Dove to be specific. Today the saying on the inside of my Dove chocolate says: "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." I like this a lot. It's also reminds me of what my Grandma MeeMee used to say, "the more happiness you give away to others, the more you have left for yourself", and also that quote by Henry David Thoreau: <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” I love all of these. They express what this blog is to me: I am sifting out what is good and cheerful and hopeful in my own life each week, and focusing only on those things. Like the Bible verse Phillipians 4:8, Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is a cheerful face. Robin sometimes will sit down and draw out hundreds of these fun faces, one right after another, all different. I love to look at them. Here are a few examples:</span></div>
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Here is the artist at work:<br />
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She also did some painting this week, two kinds. Art work:<br />
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and wall painting. Our kitchen is now the lovely color of Dove dark chocolate! Behr paint called Moose Trails.<br />
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I have also been painting in Pemberly (my room) my desk and CD rack - but I'm not finished yet. I go more slowly. I will post photos when I am finished. I do want to share a little old fashioned keepsake I have. I have always loved certain women's magazines, but now I pretty much read just blogs. There are so many wonderful ones to read! However, this magazine is one I plan on keeping, it is a copy of the Ladies Home Journal, from August 1912. Exactly 100 years old this month! I love the cover. It is really lovely, and makes me want to go canoeing some day with Robin. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It includes a story serial : Daddy Long Legs. Maybe you have read the book or seen the movie. There are also many photos of needlework and making lingere that are lovely. I love old fashioned clothes. I used to be a costumer and tailor. I have made many historical and theatrical items. It has been quite awhile now, maybe I am due to attempt something new. I would love to make myself something from the 1820's. For Robin's confirmation a couple of years ago we wanted something special, so we browsed online for an idea for a starting point, which led us to this museum photo (sorry I didn't keep the link).</span></div>
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We knew we wanted the basic dress, empire waist, ribbon at waist, 3/4 sleeve and at least a tea length. Oh, and the blue of course. We found fabric in blue and a white organza over layer, which we later decided was too fussy for Confirmation. I also found a really lovely pattern at Sense and Sensibility - here it is:<br />
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and here is the final gown, worn for a very special day, Confirmation:<br />
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Another special day occured recently, my Mom turned 75. She is a true sweet-heart. Here is a photo of her (at age 2). Happy Birthday Mom!</div>
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Well, it's time to go mend some doggie toys so my darlings have some of their favorites to chew again this week. <br />
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Honey having fun. Remember to think happy, positive thoughts, and celebrate the good in life. Shari
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<br /></div>Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-92147265349659676242012-07-29T15:35:00.000-07:002012-07-29T18:58:28.814-07:00The Bluebird of Happiness (a longish post)Today was a very special day - something truly wonderful happened. This has only happened once before in my life, the first time was in April 1996, just a few days before Robin was born, I was in the Bernheim Forest. Today we were in the car leaving church and it happened again...I saw a Bluebird. It was beautiful. I felt so joyous. I saw it twice, the second time Robin saw it with me - and I believe it is a sign of very good things to come, of immense happiness. Here is what Wikipedia says about bluebirds: "The mythology of the <b>bluebird of happiness</b> has deep roots that go back thousands of years. Indigenous cultures across the globe hold similar myths and beliefs about the bluebird. It is a widely accepted symbol of cheerfulness, happiness, prosperity, hearth and home, good health, new births, the renewal of springtime, etc. Virtually any positive sentiments may be attached to the bluebird. Many Native American tribes consider the Bluebird sacred."<br />
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I have also seen an Indigo Bunting once, many years ago in Pennsylvania. But this Bluebird today was a messenger of happiness and joy, I'm sure. I have stitched a bluebird before, I found it the other day. I do still have a few of the the things I have stitched over the years, I'm so glad I saved this one:<br />
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It isn't framed yet. At the same time, I also stitched some charming sheep. Both were Bent Creek kits. Here are the sheep, also not framed yet:<br />
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I've also knit a little bluebird, though the pattern was supposed to be for a baby pigeon, it looks like a bluebird to me. The pattern was from the knitting book Stitch London. <br />
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We saw a really neat movie this week: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. I would highly recommend it for its romance, humor, scenery, and thought provoking ideas. Definatley the kind of movie I'll want to see many times again. Good old Redbox. I had a coupon, so rented it for 75 cents. We love bargains. Robin had a charming outfit she put together again this morning for church, every morning I love to see what she comes up with. <br />
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My little scholar has finished all her high school work. We will have a little ceremony and party for her next summer before she goes to college. She continues to read like a machine, and we have had countless fascinating discussions about her reading and about the books we have both read. She has definately out-read me, though, no wonder one of her nicknames is "the reading machine". I am amazed how she remembers and evaluates everything she has read. We have also had many compare and contrast discussions. I asked her to keep a list of her high school reading, which she has and I will share here, though I know this is only a partial list, for she only adds titles she deems worthy. Any modern novels or newer literature she does not deem worthy to add. Some of the books on the list she has read more than once, such as DeToquevilles's Democracy in America, which she really enjoyed and wrote a paper on. She also did a thesis on war. Anyway, here is just part of her high school reading list in the order that they were read - to save typing I'll skip some of the more well known author's names:<br />
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ROBIN'S HIGH SCHOOL REAING LIST:<br />
2010 - 2012<br />
The Bible<br />
Peace is Every Step<br />
Ghandi: The Man, His People, and the Empire<br />
Democracy in America by Alexis DeToqueville<br />
The Journals of Lewis and Clark<br />
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott<br />
Civil Disobediance by Henry David Thoreau<br />
Walden <br />
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers<br />
The Maine Woods<br />
Little Men<br />
An Old Fashioned Girl by Alcott<br />
Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz<br />
Jo's Boys<br />
Eight Cousins<br />
Rose in Bloom<br />
Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie<br />
The Oxford English Dictionary<br />
The Dictionary of Disagreeable English by Robert Hartwell Fiske<br />
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - The First Unexpergated Text<br />
The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thornton Wilder<br />
A Patriot's Handbook by Caroline Kennedy<br />
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery<br />
Anne of Avonlea <br />
Anne of the Island<br />
Anne of Windy Poplars<br />
Anne's House of Dreams<br />
Anne of Ingleside<br />
Rainbow Valley<br />
Rilla of Ingleside<br />
Chronicles of Avonlea<br />
Akin to Anne<br />
55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays<br />
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature & Henry David Thoreau Walking<br />
Kilmeny of the Orchard<br />
Pat of Silver Bush<br />
Magic for Marigold<br />
The Blue Castle<br />
The Doctor's Sweetheart<br />
Jane of Lantern Hill<br />
The Road to Yesterday<br />
Mistress Pat<br />
Further Chronicles of Avonlea<br />
Betsy and the Emperor<br />
A Tangled Web<br />
The Story Girl<br />
The Golden Road<br />
The Forgotten Woman - the Untold Story of Kastur, Wife of Mahatma Ghandi<br />
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel<br />
Christmas With Anne and Other Holiday Stories<br />
Maid Marion, a novel by Elsa Watson<br />
A Condensation of Napoleon by Emil Ludwig<br />
Along the Shore, Tales by the Sea<br />
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle<br />
Against the Odds Tales of Achievement<br />
The Merriam Webster Dictionary<br />
The Blythes are Quoted<br />
Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat by Brad Wetzler<br />
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift<br />
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart<br />
Sugar Blues by William Dufty<br />
Puttin' on the Ritz - a Fred Astair Biography<br />
Laugh Your Way Through Grammar by Joan D. Berberich<br />
Pride and Prejudice<br />
Emma<br />
Sense and Sensebility<br />
Persuasion<br />
The Lambs Supper - The Mass as Heaven on Earth by Scott Hahn<br />
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates<br />
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie<br />
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living<br />
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking<br />
Mansfield Park<br />
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono<br />
Wild Fruits by Henry David Thoreau<br />
Her Little Magesty The Life of Queen Victoria by Carolly Erickson<br />
The American President by Kunhardt<br />
The Book of Virtues by Bennett<br />
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Verne<br />
Around the World in 80 Days<br />
The Mysterious Island<br />
Five Weeks in a Balloon<br />
We Two Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill<br />
Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard<br />
An Unfinished Life John F. Kennedy by Robert Dallek<br />
Animal Farm by Orwell<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird<br />
Our Town by Thornton Wilder<br />
Backwoods and Along the Seashore by Thoreau<br />
The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas<br />
Ophelia's World by Michele Durkson Clise<br />
The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Britian<br />
Rediscovering Catholicism by Matthew Kelly<br />
The Better Part by Thomnas Keating<br />
Tales from Shakespeare<br />
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy<br />
Amelia Earhart the Mystery Solved by Long<br />
Nicholas and Alexandra the Story of Love that Ended an Empire by Massic<br />
Beatrix Potter A Life in Nature by Linda Lear<br />
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay<br />
Finding the North Pole Cook and Peary<br />
All Creatures Great and Small<br />
All Things Bright and Beautiful<br />
All Things Wise and Wonderful<br />
The Lord God Made Them All By Herriott<br />
Every Living Thing<br />
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<br />
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<br />
The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoesvsky<br />
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky<br />
Gone With the Wind by Mitchell<br />
War and Peace by Tolstoy<br />
The Miracle of Mindfulness<br />
The Queen Mother by Shawcross<br />
The Lost Peace by Robert Dallek<br />
Climbing the Mountain by Anne a Lay Apostle<br />
Napolean's Wars an International History 1803-1815 by Esdaile<br />
Founding Brothers by Ellis<br />
Glory, Passion, Principle by Bohrer<br />
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Firlik<br />
His Excellency George Washington by Ellis<br />
Louisa May Alcott by Cheever<br />
Great Expectations<br />
Franklin and Winston by Meacham<br />
Truman by McCullough<br />
Eisenhower Soldier and President by Ambrose<br />
Much Ado About Nothing<br />
The Two Gentlemen of Verona<br />
Twelfth Night or What You Will<br />
Macbeth<br />
The Tempest<br />
Pilgrims Progress by Bunyan<br />
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.<br />
Othello<br />
Pericles, Prince of Tyre<br />
Measure for Measure<br />
Timon of Athens<br />
Cymbeline<br />
The Comedy of Errors<br />
The Merchant of Venice<br />
The Taming of the Shrew<br />
Julius Caesar<br />
First Part of King Henry VI<br />
King Henry VI part two<br />
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War by Buchannan<br />
American Courage by Herbert W. Warden III<br />
King Henry VI part three<br />
King Richard the Third<br />
King John<br />
The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by Milne<br />
King Richard the Second<br />
King Henry the Fourth part I<br />
King Henry the Fourth part II<br />
King Henry V<br />
Troilus and Cressida<br />
Antony and Cleopatra<br />
Coriolanus<br />
King Henry the Eighth<br />
General Patton by Hirshson<br />
Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar by Montefiore<br />
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler The Age of Social Catastrophe by Gellately<br />
A Tale of Two Subs by Jonathan J. McCullough<br />
Oliver Twist<br />
David Copperfield<br />
A Tale of Two Cities<br />
How Hitler Could Have Won World War II The Fatal Errors that Lead to Nazi Defeat by Alexander<br />
To Kingdom Come by Mrazek<br />
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl<br />
Utopia by Sir Thomas More<br />
Our Sacred Honor by Bennett<br />
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway<br />
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen<br />
Beetle The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith by Crosswell<br />
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas<br />
From the Earth to the Moon by Verne<br />
Round the Moon<br />
A Journey to the Center of the Earth<br />
No Ordinary Joes by Larry Colton<br />
Flags of Our Fathers by Bradley<br />
The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill<br />
The Grand Alliance by Churchill<br />
The Hinge of Fate by Churchill<br />
Triumph and Tragedy by Churchill<br />
Retribution The Battle for Japan 1944-1945 by Max Hastings<br />
Fly Boys by James Bradley<br />
The Last Good War the Faces and Voices of WWII by Thomas Sanders<br />
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer<br />
The Atlantic and its Enemies by Norman Stone<br />
The Irregulars by Jennet Conant<br />
In Enemy Hands by Claire Swedberg<br />
First Into Nagasaki by Weller<br />
The Pacific by High Ambrose<br />
Treasure from the Attic by Pressler<br />
A Perfect Hell the True Story of the Black Devils the Forfathers of the Special Forces by Nadler<br />
Nicholas Nickelby<br />
Silent Night the True Story of the WWI Christmas Truce by Weintraub<br />
Anne Franks Tales from the Secret Annex<br />
In Time of War Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America by O'Donnel<br />
Mein Kamph by Hitler<br />
The Odyssey by Homer<br />
The Illiad by Homer<br />
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott<br />
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson<br />
The Red Badge of Courage<br />
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis<br />
Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift<br />
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller<br />
Bobby and J. Edgar by Hursh<br />
Fighter Boys the Battle of Britian by Bishop<br />
The Forgotten 500 by Freeman<br />
Danger's Hours the Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Piliot Who Crippled Her by Kenndy<br />
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens<br />
Bleak House<br />
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne<br />
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master Man by Tolstoy<br />
Little Dorrit<br />
The Old Curiosity Shop<br />
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky<br />
Hard Times by Dickens<br />
The War of Wars by Harvey<br />
The Gift of Fear by Becker<br />
Winnie Ille Pu (Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh in Latin)<br />
Fateful Choices by Kershaw<br />
The Berlin Wall by Taylor<br />
The Nuremberg Interviews by Goldensohn<br />
Commander in Chief by Perret<br />
Dresden Tues. Feb. 13, 1945 by Taylor<br />
Young Stalin <br />
John F. Kenndy by O'Brien<br />
Human Smoke by Baker<br />
RFK By Heymann<br />
Eleanor Roosevelt Vol. 1 1884 - 1933 by Cook<br />
Eleanor Roosevelt Vol. 2 1933 - 1938<br />
President Reagan A Role of a Lifetime by Cannon<br />
Operation Jedburgh by Beaven<br />
Kremlin Rising by Baker and Glasser<br />
15 Stars Eisenhower, Macarthur, Marshall - Three Generals who Saved the American Century <br />
Unbroken A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience,and Redemption by Hillenbrand<br />
Supreme Power by Shesol<br />
The Candy Bombers by Cherny<br />
After the Reich by Macdonogh<br />
What we Knew by Johnson...<br />
Sea Cobra by Melton<br />
Operation Exodus by Thomas<br />
Ivan's War by Merridale<br />
Vanity Fair by Thackery<br />
Tom Jones by Fielding<br />
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux<br />
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas<br />
Treasure Island by Stevenson<br />
Frankenstein by Shelley<br />
Dombey and Son by Dickens<br />
The Pickwick Papers<br />
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf<br />
The Idiot by Dostoevsky<br />
Dick Sands, Boy Captain by Jules Verne<br />
Lady Susan by Jane Austen<br />
Cobra II by Gordon...<br />
Neptune's Inferno the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by Hornfischer<br />
Quiet Hero by Cosby<br />
Without Hesitation General Hugh Shelton<br />
How Wars End by Gideon Rose<br />
Without Fidel By Bardach<br />
Agent ZigZag by Macintyre<br />
Fundamentals of Nursing The Art and Science of Nursing Care by Taylor...<br />
Psychology in the New Millenium Sixth Edition by Rathus<br />
Guide to Physical Examination by Bates<br />
Nursing Student Handbook I and II<br />
Lusitania by Preston<br />
Shadow Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward<br />
Character is Destiny by John McCain<br />
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien<br />
America the Last Best Hope Vol.1 by Bennett<br />
America the Last Best Hope Vol. 2<br />
Command of Office by Graubard<br />
Empire of Liberty by Wood<br />
1984 by Orwell<br />
The Possessed by Dostoevsky<br />
Don Quixote by Cervantes<br />
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo<br />
Agnes Grey by Bronte<br />
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy<br />
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James<br />
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber<br />
The Dog Who Bit People by Thurber<br />
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde<br />
The Age of Innocece by Edith Wharton<br />
The Mystery of Edwon Drood by Dickens<br />
The House of Mirth by Wharton<br />
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo<br />
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe<br />
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy<br />
The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder<br />
The Matchmaker by Wilder<br />
The Divine Comedy by Dante<br />
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy<br />
Lorna Doone By R.D. Blackmore<br />
The House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne<br />
Washington Square by Henry James<br />
Anton Chekhov the Complete Novels<br />
The Works of Oscar Wilde<br />
The Selected Poems of Robert Frost<br />
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickenson<br />
The Works of Robert Browning<br />
Germinal by Emilie Zola<br />
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />
Twenty Years After by Dumas<br />
The Well-Beloved by Hardy<br />
Jude the Obscure by Hardy<br />
Desperate Remedies by Hardy<br />
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy<br />
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy<br />
The Trumpet-Major by Hardy<br />
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James<br />
Daisy Miller by James<br />
The Ambassadors by James<br />
The Way we Live Now by Anthony Trollope<br />
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy<br />
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer<br />
Medjugorje the Message by Wayne Weible<br />
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway<br />
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway<br />
Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway<br />
True at First Light by Hemingway<br />
Silas Marner by Eliot<br />
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad<br />
Lord Jim by Conrad<br />
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis<br />
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis<br />
Middlemarch by George Elliot<br />
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<br />
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kersey<br />
The Glimpses fo the Moon by Edith Wharton<br />
Ethan Fromme<br />
The Reef<br />
The Americans by Henry James<br />
Demons by Dostoevsky<br />
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte<br />
Daniel Deronda by George Elioit<br />
My Antonia by Willa Cather<br />
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald<br />
Ward No. 6 by Anton Checkhov<br />
Marie: A Story of Russian Love by Pushkin<br />
Typhoon by Conrad<br />
The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy<br />
Poor Folk by Dostoevsky<br />
Pioneers by Willa Cather<br />
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott<br />
Villette by Charlotte Bronte<br />
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud<br />
Republic by Plato<br />
The Art of War by Sun Tzu<br />
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf<br />
Heart of Darkness by Conrad<br />
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak<br />
Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy<br />
Barnaby Rudge by Dickens<br />
Jacob's Room <br />
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell<br />
The Decamercon by Giovanni Boccaccio<br />
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham<br />
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac<br />
Adam Bede by George Eliot <br />
Pere Goriot by Balzac<br />
The Red and the Black by Stendhal<br />
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck<br />
Across the River and Into the Trees by Hemingway<br />
Resurrection by Tolstoy<br />
Ulysses by James Joyce<br />
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence<br />
John Brown's Body by Benet<br />
Victory by Conrad<br />
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott<br />
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott<br />
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle<br />
A Long Fatal Love Chase by Alcott<br />
The Marble Faun by Hawthorne<br />
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis<br />
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut<br />
Catch-22 by Heller <br />
Candide by Voltaire<br />
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini <br />
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy<br />
The Color Purple by Alice Walker<br />
Mice and Men<br />
Confessions by Saint Augustine<br />
Nana by Emile Zola<br />
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman<br />
Freakonomics<br />
Free Air by Sinclair Lewis<br />
Lady Chatterlys Lover by D.H. Lawrence<br />
The Graduate by Charles Webb<br />
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So when I hear any type of comments about homeschooling I smile to myself, and I thank the God of Heaven for my amazing and wonderful daughter who is my daily bird of happiness.<br />
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<br />Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-9214234519566855232012-07-22T20:54:00.000-07:002012-07-26T18:34:12.326-07:00In The Good Old SummertimeI love that old song "In the Good Old Summertime" - when I sing it in my head I see Victorian ladies all in white and lace strolling across a green where there are people playing croquet, sipping lemonade, and gentlemen in straw hats and bow ties (also wearing all white) laughing heartily. Ah me. A lovely dream. When I was young we used to play croquet all the time. Maybe we should get a croquet set again. Anyway, speaking of white, here is Robin in our little bug car - she now has her temporary driving permit. Isn't she cute behind the wheel?! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8y4RSsMuEbgacIbxy26y02OL1RMdBAC3aOF-k_ia_MB1XxiFTZjq7iA_dYBp2APwFCDR7iv77vf_Jf42s335kvpglL7B2GQsedtRIR0QliEawPTGgvknTLDvD1fL-HlDQpvWmNkM-D3w/s1600/batch+5+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8y4RSsMuEbgacIbxy26y02OL1RMdBAC3aOF-k_ia_MB1XxiFTZjq7iA_dYBp2APwFCDR7iv77vf_Jf42s335kvpglL7B2GQsedtRIR0QliEawPTGgvknTLDvD1fL-HlDQpvWmNkM-D3w/s320/batch+5+013.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
No rush, she can take her time with this! We have so much fun in the car. One of the things we like to do is make up new words to familiar song tunes. One day we were driving past a lady walking her dog very near the road, and Robin comes up with "Grandma got run over by a bug car, walking to the mailbox Thursday morn..." Of course that was only a joke! I'll share more of our silly songs later...<br />
Our car's name is Peace Dove Bob. We name all our vehicles, of course. In fact, we name pretty much everything. It's fun that way. I've always liked the way the English name their homes, so friendly and civilized. Anyway, wherever I have lived, my bedroom has always been Pemberly. Austen fans will understand. Here is is little peek inside Pemberly. This is my night table:<br />
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As you can see I have orchids here, they do surprisingly well. I think it must be the East facing window, and the crocheted lace allows just enough filtered sun inside. The lace is actually an antique hand crocheted baby blanket I found on ebay for a song. Each square is a different animal. I think it is so sweet and lovely. You may also see my little sheep collection. The larger one I knitted. It was a bit of a challenge, and a joy to knit.<br />
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Here is another quick glimpse of Pemberly, the top of my dresser. Each of the things on top have special meaning or memories for me. My favorites are the ones Robin has given me. The little church she gave me for Christmas when she was in kindergarden. She also gave me the little yellow box with a rose on it and the cover says "Mother you are the best Mom and I love you dearly".<br />
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This morning after church our friend Ginny gifted us with some lovley organic squash from her garden, so when we got home Robin did some mowing and yard work, and I made up this summer squash casserole: sliced squashes with onion, garlic, cheese, and spaghetti sauce. Yum.<br />
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We saw a couple more interesting movies this weekend too: The Music Within and Stolen Summer. <br />
Also found some old Hitchcock movies, just right for sitting in the dark living room with the air conditioning on a hot afternoon. <br />
Here's Spuddie and Holly on the lookout deck checking out the world:<br />
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They only stay out for a few minutes at a time.<br />
I also got a little sewing time in - this time making pillowcases for Robin. I have always made our pillowcases, that way they are so much more fun, softer, and we can choose our fabrics. We have pillowcases for various holidays or just because we like the fabric. They are so simple to make, and a yard and a half of fabric will make two pillowcases. This fabric has sock monkeys all over <br />
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When I set it up to take the photo, Spuddie and Holly had to see what was going on. I've been really enjoying my cross stitch lately in a big way. I have two projects going right now. This one:<br />
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and this one I've just started. It took awhile to do all the basting to mark rows since it will actually be twelve different charts all on one fabric from the Country Cottage Needlework's Cottage of the Month Series:<br />
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I am starting with the June cottage, which is a white one, so I had to change the floss color as I am stitching it on white fabric. Robin helped me choose just the right shade of pink. I'll show more later as I make some progress! TTFASharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-67462329343689879682012-07-15T21:12:00.000-07:002012-07-15T21:21:31.078-07:00More July!What a lovely weekend. Yesterday I never left the house. Yes, I am a homebody. As Jane Austen says: "home keeping hearts are happiest". I have always loved Jane Austen - books and movies and love the clothes from her era. When I made Robin's confirmation dress, we used a pattern for a dress from the 1820's. I used to be a tailor, seamstress, and costumer for a university theatre. I got to costume a Shakespeare festival (several plays) and a personal favorite, "The Importance of Being Earnest". Love the humor. I also love costumes from a variety of eras - 1820's first. I also used to be pretty active in a civil war reenactment group, I did learn a lot about American history, and enjoyed making myself several outfits that were historically accurate - and later sold them. I love American, English, and French history. I also love Swedish and Scandinavian embroidery, cross stitch, and folk art. I'll share more later. For now, as promised, more George and Martha.<br />
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This is a close up of the dolls. I did not make them, but they are handmade. I hope to make my own sometime. Lately I've been fascinated with George and Martha. I did visit Mount Vernon in 1976 - great year for visiting Washington, D.C. I was really impressed with Mount Vernon - it's beauty and efficiency. They must have been fascinating people! That may have been my only real vacation, but we plan to travel again someday. For now, Robin and I travel vicariously through books, films, and here Robin is visiting St. Basil's in Moscow via a 2000 piece puzzle. I could never have done it, it was very difficult and there were so many pieces that looked exactly alike. She triumphed, naturally. <br />
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We have seen some very interesting films lately. We get them from the library, and occasionally from Redbox. My absolute favorite was yesterday, the BBC North and South. Again, great history, romance, and costumes. Also notable of late: The Way, and The Yellow Handkerchief. Definately can't go wrong with British Historical Drama. I've been pretty crafty too. Loving my cross stitch - after not having stitched for awhile, I'm back into it bigger than ever and loving it even more. Here are a couple of small pieces I finished in June. The bear one was from a kit from a wonderful British magazine that I saved, and the tiny bunny one was a kit from Britian I found on ebay. I'm currently busy at work on a historical piece of sorts I'll share later, as well as the Cottage of the Month series from Country Cottage Needleworks. Here are my two little pieces:<br />
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Here is a close up of the bear, notice the little star sequins. The pattern came with a cute mat to accent the picture.<br />
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I also worked on a couple of craft projects yesterday, one of them I have been planning for awhile since Robin gave me this lovely printer's drawer:<br />
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I love the history of the drawer, so I don't want to paint it. I have so far just cut out scraps of paper, and I'll have a little shadow type box for my tiny things. I have lots of little cork people to add too, if they will fit. At Christmas time I take wine corks and knit them little sweaters and hats and sometimes draw faces on them - I love doing it and have quite a little family of them now. Here's a piccy from my ravelry site of some that I made:<br />
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I'm sure I'll add to the collection this year! Anyway - lots of lovely projects to look forward too. Love my life here in Shariland. So much to be thakful for, especially my family and my lovely daughter, Robin.<br />
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I like to keep the house cheery and to reflect the holidays and seasons. It's so fun that way, and an excuse to move things around and collect pretty little things. The patriotic boy and girl are from ebay this year, and the stacked animals from a local thrift store. Of course they had to dress for the day with matching kerchiefs. <br />
After giving the dogs all a much needed holiday bath - they were ready to nap in the sun to dry off and then chose to continue their nap in their houses in the kitchen. We never close the doors on them, the dogs just like to go in and out to nap or have some quiet time. Sometimes they curl up together, sometimes alone. Here you can see Honey in the big house and Spuddie and Holly in the little one together:<br />
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Robin has gone out with our friends Laurel and Jackie to a big party, I need to stay in the cool air. I've been working on some patriotic cross stitch the last couple of weeks and finished a couple of pieces. These have not been framed yet, but they put me in the holiday spirit. </div>
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I changed these up a bit - I like to do that. The eagle was only supposed to have two stitched stars and a button, I left off the button and added another stitched star. This was a Bent Creek design. The Liberty piece has really tiny red buttons for the cherries on the tree. I have been collecting some George and Martha things lately, I'll share more later. <br />
And here is my dear girl, ready to go the the party:<br />
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pretty sweet!<br />
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A great day!Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-25784192647055018572012-07-01T20:17:00.000-07:002012-07-17T20:12:52.138-07:00My Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is my happy little family. Darling Daughter Robin, and my 3 fur children resuce doggies (the absolute best kind). Robin is 16 and we homeschool. She's basically done with high school and preparing for college. Spuddie is a darling boy - my little man - corgi mix. He is as sweet as can be. He's the baby of the family, just barely 2 years old. He likes watching Curious George on TV, lying in the sun outside, and his favorite toy is his froggy. Spuddie came from Sacret Hearts Animal Rescue. Holly and Honey, the girls, are both from Barely Used Pet Rescue in Urbana, OH. I would highly recommend both of these places, and the ladies who run them are absolute angels. Holly is a corgi - chihuahau mix, she loves stealing things and hiding them, is definately a mama's girl, and her favorite toy is blue bug, which she takes everywhere, even if she goes out in the middle of the night (I take her). She's the oldest at 6. Honey is our new girl, maybe 4? She is a doxie mix. She is very kind and sweet, and she is Robin's girl. </span>Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-78403979108758658282012-07-01T20:04:00.001-07:002012-07-17T20:11:09.956-07:00Home Sweet Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Here is our home - we love it. We live in the heart of the city in Northern Kentucky. The house is a very peaceful place - it used to be a mission. Maybe you can see the cross on the side (this view faces the side). I'll share the inside little by little, and how we make it home - our family, our rooms, our changes. We are Christian and that is part of who we are and what our home is like. </span>Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635096799637421790.post-33566638242901822642012-07-01T19:57:00.001-07:002012-07-17T20:09:47.204-07:00Hi!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi, I'm Shari, also known as momoshari on various web places. This is my blog of my happy and pretty life and dreams. So I guess I am the pretty pea hen. Peacocks are always noted for their handsome beauty, but the sweet and pretty pea hen rarely recieves her just due. She often has to step back while the Peacock gets all the attention. So here I am paying attention to the beauty, love, happiness and fun in my own life. Put on your rose colored glasses and join me. This is a rosy place to be.Sharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224452751529366771noreply@blogger.com0