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melody Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 11:43:36 PM
Check this blog out it has a great post about a craft historian...

http://historic-crafts.blogspot.com

Edwardian anyone?

If you had a choice what era would you have been born in? Where you born in the wrong era?




Melody
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katmom Posted - Aug 20 2011 : 10:44:32 AM
Melody,
thanx for sharing this 'blog-site' with us! I know i enjoyed it.


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luckilady Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 09:35:34 AM
Thanks for passing this along, I just loved reading it, and the pics are gorgeous. I love the clothes from the Renaissance era and on up to the 1960's, but I think (like Judith) it wasn't easy and I sure like my modern conveniences :) I would give up my dryer as I hang most often outside, but never want to have to hand-wash. The cooking part I could do! Guess I am where I belong, trying to bloom where I am planted...

~Jennifer

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~ John Maxwell

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forgetmenot Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 09:25:04 AM
Melody, thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this site. I used to think I would have made a good pioneer woman..but, I realize I would have passed away early..just don't have the stamina. I'm sure it wasn't as romantic as it seems! I can't imagine my 5' frame trudging through grasses taller than me.



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acairnsmom Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 09:12:28 AM
I've always like the 1890's thru the 1930's. Talk about your technological and social explosions! Airplanes, automobiles, women finally being allowed to vote, movies were a new entertainment. I don't believe there was ever a dull moment. I think that's the era I would have liked the best.

Audrey

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FarmDream Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 07:23:16 AM
Very nice Valerie. I think they would be great places to visit but wouldn't want to live there. I love the clothes of almost any era and culture. I'm very spoiled with the modern amenities that I have. I really like my a/c and having a car to go to town, and my washing machine. I guess if I had to pick an era to go back to I would choose the 70's when I grew up. I had no worries except what to wear to school, rode my bike all over town, and had to eat dinner as a family every night.

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vmfein Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 06:43:31 AM
There are too many era's I would want to pick. Yes I do think in many ways I was born in the wrong era, however I know without modern technology I wouldn't be alive. Although there are restrictions to how women were allowed to live and how they were involved in society as a whole, there are many things that I find fascinating. I of course think that no era is perfect, as perfection doesn't exist. There is in all era's good and bad things which occurred. I greatly admire the people in these era's for the struggles and hardships they had. I am also a history nut so I find their life in these era's very interesting. I also enjoy learning about the simplicity of the people using everything they had and not wasting for the most part (of course they usually didn't have a choice as resources and money were sometimes not widely available to them for various reasons). However I think it is sad that some people now don't appreciate the simple things in life, such as with crafts, having a garden, not having dinner with your family,etc. I think they are missing out on so much. These are the era's I would want to live in some aspect of their life;

Victorian
Edwardian
Medieval
1930's
Elizabethean
Colonial


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