| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 6:08:04 PM
a warm welcome to all of the new gals that have joined recently. look forward to getting to know you all.
~Tina
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| joanieh |
Posted - May 17 2008 : 6:40:32 PM
Welcome, Amy,
You live in a very sweet part of our state. I live on the "Coast" now, but my family has roots in Colfax and Waterville. You will love your Mom's Singer. My mom and aunt both got similar machines when they graduated from college, and I inherited my aunt's when she passed away. They have very strong motors. I used to sew moccasins from deer hide for my kids on mine. I've also sewn lots of packs and denim. They sure don't make them like they used to! |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - May 14 2008 : 6:47:46 PM
Welcome Ann and Amy! |
| annefannie |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 10:51:36 PM
Hi, I just joined last week and I can't believe how friendly all the Farmgirls are. I have met alot of them on my blog. I am really excited about joining! Looking forward to meeting alot more!
Anne Fannie
Farm Girl # 189
http://annefannie.blogspot.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5669677 |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 9:45:30 PM
welcome to the farm Amy.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 7:09:21 PM
I'm just joining you all from Rosalia,Washington - little town not too far from Moscow,ID. I've checked out the website periodically but never posted anything but am feeling a need for making connections. Right now I'm anxiously awaiting the beginning of gardening season - it has been a very long winter here and I am way behind my normal schedule. I'm trying to fill the time with sewing - I just found a new fabric shop in Spokane and I'm learning to sew on my mom's old 1953 Singer. I'm looking forward to "meeting" all of you |
| ErinW |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 6:25:28 PM
Hi Anne,
I'm glad to see another new farmgirl-at-heart around my age. It also makes me happy to hear you want to learn to quilt - in my opinion, it's the most rewarding craft there is. And the beautiful thing is, the simplest patterns can still be absolutely stunning. I've been quilting since I was eleven, but I only just picked up crochet. I agree - the grocery-bags-into-totes idea sounds brilliant. |
| joanieh |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 08:46:55 AM
Pardon me Amanda, I am mortified. So, what kind of dog is Mildred? We have two dogs. Cisco is a giant male black lab mix, and Pepsi, our smaller female, is part redbone coon hound and maybe pitbull. We got Pepsi shortly after our old man dog Scotty died last Spring. Cisco and Pepsi love each other very much. They each lick inside the other's mouth all the time, a kind of dog-kissing, I think!
Joanie |
| DearMildred |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 08:00:37 AM
Hi GiGi and Anne!
I know how it is to move far away from what you love - can be SO hard! Starting to get used to Tulsa.
By the way my name is Amanda - my dog's name is Mildred! |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 04:49:32 AM
So good to have you on the farm Anne! I'd love to know how to crochet plastic bags into totes! I crochet, but I only know a few patterns. Would it be too much to ask if you could explain it in an email???? Also, if you like to write letters, we have a 'Pen-pals thru Snail-mail' topic under the "Across the Fence" forum. |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 11:03:42 PM
hey there Anne! nice to "meet" you.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| live.simply |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 8:41:37 PM
Hello from Minnesota!
I am new here. I am a college student in Duluth, MN. I was introduced to Mary Jane's farm when I received her ideabook/cookbook/lifebook upon my high school graduation. I took an environmental studies course this semester, and have since decided to major in business and minor in environmental studies, after being inspired by Mary Jane and an amazing professor I had. I've never lived on a farm, but I am a farmgirl at heart! I enjoy reading, writing, making mosaics, pottery, and really anything handmade. My most recent project is learning how to crochet plastic grocery bags into tote bags. Someday I hope to learn how to quilt, and am going to learn how to garden and can this summer!
I look forward to getting to know you all! |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 5:30:27 PM
welcome aboard Gigi.
I started this thread because for me it is easier to just say "howdy" to everyone at once..without leaving anyone out by mistake.
So..again I say..a warm welcome to all you new gals.
you will all love it here.Mary Jane provides us the absolute best place on the web(in my opinion) to learn...to share...and much more.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
visit me at:
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and at www.stliving.net
you can also check out my etsy shops at:http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com |
| GiGi58 |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 4:56:21 PM
I am new here, also. I have posted on a couple of the other forums, but thought I should formally introduce myself, so I am Gayle (aka GiGi) and I live in the greater metropolitan Phoenix, AZ area in a suburb called Gilbert. It is a huge city here with approximately 7 1/2 million people, so I am like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. I am originally from Montana and small-town rural America, so this is a huge culture change for me. The goal is to go back to Montana (Billings, in particular) and help my aging mother and it needs to happen soon as I got a call today that she got put in the hospital with congestive heart failure. I am staying by my telephone and waiting for any changes or news. I talked to her this morning and she sounded good, so I feel somewhat relieved, but still need to be close to her.
I was not raised on a farm, but I was raised in the era where everything was recycled and we girls were taught to sew, cook, can, garden, crochet, even work on cars and learned how to fix things. Believe it or not, I miss that and want to get back to my roots. I work for a large mortgage company in the foreclosure end of the business and it is quite intense right now. I have been off work, now, for almost 3 months after having some major surgery done to have my right foot rebuilt, but will be going back to work soon. "heavy sigh".
I am a mom to 5 lovely daughters and a grandmon to 11 little munchkins with one more on the way. What a glorious blessing they all are to me! I love to crochet, scrapbook, do amateur photography, sew, make homemade soap and dabble a little bit in making beaded jewelry and lots of other things, too, so I feel like I have come home here a MJF.
And, I can get a little more than "wordy", so will close this now. I have joined the sisterhood and am working on getting a Chapter started since there is no one here in Arizona that seems to have an active one going -- YIKES! This is a huge leap of faith for me.
I wish you all a wonderful day and a hope all of you mothers in all ways are having a terrific Mother's Day!
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain" |
| bboopster |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 2:31:42 PM
Nice to see another Wisconsin Farmgirl in the group. For being a farming state their is not many of us Farmgirls at MJF. A big Welcome to all of the new Farmgirls looking forward to visiting with all of you. Happy Mothers Day!!!!!!! 
http://www.bboopster.blogspot.com
3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
| ErinW |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 1:44:34 PM
Joanie, I would have the same answer, only make it 150 or 200 years :) |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 08:32:15 AM
Welcome Angie and Mildred!!! |
| joanieh |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 9:15:59 PM
Hello Angie and Mildred,
As you can see, I am pretty new to this, too. The whole forum is so big, you can be overwhelmed sometimes. I like to grow things, especially vegetables. Today I planted 60 broccoli seedlings my dad started for me. I have about 200 more to plant of cabbage, red cabbage, kohlrabi and cauliflower. Cabbage family plants are what grows best in our cool, damp climate! |
| farmgirl4sure |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 10:45:37 AM
Hi from Tennessee! I am also a new member.
I was born and raised right here in a little bitty place called Culleoka, Tennessee on a 48 acre farm. I have never lived anywhere else and really can't imagine what it would be like doing so. So I would chose to live right here, but maybe in an earlier time. The farm is so laid back and relaxed, but our lives (with two boys and a hubby and schedules.....) don't seem so relaxed anymore. That would be the only thing that I would change.
The farm runs deep in my blood and I am most happy when I'm here at home.
I'm looking forward to meeting new friends here who have the same interests.
Angie
It's never too late to become who you might have been. |
| DearMildred |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 07:19:48 AM
Hi from Oklahoma! I am brand-new here.
Here's a little about me. I'm a little bit of a hillbilly, originally from "the sticks" in the Ohio River valley. I have been in Tulsa, Oklahoma for three years now, bought my first home, and this year have my first little garden and taking my first stab at perennials too. I found a decent sized lot at the end of a dead ends street, with really big trees and little bitty houses - so it's kind of like living in the country inside the city. :D
Joanie, great question! I think I'd like to live right where I grew up, too, but about 80 years ago. At least for little while. |
| joanieh |
Posted - May 09 2008 : 1:58:37 PM
So, if you could get in a time machine, what era would you like to live in most? I think I would like to live where I live now, only about 100 years ago. |
| ErinW |
Posted - May 07 2008 : 8:08:20 PM
Hi Joanie,
We had some freezing nights last week, but I think that was the last of it. They came after a week of gorgeous, warm weather - upwards of twenty degrees Celsius... I'm afraid I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. Someday I'll have to sit down and learn the conversion.
I had to look up the definition of ethnobotany, but it sounds like exactly what I'm interested in. One of my majors is History, and nothing makes me happier than tracing something - a word or a quilt pattern or a plant or anything - back through time and finding all of its uses and evolutions in culture. And if a good fairy ever offered me three wishes, I know one of them would be to be an expert on plant lore.
Erin |
| joanieh |
Posted - May 06 2008 : 8:52:40 PM
Hi Erin,
So is it still freezing where you live at night? I've just come in from
a day in the garden, and although our daytime temps are still below normal at 59 degrees F, I think Spring is finally here. I like plants, too, I graduated with a degree in Biology from university, but plants were my favorite thing, too. Especially native plants. Do you like Ethnobotany?
Joanie |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 6:27:42 PM
Erin, Welcome to the farm!!! You will find lots of wonderful friends here. I always look forward to logging on at the end of my day to see what all the ladies are up to and chatting about. |
| ErinW |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 5:44:45 PM
This looks like an appropriate place to say Hi, Here I am, I just joined today.
Me, briefly: I'm eighteen and in university, but every moment I can spare from studying Latin and History is spent in my garden or at the sewing machine. I'm a quilter first, but I wish I had time to master every craft out there. I'm passionate about community, faith, plants and writing. I live in a little bit of a place called Corbeil near North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Any other Farmgirls near there?
I'm so glad this community exists. |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 7:28:39 PM
Welcome to all you new fellow farmgirls! It's going to be so much fun to get to know all of you! If you would like a pen-pal, come on over to the 'Pen-Pals thru snail-mail' topic listed under "Across the Fence." I will pair you with a pen-pal and you can truly get in touch with other farmgirls around the nation. See you there. |
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