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| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 13 2006 : 11:32:42 AM
I love it! We can post about aprons and or thoughts about "stuff", usually to do with aprons anyway. I have to run into town but will write more when I get back.... |
| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jul 08 2006 : 07:51:11 AM
you should check out the photo. It is just too cute no kidding. I hope you have it hanging in your house somewhere with honor.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
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| Aunt George |
Posted - Jul 08 2006 : 07:07:16 AM
If you want a peek at my nursing graduation photo, I just posted it to my blog at the end of today's historical look at nurses and aprons. hehehehehe.......real 80's! LOL
hugs,
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking out my apron musings! |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jul 08 2006 : 04:41:09 AM
Well, I haven't had time to sew this week.....I'm so depressed.....LOL......BUT I have posted some interesting apron photos on my blog. There is such a rich history of nurses and aprons. Didn't really know they were "tied" together so closely! I really miss all of you. I hope you are all having lots of fun while I am absent!
Lots of love and hugs to my farmgirl friends,
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking out my apron musings! |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jul 04 2006 : 2:17:57 PM
Aunt George,
Thanks for putting my picture on your blog. I love that apron and wear it often. All my friends want to know where I got it, I tell them all about the farmgirl site and you for making the apron, now I love my friends but they don't get what I'am talking about. Is this farmgirl thing that hard to understand? Well from what I can gather most people have no idea what we are about. So that is why I love this site, but still love my friends, I'am very blessed.
NANCY JO |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jul 02 2006 : 05:43:52 AM
I have posted, with Nancy Jo's permission, her photo in my blog. She is wearing her Nancy Jo apron and she looks so farmgirl cute!!!!!
Have a look and see!
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_auntgeorgeshouse_archive.html
If that link doesn't work, just go to: http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com click on the June archive and scroll down to June 13, 2006
Love and hugs!
Georgann
Thank you Nancy Jo for being so darned cute and I love your front garden!!!! |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 10:16:26 PM
good night georgann
CFlohe I hope your son recovers quickly and has no lingering effect may God keep him and all your family safe
have a lovely day |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 10:13:14 PM
Oh, I'm so glad your son is getting better. I hope he doesn't get the recurring malarial attacks. I think those were prevalent before the advent of antibiotics. That was when they only had quinine to treat it with. 106 is way too high for an adult...bless his heart. I so thank your son and his family for the sacrifices they are making for all of us here at home. Sometimes I take freedom for granted, and forget to thank the men and women who keep us free in a world of those who would enslave or destroy us. Tell him thank you from me and from my family. My son was slated to go to South Korea a few years ago with the Air Force, but was Medically discharged due to Asthma that kicked up in language school.
I am about to start on holiday aprons. I actually picked up some red, white and blue to make two aprons in honor of the fourth of July. These are going to be totally experimental. I found some teatowels for a really great price...and they are reallllly cute, so I am incorporating them into the aprons. I hope they work. No sewing for me today either...wait, I made a heating pack for my husband stuffed it with rice and his choice of herbs. He has mild Turret's syndrome and the heat and pressure around his neck and head will help to relieve some of the spasms from the tics...I hope. He is a very mild sufferer. More orientation for me tomorrow...computer stuff, so off to bed. I'll be sewing on Thursday and Friday.
Oh, you are really cute in your photo!!
Hugs,
Georgann
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| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 7:58:32 PM
Thank you for the compliments Georgann. It was very hard to hear about my son being in the hospital, wanted to just get on a plane and fly down there. I did get to talk to him today and he said that he had somebody pick up his wife and their 2 boys at the airport and brought them to the hospital, kind of upset the boys seeing their dad with IV's, etc but they did let him out of the hospital sometime today. He said his roommate who was also his roommate in South Korea had got pretty sick recently and it took them 2 weeks to figure out what was wrong with him (he also had malaria) so Shane said he realized during the weekend that he was getting the same symptoms and went to a bigger base hospital and they diagnosed him right away. I guess his roommate had a temp of 106 at one point.
I tried numerous times today to post a picture of the back of that apron but either the site or my computer was not cooperating. I sure like that pattern, the 1940's one. I have bought a few different patterns and even made one with Christmas materials awhile back but I didn't like it at all, too straight or something. It just didn't have any character, if that makes any sense. I have an appraisal appt for tomorrow at noon so no sewing for me tonight, just cleaning and yardwork and I'm taking a break. Better get back to it. I hate the stress, I'll be glad when it's done.
Cheryl |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 7:26:10 PM
Cheryl,
Left you a note on your blog. Love your newest apron too!! (Love them both actually....great pattern, I'm going to have to order that pattern, looks fabulous! How many packets of bias tape does each apron take? You do such great work!! I have got another experimental easy one in mind.
Your family is precious...must have been hard to hear how sick your son is. My prayers are with you all.
Love and hugs,
Georgann |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 1:28:56 PM
CFlohe those are just precious pictures of your family on your sight. I think they would be gorgeous framed with the picture in a sepia tone. A real family heirloom just life being beautiful.
have a lovely day |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 11:26:04 AM
Cheryl,
Cute apron, you did a good job, will look for the next one you are making.
NANCY JO |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 09:21:08 AM
probably this is my hen house stay away
have a lovely day |
| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 09:19:18 AM
Thank you Sunshine, you are really sweet! I finished my next apron late last night and will put it on my blog today. It's supposed to cool off here today a bit. I'm the first one up today and it's beautiful out and quiet in the house. What a wonderful way to start the day. Better get the rest of the chicks outside to their pen. So funny yesterday, the Buttercup Rooster that's still kind of young and doesn't crow alot yet got up on top of the chicken house and was crowing to some rooster off in the distance. They traded crows for awhile. Makes you wonder what they're saying to each other.
Cheryl |
| berries |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 08:01:55 AM
Girls, I just love all your aprons and pictures! I too have had a thing for aprons for well over 20 years. I have collected them, worn them but not made them. I have purchased more patterns that I care to tell, but just haven't had the time to actually make them! Keep up the good work, I think I may get one made just to keep up with all of you girls! :>) I am enjoying all the posts!
gloria g.
Richards, TX
strawberry fields forever and ever! |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 27 2006 : 07:54:03 AM
you posted you rblog on another thread so i will post it here since you mentioned it here as it is a real cute apron and people should see it
http://cheryls-life-at-the-farm.blogspot.com/
have a lovely day |
| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 10:05:22 PM
Georgann, thank you so much for the nice comment you made on my blog about my apron. You are so talented and sweet so getting a compliment from you meant alot! I really don't have alot of experience with sewing from patterns but you have all been such inspiration for me! I think I saw that the MaryJane apron needs a button, I have never made a buttonhole on a garment! I get my inspiration from you all though and I believe I will be able to do it fine. In the cold weather months I love to wear flannel pjs and am planning on making those too.
It's been a very long day, haven't gotten enough sleep since sometime last week and then I found out this afternoon that my son who is in the Army clear across the country in Savannah, Georgia is in the hospital with malaria(sp?). He was in South Korea until a few months ago and they think that's where he got it. He's being treated and thinks he will be out of the hospital in a couple days. Late tonight his wife and 2 little boys are flying down there as planned. They were supposed to move into their house on base tomorrow. Hopefully they'll send someone to pick them up at the airport and let her and the boys go ahead and move into the house.
Think I'll try and get some sleep.
Cheryl |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 23 2006 : 7:27:14 PM
Sunshine'
Yes you did thank me, so glad you can use them, and happy the girls like the little purse.more then a fair trade for such beautiful lace.
NANCY JO |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 23 2006 : 5:30:25 PM
to nancy
nancy I don't know if I told you I but your other buttons came thank you very much and the girls just loved the coin purse it became part of their dres up items. Thank you again and I hope all is well with you
have a lovely day |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 17 2006 : 07:39:26 AM
Georgann,
I was sitting here last week looking at the apron book, and I thought this belongs to Aunt George, so off it went. So glad it has a good home.
HUGS NANCY JO |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 17 2006 : 05:10:02 AM
Kim did you get your paisley pincushion pattern yet? I went to the PP site to see tha apron, it is a wonderful design. Love it. That is a really cute site.
Oh, Farmgirl Friends, the apron fairy visited me. I was so surprised you should have seen my chin dropped when I opened the package. Nancy Jo sent me the most marvelous book. It is called "Aprons, Icons of the American Home." I have been eating this book up. Full color glossy photos of lots of vintage aprons. I'm in apron heaven. Lots of history in the text. I'll post photos on my blog! Thank you so much Nancy Jo!! Don't know what I'd do without ya'll. So many girls with similar interests.....I love it!!
Georgann |
| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 15 2006 : 10:44:57 AM
I went to take a picture of the finished apron last night and found out my husband took the camera to Seattle this week. Until a few days ago I had a newer camera but had to take it back because I kept getting error messages when it powered on saying the memory card door was open. I'm hoping to pick up a new camera today. I did cut out 2 new aprons out of a material that's blue with apples on it, hard to explain but it's cute. The material I've been using lately is very country but I love the material from the 30's, 40's, 50's. I just thought I should use some of the material that I've got for now. Better get busy, you all have a good day!
Cheryl |
| CFlohe |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 6:35:20 PM
You're so right Sunshine, my sister's daughter graduated from college and is now working in a restaurant. My ex-husband didn't even get farther than 9th grade but he is one of the smartest, most talented people I know in anything he chooses to learn about which has been mostly remodeling homes. We got married when we were 17 and divorced when we were 34 but we're still friends. I have pretty strong opinions about schooling. People usually just learn what they have to in order to pass the tests. People, children or adults, should learn about what interests them so they keep their love of learning. I wish I had been homeschooled. I would have loved to have learned about cooking, canning, sewing, etc, all the things I love now. Debbie, I think it's great that you're going to take classes in all the things you're interested in. Life is so short.
I never did get to my Dad's today to make the temporary chicken house. It was raining and I've been cleaning some things out. Started out looking for the end cap to a window shade for my son's room and that ended up with my cleaning out the utility closet, never did find the end cap! Later I wanted to find the sewing machine my Mom gave me so I started looking in this huge closet upstairs, basically goes from one end of the house to my room, ended up doing some cleaning out in there, never found the sewing machine!! Now I'm obsessed with finding it! I can't imagine I would have put it in the pole barn, hope I don't have to go up there, that's a worse mess than the big closet. I guess I'll go up and look in the other end of the closet which is my 16yr old son's closet in his room. He'll have a cow that I'm in his room but I've got to find that sewing machine!
Cheryl |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 5:14:29 PM
Good for you Blueroses
I think people should go to collage to learn what they want to learn not what they are told to learn. People use to tell me I was in collage to get my MRS. Degree. Use to make me so mad. I did get married while in collage but earned two AA degrees 1 BA degree and 1 minor. People use to tell me collage is expensive go to collage to learn to make money. I always told them I go to collage to learn not to make money. Any one can make money and since most people do not make money in their choosen field of study from collage I thought it silly that people assumed that going to collage is how you make money. You make money by using your mind not by a collage education. I know lots of people who are multi millionaries who never went to collage I also know some who did go to collage ( university) but they are not making money in there collage field. Learning is always good the day I stop learning new things on earth is the day I die then I will learn new things in heaven. So you go girl learn everthing you can and want to know If you get a degree good if not good. My husband is the bread winner in the family and you know what he was earning a 6 year degree and is 3 classes from the end and stopped going to collage 8 years ago. He will probably never get that degree and neither of us cares he is doing what he likes to do and that is most important in life. Heavenly father sent his children to earth to learn and grow and have trials. He didn't send us here to get degrees and the like. That is a man made concept. All parents want their children happy most people are happy with more knowledge not less as they can see what future choices can have an end result of. Do what is best for you and those around you. My husband loves the stuff I make I still do art I am still in my field of study because my field of study was my hobbies and there by it was what I loved not what I hated.
have a lovely day |
| blueroses |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 4:41:37 PM
Sunshine,
I think it's wonderful that you went to college for fine arts. Can't wait to get a look at your lace. Can't see it here at work. Wish I had known back then. I'm in school again, but not for things I'm really interested in. So - girlfriends - after I finish up next spring, that's it. From now on I'm going to take classes in whatever I like: welding, fabric arts, creative writing, you name it.
Cheryl:
Loved reading about your Silkies peeking over the edge of the bin. Made me chuckle.
Debbie
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 1:32:44 PM
If you have problems at the end of the row in crocheting it is typicly one of two problems either you go into the first stich which is usually skiped which makes your piece longer by one stich or you don't go into the turning stitch at the end of the row making you work smaller by one stitch each row.
have a lovely day |
