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| candismom |
Posted - Oct 12 2006 : 1:21:05 PM
Does anyone want to do an apron swap? I thought I would take names and assign partners. You can either make or buy the apron. I am planning on sign ups till Nov 15 then assign partners The end of Nov. We will mail out packages by the end of Jan. Let me know what you all think.
Hugs,
Elizabeth |
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 10:41:40 PM
I'm so glad that you gave us until the end of January to get this done. With all the plans for the Christmas bazaar plus the holidays I would be going crazy if I had to get this done right away. I already have the idea in my head for Robin's apron and can't wait to go pick out fabric.
Handmade purses and bath delights at www.rusticcottagecreations.com |
| daffodil dreamer |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 8:43:06 PM
Thanks so much, Elizabeth - I already received an email from Karin! |
| candismom |
Posted - Oct 24 2006 : 06:11:37 AM
Janye,
I needed one more so I put you in Please check the partner list.
Hugs,
Elizabeth |
| daffodil dreamer |
Posted - Oct 23 2006 : 8:08:26 PM
Hi all,
I wish I had seen this earlier - have been away on a lovely holiday visiting my new little niece. Could I be in the next round, if anyone wants to go again (I would say that would be a yes!!!)
Best wishes,
Jayne |
| candismom |
Posted - Oct 23 2006 : 10:01:58 AM
Babs,I will explain details when I post partners but if you have time go back and read all the post in this thread and it will give you an ideal.
Thanks for joining,
Hugs,
Elizabeth |
| berries |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 9:18:50 PM
Yes, Tasha is the apron queen, and Nancy Jo is our angel! What lovely ladies! I really don't know what I did without "ya'll"!!!!!
strawberries forever, gloria g.
strawberry fields forever and ever! |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 7:42:41 PM
You know Tasha, some sicknesses are just not worth curing. I would say your apron illness falls into this category. As soon as I set my family room back to rights, I am getting out my sewing machine to make some aprons. I don't think I will ever catch up to you though. :) You are the queen!!
Karin |
| Luzy |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 3:48:49 PM
No way Jenny!!! That's too cool!! Maybe we should start a new thread like this...Favorite places we've eaten at through out our lives!! Leave it to me to bring up a FOOD topic!!
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 3:42:31 PM
I have eaten at Awful Annies too!! YUMMMMMMMMM!!! Auburn is one of my all time favorite towns for antiquing. I havn't been there in too long!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Luzy |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 1:42:20 PM
Wow! Joanne! It's so good to hear about your stories and life around Linclon/Roseville. I'm REALLY from Marysville, but most people don't know where that is so I say Sacramento, even tho I lived in Sac too for many years. I cant believe there's an Awful Annies in Lincoln!!! I remember stopping at the drive-in there(A&W) on our way back home from a day at Denios Flea market in Roseville. Great Fun!
Sorry girls, I know I'm off topic here, but it's so great to share memories with someone from back home!!
Please feel free to email me, Joanne. This is just great!!!
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
| Wood Bee Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 1:21:20 PM
Luann, bot only have we been to Awful Annie's in Auburn but now their is another Awful Annie's newly opened in Lincoln! Lincoln? That tiny cow poke of a town with the old off again on again pottery factory, Roseville Pottery now so collectable that the Factory is historical, putting Lincoln on the map. We use to live 5 miles from town out past the tiny airport, eight years with ten acres of pasture for cattle. We had chickens with real eggs, beef while we were not vegetarians and even a horse and goats. Our children were betwwen 3 and 12 while we lived out there so we got the best years for them on a "farm". My husband tried the Mitlieter, raised bed gardening method which turned out to be alot of work just to set up. We had alot of flowers and a quince tree. It must sound funny to most of you actual, real, working farm gals out east of us but it was my taste of living sorta like on a farm. We drank cow's fresh milk, made butter and yogert, my husband did the bread making from whole grains he ground himself. Our kids learned alot in those years. We were right next plot to a private pond with a duck blind and full growth of trees, lots of wild bushes, rushes and cattails. Our elderly neighbors no longer hunted there and gave us free reign on it. We did not hunt either so it was a quiet wonderland that drew lots of wild birds, ducks, geese, etc. Onc my husband found an eglet stuck in a wire fence along the road, he saved him and we all took him to the pond where he probably belonged.
We once had a barn owl for a short visit, He or She had been standing in the middle of the road late at nite, I stopped thinking he would move but I think the car lites blinded him so I put a paper sack over him, held his feet and drove home so my family could see him up close. We had the "biggest" toad we thought, "in the world", my husband picked him uo the same way, in the middle of the road late at night. We all waited for warts to pop out all over him! Ha! The goat died, the horse was to big inspite of being the most gentle old gal. Turned out we were all too afraid to ride her, it was just too far up to the saddle! The chickens even eventually had to go as our beautiful bird dog got the flavor and we couldn't break her or give her away. My husband delivered them to the nearest little zoo where other chiclkens lived! Well as you see I am just a Wood bee farmgirl, had a nice taste with fond and fum memories then moved on
Roseville, the nearest city and our lives changed very much! that was all over 20 yrsw ago!!! My kids are almost as old as I am!!!! |
| babs |
Posted - Oct 22 2006 : 12:31:33 PM
Excuse me, hello :)
I was just wondering if the swappage will be explained at some point, or maybe I missed it?
Are we making a particular type of apron, or is this to be decided among the partners?
Sorry, a little new to swaps, but I'm a hopeless apron addict. :)
Babs
Country Egg
www.countryegg.com |
| Luzy |
Posted - Oct 21 2006 : 2:54:25 PM
Also......Is there a thread started about a Farmgirl Christmas Boutique?? Did I miss it?? I looked under the holiday heading, but didnt see anything.
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
| Luzy |
Posted - Oct 21 2006 : 2:44:11 PM
Welcome Joanne! So happy to have you here with us! I'm originally from Sacramento, and I sure miss "back home". One of my all time favorite restaurants is Awful Annies in Auburn. Do you ever go there?? I'm looking forward to getting to know you.
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
| Wood Bee Farmgirl |
Posted - Oct 21 2006 : 2:22:11 PM
Ahh, how sweet this is, to be so kindly welcomed! While reading through the posted messages I sense the deep joys being shared between kindred spirits! We are each tied to the apron strings of our past. Womenfolk of each era, with the same God given gifts to love, to make a home, to have children, to be creative with our hands both for useful and decorative purposes. Our Mothers, Grand, Great and Great-Great, we thank you all from our hearts! Even those of us who may not have had a personal experience, we still have that same deep heart knowing of heritage just because we are here! Is it any wonder we fall in love with the reminders of our heritage. Aprons especially remind of us so many things that surround the feminine displays of family love. We, who love so very very many of the same things are much like sisters, friends for always. Put any two or three of us in the same room alone for even a week with no TV, radio or extra curricular entertainment and we would not lack for things to talk, laugh or cry about! This would just be the time to "get acquainted", then on we could always pick up from there and go on, no matter the time that passes, nor the miles between us, we are tied together at the heart by those loving apron strings from the women in our pasts. Ahh, how sweet it is to be farmgirls at heart! |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 4:19:00 PM
nope. I am too fond of all of them and I am too attached to them. I keep them mostly stored in clear boxes, and I rotate them on the hooks I do have up. I have my standards that I wear all the time and those only change once they are too thin and worn to wear anymore.
I am just serioiusly attached to aprons. I can't stop making them or buying them...most of my collection is purchased. I think of the aprons, maybe 20 are made by me. I have two right now that I made that I don't want to keep. that rose one that I posted on my blog as well as the pillow case 1/2 apron. That is my new thing, pillowcase aprons...love it!
It's a sickness. a sad sad wonderful sickness....
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 3:53:22 PM
80???? Do you want to consign some at our Farmgirl's Christmas Boutique????
Handmade purses and bath delights at www.rusticcottagecreations.com |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 1:08:17 PM
Tasha,
80 aprons!!! you do know that is a lot of aprons? If you can stand to part with them, you could sell a few, or it seems to me you could put a really big dent in your christmas list.Where do you keep them all? You should have one whole wall with hooks and hang them all up. I would love to see that on your blog.
NANCY JO |
| berries |
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 12:53:51 PM
Oh Tasha, you need pictures to share, and maybe a wall for framed pictures. Think how beautiful that would be. A whole display of your work! I can hardly wait. Our Strawberry Butters Farmgirl Chapter is making aprons too, and the quilt shop where we meet is putting up an "apron rack" so we can hang them on!!!! So excited! I would love to see all yours Tasha!
Better addicted to sewing aprons than........
love, hugs, and strawberries, gloria g. Richards, TX
strawberry fields forever and ever! |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Oct 20 2006 : 08:48:27 AM
I now have 78 aprons....just wanted to update you all ;)
I am finishing two today, making 80, and I am also finishing Nancy Jo's Edwardian today as well....
This is a sickness. I just wish I had space to display them ALL!
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com |
| candismom |
Posted - Oct 19 2006 : 11:29:42 PM
Yes I can add you two. That will still make it an even number.
Thanks,
Elizabeth |
| babs |
Posted - Oct 19 2006 : 5:35:37 PM
I think she closed it, but if you want to join, then I can, and it's still an even number. ;)
Babs
Country Egg
www.countryegg.com |
| rock-n-hoer |
Posted - Oct 19 2006 : 09:44:51 AM
Is there any more room on this? I'd love to join in.
Art, as far as it has the ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, so that art must be, as it were, a descendant of God. - Dante |
| candismom |
Posted - Oct 19 2006 : 08:36:25 AM
We have an even number now so I am going to close this round. I will post partners later next week.
Start your machines ladies.:)
Hugs,
Elizabeth |
| suzyhomemaker |
Posted - Oct 18 2006 : 05:10:05 AM
Hi, Joanne. It is so nice to have you join the group. I lvoe to talk with other women who love to create, especially through sewing and quilting. We are going to have a lot of fun with this forum and the friendships made. Check out the Barter Section for a Christmas swap going on.
Clare
Country girl in NE PA |
