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Stitching & Crafting Room:  Apron Sew-A--Long...read and then move to the new  |
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 6:18:45 PM
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| Oh bev!!! Hugs!!! I'm soo sorry! |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 6:53:17 PM
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I am starting a new column on my blog....The Fabric Ho blog..........I'm calling it: The Fabric Diaries. Hope you can pop in and take a read. I'll put a link under my name.
Bev........I'm so sorry, peaceful light heading your way.
Bonne.......love your new apron and YES, tomorrow I am sewing a Samhain apron!!
G
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
http://auntgeorge.etsy.com
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Edited by - Aunt George on Aug 21 2007 7:03:25 PM |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:02:49 PM
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| love it george...love it...i think you are such a great writer...we should all send her head scarves...what a great story! |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:14:25 PM
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| okay...i have an idea i am rolling around in my head tell me if you think it is okay or corny...my husband is 100% Italian, and the cousins are coming from Italy in a few short weeks. Of course, the Mom who is about 50 ish can cook like there is no tomorrow and it is amazing!! I have been trying to come up with a good gift for her...what if I made a reversible apron with the Alexander Henry states print(this land is your land?) on one side and the Jarrar state flowers print on the otherside...then put it with an Indiana shaped cutting board, an Indiana and Illinois(where my husbands family lives) shaped cookie cutter, a hand embroidered set of tea towels, and a book that our local printshop put together of local artists renderings of places in my town. Is this a good idea or cheesy...I really think these people are down to earth, and my husbands family is pretty upity..so they think most things I do are so po-dunk...should i do it or just let it go? i do not speak Italian, they do not speak English...but from what I know of them..I have never actually met the parents, only the mid 20's kids...they seem very rural and they are farmer types...should i do it or let my diamond slinging inlaws influence me not to? |
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Bonne
True Blue Farmgirl
3003 Posts
Bonne
Littleton
CO
USA
3003 Posts |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:50:04 PM
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| oh thanks i sometimes let the family intimidate me...they are just so snooty. thank you for the encouragement! |
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DeepsouthMamma
True Blue Farmgirl
1454 Posts
Autumn
Southwest Louisiana
USA
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Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:50:42 PM
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A sweet gesture of kindness is worth it whether they appreciate it or not- that's what kindness is- it's own reward.
You can rest your head knowing you made an effort to be"neighborly" and I suspect the snootiest of people appreciate that.
Hey- I'm just thinking- maybe you should send ME all that cool stuff!!! 
I say it's not cheesy-
Autumn
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:52:35 PM
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| see i knew you girls would be help me with this...ha...i know they will love it. |
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 7:58:00 PM
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I bought another sewing machine today.... it is a fairly new electric singer with a 2 letter serial number. I will post pictures of my auction finds. The lady was a seamstress. I spent $40.50 I also got enough bone china pretty tea cups for Bev's and Georgann's tea parties. This woman collected pretty tea cups, had boxes of aprons, and in the 4 drawer thing filled with patterns, bias tape and tailor's chalk... She was a woman after my own heart. I now wish I had only met her. I did meet her daughter, and since I had won most of her sewing things including her singer, She seemed happy that I was not a scavenger looking to make a buck on eBay.
E-
BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com www.BotanicalBath.etsy.com http://botanicalbath.blogspot.com/
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 8:01:29 PM
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| good for you elizabeth!!!!! I am doing graces happy dance for you...and drinking another beer and salut...to you!!! |
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 8:13:45 PM
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You all are wonderful! I've been reading all of these great pages and ooohhhing and ahhhhing over the photos - you're all so talented!
I MUST make a "Bonne/1949" apron for myself, too. I can't find the post that had the link to the pattern in it - would anyone mind re-posting it for me?
Thanks for the laughs and inspiration, too, gals!!!
XOXO, Libbie
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 9:22:52 PM
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Ah, Jess, you sweet cheesy thing you.......I love it and me being 50ish and everyone says I cook like there is not tomorrow........would be delighted in your loving heartfelt slice of Americana! She will feel so welcomed. Be sure to have food!!!
You are doing right by yourself and doing honor in the eyes of your husband. Now be sure to ask your husband if tradition would dictate that she would have to return a gift of such thoughtfulness to you. Don't know if your gift may make her feel uncomfortable.............but me not being educated that way says, follow your instincts!!
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
http://thefabricho.blogspot.com/
http://auntgeorge.etsy.com
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 9:24:56 PM
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I went back through and I found it!!! YAY!!!
XOXO, Libbie
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 10:09:22 PM
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| okay...here is the deal...good story...pull up a chair...but i will make it short...the long is too long...my husbands grandfather immigrated from Italy to the US through Argentina, liked it here, sent for his sweetheart(my husband's grandmother)..and she immigrated through ellis island...very soon after they had 4 kids...it was the middle of the great depression, they had 4 small kids, and no money and no family and did not speak english and had no job...he "left" in search of work...never to be seen again...my husbands father was 4...and one of those boys who sold newspapers on the street corners in Chicago to help feed the fam...anyway..all my fil's life he has been trying to find out what happened to his father. He has been to search records everywhere including italy...nothing..he vanished...gone...no one has any record of the guy ever existing!!! Well.. my fil speaks a very very old dialect of Italian very fluently...and is in his late 70's...well, about 3 yrs ago he was on the internet and went to a message board in the tiny teensy little village where his father was from and posted a message...his last name, his fathers name, his fathers birthdate, and that he had immigrated to the us in a certain year and does anyone know anything about his family. well...about a month passed and he got an email from his Dad's...brother's...son's kids..who are in their mid 20's. So, about one year later the 2 kids in their 20's came to Chicago to visit...then last year in April, my husband, his parents, and 2 of his cousins from the us travelled to Italy to meet the rest of the family...now, the kids and the parents are coming to the US. Now, when they were in Italy, I was at home about to have baby #7..we were having tornado's about every other day...we had no power for days..and all my neighbors houses were missing porches and roofs and trees were down...it was like hell...but my house was never touched...amazing! Now, just so you know, I am the one who encouraged my husband to go, because this was a great once in a lifetime op for him to travel with his father to his grandfather's home town...and if I had to have the baby without him...fine..I have extremely easy labor and delivery. Anyway...while he was in Italy the Mom gave him this beautiful small table cloth and set of 4 napkins of white cutwork. Ever since then I have felt lik eI really wanted to do something cool for her, but now they are coming here...so I want to do this , but of course my mil poo poos this kind of thing. Oh and by the way...the baby was 3 wks late, he made it for her birth...my entire labor and delivery from first contraction to delivery of placenta was less than 40 minutes...and she was fully cooked weighing in at 10 pounds even! So there is my story of why I want to do something cool fo rthe mom! |
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 10:54:02 PM
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Originally posted by smoothiejuice
Of course, the Mom who is about 50 ish can cook like there is no tomorrow and it is amazing!! I have been trying to come up with a good gift for her...what if I made a reversible apron with the Alexander Henry states print(this land is your land?) on one side and the Jarrar state flowers print on the otherside...then put it with an Indiana shaped cutting board, an Indiana and Illinois(where my husbands family lives) shaped cookie cutter, a hand embroidered set of tea towels, and a book that our local printshop put together of local artists renderings of places in my town. ?
I think that is a great gift. The only thing I would worry about is the weight of the cutting board and flying back.
Dont worry about your MIL, What is a really cool gift to take back to Italy is probably very different that what you MIL may think. Dont worry so much.
E-
BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com www.BotanicalBath.etsy.com http://botanicalbath.blogspot.com/
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 03:43:35 AM
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Hi Jess, I agree.....great gift and I loved reading the story!
And E....WOW! I checked out your blog.
Georgann....I love the fabic ho blog! Great idea....your alter-ego.
I just have one question...how did the most amazing, sweetest, kindest women in the whole country make it on to this one thread on this one message board? I think destiny brought us all together! Can't wait to see where it takes us!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
Check out my shoppe at www.honeybeez.etsy.com
www.beehavenacres.blogspot.com , www.beehavenmaven.blogspot.com |
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 05:37:04 AM
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Ummm...okay Bev...I know you arent putting things on your etsy...and you are waiting for christmas...but when you do put that one on your etsy will ya give me a heads up? I am definitely in the I have to have that one opinion!!! Great apron ...yo yos and bows and dragonflies...the brown blue and a hint of pink...great job!
Oh and Elizabeth...great great shopping trip!! YOu did very well...good for you!!! I love all of it...gosh..I am just overflowing with love this morning!
Thanks for al your help with my Italian situation...jess |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
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Bonne
True Blue Farmgirl
3003 Posts
Bonne
Littleton
CO
USA
3003 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 06:11:20 AM
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Love the dragonflies Bev!!
Jess, I'm still wondering about Grandpa~I'm betting he got mugged by thugs~
high competition for jobs (if you could find one)and all. Sad.
Beth, can't believe all the goodies you got at auction! whoo hooo!!!
No sewing for me today~going to visit son~Hobby Lobby and Joann's on the way though!
It would be a crime not to check in just to "see". What is it about shopping in smaller towns?everything seems better~LOL
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 06:19:27 AM
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| oh...well.. the long of it is..we hope that is what happened, but probably not...I think he was probably a reall piece of work...and well...he probably did himself in...but we will never really know, so we just hope he got to where he was going and the poor guy had some mishap that caused him to never return. But that strong wife of his...she refused to just pack up and go home, and raised her family up in a one room highrise with water like 20 stories below that you had to carry up with no lighting in the stairways...and the kids all worked to help survive and they all made it to adulthood...went to school, got careers and families, and most became fairly successful. So, that dream they were searching for actually eventually became reality. It is always an inspiration to me to think about that when i am having days i do not really care for! |
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 06:57:06 AM
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| Wow!!! That is an amazing story Jessica!!! Beautiful! Oh and Bev!!! I LOVE that apron! That is my favorite of all so far! You all never cease to amaze me! Hugs! |
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Stitching & Crafting Room: Apron Sew-A--Long...read and then move to the new |
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Apron Sew-A--Long...read and then move to the new
