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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 09:59:03 AM
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Ok ladies I think it's time to have our own website, I know many of you have been having simular thoughts. I was already going to post all the art that I got on site own site but I think with the way this is growing we need our own site. So last night I talked to my husband (the brains behind many of my ideas) and we're going to do it, we'll host the site as a subdomain of our site. This is turning out to be such a big thing, it's so wonderful to be a part of it. I hear Mary Jane is thinking about featuring us in her next magazine, thats a pretty neat thing.
I plan to get started on designing and building the site right away. We were thinking eventually we will have a journal on the site so people could write in from time to time and share their thoughts about making and receiving the mail art.
So please any questions, comments and ideas feel free to email me or post here.
Oh and check out our new site for the Artian's Web. It's finally up and running and waiting for more people to join up. Just ckick on the link below the Sqrl&Bee. Unfortunitly if you have an old monitor like the one I have at work than it won't look nearly as good as it should. But oh well check it out anyway.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 10:01:48 AM
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Melissa! What a beautiful website!!! Can't wait to see what you come up with for the Farmgirls Mail Art!
P.S. I'll be contacting you for a listing when I get my apron production going!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 10:04:29 AM
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Wonderful Melissa! You are so talented! Thank you so much for doinf this! Inspiring!!!!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2005 : 08:43:17 AM
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I just want to state just incase there are any missunderstandings that in no way does this website take the place of the mail art. Nothing changes, it's just a place to have a gallery. We will have a journal (or a blog whatever you want to call it) so people can scan the art if you have a scanner or you could use a digital camera and post the art yourself. This way everyone will get a chance to see all this beautiful art going around. Any questions let me know.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2005 : 10:56:02 AM
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Melissa -- I can't wait to see what you do for the Sisterhood site! Yours is beautiful!
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2005 : 12:48:41 PM
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I love the idea of a site for us show off our art and journal our thoughts, can't wait to see it Melissa, thanks for building it.
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
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bubblesnz
True Blue Farmgirl
291 Posts
helen
New Zealand
291 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2005 : 3:22:49 PM
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Good on you Melissa, thanks for that, will be neat to see all the art there.
A great oak, is just a little nut which held it's ground. |
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
1199 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2005 : 7:10:00 PM
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Hi Melissa,
I finally got a chance to look at your site. It is very nice. My computer is not to old and we have xp but your site shows up to large and the scroll only goes part way down and part way across I was not able to read the bottom of the pages. HMMM don't know how to fix that so I can see it better. I am excited for my daughter and her husband to see your site. They have a nice one to and also advocate the simpler life style. They built a yurt from the ground up and have it all documented there on their site.
You can see it at
www.foursongs.com click on owner built yurt.
Michael is starting up a "build your own yurt" class this summer and already has all his materials and plans drawn up.
I am going to send Audrey to look at your site.
Eileen
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 09:21:51 AM
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Eileen, I will have to look at that and make sure it's not the site. But i think it sounds like the resolution is really high on your monitor. Do you have problems with other sites? This is good for me to know since I have only a few monitors to view our site on it helps to get imput from others.
Keep checking on the site we're constantly working on it right now so it's changing a lot all the time.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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FarrarFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
330 Posts
Lynda
Frohna
Missouri
USA
330 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 09:52:39 AM
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Hi, Clare,
What kind of apron production are you trying to get started? I'd like to know more about your efforts and ideas. I love making arpons and at one time thought about making them in quantity for sale, but was not at all sure how to go about getting started. I'd love to hear what you have to say and more about what you are doing. Thank you for sharing your insights. God bless you this day.
In His hands,
Lynda
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[i]P.S. I'll be contacting you for a listing when I get my apron production going![/navy]
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 10:06:20 AM
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Well Lynda, I have not formulated a firm plan yet, but am going to get started (maybe this weekend!) getting my vintage patterns copied to sturdy wrapping paper, and then start. I have made a few a year ago or so... from a 1930's pattern, but am concentrating on 1940's styles. I intend to trademark my "name" for them, and perhaps to sell them via Ebay and word of mouth... maybe a few select vendor booths, too. This will be in addition to my full time paying job, so weekends and evenings, as time allows, for production. Perhaps I'll post a few style choices that I have available and do some on consignment, too. I'll keep y'all posted!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 10:16:56 AM
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Clare, I'll be looking for that red gingham bib style!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 10:31:33 AM
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Clare - you know you probably have a large order just waiting to happen from us here on this site!
Melissa - I look forward to seeing the mail art site, but I do not have a scanner or a digital camera set-up, so I am truly a snail mail art girl.
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Jul 22 2005 10:32:12 AM |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 12:46:48 PM
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I'd like to see some of your aprons too Clare, they are hard to find around here. I love the old fashioned aprons.
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
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FarrarFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
330 Posts
Lynda
Frohna
Missouri
USA
330 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 2:35:06 PM
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Here's a quick question (hopefully not too dumb). I'm so new to the mail art, when you send something out, do you make several of one thing to send out to several on the list or do you make separate individual items and pick and choose who gets what?
I am happy to be a part of this phenomenom, I think it will be so much fun because what a joy it will be to open the mailbox to something other than white envelopes that require a payment in return. Boy, won't the US postal service love us! There for a while there was the fear that email would put a dent into their business and they would have to raise prices and on and on and on, but now.....we can put their fears to rest with the resurgance of old-fashioned postal service needed to carry our treasures/art/inspiring notes from one home to the next.
Oooops another question...since I haven't received any mail art yet, I'm curious just what exactly are some of the things that are being sent?
I must admit I have not mailed anything out yet, because I'm really not sure what to do for it, but have put it on my "to-do" list for the weekend and that's when this question came to mind. It will be a great project to work on inside since it will be blistering outside - 100+ degrees. My poor garden and plants.
I'm sorry girls, I just can't write only two lines or one question. I guess I have a babbling nature, in case you haven't already figured that out by now or noticed.
Looking forward to your suggestions and experiences. Blessings to you all!
In His hands,
Lynda
Oh and thanks, Clare, for your reply about your apron production intentions. I'm pretty much in the same situation, full time work and a part-time home business, so sewing gets squeezed in when it can. I'll be curious how the E-bay venture goes for you, I've not tried that yet.
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2005 : 4:19:15 PM
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Lynda - the best thing about the mail art project, and probably the reason it has become so popular, is th fact you can do whatever your little heart desires.
Make a post card and decorate it, enclose something neat like a seed packet or a feather, use stickers, paint, pieces of fabric. The important thing is to make it something you want to spend time on and share. Choose to send to anyone on your list and make your art as you have time.
Be creative and let your heart be your artist! Just make it small enough to mail!!!!
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
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bubblesnz
True Blue Farmgirl
291 Posts
helen
New Zealand
291 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2005 : 2:19:10 PM
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Sqrl,I am not sure if this is possible, or how others feel about it, but I was thinking it would be great to see a pic of the person who did the mail art work.
For me, it would be neat to put a face to the name of the person who sent to me.
And then seeing as you are good at this website thing, you could stick all our heads together in a group pic, so we could print it off into a calendar for next year for ourselves. I for one would love to have the group hanging on the kitchen wall, sharing my coffee.
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climbergirl
Farmgirl in Training
11 Posts
west & north roadtrip
USA
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Posted - Jul 24 2005 : 01:52:13 AM
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bubblesnz
True Blue Farmgirl
291 Posts
helen
New Zealand
291 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2005 : 9:26:01 PM
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Thanks climbergirl, will try and get it figured
A great oak, is just a little nut which held it's ground. |
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
576 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2005 : 9:55:17 PM
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I just sent off my first piece today.. I couldn't think of what to do so I asked my husband to throw out some really abstract phrase (something he's very good at) and I would take it from there... He did and I did but I don't want to say what I made until it gets where it's going because I don't want to spoil it for the recipiant.. but it's fun to just do some goofy thing and send it off :)
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. James Stewart in the movie HARVEY |
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The Farmers Daughter
Farmgirl in Training
46 Posts
Sherry
LeRoy
Kansas
USA
46 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 07:37:41 AM
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Melissa, I too am having trouble making the page scroll down far enough to where I can read/see it all. Would love to have a look. Any idea what I'm doing wrong??? Thanks!
Sher, The Farmer's Daughter |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 09:20:15 AM
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Sherry, I'll have to think on that and talk to my husband. I'm not sure what is causing that I since I haven't had that problem yet.
Helen, I too would like to see a picture of everyone. I was thinking of having list of the ladies that says they're name and the country and state that they live in which is of course optional as some ladies may not want that info shown. We can have a picture (if submitted by the person) with this list. This all had to do with a data base of course and that takes time to build. So I think first the site gets built and than all the stuff willing come next. Also when we show the piece of art we will put the senders name, country and address (optional)
Now about the site. It is being designed as we speak. I got all the colors together ( first step) this weekend and began building the first page. It's coming along great, it's very cute and girly with a little farmgirl spunk.
The journal is finished!!!! I just have to write in it put a few instructions and add a bead for the book mark and send it out. It will be features on the front page of the site. Optimaly I would like to keep track of the journal as it goes around the world and post that along with the book. But that will be up to you gals and emailing me when you get the book.
I will also post something like a monthly news letter. Also I am not a writter but many of you tell such lovely stories like in the topic " How did you get statrted" I think it's posted in " a farm of your own". If anyone would like to wirte about this, mail art or anything in and around the forum please let me know and we'll post it on the site. The more the merrier. I just love sites ( like MJF) that keep you there, you don't want to leave until you have read every little bit. I guess thats it for now. Thats all thats fit to print.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 11:36:04 AM
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A newsletter, another great idea, if I can help let me know, I"m a writer, not in book form yet, but have had a article or two published and tons of published articles on the internet. I hope to have a website up this winter too. Can't wait to get the journal!!
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 1:52:25 PM
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Sue, I will most certainly take you up on the offer. I can design anything even words, but I am not a writter. may be via email I will send you the info and you can write it up send it back and I'll post it. Oh I love it - team work. Thanks
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:13:00 PM
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Melissa, glad to help out anyway I can. I got your email and will put the old thinking cap on, when do you need it by? I am SO excited how this sisterhood of ours is really taking off, it's amazing! Proves women are pretty powerful!
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Cindylou
Farmgirl at Heart
243 Posts
Cindylou
Moscow
Idaho
243 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 2:51:12 PM
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Back to the wonderful Mail Art project! So far, BlueEggBabe, Susan Atwell, Jane Hubner and MollyMae have sent their beautiful creations to all of us here at MaryJanesFarm. What creative artsy farmgirls all! Thanks for making our day!
Carol will be scanning these fabulous works of art soon to be displayed on the website so you can all take a gander! She is still recovering from eye surgery, so it will be a little while. In the meantime, we are all wishing her a quick recovery.
BlueEggBabe, thanks for sending me my own personalized mail art, you're a doll as I can see, thanks for the tea!! I am WOWED to say the least!
Thank you to all our cherished farmgirls! I want to share Mary Tollmans' definition of Farmgirls sent in a recent letter after she participated in the Farmgirl Campout July 3rd ~
"Farmgirls,as we have all come to realize - do not reside just in the country. This state of mind and disposition of heart is an inner quality. They have beauty, grace, humility, the romantic love of by-gone eras, and down-to-earth practicality. Only a country girl can be a hopeless romantic, yet a practical realist. For esample :"Honey, we've got too many chickens. Dinner will be under the starts tonight on an heirloom quilt with grandma's hand-embroidered napkins. The menu ... fried chicken."
Thanks to you all for being part of this amazing group of kindred spirits!
love ya!
MaryJane's Left-Hand Farmgirl
Cindylou
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