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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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 Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 06:09:44 AM
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Meadowlark - yes! You know, I had forgotten that...
Grace - I still have some of that leather! I have a fringed buckskin jacket that I have been thinking of selling as vintage. It is so heavy! And, I seem to remember a halter top that was chamois with fringe....in those younger days.....
To get back on topic, by looking at my house, which is Williamsburg, one would never know that there were hippie days in my past! :)
jpbluesky
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
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NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 06:23:30 AM
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Ahh, jpbluesky, just hang some tie dye near your front door, and that'll explain everything to everyone! 
**** 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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Kathigene
True Blue Farmgirl
160 Posts
Kathy
New York
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Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 08:13:34 AM
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About a year or more ago I spotted a book in a book store called Hippie Crafts. Well of course I had to look at it but as I pulled it down from the shelf I promised myself I would not buy it. The book brought back so many memories. It wasn't just the crafts but also pictures from the 60's. I had to buy it and I've already made two projects from it and it and I'm sure I'll make more. I think there is a pattern in it for a halter top like jpbluesky mentioned above and of course lots of tie dye. So if you're looking to recreate your hippie days!!!
Kathy
Dogs make such good friends because they wag their tails rather then their tongues. |
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 08:08:50 AM
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Meadowlark howabout a ramblin woman:
http://www.musicalwomen.com/Pages/sveamp3.html
Kathy I got the hips for crafts! LOL does the book have a macrame hammock?
Now you gone and added Willamsburg to what I don't know? Is that like a the colony log cabin? |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 08:29:02 AM
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Clare- tie dyed curtains - that is the answer! The muslin will work!
byHzgrace - Williamsburg is a small town in Virginia that was an early colony of the USA. The houses and buildings have a distinct look - both brick and wood, they look traditional with shutters, dormers, windows with many panes, and paneled doors. I like the look because it can be very minimalist. Wood floors, walls with chair railings, simple candle type light fixtures, brick fireplaces with nice molding surrounds. Add a braided rug and rustic furniture and it looks nice. Or it can be fancy english china and mohagony furniture - it has many looks but is quite American (brought from England). Does that supply more of a visual?
When the hippie days were here, we loved quilts, oil lamps, baskets, pottery, organic gardens all things natural. Still love those things!!! :)
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AuntieJen
Farmgirl at Heart
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Jenny
Tacoma
WA
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 10:38:43 AM
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| Funny how some of the things that you say people liked in the hippie days are really just quality, classic things that evoke interest and warm feelings no matter what era it is....my dad says I should've been a hippie, but I wasn't even conceived until 1970....I missed it.....but I do have paisley curtains in my kitchen and an oriental rug in there, so it has a certain hippie vibe. We have a 1924 craftsman that we are slowly renovating. I guess my style (now) would be farmhouse with some natural accents thrown in - a bird nest under glass with a few real bird egg halves in it, a log candle holder, bird houses, china, tarnished silver, natural bamboo shades, a wind-up weiner dog that barks (okay, that's just a quirky extra that I got at Goodwill. He makes me smile.) A few years ago I found an old butter box from my hometown of Enumclaw, WA and that sits proudly on the top of my kitchen window trim. And my bedroom is all Shabby Chic, pale blue and green. Very restful. |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 10:58:50 AM
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Hi Auntie Jen, Sounds like your home is hippie chic refined! I love the sound of it! I was 14 in 1970 and a hippie wannabe...had the suede fringed vest that my mother hated, HUGE tye dyed bellbottoms and peace choker necklace and homemade bead necklaces and the Peter Max posters and plastic pillows. I was groovin'. I love it that this stuff is coming back and your generation is reinventing those times.
Being is what it is. Jean Paul Sartre |
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Kathigene
True Blue Farmgirl
160 Posts
Kathy
New York
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 1:11:21 PM
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Grace, No macrame hammock but there are some other macrame projects. If I ever find a pattern for a hammock I will be sure to let you know. There is a knotted hammock in MaryJane's book. Have you seen that? I have the hips for crafts too Grace. Are you old enough to remember how skinny everyone tried to be in the 60's. I've always been shaped like a woman - well since about the time I turned twelve. I bloomed early.
Kathy
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 2:09:35 PM
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In 1970 (I was 10), the paisley was on my bell bottoms and I was doing macrame for the 4-H fair! How's that for a blast from the past!
And I seem to remember an Allman Bros song "sweet Melissa, that's for you SQRL! Everyone's house is a mirror of who they are and I am a treasure hunting clutter bug married to a shaker loving plain decorating man. I should have been born a Victorian, him a little earlier! Somehow we make it work!And our son swears he likes MODERN!
Though he did make tye dyed shirts this week with his friends so...maybe there's hope!
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Edited by - bramble on Aug 28 2005 2:14:10 PM |
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AuntieJen
Farmgirl at Heart
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Jenny
Tacoma
WA
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Posted - Aug 29 2005 : 08:06:56 AM
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| Hippie chic refined, I like that:) |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melissa
Northern California
USA
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