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mum2caden
Farmgirl at Heart
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Kerri
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
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 Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 07:18:08 AM
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Hello everyone.
I found this site the other day and I just love it. I am not a true farm girl since I live in Toronto, but I wish I was. I love to do all kinds of crafts, sewing, knitting, embroidery, tatting- and I am slowly trying to teach myself other things. I want to learn how to quilt most of all. I love to bake and would love to have a nice herb garden at some point in my life.
I adore anything from the 1800's and wish I could dress like that everyday and just live that simple life. I love anything to do with Laura Ingalls Wilder as well.
I am 26 and have a nearly 2 and a half year old son named Caden. My husband, Matt, works in advertising here and that is why I am stuck in Toronto, despite not really belonging.
We are hoping to move to Australia and get citizenship in a few years (we lived there for a year and really miss it) but I am working on getting my nursing degree first, before we go.
I am a vegetarian, nearly vegan, though I would probably eat eggs and dairy if I got it from a nice little farm and knew the process was animal friendly.
Other than that, I can't think of much else to say. I have already learned a lot from you all just by reading through the board and I hope to learn a lot more.
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 07:22:42 AM
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Welcome, Kerri -
It sounds like you are most definitely a Farmgirl at Heart, if not in actuality. (Yet!)
You will love the FarmGirl Connection and we will enjoy getting to know you!
What part of Toronto are you in? My Dad and his siblings grew up in the 1920's and 30's in the Don Valley (before the highways) and he still has fond memories of those times. He and my mom are retired near Windsor, Ontario, now.
Jo
"There are no strangers here, only friends you've yet to meet." |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 07:36:56 AM
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Welcome Kerri! I would say that you are definitely a farmgirl! It's where your heart is. I just learned to tat last fall, using my great-great grandmother's tatting shuttle! I love it. Doesn't take long to get hooked on it, once you get the hang of that darn "flip"!
Glad you found us, and look forward to hearing more from you.
Karin |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 08:06:07 AM
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welcome Kerri!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 08:20:32 AM
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Welcome Kerri!
Though I already said hi to you on my blog, I wanted to pipe in here too! Wow! You know how to do all kinds of neat crafts. I have to agree with the other ladies - you are definately a farmgirl at heart. There are lots of us on the board here, we may not have that little (or big!) acreage in the country (yet!) but that doesn't mean we're not secretly farmgirls.
Must get to work - hope to hear from you more, -meg
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
http://theprimroseway.blogspot.com/ |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 09:16:33 AM
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Welcome Kerri!!
Gosh, I wish you lived closer..I would love to learn to tat..one thing I just never got around to learning..
I think you are going to fit in really well here..sounds like you have a farmgirl mindset for sure..and think like alot of us...it will be fun to get to know you!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 10:38:55 AM
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Welcome Farmgirl Kerri!
There are many northern farmgirls here.....enjoy and don't be afraid to jump in!
G
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
Thanks for checking out my apron and sewing musings! |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 6:15:52 PM
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Hi Kerri! With all your talents, you could pick up quilting in no time. I hope you give it a try!
Can't wait to hear more about you! Drop in often! Cindy
If life gives you scraps, make quilts! |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
2077 Posts |
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nitere
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Amy
Hickory
NC
USA
482 Posts |
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shelle
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Shelle
oklahoma
USA
404 Posts |
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
1862 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2007 : 8:01:29 PM
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Hey Keri
I am originally from the big T.O (Queen and Leslie area) now I live and work on a 200 year old dairy farm in PEI!!! Welcome to the farmgirl chat!! there are a super duper bunch of ladies here
"learn to watch snails" SARK |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
2804 Posts |
Posted - Feb 25 2007 : 3:36:35 PM
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Welcome Keri
Being a farmgirl is more on the inside then outside. Sounds like you will fit in and I am sure we will be learning a lot from you too. Enjoy, share often and soon you will be getting that farm you always wanted.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com |
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
404 Posts |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 05:19:10 AM
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Hi Kerri!
Glad to have another Canadian farmgirl on board! My little sis lives in TO, so I know how "unfarmlike" the big city can be. But you've got the farmgirl spirit - glad to have you on board!
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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beckels
True Blue Farmgirl
237 Posts
becky
warrington
pa
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 4:35:24 PM
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Welcome to the group Kerri
beckels |
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
4877 Posts |
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EmmJay
True Blue Farmgirl
352 Posts
Mary Jane
Amherst
Nova Scotia
Canada
352 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 06:58:01 AM
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Welcome Kerri from another Canadian...
I grew up around TO, Oshawa, Niag Falls, and Ft. Erie. I still go back to visit when I can, but gotta tell you, I love coming home to the Maritimes.
I am in NS now on a farm and absolutely LOVIN IT !
I know you will fit right in, and there truly is a bunch of GREAT gals here.
MJ
"Thank GOD I'm a country girl"
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 09:27:47 AM
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Hi Kerri,
Welcome. Remember - being a Farmgirl is a state of mind. You will fit right in.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 12:54:42 AM
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Welcome Kerri!
So glad you found us! I know how you feel. My husbands job is in Japan and I am dreaming for the day I can be out in the country on a bit of land with my chickens and milk cow and gardens and orchard!(and who knows what all else! ) I too am vegetarian but am lacto-ovo (was raised vegan) and I LOVE Little House!! The first gift my husband bought me when we got married was the whole series in hard back because my paperback set was sooooooo loved he felt it should be retired ( trust me I still have it though! )and since I LOVE books and LOVE Little House it was such a perfect gift!! I look forward to getting to know you more as I see you around and I hope you enjoy it here even half as much as I have and do!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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