tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881678902621684972024-02-19T02:16:47.074-06:00Traveling ThroughSomewhere to get away from the hustle and bustle, somewhere to let happy thoughts dwell. Somewhere to be able to love what is lovely.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-18927102077985562732012-07-25T22:41:00.003-05:002012-07-25T22:41:54.759-05:00I am so sorry that I have not explained my absence. Things got busy, time got away, and life marched on. I am now active on Facebook. If you are interested in connecting there my name is Valerie Bircher (Nanette Hutchinson). Would love to hear from you! - NanetteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-62445196985115522302011-02-14T22:09:00.001-06:002011-02-14T22:11:05.012-06:00Valentine's Day 2011<div style="text-align: center;">Antony and Cleopatra tea from The Tea Table...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The tradition of pressing black tea into various forms and shapes dates back to the early Song Dynasty, 960-1279 B.C. Sculptors and artisans would work with tea the way others worked with clay or textiles to form delicate works of art. Unlike traditional art pieces, however, these tea creations were never meant to be permanent, instead serving to represent the impermanence of life, love, and happiness here on earth." (The Tea Table)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"The tea hearts serve as a testament to fractured love. Like love itself, the tea hearts are fragile and breakable and when the trials and tribulations of life come to bear on it, can unravel in the same way boiling water poured over the hearts causes them to undo, creating a rich bold liquor."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">HOW COOL IS THAT?!?! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Uhmmm, okay anyway,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A little heart-shaped tea cake, a pink heart-shaped cake,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Set a little table with our pink Cunningham & Pickett, Inc., Norway Rose...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pink, pink, pink, lots of pink!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's add our newly purchased Futura by Pope-Gosser (Sharon pattern) creamer and sugar...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Aren't these just as cute as can be? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> We started out on the little table but soon moved over to the dining table.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pink cake on the inside!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And...our Little companion was pink today too! </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you all had a very...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!</div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-49718015661152040662011-02-08T17:33:00.000-06:002011-02-08T17:33:02.959-06:00Here I am, over here!<div style="text-align: center;">Okay, so January is out and February is chugging along.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's still cold but, as we all know, spring is just around the corner.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">January had some interesting twists and turns this year. Found out that two of my offspring have incomplete right bundle branch blocks. They are just fine but it was rather worrisome until we found out just what was going on with them. Interestingly enough those are the two here in North Dakota. Anyway, it all worked out and their tickers are still ticking and no operations are looming in the near future so we are thankful about all that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We also decided that we would pull Little Companion out of the public school and homeschool her for at least the rest of the year. There were many things that contributed to this decision. We will just say this gives her a more flexible schedule.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We have always had extra education material for her here at home anyway so it has not been hard to go full time with the homeschooling, just a little time consuming getting started.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There is a little more to the story but will leave that for a later date.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the meantime, Little Companion would like to remind everyone that it is Girl Scout Cookie time and encourages you to show your support.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">All the Brownie Girl Scouts in the house say hey!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Will be checking out blogs in the next week or so. Hoping and trusting everyone has remained well and safe!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-28931260511186897532011-01-14T13:20:00.000-06:002011-01-14T13:20:55.325-06:00January challenges<div style="text-align: center;">The first half of January has been very busy with unexpected challenges. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have not been able to visit blogs as I would have liked to but think of my blogging buddies often. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hoping to have things ironed out within the next couple of weeks and get, ha, "back to normal." </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Using what time is available to keep my hands busy with crochet and my spirit drawing near to God.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to getting back soon!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-29739607970606721392010-12-29T21:16:00.001-06:002010-12-29T23:01:53.541-06:00Christmas Tea 2010<div style="text-align: center;">I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. </div><div style="text-align: center;">We have been enjoying the Christmas break with the little things that keep you busy this time of year.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have also had a cold and so have been resting between adventures. But, before we ring in the new year I figured I should get some pictures up of the tea this year.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowflakes. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought it was appropriate for a North Dakota Christmas day tea.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I made the snowflakes. They are pretty easy once you get the hang of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We used the Old Country Roses china and flatware. I even got to use the medium platter my sweet daughter got for me this year for the gingerbread scones.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Egg and Chive Tea Sandwiches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Banana Bread</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chocolate Tea Bread</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gingerbread Scones with mock Devonshire Cream</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sugar Cookies</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Tea was </div><div style="text-align: center;">Holiday Dreams from The Tea Table. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a blend of China black teas with citrus peels, rose petals, cloves, almond bits, and genuine Bourbon vanilla pieces.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My oldest daughter and her daughter, aka, Little Companion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Steve who is in college and therefore thought he was exempt from the dress up a bit request. Should we give him a break?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The angels...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The angels from a different angle...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Awwww. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope you had plenty of hugs and kisses this year along with joyful memories.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll leave you with a poem:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">On Christmas day at half past three</div><div style="text-align: center;">Brew yourself a cup of tea.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ill think of you, you think of me</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sitting beside the Christmas tree.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to 2011!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-12088600264027601452010-12-22T15:47:00.001-06:002010-12-22T15:47:55.559-06:00<img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI5MzA1NDQyMDQzNyZwdD*xMjkzMDU*NDYwMTI1JnA9Mzg2MzYxJmQ9Jm49YmxvZ2dlciZnPTEmbz1hOWRmYzU3M2ViZjg*/NDBhODcwOWE3MzMxN2Y2NjI2NSZvZj*w.gif" /><div style="width:480px;text-align:right;"><embed width="480" height="360" src="http://static.pbsrc.com/flash/rss_slideshow.swf" flashvars="rssFeed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed1089.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi342%2Fvalerienanette%2FDecember%25202010%2520North%2520Dakota%2Ffeed.rss" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" > </embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/redirect/album?showShareLB=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.pbsrc.com/share/icons/embed/btn_geturs.gif" style="border:none;" /></a><a href="http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/i342/valerienanette/December%202010%20North%20Dakota/" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.pbsrc.com/share/icons/embed/btn_viewall.gif" style="border:none;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-1643272402817649302010-12-15T20:38:00.000-06:002010-12-15T20:38:25.622-06:00Wow, it is almost Thursday!<div style="text-align: center;">As is with just about everyone this time of year we have been busy too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You have your normal busy and then little surprises that pop up along the way that make you just one day realize that it is almost Thursday, again! My computer was on the fritz for awhile but I was able to get to it today and restore it's usefulness. We also had the school program and package wrapping... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have been working on my white doily on and off for the last couple of weeks. I finally completed it today and will share it with you at the end of the post.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last week I shared with you that I had finished the dress I had made for Little Companion but we still needed to have the photo shoot. It is nice that my Little Companion lovingly complied and that we now have these pictures. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We were going for a classy young lady look that was fun and a little vintage. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have had so much fun over the years with this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She has an enormous amount of hair for a 7-year-old (and she is not too keen on hairspray).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Love this picture, gives you a little inkling that she is really full of vim, vigor, and vitality. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Little Companion is a lovely young lady and a joy to be around. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">On to the doily...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now I don't mean to complain but I have to say this was ummm... difficult!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You had your tr, FPdc, FPtr, 5-DTR decrease, beginning 2-DC cluster, 2-DC cluster, beginning 3-DC cluster, 3-DC cluster, beginning split 6-TR cluster, split 6-TR cluster, ending split 6-TR cluster, and your picot. Yes ... difficult. I would have to put it down and really think about coming back to it. In the end I had to take out 3 rows, and re-do. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">But, in the end it was worth it. I have not washed it yet or blocked it in this picture but I did want to share. Now if you think this is an absolutely gorgeous doily that is because the pattern is from the Absolutely Gorgeous Doilies book by Leisure Arts. It is the Perfect Pineapple pattern. I definitely feel that I have climbed another rung on the crochet ladder with this one and am happy that I continued on to completion. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy WIP Wednesday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Marie Anne for Work in Progress Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please go over and visit her at <a href="http://macrochet.blogspot.com/">http://macrochet.blogspot.com/</a> and see what everyone else has been up to.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-9252148577786271552010-12-08T10:39:00.000-06:002010-12-08T10:39:50.537-06:00WIP Wednesday<div style="text-align: center;">I am feeling a little better this week as I have managed to finish up some of my projects.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN0btmIBLmenvnQCsz9QEbXnp0ryvqknXRsa2wLwFxmsZDSXeGG93mRPIM5aEnffw6AFLd9O7shkS5-YKHOV96rfwngxkhCWruKL3vDx6bT6BB3d54CTc762zSUbIDLX6V2IFUsL_lfaz/s1600/heart+of+home+019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN0btmIBLmenvnQCsz9QEbXnp0ryvqknXRsa2wLwFxmsZDSXeGG93mRPIM5aEnffw6AFLd9O7shkS5-YKHOV96rfwngxkhCWruKL3vDx6bT6BB3d54CTc762zSUbIDLX6V2IFUsL_lfaz/s320/heart+of+home+019.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Finished up the crochet ornaments and got them hung.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdCpcupQkEfwp1IKMOzaqu3_JK7BNaCKpDw80LVSfziamnIUBBUDpjJFiEKK08RjcKNlBvkLqQ9YO1Fqvk07BxFvfmzAEJH6mX_eGaMpASoKPt0YAsgXhMZXcvI5n381K2AKMOaf3I5E2/s1600/heart+of+home+007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdCpcupQkEfwp1IKMOzaqu3_JK7BNaCKpDw80LVSfziamnIUBBUDpjJFiEKK08RjcKNlBvkLqQ9YO1Fqvk07BxFvfmzAEJH6mX_eGaMpASoKPt0YAsgXhMZXcvI5n381K2AKMOaf3I5E2/s320/heart+of+home+007.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Finished up the dress I was working on for Little Companion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJIAcx_v6TdOrSNIqkKSuskMpmwhMk3EySup7PdRdo5fMXUfZxtRJ0N6gTAnPSrpppSq-xUdqDt943FZphzKFi2_o2REffvgFM4AVFgm4-zW-7PmaSzrPA_uKibp42icjBV1On4H_BLaP/s1600/heart+of+home+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJIAcx_v6TdOrSNIqkKSuskMpmwhMk3EySup7PdRdo5fMXUfZxtRJ0N6gTAnPSrpppSq-xUdqDt943FZphzKFi2_o2REffvgFM4AVFgm4-zW-7PmaSzrPA_uKibp42icjBV1On4H_BLaP/s320/heart+of+home+005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">See the little bow in the front? There is a matching bow to go in her hair too.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hopefully we will have some time to get a picture soon. She is very busy with school, Brownies, and all the holiday happenings!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJx-c0hjfVv9EdG1XfL09pgC85WHVSnc9mcqY5hHC7F_nlp2HEJB56AyFeBnG4T2Q0Qrs-rMpkQZbp3Ho1JVVU9sJXHQC7bgKvFnY0CJbretpunPtNiePCIifmqUWYdOadXGXpsGWakn4/s1600/heart+of+home+015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJx-c0hjfVv9EdG1XfL09pgC85WHVSnc9mcqY5hHC7F_nlp2HEJB56AyFeBnG4T2Q0Qrs-rMpkQZbp3Ho1JVVU9sJXHQC7bgKvFnY0CJbretpunPtNiePCIifmqUWYdOadXGXpsGWakn4/s320/heart+of+home+015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Finished up the lap blanket.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3tyWjidZbhRgwFBwYQTPQtFllRhiMTTp1Gh6MzPuI_VXoV9qEBQOTT5GDyR_8v4PrTGwckdoX6QRTYc6Y7cGZqUUNVfj8zyGgMl5hopjiIRWFfEbQiTpiScDxUocIntbg2sRXbyZskGG/s1600/heart+of+home+014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3tyWjidZbhRgwFBwYQTPQtFllRhiMTTp1Gh6MzPuI_VXoV9qEBQOTT5GDyR_8v4PrTGwckdoX6QRTYc6Y7cGZqUUNVfj8zyGgMl5hopjiIRWFfEbQiTpiScDxUocIntbg2sRXbyZskGG/s320/heart+of+home+014.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Almost finished my hot cocoa gifts, just need to put some stickers on the jars. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The first recipe I used tasted like it was just missing something so I started over. I found a recipe that used pudding as an ingredient and it was wonderful! </div><div style="text-align: center;">I think if I do these again I will use smaller jars. This amount may last some folks years! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9x6Ym9VZBlK_YRAAJB0zosDA20gseNWbbbuvfow_kSRNsxDOsiw3iNtt22Fli1ebiuTRyMvez8OwWLtSLBqBZZPcLWp_y1AShL-m-fBfRQCLsydZsHzewsrSLPH6ULyUpqZbPu4wVtAb/s1600/heart+of+home+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9x6Ym9VZBlK_YRAAJB0zosDA20gseNWbbbuvfow_kSRNsxDOsiw3iNtt22Fli1ebiuTRyMvez8OwWLtSLBqBZZPcLWp_y1AShL-m-fBfRQCLsydZsHzewsrSLPH6ULyUpqZbPu4wVtAb/s320/heart+of+home+002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I also made this hat this week. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Little Companion asked if it was for her and I told her no. </div><div style="text-align: center;">She asked if she could try it on and I said yes. </div><div style="text-align: center;">She said, oh, it keeps my ears nice and warm. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Ya ... she walked away with it after all!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuNq1ZaJqrzWAdEXTCVZQ7t_mxIF9axQSNPPI5kXk4EQn_8yo5tWNMNt5miYCTsH8wxzD-i3EFZ6CKMCrNfM9av3vFiU78oxf-7GF3-CjdS2BU7Umfh9EiFxFsBW9neLvkQmDItQAr__O/s1600/heart+of+home+010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuNq1ZaJqrzWAdEXTCVZQ7t_mxIF9axQSNPPI5kXk4EQn_8yo5tWNMNt5miYCTsH8wxzD-i3EFZ6CKMCrNfM9av3vFiU78oxf-7GF3-CjdS2BU7Umfh9EiFxFsBW9neLvkQmDItQAr__O/s320/heart+of+home+010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This doily I finished last month but wanted to wait to share it until after Thanksgiving.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3S6Uy-gySK0tziX0qULuyvpRH187NN73Mej618b-1Cy3oMeIKjJ_RSlcmhYEDBDKCWgbkOxuEV1GJx7WuefcBigBl06bF1G8i9ygdPNoeDEFHuAoIRg2JOlcsfcnXaGsu2nrLE6qWKdPr/s1600/heart+of+home+012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3S6Uy-gySK0tziX0qULuyvpRH187NN73Mej618b-1Cy3oMeIKjJ_RSlcmhYEDBDKCWgbkOxuEV1GJx7WuefcBigBl06bF1G8i9ygdPNoeDEFHuAoIRg2JOlcsfcnXaGsu2nrLE6qWKdPr/s320/heart+of+home+012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Helps to add to the holiday spirit!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy WIP Wednesday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Marie Anne for Work in Progress Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please go over and visit her at <a href="http://macrochet.blogspot.com/">http://macrochet.blogspot.com/</a> and see what everyone else has been up to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-40095923150434792632010-12-03T22:59:00.001-06:002010-12-03T23:02:14.506-06:00Crochet ornaments<div style="text-align: center;">Well, I really am moving on with my projects. Tonight I got the ornaments on my little tree.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Through the years I have occasionally had one or two crocheted ornaments on my tree and I wondered what it would look like to have a tree entirely decorated with crochet ornaments.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> The tree topper is a last minute improvisation that did not want to stay straight ... just ignore it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Angels we have heard on high...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Snowflakes, no two are the same (some are very close though!).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I heard the bells on Christmas day...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowflakes!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ta Da!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas Bells</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I heard the bells on Christmas day </div><div style="text-align: center;">Their old, familiar carols play,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And wild and sweet the words repeat</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of peace on earth, good-will to men!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And thought how, as the day had come,</div><div style="text-align: center;">The belfries of all Christendom</div><div style="text-align: center;">Had rolled along</div><div style="text-align: center;">The unbroken song</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of peace on earth good-will to men.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Till ringing, singing on its way</div><div style="text-align: center;">The world revolved from night to day,</div><div style="text-align: center;">A voice, a chime,</div><div style="text-align: center;">A chant sublime</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of peace on earth, good-will to men!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then from each black, accursed mouth</div><div style="text-align: center;">The cannon thundered in the South,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And with the sound</div><div style="text-align: center;">The carols drowned</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of peace on earth, good-will to men!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And in despair I bowed my head;</div><div style="text-align: center;">There is no peace on earth, I said;</div><div style="text-align: center;">For hate is strong,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And mocks the song</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of peace on earth, good-will to men! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then pealed the bells more loud and deep;</div><div style="text-align: center;">God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Wrong shall fail,</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Right prevail,</div><div style="text-align: center;">With peace on earth, good-will to men!<br />
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The poem is set to music in the video below.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I tend to like to start something and finish it before going on. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have my thread crochet doily I am working on...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A lap blanket...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and a dress for my Little Companion...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She really appreciates the dresses I make for her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I did get my ornaments all starched and blocked...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">with the help of my fancy new homemade blocking board, but have not put them on my little tree yet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> (It is so dry here you do not really have to worry about rust and can use regular pins.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: center;">So those are my works in progress and I hope to finish up a couple of them this week then on to a couple more I have in mind before Christmas...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy WIP Wednesday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Marie Anne for Work in Progress Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please go over and visit her at <a href="http://macrochet.blogspot.com/">http://macrochet.blogspot.com/</a> and see what everyone else has been up to.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-29225988495180166052010-11-25T18:04:00.000-06:002010-11-25T18:04:13.556-06:00Thanksgiving 2010<div style="text-align: center;">Happy Thanksgiving!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We hope you had a very nice day, we did. We made turkeys...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Two years ago we learned from Ceekay, over at <a href="http://thinkinofhome.blogspot.com/">http://thinkinofhome.blogspot.com/</a>, how to make these little cookie turkeys and it has since become a tradition for my Little Companion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She also was in charge of napkin folding for the table.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She did a very fine job.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was just Little Companion and me for this Thanksgiving dinner, the roads were not safe today for the group in Minot to travel out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We are thankful for the family that loves us, the friends who remember us with fondness, and the savior who gave his life for us so we can live eternally with the most high God.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wishing you peace.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-56120032731437565532010-11-17T10:25:00.000-06:002010-11-17T10:25:00.798-06:00WIP Wednesday - green doily<div style="text-align: center;">Well I finished my Afternoon Tea green doily. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The pattern is in the Leisure Arts Tea Time Doilies book. I used a #6 hook and it turned out to be right about 18 inches which is not too far from the pattern at 17-3/4 inches.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I ended up having to re-do about 6 rows toward the end because of a couple of careless errors. Don't you just hate careless errors?!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the end it was well worth the re-do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcBhBzAz8czuR44JxLXzn1_Xj4NV3hFQHY1Bg36wMLhqo1dy75qgm-BqY6v7WYfvptkB2yVoYJfO8xTEPhYgx6iSgY2j4DS22uPpwyH1Jj14HLL6fiPNHQR8WnKMx1Inpy9b9yfh4G-pz/s1600/heart+of+home+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcBhBzAz8czuR44JxLXzn1_Xj4NV3hFQHY1Bg36wMLhqo1dy75qgm-BqY6v7WYfvptkB2yVoYJfO8xTEPhYgx6iSgY2j4DS22uPpwyH1Jj14HLL6fiPNHQR8WnKMx1Inpy9b9yfh4G-pz/s320/heart+of+home+003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to say this is one of my favorite doilies so far. It will go well with my Old Country Roses.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This week I plan on creating a fancy cardboard blocking board ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and using it to block these ornaments for a little tree I picked up not long ago. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Marie Anne for Work in Progress Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please go over and visit her at <a href="http://macrochet.blogspot.com/">http://macrochet.blogspot.com/</a> and see what everyone else has been up to.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-57789537656847833302010-11-15T10:10:00.002-06:002010-11-15T10:13:06.645-06:00Blue Monday - Outside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEEMXZQW29Gssr294ZnTmWJpn5F8ujSIT3CDJTDCD7vHOlG2gOmcWkhxdf6pnOyuqvWYGIA4IpF9xyhmiOsNzVg4m7wzv3ztqGyRsfKWlPtBcw0pgUm1LMpgUbOFaYH-lUqDioGk_lZgY/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEEMXZQW29Gssr294ZnTmWJpn5F8ujSIT3CDJTDCD7vHOlG2gOmcWkhxdf6pnOyuqvWYGIA4IpF9xyhmiOsNzVg4m7wzv3ztqGyRsfKWlPtBcw0pgUm1LMpgUbOFaYH-lUqDioGk_lZgY/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Sally today at <a href="http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/">http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/</a> for Blue Monday. Please go over and visit her to see all the other wonderful Blue Monday posts.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Driving to and fro here recently there have been enormous amounts of birds in migration. At times the flocks nearly fill the visible sky.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This weekend we saw some resting in the Blue water along the way.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjanXuXlmd202zAOopEHWNs3LAOE42LIdOixKnxdOXcaA1gEeM78ybSqsB4aAgRPwaSryagJUNt84Qgnsd4e5DDCzZMCmWzdIltHvJB9Nbr8LLoTDgOILb0ttaQoaD9ZQciwSDLCFKAQ5bg/s1600/heart+of+home+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjanXuXlmd202zAOopEHWNs3LAOE42LIdOixKnxdOXcaA1gEeM78ybSqsB4aAgRPwaSryagJUNt84Qgnsd4e5DDCzZMCmWzdIltHvJB9Nbr8LLoTDgOILb0ttaQoaD9ZQciwSDLCFKAQ5bg/s320/heart+of+home+004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">And when I say some, I mean a lot! </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">When they are in flight and the sky is lined as far as the eye can see</div><div style="text-align: center;">you feel as if there is something ominous just over the horizon </div><div style="text-align: center;">and you are the only thing that does not know the danger ahead. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You are pushing forward as they are escaping in the other direction, flapping their wings with determination and desperation as if to say...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">flee now, flee now! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ha! Of course it is winter just over the horizon and no matter how brutal it may be I have to thank my lucky stars...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am not a bird!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-43475998461469253812010-11-10T21:30:00.000-06:002010-11-10T21:30:01.764-06:00Work in Progress Wednesday<div style="text-align: center;">I am joining Marie Anne at <a href="http://macrochet.blogspot.com/">http://macrochet.blogspot.com/</a> for Work-in-Progress Wednesday. Thank you for hosting this event, Marie Anne!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My current project is a doily from the Leisure Arts Tea Time Doilies book.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So far, so good!</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-15762275965332050482010-11-09T10:32:00.000-06:002010-11-09T10:32:18.521-06:00This and that<div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday I had to put aside my hooks and bust out ye olde sewing machine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had found some material that I thought was very much in line with the cottage style. We found this material for $8.00 at Goodwill, yards and yards, and in very good condition. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of course we washed and dried the material first. I don't think it had ever been washed, just stored. Tape measure and pencil in hand... sewing machine and iron at the ready... we began.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Through the magic of blogging ... we are now finished!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The curtains are really more red than pink. Think we need some red hand towels now?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I also made these ties to coordinate. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay, see how they appear to be going up hill? </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bAo4e6vokgK9lNopq-CO9txFGREoaaRdTkiwScsl2hnlaB54wTinbleuty0gToD-IiW7uc3PAAjea8KHq2UEtkpjwYhHeCFC2yT3OogtwL1GjP3GdSFIWU9Z0s5CeZ6qQtudyY3R9X-M/s1600/heart+of+home+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bAo4e6vokgK9lNopq-CO9txFGREoaaRdTkiwScsl2hnlaB54wTinbleuty0gToD-IiW7uc3PAAjea8KHq2UEtkpjwYhHeCFC2yT3OogtwL1GjP3GdSFIWU9Z0s5CeZ6qQtudyY3R9X-M/s320/heart+of+home+017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking right the same thing appears to be happening. This is called an "<i>OPTICAL ILLUSION</i>" and really the ties are all approximately the same length. (But I am sure you knew that. Be sure to use your fingers and make the quote signs when you say "<i>OPTICAL ILLUSION</i>" it can be quite entertaining.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">See, all approximately the same length. Also made the little mat on the floor.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">SWITCHING GEARS...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">On a very different but totally exciting note, I received the boots we had ordered in the mail yesterday. I am quite excited about this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't know if you remember the old rain boots that you would stick your shoes into but these are the same concept ... on steroids. These overshoes are Stabilicers by Neos.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">They are exactly what I wanted. I don't like snow boots because when I pull my foot out my sock will come off, or the inside comes out, and causes me intense irritation. These I can put on with any of my shoes or boots and take them off once safely inside. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">They open very wide and Velcro almost all the way down for secure fastening. There is also a strap that attaches and detaches to secure the overshoe around the front.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">On the bottom not only does it have great tread there are also little bolts sticking out for traction on ice. There is a little tool in an inside pocket for removing the bolts if you don't want them attached. I'm thinking with these babies, this year I won't land face down on the concrete sidewalk again!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So there you have it. My daughter once told me I was like the character Nicole Kidman played in Cold Mountain, ladylike and yet competent in tough situations. I like that description.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-30980826377777528312010-11-08T09:52:00.001-06:002010-11-08T09:52:57.312-06:00Blue Monday - Town Murals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMA02QOJZBC-19Vf-kOw7xf0GFEJnpIOaCTCzsMFhhxH0BT_BSsoMX0LlAfYebsUH-6NM6_jiIemayOboVf7aEQdMeIvtYYi7R6FCL95FFim0cg9jZGV-ObO36UuIn6481MWQfXvMkI9k7/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMA02QOJZBC-19Vf-kOw7xf0GFEJnpIOaCTCzsMFhhxH0BT_BSsoMX0LlAfYebsUH-6NM6_jiIemayOboVf7aEQdMeIvtYYi7R6FCL95FFim0cg9jZGV-ObO36UuIn6481MWQfXvMkI9k7/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Once again it's Blue Monday hosted by Sally over at <a href="http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/">http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/</a>. Please stop by and check out the other wonderful blue posts today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As you meander through Harvey, North Dakota you will notice, here and there, some wonderful murals. Not one to just appreciate the art and not investigate a little further, I found that a now local artist by the name of Chris Wakefield can be credited.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chris Wakefield moved from Alaska to Harvey to have a starting point to travel and do more art shows in the lower 48 states; however, the family decided they liked the area enough to make it home. (Minot Daily News.com, November 9, 2009)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">(I am sorry about the quality of pictures but these were taken this morning on the way home from taking Little Companion to school and it was wicked foggy outside!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">This huge mural is titled Koi Pond. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">The city pays for the paint and Chris donates the work. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Isn't this one sweet? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll share more later, hopefully I will be able to snap some pictures on a day that is not so wickedly foggy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I want to give you his website in case you would like to see more of his work: <a href="http://www.wakefieldarts.com/index.htm">http://www.wakefieldarts.com/index.htm</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you for visiting me today. Wishing you a wonderful week!</div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-31813913727341184532010-11-03T10:50:00.000-05:002010-11-03T10:50:44.210-05:00Oh look, a doily!<div style="text-align: center;">My most recent completed doily...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As soon as I had finished this I tossed it over to my daughter and said, "there, I finished your doily." Ha, ha. Had I actually meant that? Well, whether I did or not daughter claimed it and she now has a new doily!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay, so here is <i>my daughter's</i> finished doily. I also have this doily in blue, which I had crocheted back in April (<a href="http://travelingthrough2.blogspot.com/2010/04/doily-day.html">http://travelingthrough2.blogspot.com/2010/04/doily-day.html</a> ). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This pattern is from The Complete Guide to Thread Crochet<br />
by Leisure Arts and is the round doily.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope you are having a good week!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-58839944374848811712010-11-01T09:57:00.001-05:002010-11-01T10:51:43.389-05:00Halloween just past<div style="text-align: center;">We had quite the busy Halloween day yesterday. A 70 mile drive into the city, a morning filled with worship, a fine Chinese lunch, a little shopping, back 70 miles and then... Halloween!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Little Companion went as a girl from Little House on the Prairie.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever heard of or participated in a trunk or treat? (Blue car)</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">With this one you registered your trunk and fancied it all up, then congregated with others in a big parking lot where children then trick or treated around. (Blue trunk)</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Very fun seeing all the creative ideas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxDITnqp2A5E3Wb-Jb21gOyF0p7CTg56LjjnZ4lPvxEJ-W7_-kvKGpKlvzsOEdfa6dknf3U1x-hh3yZBbXpQ5cDT2eop8JmwCw5wzGGO3K5M-12H7ViL4vVy4RZYzwi3J4VNkTSw-PDoat/s1600/heart+of+home+037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxDITnqp2A5E3Wb-Jb21gOyF0p7CTg56LjjnZ4lPvxEJ-W7_-kvKGpKlvzsOEdfa6dknf3U1x-hh3yZBbXpQ5cDT2eop8JmwCw5wzGGO3K5M-12H7ViL4vVy4RZYzwi3J4VNkTSw-PDoat/s320/heart+of+home+037.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought this truck was really cute with the farmer giving out treats. (Farmer's blue shirt)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Look at all the blue!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As we moved on to some of the houses, Little Companion recognized a friend from school with her puppy and little snow white sister. (Blue coat and part of little sister's costume)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't eat all that candy Little Companion!! She says she knows, she knows.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And in closing I just wanted to say I am so glad I am not ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">that guy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">On with the week.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday the rain began...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the wind began to howl ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the temperature dropped. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">By evening we had...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a very ominous looking evening.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The wind howled all night and the snow piled into drifts and by morning we had...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A heavy, wet, snowy, winter wonderland!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdNwIa4gmP-wpSOO8h5vHl90AqjlvGqcNtOnoUvGUfAIYEWVWjRqbIYDueavvvFssnRRgV8Oe1z3xXbq2vZfclWMRBdfHPGDGcG6tNhnLLI0PLQWr61y_wp99YLotQILKXcjvU6yGNzyR/s1600/heart+of+home+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdNwIa4gmP-wpSOO8h5vHl90AqjlvGqcNtOnoUvGUfAIYEWVWjRqbIYDueavvvFssnRRgV8Oe1z3xXbq2vZfclWMRBdfHPGDGcG6tNhnLLI0PLQWr61y_wp99YLotQILKXcjvU6yGNzyR/s320/heart+of+home+016.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oops! Can't get out the back door.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkK5QUxqKP4fZDGUyo1uMcLiG4YQE1ex_YcP8VnbEF8BdzO8tIC5-LFT-b22HDv2v8erZHrUg5CVkB_W5HR_JTtcwidPOZ8OimhAwvq6dKhTvgVAktdfAbao2Q5FnxS1wO8inMCT9VuvN/s1600/heart+of+home+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkK5QUxqKP4fZDGUyo1uMcLiG4YQE1ex_YcP8VnbEF8BdzO8tIC5-LFT-b22HDv2v8erZHrUg5CVkB_W5HR_JTtcwidPOZ8OimhAwvq6dKhTvgVAktdfAbao2Q5FnxS1wO8inMCT9VuvN/s320/heart+of+home+017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Reach around and snap this picture. There is the mighty Kia to the right, the chicken coop to the left. (Us chickens ... I think not.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> Luckily we can get out the front door cause you wouldn't like me when I start to feel claustrophobic! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love how the snow just sat there and let me take its picture. No screen, it is just stuck that way.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Out the front door. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh no, too cold and windy! Back inside where it is nice and warm.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHx2IRYvzKMsvMdwfZRFqC76VQFScd9_XDk9wtbR2hjnzFoaMlq7TkH1_OTGdBG9QRYkgBDWN4RplR8sLC1aJ_P9nYcH3emwZmITdW3WqcNlVl6iG3ziNBYdN2m4lVfJCXwl-Mlr0ODi08/s1600/heart+of+home+018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHx2IRYvzKMsvMdwfZRFqC76VQFScd9_XDk9wtbR2hjnzFoaMlq7TkH1_OTGdBG9QRYkgBDWN4RplR8sLC1aJ_P9nYcH3emwZmITdW3WqcNlVl6iG3ziNBYdN2m4lVfJCXwl-Mlr0ODi08/s320/heart+of+home+018.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Love how this tree looks. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Almost half the country has had some wicked weather. Hope everyone is safe and warm!</div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-45741993119124652432010-10-24T23:22:00.001-05:002010-10-24T23:32:36.129-05:00The end of the weekend<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Well I finished my doily for the Crochet along hosted by Glor at </div><div style="text-align: center;">http://glor-crochetgalore.blogspot.com/2010/10/crochet-long-1918-pattern.html. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I used </div><div style="text-align: center;">a variegated thread consisting of yellow, baby blue, green, and pink. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Really makes me think of cotton candy and Easter when I look at it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you Glor I had a wonderful time with this!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We are not thinking of Easter at this time here in North Dakota, we are all waiting for winter to hit. The snow is supposedly set to begin sometime Wednesday or Thursday. While driving home today from church we passed this sign.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh43zCoOJAnKc3LCBMfZliSsAtSBGcM3dBwV-N0k3zd3d1KoiXM8BzL-qJsjIssyOGHIOC0KuWv_wiLSRZ1EQxYqfrF5PUWkUSpqJXbbDchoi7UTajL3aPYSDnM3KWJVc_vBGQ8ECz5kW2/s1600/heart+of+home+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh43zCoOJAnKc3LCBMfZliSsAtSBGcM3dBwV-N0k3zd3d1KoiXM8BzL-qJsjIssyOGHIOC0KuWv_wiLSRZ1EQxYqfrF5PUWkUSpqJXbbDchoi7UTajL3aPYSDnM3KWJVc_vBGQ8ECz5kW2/s320/heart+of+home+002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ya, nice thought but I don't think it's going to work! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope you have a cozy week.<br />
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I will also be linking up with Sally at <br />
http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ for Blue Monday. One of the colors in the doily is a light baby blue. Happy Blue Monday!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yvf8rleBfHphG5kwOdM6O3FCLtIKuFi_BnuNoNweCq4dqkGWHQb2BaMUziS-wSPGcLpAYtUUYv65o828JV3Vx05a4r6Z3ZHvQkLfIGTatKsHX7ObJXjlPaBXBpZWEtMHKgJO4UILDRSP/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yvf8rleBfHphG5kwOdM6O3FCLtIKuFi_BnuNoNweCq4dqkGWHQb2BaMUziS-wSPGcLpAYtUUYv65o828JV3Vx05a4r6Z3ZHvQkLfIGTatKsHX7ObJXjlPaBXBpZWEtMHKgJO4UILDRSP/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-17595034065445057672010-10-20T18:58:00.000-05:002010-10-20T18:58:54.154-05:00Pretties...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> You may think this post is about my first set of china, China Garden Prestige, that I acquired in the early '80s, but really that is not the focus today.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> You may think it is about the doily and coasters I made while I was in Alaska, but really those are not the focus today.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The focus today is not the blue glasses from Pier 1 or the napkins or centerpiece I picked up along the way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The focus today is on this sweet silverplate I picked up recently.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There are 8 matching forks, spoons, and knives. There are 2 matching salad forks and I picked up 6 of another pattern to mix if I needed to. There are 2 serving spoons, a cake server, and 2 tablespoons. Two other forks I liked came home with me too. Would you like to know (oh I just have to tell you) how much this all cost? Ready... $6.50. The way I look at it - that's a lot of fun for six dollars and fifty cents!</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thought I would add the salad forks and a Cuningham & Picket, Inc., Norway Rose salad plate.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">One of the old rules was your knife pointed toward the plate, remember?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYX9m83Ex0xo7Sch-dRXyzS7xJDPTolmrD8uquiIhNDwPzWDyX4qTN5owfEcGCtBuU1qpZ39uCEXl6feZlWtCM0ZwGeTFzVf9ojvez9d4-UVkl1BEKp_-AnqlCG5IT0bSYeNgj7jtkMCu/s1600/heart+of+home+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYX9m83Ex0xo7Sch-dRXyzS7xJDPTolmrD8uquiIhNDwPzWDyX4qTN5owfEcGCtBuU1qpZ39uCEXl6feZlWtCM0ZwGeTFzVf9ojvez9d4-UVkl1BEKp_-AnqlCG5IT0bSYeNgj7jtkMCu/s320/heart+of+home+013.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"> Napkin on the outside unless not enough room, then under the silverware.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love the room we have now for artistic interpretation in our table setting and so many of the tables I have seen are truly works of art.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A simple table, a simple meal served with love and ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">really cool silverware!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I will be linking to Thrifty Thursday sponsored by Leigh of Bloggeritaville at <a href="http://lbratina.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tales from Bloggeritaville</a> <br />
Thank you Leigh for hosting!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-90092847120707385022010-10-18T11:07:00.000-05:002010-10-18T11:07:37.592-05:00Blue Monday - Cafe<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zlzf8lsu6jnPO5jh1Y9vZpkcweUF0g8ZrtmsFSLnkzeM7PBd4ykJj9-FLNjWrJ3DSsgYl2F7shF1sO6P4X6fldR5DID0SAtz6v76Zo20ANq7jBigk0xIvC2yt04232R80gHqr7H4On-6/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zlzf8lsu6jnPO5jh1Y9vZpkcweUF0g8ZrtmsFSLnkzeM7PBd4ykJj9-FLNjWrJ3DSsgYl2F7shF1sO6P4X6fldR5DID0SAtz6v76Zo20ANq7jBigk0xIvC2yt04232R80gHqr7H4On-6/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
Welcome to my Blue Monday post.<br />
Blue Mondays are hosted by Sally at <br />
http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/. Thank you Sally!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you are ever in Rugby, North Dakota and are feeling the urge for a hamburger or some delicious coffee you might want to consider...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Do you like the flags reflected in the window? US, Canadian, and North Dakota. Just a hop, skip, and a jump to Canada from here.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">They blatantly advertise they are the home of Toe Jam. Hum... I did not stop to peruse the selection or purchase any of the products at this time. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, they also have quite a bit of blue around the place.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bazooka Bubble Gum tin,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Doggie treat tin...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">and this wall of license plates, primarily in blue.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Hope you are enjoying your Blue Monday!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-5123356689079068182010-10-12T22:59:00.001-05:002010-10-12T23:14:40.773-05:00Heart of the Home<div style="text-align: center;">Welcome to our cottage kitchen!<br />
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And thank you very much Sheila at http://notesongs.blogspot.com/ for inviting us to your Heart of the Home party!<br />
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I Cor. 13:13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these <i>is</i> love.<br />
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We shined up our sink.<br />
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We looked to the right and...<br />
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to the left.<br />
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We checked from up above and...<br />
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down below and are pleased to invite you in. Please come on in!<br />
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Our little cozy kitchen where we have been known to have chefed up a chiffon cake in the past.<br />
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Normally Little Companion and I have this ladder out because well, we are not as tall as some.<br />
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I bought this blender at a thrift store. It even had the cover still with it. It works great. It reminds me of one my mom had way back when.<br />
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Thank you for visiting our cottage kitchen. We leave the light on and folks tend to come through the back door here. Come on in and chat for awhile.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788167890262168497.post-86156473568223236382010-10-11T07:28:00.000-05:002010-10-11T07:28:51.951-05:00Blue Monday - Doiley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufpxwvarnBTcAZETLax6c3OfSEPrfVHoZdWiIhAe6VW18-fU3m3pNkaqpImlua2_SUAxwTxKdiOtOw30nUziBPM37scHNoD_fMpkE_diUe-pnuVxkadqxlviAvoO44WkBzNr5Q6HXWSen/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufpxwvarnBTcAZETLax6c3OfSEPrfVHoZdWiIhAe6VW18-fU3m3pNkaqpImlua2_SUAxwTxKdiOtOw30nUziBPM37scHNoD_fMpkE_diUe-pnuVxkadqxlviAvoO44WkBzNr5Q6HXWSen/s1600/Blue+Jay.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">We are joining Sally today over at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ for Blue Monday. Thank you, Sally, for hosting!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My most recent crochet doily just happens to be ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">BLUE! </div><div style="text-align: center;">(Imagine that)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the Harmony pattern from the Leisure Arts Absolutely Gorgeous Doilies book and is worked with a #7 crochet hook and size 10 South Maid crochet thread. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's put my Crate and Barrel teapot on it along with the vase my youngest daughter crafted some years ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now we are going to need a teacup. Let's use the Royal Doulton in the Elegy pattern. See the sweet little blue flowers!</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now put it on a tray and tote it over yonder. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My dulcimer stand doubles just perfectly as a tray table!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay, ready for tea. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Blue Monday!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12