Three Tiny Ladies

Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 10:59 pm in Fabric-Related, Favorite Finds | No Comments

Well, it’s day 30 of 30 for NaBloPoMo, and although I missed a day I’m going to finish in fine style. I updated my walking today by a little, and I have a new-to-me item for show-and-tell!  I’m not going to lie to you, this was a horrible month to try to gallop suddenly into daily blog posting. I moved, I adopted a dog, I’ve been working on two websites plus my normal job, there was a traveling holiday … I just don’t know what I was thinking. On the other hand, it was a busy month, full of change, and I’m glad to have recorded so much of it.

Back to the show-and-tell. I made a stop in at my mom’s on the way home from my MIL’s house the other day. My mom had a terrible cold last week, poor woman. It was terrible to hear her, although by the time I got there it was dying down to laryngitis. I was, as usual, rummaging through her stuff while there, and on this occasion I happened into the linen closet, where I found these things, which she let me keep! First this:

Embroidery 2 - Floral

And this gorgeous fellow.

Embroidery 3 - Hummingbird

And these. Aren’t those just too cute? Kittens in flowers? Wow! Who does that?

Embroidery1

The story is that my mom received these six embroidered, handmade pillowcases with handmade trim for her wedding from three really tiny ladies she knew grewing up in Demmark. All three ladies were sisters (Mrs. Houston, Mrs. ? and Mrs. ?, forgot the names!). She was married in … 1967? so these are around 40 years old. What shall I do with them? I don’t know. For now I shall hoard them as lovely memories of until I figure out the perfect thing to do.

Be Right Back

Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm in Domesticity, family | 2 Comments

Dear Interwebs,

If you will excuse me for an evening, Jeff and I are celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary today. Woo!

I have no real pearls o’ wisdom to dispense on the subject of relationships, except this.

After a while, whether you are married or not, in a committed relationship it ends up being as much about the life you build together as whatever romantic relationship started you off. Dogs, kids, trash pickup, fights, career changes, family excursions, budgeting, whatever else. All the mundane and the profound things. I’m lucky to have found someone to weather it with.

And he even puts up with my yarn and fabric lying around everywhere!

Jeff’s Blue Beanie

Sat Nov 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm in Crochet, Finished Projects | No Comments

Now that Thanksgiving is over – we ate all our leftovers at my mom’s house this evening – I think it’s time for a tad bit of low fat in the diet. Although I removed all the really serious fat offenders from Emeril’s recipes (pork fat, mass quantities of butter, heavy cream, etc.), it’s heavier than I’m used to.

However, December IS cookie season, so I may be eating mostly salad and cookies this month.

I have finished Jeff’s blue beanie! It is nice I could whip up a hat for him in just a couple of days. :)