tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47904249672779649822024-03-12T18:55:21.666-07:00The Bag Lady From The BayA QUILTERS' SANDWICH AND EVERYTHING INBETWEENAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-13896732026945898442014-06-24T08:12:00.001-07:002014-06-24T08:12:44.658-07:00Ohhhhhhh Look What I Found!<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>You know I have been digging through boxes of an Estate and that a shop named BYGONERA was opened on Etsy to sell these pieces of some value, well, look at what was found yesterday!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>A Miniature tiny Scripture Test Book published in the 1800's and not in print anymore. I could not find this one at all other than as part of a Rare Book Collection...it is totally in tact but totally aged. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Another piece is a Rare Rosenthal Trinket dish from the early 1900's. So delicate and also still nicely in tact. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Isn't it just so beautiful. That it survived in a box for so long and has not seen the light of day in over probably twenty to thirty years is amazing!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I was so excited a week ago to have found a rare and old book written by one of my favorite people in Literature History, Beatrix Potter! Miss Potter having become famous for her introduction of Peter Rabbit and his adventures to Children and then later in her life she introduced her Readers to Jemima Puddleduck and this is that little book titled "The Tale Of Jemima Puddleduck"! Now how thrilling to find this. To sit down amid the chaos and leaf through it, to see the drawings of Beatrix Potter bound in one of the first of old books to be found. She was someone who knew how to write stories for children and then provide a pictorial illustration that I am positive kept children of that era enthralled....</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>While it is physically very tiring and totally chaotic in that house as you unpack box after box, it is also an adventure in that you have no idea what it is you will find!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I am off to put my aching legs up and do more research a my tiny house is filled with things I brought home with me from there to research and put up for sale, so I do hope you might find some time to either let me hear of your reading pleasures and come for a visit to Bygonera at Etsy, it is there where most of the Treasures found so far can be seen.....do come, you might enjoy see these pieces from another time and another place!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Guess your wondering where I have been, well, not to London to see the Queen, but certainly to that wonderfully filled old house and I do see the Queen everyday! You see there is a huge portrait of her from the 1950's - taken just after her coronation...but that is about as close to our Queen as I am ever going to get...LOL</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>My friend who bought this house has decided that a shop inside would be more productive than having perpetual yard sales so...........We are opening a shop right there inside the house because having everything outside on the lawns and on the front porch looks every so junky and besides there is just too much to put out and take in every evening and you simply cannot leave it there forever. Our neighbors have been waiting years and years to see this property restored once again and to make the street look lived in and welcoming once again. So a shop inside was the perfect solution and while we continue to unpack and sort through the treasures and the not so treasure-able we believe we can sell much of it. Mind you there is a huge amount already sorted, gone to thrift shops, into the local churches where my friends attend and as for the damaged or ruined things which were exposed to the years of weathering to the garbage dump. Already 7 huge containers have been taken away and loads of scrap metals, old tools and the like, even old bicycles and a car! </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><br />You Gotta Eat Here Program on the Food Network got me to thinking this morning - instead of you gotta eat here, You Gotta Buy Here - LOL HELP get rid of the accumulated treasures inside the house filled with over 70+ years of his collecting. This man did not discriminate he collected just about everything and it is quite the adventure opening those boxes. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Inside one box not but a week ago from a kitchen cupboard and inside was nothing kitchen related at all even though it was marked "kitchen" - I found pencils, lighters, and surprise when I almost cut my finger off by touching three circular saw blades packed in paper toweling!!!! Yeouch I am so happy with myself for being careful..</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>We have stacks of dolls and we have found two collection items out of the possible 60 "Barbie" like dolls that are of great interest - one is Michael Jackson!!! Yup take a look at this!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This poseable Michael Jackson doll made by LJN Toys and modeled from the 1984 Music Awards where he wore a red military styled jacket which had gold braiding over which he wore a gold sash with a red seam running down along his black slacks. Unfortunately we did not find the microphone he held nor the famous Glove! We are going to list him in the online shop though, even without the Sash and Microphone....possibly someone might still want him.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>These are for sale and may definitely be found in the shop at bygonera@etsy.com</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Your really should come and see just what we have placed for sale so far! I do have some trouble keeping up with the listings because everyday we are finding hundreds of treasures and it really takes time to photograph, research the items provenance, if the item should have a provenance, and then list them, but we are working on it to be sure. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>And the vintage costume jewelry wow - what fun finding that! Look at this interesting piece my friend found just yesterday!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>So if you have some time why not come to the shop for a visit? Bygonera@esty.com and soon I will have some photographs of the physical brick and mortar shop inside the house for you to ponder over..</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Thank you so much for stopping by to see what I am up to once again, I hope to post again very soon with another chat about life in my neck of the woods...C Ya</i></b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-83607710289500578442014-06-10T09:26:00.001-07:002014-06-10T09:26:18.046-07:00Should be called SHARITY not Charity!<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Hey there, it's Tuesday and from what I see it is going to become a very beautiful day!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I have discovered I very much enjoy the quilting process, no, not hand quilting as my arthritic fingers refuse to cooperate but with my sewing machine. Like Leah Day says on her <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Free Motion Quilting Project Blog</a> experimentation can be so much fun as well as rewarding, and I have taken her wonderful examples to heart. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>My day began well with a KA-CHINGGGGG from Etsy! Sold a collectible little handbag and so happy about that because someone is loving this vintage little piece! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Today, many more vintage treasures were unearthed. The more my friend and her band of volunteers work their way further into the main floor and more they find and the more I try to grab if I believe it is a valuable piece of nostalgia. There are treasures and there is junk and lastly there is garbage the worst is how expensive it is to get rid of the garbage. It is the Treasures I am most interested in and even though I hesitate to say it out loud I am thoroughly enjoying the hours of research into each and every piece I bring home. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>An Antique dealer is now at the house so I scooted out of there with my found treasures as quickly as I could so that he would not take back what it was I wanted to list..</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Tomorrow another Antique shop owner is arriving and with his two doggies, that means I will have four doggies in my home and their all small breeds, meaning they probably won't be nice to one another, oh my goodness, don't know what I want to do about that! Being in the Antique business is very interesting with many dealers having such varied interests. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I began working on my foster dog Molly yesterday - her fur is so very matted and she needs immediate attention. Now that she is becoming more used to me she allowed me to work on her four paws yesterday and a bit this morning, that is beginning to make her feel much better I think!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Finally, I haven't emptied my van from the Farmers' Market I was at last Friday, took things to sell from <a href="https://tinyurl.com/lzpydem" target="_blank">The Bag Lady From The Bay</a> shop, so thinking I may as well leave them there because I am returning there for another try this coming Friday. I didn't sell one piece last week but maybe I will get lucky and sell something this week? I made a new quilted tote last week but have not yet found the time to list it, I'll do that next. So many people handled the quilted bags and purses but no one seems to really need another bag!!! Oh well, all I can do is try. Everything quilted will come around again as it does with fashions. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>It will be a rather busy week for me, tomorrow the Antique Shop owner and his entourage and then back home here to rest up, then on Wednesday a research day for paintings and antique pieces I brought home with me this afternoon, Thursday is the day Ontarians' go to the polls to select a new Premier and party to govern, (well they call it governing, I have a different slant on that, but my thoughts are best left in the drawer, where all political and religious beliefs are being stored), Thursday evening I must cook or bake something for a pot luck supper event being held for the International Students and Host families get together on Friday evening, Friday the market, then quickly home to change, grab whatever it is I am taking for pot luck and head on out to Brockville, Ontario for the event...hopefully Saturday and Sunday will be better rest up days..</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Have I tuckered you out with all of my activities this week? If I have I apologize, but then again I am certain you all have weeks like this, possibly not the same activities but business all the same. I will be happy if my friend can divest that house of all its stuff and earn something from all inside of it then she can go ahead and restore it. She has some wonderful ideas and once the place has been emptied and cleaned she can make decisions on exactly what it is she would love to do with it! </i></b></span><br />
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</i></b></span> <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>INSIDE we have also made strides, making a concerted effort to distinguish the valuable from the junk and the garbage has been phenomenal. Out on the front law are five wooden tables set up to hold FREE glassware, dishes, pots and pans of every size and use distinction, books have been piled up on the front veranda, records of all types of music genres are also piled high, mystery boxes have been put together with a variety of items and being sold off, of course the items have some value, but more useful as being a part of a mystery! Many people love the idea of rooting through boxes to see what treasures, if any are within!</i></b></span></span><br />
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</i></b></span> <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>ON TOP of that house and being my friends helping partner in this her huge undertaking, she also managed to corral me into take on a little dog that some owner said she had to give away because her little one had allergies....Shih Tzu dogs are know for being hypo-allergenic are they not? She came with her report from her vet, a hair brush and a crate, no favorite toy, no feeding instructions and on top of that she is not spayed! Poor darling Molly is missing the only home and family she knew! Four years is a long time to belong to a family and then one day find yourself out of that environment. Poor little mite, she was so frightened. I will have to take great care to see that she isn't left alone or outside where a male dog can get at her. I don't want her bred, there are far too many unwanted pets being thrust away for whatever the reason and far too many strays who end up bringing more stray animals into an already overcrowded pet population. I will somehow find a way to get Molly spayed. So now I have Molly and am fostering until a suitable new and loving owner(s) can be found. Today I cut away much of her matted fur, trimmed her paws, and this afternoon will be a bath and beauty treatment session, just Molly and me! She's going to look and smell so sweet. </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Molly is a gentle as a lamb, with such a sweet disposition and very quiet personality and it took her nearly 48 hours to warm up to me, but seemingly we are bonding quite nicely and I am loving her to pieces, which isn't a good thing because I am worrying it may hurt her in the long run to become attached to another human and then be given away again. Hopefully she will not be with too long before another human who really is waiting for a gentle loving companion. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I have been busy since that post what with a few dogs coming to stay while their human owners were away and going to that house that used to smell so terrible! Now the house is almost able to be in for more than a few moments. We have had the grass mowed, and 1/2 of the driveway emptied of rotting trash which the old fellow believed to be collectible stuff and actually since it got wet and was molding it has been dealt with as a new collection in a huge container. So far three of those extra huge containers have been filled and taken away only to be replace with empty ones which the men are now working on filling. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Inside the house the kitchen has been dismantled, cupboards emptied, and table set up out on the front lawn with a huge "FREE" sign, and many more items set up on tables on the front porch for sale. Items go bit by trickled bit from the porch sale, and the free items while some disappear, more and more gets loaded onto the table tops...</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I have spent over 100 hours on the internet researching items which we believe to have value and have put them up for sale in a new Etsy Shop we named<a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BYGONERA?ref=si_shop" target="_blank"> BYGONERA </a>and each day we come across more and more. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>The research is really necessary because there are things of value and if you ask a price for something valuable, it should it at all possible have a provenance attached or an age verified added with it. Many pieces this previous owner believed to have value had none at all, and, many of the paintings need to be authenticated too. Then there are the most wonderful of old picture frames attached to some paintings which really simply cannot be thrown into a junk heap, they deserve their purpose to be nicely displayed in a new home where the craftmanship can be appreciated all over again. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Yesterday we found this magnificent Brown Glass Wine bottle from 1934 - what a rare find indeed...it actually has its own provenance and I am hoping some glass collector will snap it up soon. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I realize it has been a few weeks since I last posted, but honestly, I have been busy helping a friend who has bought the house of a collector turned hoarder! What a mess!!! THIS summer journey is going to be like going back in time...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>By way of an explanation, do you recall that program on television which takes you into the houses of Hoarders???? WELL I have been helping with an estate property which is one of those houses...almost 70 years worth of collecting is in this house.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>THANKFULLY while the food stuffs are very aged - there was no rotting food only the wee mice to contend with. There are only tiny pathways to this nightmarish maze. Everywhere you look you will see rocks of all sizes, dimensions, colors and textures lining the floors, windows sills, mantels, railings, hallways, even in the bathrooms.....there is no where to sit down because each chair or chesterfield is full of things, there is no surface space because each and every thing that can be called a surface is literally piled high to overflowing with things. The windows are sealed by old storm windows which need to be taken off and which I hope will happen tomorrow, once we clear a pathway to the windows or at the very least one window so that we can get fresh air into the house and not breath in the stale air of 50+ years.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>This elderly person was not only a rock enthusiast, but a collector of anything and everything he decided could be classified as antiques, paintings, books, glassware, china, porcelain, clothing, shoes, handbags, silverware, you name it I bet you I can find it in that house or on this property. No matter where you look, no matter which building you are in (there are five buildings on this property) or on which part of the property you want to place your feet, you must literally look to where it is your placing them as the entire property is filled to its capacity, each building houses boxes, crates, piles of STUFF!!!!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Apparently this person and his spouses were collectors and his latest spouse was a hoarder. There isn't a wall that isn't plastered with paintings, posters, etchings, plaques and glass plates of all sizes and dimensions. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>BESIDE the hoarding of the 8 years, there was the collecting over the past 50 years and combined it is quite the nightmare! The </i></b></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>chaos of the hoarding coupled with the collections is very overwhelming.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>There are boxes and boxes of Vintage everything, calendars, post cards, old pictures and jars of marbles, boxes of silver cutlery, childrens' stuffed toys, dolls and books, old and what he believed to be rare books, old 78 rpm records as well as vinyl records, cameras, moving picture apparatus as well as fittings for old time cinema movie projectors, old iron black kettles, old stone jugs and jars, old old tools used for carpentry and construction, maps, magazines, comic books, boxes of ladies hats, mens' hats, jewelry both good with precious stones and racks of costume jewelry too! I could go on and on, but really just repeating it all is giving me a headache.</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>I will be spending days, weeks possibly months researching, cataloging and photographing each and every piece all of it fun, but, time consuming and exhausting.</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This week while though I have not been posting, I have been busy, first I changed the bed linens and washed the ones I took off, I gathered up as many of my sewing tools and notions and put those all away where they belonged and then set about creating and sewing more totes and cosmetic bags. I am crossing my fingers some of these if not all will be sold out over this coming summer at the weekend markets. I have stocked my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BAGLADYFROMTHEBAY?ref=si_shop" target="_blank"> Etsy Shop</a> with the hopes that buyers out there might see something I have made and want it. Right now the many sellers who sell handmade fabric items are not selling like they did last year and the competition is fierce what with Etsy now allowing mass manufactured goods to be sold as well. This doesn't help those of us who make handmade goods for sale at all. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I decided that this year I would try my hand at selling at the weekend Farmers' Markets and a store in a town a half hours run from my home. One can but try, right?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I also have some charity quilts to finish up so the sooner I get those out and finished and delivered, the better off I will feel.. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>A dear friend went to Paducah last week and came home with pretty fabric gifts for me, she hasn't had time to share what all she saw whilst there, but, I will see her soon and get to experience Quilt Week second hand. I have already used some of the fabric in a tiny tote bag this week, isn't it cute for the size of it? I have been hatch quilting my fabrics over these past many months, but the other day I just felt lazy and so I used a stitch from my sewing machine and sewed controlled lines of it, as the picture shows, it didn't turn out too badly. Then I embroidered another stitch around the top of the bag, close up it looks great, far away, hmmmmm I am not to certain. What do you think?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Very early this morning I finished reading the latest book in the Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer! </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Mr. Archers' books are not written fast enough for me, unfortunately I am one of those who cannot seem to put an Archer Novel down until it has been read from cover to cover on the day I open the cover and read the Prologue. I am sorry I didn't make myself put it down and treat myself to this series in portions, but, I do this to myself all of the time!</i></b><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>finished with another of Mr. Archers' cliffhangers. The 5th book in this series is not due to be published until 2015. Darn, it is simply isn't fair to have to wait so long to read the next installment of the Clifton and Barrington families.</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>To me a quilter is like an author, dissecting the plot (pattern) and painstakingly putting it back together, piece by carefully constructed piece. </i></b></span><b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Then when it has finally been pieced together as in a Quilt Top, the characters are able to stand on their own merits as does a quilt. I imagine it is as much an adventure for the author as it is the reader and so as it is with the quilter. </i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>A quilter explores which quilt block(s) to piece together, which color pallet to chose, then painstakingly assembles the quilt. Block by block, row by row, choosing the setting of the blocks also becomes an adventure in and of itself, should it be straight rows, or should the blocks be set on point, the all important quilting motif and all the while not too certain if your going to like the end result when the top has finally been assembled. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This is how I felt when finally I began piecing a quilt from a pattern I had discovered in a McCall's Quilting "Quick Quilts" magazine from 2000. When first I made the Quilt from a pattern designed by Linda Augsburg Stirratt which she named as "Autumn Nights".</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>My rendition of that quilt turned out to be as beautiful as the one made for the magazine, and when it was completed I was very excited and thrilled I had made the correct fabric choices for it. </i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I confess while I was in the piecing phase I wanted to rewrite the pattern by adding something different to make it my own, so I changed the border design, thereby making it a bit different than the one in the article. I was not happy while it was in the construction phase, I really thought I was lacking oomph and not nearly as nice as the pictures of Ms. Stirratts' quilt. When I finally finished it I managed to like it, I wasn't as thrilled with this one as I was when I actually made the first one. </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While critiquing it I discovered that to my way of thinking my focal fabric (the main character) should have had more color and movement. However, in the end, when I finally saw it hanging, I agreed I could allow myself to like it just a bit. </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I also have a visitor in my home for a week, a Chinese Exchange Student, he came from China to improve his English language skills and go to University. His Homestay mom is on her way to Paducah, Kentucky, which is Quilt City, U.S.A.. This is the <a href="http://www.quiltingpathways.com/paducah/index.html" target="_blank">Annual Quilt Show and Convention</a> week and thousands attend this event from all over the world.......One place I would love to visit and which remains not crossed off my Bucket List. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This link will take you to pictures <a href="http://www.quiltingpathways.com/paducah/aqs-show.html" target="_blank">"Scenes from the AQS - Paducah Annual Quilt Show and Contest"</a> and this link will take you to read all about the <a href="http://www.quiltingpathways.com/paducah/burns.html" target="_blank">"Eleanor Burns Tent"</a> and the activities taking place with Eleanor and the Quilt In A Day events.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I am never certain which is more popular, Quilt Market both are so significant in their popularity.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>It is at these venues where new ideas in quilting are placed before the buying public, new fabric lines, new quilting methods, new quilt patterns, new quilting notions and tools and all are shown off and demonstrated and eventually end up in the quilt magazines and quilt books we all covet and enjoy and make great uses of. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Seeing as it is vary wet, dark and gloomy today and I am physically exhausted from my cleaning and getting up to get my guest student off to school in time, I believe I will treat myself to a nice fresh brewed cup of coffee (made from the coffee my cousin brought me from Holland this past summer) Mmmmmmmmmm, a few slices of toast and then sew for the rest of the morning and into mid-afternoon, at which time the school bus will be returning my guest and my free time will no longer be mine..</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>One last note, I made a new bag for Toddler and Preschoolers to carry their personal little toys in. I am waiting to see how well it is received at my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BAGLADYFROMTHEBAY?ref=si_shop" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>before investing in more of the large zippers I have used before ordering more. I did however order lots more zippers from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/people/zipit" target="_blank">ZIPIT</a>. IF you want a great zipper, contact Jennie from Zipit, she'll give you terrific service as sends me exactly what it is I want without problems and carries all sizes, styles and colors. Now that I have my new supply of zippers and zipper pulls I can get busy and make more bags....</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i> I also have more donated fabric and am also sewing special little bags with zippers for a fundraising event this coming June....A young family lost their home to fire and a fundraiser is being organized to assist them with building materials...I have given myself enough time to make at least 75 to 100 which when sold will also become my donation...I get great satisfaction out of being a part of my community.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I spent yesterday with our Community Kitchen Group not far from where I live and it was fun. Community Kitchen was instigated by our Church not far from where I live. It is held every third Wednesday of the month. This is when the group meets together, cook together and share the meal we cooked, socialize and often a Speaker will attend and give a talk on something of interest to seniors or about programs which might be available to us living within the community. Before our group breaks up we set aside time for a Prayer Circle, the best time of all, communicating in fellowship with God thanking Him for our Blessings and asking for help for some in the community who are in need of Gods' Blessings of healing. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Some months ago, we had a speaker in from our Community Health Services giving a talk on simple and safe exercises we as Seniors could perform for ourselves and it was during that talk she gave each person who wanted one a pedometer (a step counter). </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>As a group suggestion after the talk and during our shared meal we thought it might be nice to add up our collective steps from each counter and decide just how far a distance those steps would take us, had we been actually walking, lets say to the next town, or another province, or a place in the United States, or even across the ocean to lets say Paris, France or London, England, of Dallas Texas - get my drift? Then having decided where it was we might have ended up with our combined walking steps we would plan a meal indigenous to that place. </i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This month our collective step count took us to New Orleans, Louisiana. </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I did something so dumb and I am kicking myself for even contemplating it. I actually took a finished tea cozy I had made and thinking it looked too plain, thought I could quilt it. Dumb, dumb, dumb!!!! So last night I sat picking out the unsightly mess I had made. I learned when not feeling very well, I should leave well enough alone!</i></b></div>
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>This morning can you believe it, snow!!!! I cheered up a lot when I received this in my mail box and enjoyed it so very much I am thinking you might enjoy it too, especially if you were born in the 50's or 60's! Head on over to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/J55S38xwxnQ" target="_blank">You Tube</a> and watch this delightful video, it's filled with nostalgia!!!</i></b></div>
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>was used for this interesting article about Extension Homemakers clubs in the 50's , where quilters would gather in Quilting B's, make quilts, raffle them off and with the funds from those raffled off quilts would put that money towards helping local groups, such as sending local children to college, or assist in fundraising efforts in their area. You can read more of this interesting <a href="http://ruralnchistory.blogspot.ca/2013/10/cabarrus-county-extension-homemakers.html" target="_blank">article here</a>. </i></b></div>
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Here is the write up for it, "</i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Tenor Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25.000154495239258px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">Incredible muted metallic silver vintage 1950s dress with a quilted skirt and classic fit and flare 50s silhouette. The dress features sleeveless sleeves, a high neckline, and glitter buttons up the back. It is unlined with rear zip and button closure. Side pockets." </span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">came to stay for several hours while his Humans were on a short trip. It was so lovely we spent the best part of the day out of doors and when we came back, together he and I watched the 3rd round of the Masters. When Buddys' humans returned they brought with them a very special treat and a surprise gift for me....and don't you just know it was fabric!!!!! What a fantastic beginning to a wonderful weekend, great weather, good friends and fabrics, what more could a quilter want!</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><b><i>I have since been dreaming of what I can use these wonderfully bright and cheerful prints in! It is wonderful to have such generous and thoughtful people as friends. Least ways, this special fur friend Buddy and his Human owners are on the way to becoming very friends. </i></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-34833512255284624662014-04-10T11:29:00.001-07:002014-04-10T11:29:30.014-07:00<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Phew! I have been busy this morning doing something I really wanted to take care of but didn't plan on it starting it today, Spring Cleaning!!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I have the wash hanging outside and it's dried already, what with the heavy winds we are getting here today it took no time at all to dry. I am anticipating that delicious scent on the bed linens and how nice it will to climb between those scented sheets tonight when I finally make my way to sleep! Finally I think Ms. Spring is fighting with ole man Winter to make her appearance and from the look of it today, she might finally be winning.</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>In the back of my mind I thought I would make a start at the spring cleaning next week, but then the <a href="http://www.pga.com/home/" target="_blank">Masters Golf Tournament</a> 1st Round begins today and I really, really want to watch it all the way to its conclusion this year. One of these years I might just visit Augusta. Georgia is so beautiful at this time of year, with its shrubs and flowers as well as the forest of trees are always filled glorious color. </i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I have acquired some golf themed fabrics from an estate sale, sort of vintage wouldn't you say? I really wanted to buy the Bernina 850, but someone beat me to it....</i></b></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-85733640268161877222014-04-09T10:01:00.001-07:002014-04-09T10:05:41.910-07:00Bags, Bags, Bags!<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>My oh my, but it is still very chilly in my neck of the woods today! Only 3 degrees Fahrenheit....hopefully it will warm up as the day progresses because I just turned up the heat and would dearly love not to hear my furnace for a long time. </i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I now live alone, I have more time to devote to my online shop at Etsy! For this purpose I have made lots and lots of quilted bags all types and colors. This pastime was so very therapeutic for me and I am thankful for the increasing skills the making of these bags have helped me to acquire. Sometimes I have done the dumbest things and have become quite proficient at "frog-stitching"! </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Come the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Day" target="_blank">Victoria Day</a> long weekend it will experience an influx of returning visitors as well as many new tourists. If your planning a trip up our way you'll see some of these bags in<a href="http://www.yelp.ca/biz/donevans-hardware-ltd-gananoque" target="_blank"> Donevan's</a>, a long renowned business in Downtown Gananoque. Over the past months the proprietor and his daughter have been remodeling the old store to make Booths available to local Artisans to display and sell their handmade articles to the public on a full time basis! </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mary Donevan of <a href="http://www.chinaheirloom.com/Products.html" target="_blank">Heirloom Creations</a> sells her therapeutic magnetic jewelry there and people flock to buy her one of a kind pieces, all made from beautiful porcelain china tea and dinnerware no longer coveted by people anymore. </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's time I say cheerio for today and get back behind the sewing machine. Remember if your up around the 1000 Islands area, Gananoque is a town to visit and discover and the St. Lawrence is right on our doorstep.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>While surfing through the Janome site seeking information, I came across this wonderful quilter, <a href="http://janomelife.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/spotlight-on-janome-customer-and-quilt-artist-terry-aske-of-vancouver-bc/" target="_blank">Terry Aske</a>, of Vancouver, B.C. and was thrilled to see her read all about her Art, actually, her Art Quilts. Co-incidentally one of her art quilts depicts people standing/walking under umbrellas on a rainy day....Did you know she has completed over 100 quilts? Amazing!! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>The one quilt shown in this particular post, which blew me away was "Even Trees Get The Blues". So meticulous, so very beautifully created and quilted. I fell in love with this piece. Then upon reading further I came across her 3D "Rainy Day People" art quilt. what a wonderful use of her choice of colors. Finishing this particular post written about Terry by Liza Frica for Janome I followed a link provided to Terry's personal site where you can personally become acquainted with her by <a href="http://www.terryaskeartquilts.com/Studio/" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. It is here you will get a look into Terry's studio and become familiar with her and how she approaches her works of Art in the medium of fabric, color and texture. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I can remember a day in 1965 when on April 17th it snowed! Here I was all decked out in pink lace and tiny pearled pink pumps, a cute little velvet hat (can you remember wearing hats?) in church while waiting for the Bride to arrive for her special day....close to fifty years ago that was and those two will celebrate their 50th next year. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>What took my thoughts back to that day was not just the weather which looked so promising, just as it does today, but to the beautiful Double Wedding Ring Quilt the Bride and Groom were given on that day. Back in the "Olden Days" as my grandson would say, married couples waited until after arriving from the church as newly weds to open their wedding gifts. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Imagine, two women sitting together for close to a year hand piecing this beautiful traditional quilt pattern, then finishing it with hand quilting. I believe that quilt is still alive and well today...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Have you noticed, the movement towards a trend in the Quilt world during these past few years? A new trend is making a statement in what is being called Modern Quilting. With the most technologically advanced sewing machines, Fabric Designers with their visionary designs not just in the fabric lines, but in Design, the relationship between color, texture and movement! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Awhile ago I stumbled across<a href="http://www.thequiltingedge.com/" target="_blank"> "The Quilting Edge" </a>a blog by Marianne Haak, whose blog is too interesting not to visit each week and just take a peek into her <a href="http://www.thequiltingedge.com/p/finished-quilts_30.html" target="_blank">Gallery </a>and there you will find the most interesting quilts with colors that jump out and grab you. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Now I am finally up and running full time on Etsy and finding that a regimen of working at the sewing machine during the daytime hours is good, and helps me to focus on getting through each day and not stressing over those things which I simply cannot change or fix. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I realize it has been too long, but I am hoping you will welcome me back into the Blogger Fold and come visit when you have the time. I so missed being here but there you have it, Life Happens, as so many are want to say!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I have finished a few quilt tops, a baby quilt, finished and sent, and many, many cosmetic bags, pouches and totes as well as purses, many were made from my fabrics which I actually quilted myself. Unfortunately buying prequilted fabrics just isn't economically feasible for me, so I have done the next best thing. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I really apologize for taking so long to return to blog land and I sincerely hope you come and visit again. Meanwhile my wish to all who visit is to have a wonderful weekend...</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-12004055860993059482013-08-10T08:36:00.000-07:002013-08-10T08:36:20.593-07:00Saturday Already?<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>SATURDAY, where has the week gone? Yesterday I had a visitor for a few hours while her human family went hospital visiting.....Isn't she just so cute? Missy kept me company while I sewed, then we went for a ride to the post office and the store, after that we took a walk came home and played and then when we were ready to have our evening meal, her humans came to collect her. </i></b></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-30325244871258483932013-08-08T11:09:00.001-07:002013-08-08T11:09:57.697-07:00Thursday Rambles<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="http://quiltworld2.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Ulla</a> is a Quilting Teacher who lives in Finland and who also blogs. WOW I am enthralled by her talents and how freely she shares and teaches in her Tutorials. I was drawn by the mention of Sun Dyeing, and sure enough here on her blog is a beautiful themed quilt and pillow which Ulla did herself. She also shares the link for anyone interested to the actual Sun Dyeing site and there is where you will see how the actual technique comes about. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>After cleaning the windows I decided it was time to come here and share my rambles with you, I certainly needed the rest and a nice steaming cup of coffee and another mystery tour around the Quilting web-world.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Hey there, since today is the Civic Holiday across Canada, I have been wondering just what everyone else is using this Monday for. The weather this weekend has turned a tad chilly at nights so that those sitting around camp fires are definitely wearing sweats and sweaters and the swimming is while not quite finished the waterways seem to have only those stalwart people who don't mind the lower water temperatures in there splashing about and using summer to its fullest. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>This morning I heard the Loons on the Lake, I just love Loons, don't you?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Are some of you like me? Always eyeing that next project that takes your fancy? I have so many quilt tops to sandwich and quilt and while I have good intentions to work on those I allow myself to get sidetracked. No wonder I am always behind my own schedule! </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fef9ec; color: #68402e; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Let us be</b><span style="background-color: #fef9ec; color: #68402e; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834316924382228469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790424967277964982.post-28999076305174635272013-08-03T11:18:00.003-07:002013-08-03T11:18:47.598-07:00A Taste of the Frugal<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Sometime last year I introduced you to a friend of mine, Emma MacPherson, whose talents are many, then as a photographer and author, now Blogger. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Today I would like to introduce you to Emma's Blog, <a href="http://simplelifesimplejoy.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Living The Simple Life</a>! I am certain as time goes on if her introduction to her blog is anything to go by will prove to be of great interest to many.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Congratulations and welcome to the world of Blogging Emma, I for one am so interested in your point of view and am certain I too will be learning something new as I follow along with you!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>As Quilters and Crafter's we all search for ways and means to support our hobby habits and in this endeavor many of us follow similar rules to acquiring our materials to create something out of. As said in some of my previous posts I so enjoy hoking about for remnants to make my quilts from as well as up-cycling different types of fabrics to create my tote bags from as I so enjoy selling that "one of a kind" item I have created and I have <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Bonnie Hunter</a>, to thank for the taste of frugality I now practice. Bonnie has been advocating this type of scrappy fabric gathering forever and she proves it with her glorious quilts.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>What about you? Do you up-cycle? Do you scrounge the 2nd hand shops and remnant bins for your quilted and crafted items? I see many shops on Etsy that practice up-cycling and these people create very beautiful items.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>My recent forays always have me searching for zippers and nice sized buttons to use in my many projects. Not only do I sew for charity but I also make things to sell near Christmas time and to add as inventory to my Etsy Shop (which is woefully empty at the moment).</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Do you remember that wonderful old quote "look after the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves" or something like those words. Since becoming a pensioner this is what I have had to learn. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>More than likely come mid November I will be in a panic because I never followed through to complete the so called plans to put under someone's tree..</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I tidied up my sewing area, set the two tops I have completed aside to be sandwiched and quilted sometime later (they call this procrastination) and set the scraps neatly away in their containers and while doing that came across a very pretty remnant I found last year. Now I realize I should finish those two quilt tops, but today I just don't feel like working on them so gave myself permission to begin quilting a huge piece of this fabric for a new project. I am one of those who cannot afford nor have I come across any decent sales on pre-quilted fabrics so I must make my own and knowing I have control I can quilt that piece any way I choose. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Leah Day of "The Free Motion Quilting Project" is one of my quilter heroines....she is so inspirational and motivates me to try new and different ideas while learning something new at the same time. If you have not visited her blog, you can visit her by clicking <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">here</a>.....She's such fun to follow!!!! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Mr. Caterpillar makes a wonderful and comfy group pillow which they're all checking out before heading to the fire for S'mores.....YUMMY</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>One thing I'd love to mention is that the little quilt I made for Same has been entered at the <a href="http://quiltinggallery.com/blog-posts/" target="_blank">Quilting Gallery for the Weekly Theme</a>, so if you have an extra moment or two, head on over to the Gallery and look at all of the entries there are some beautiful little ones quilts in this week. My entry is number 61, you scroll down to see all of the entries and</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>if you think it worth a mention, please vote for this little quilt, each voter may vote for 6 of their favorite entries. I love the Teddy Bear quilt, it is so cute!!!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>I managed to piece together two rows of my latest project so hopefully tomorrow I will have the rest pieced and ready to share with you.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Thank you all for stopping by for a share of my day, I am off to put my old bones to bed and I hope to see you again tomorrow. </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fef9ec; color: #68402e; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Love puts</b><span style="background-color: #fef9ec; color: #68402e; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown</span><br />
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