Day 1121
I should not be up so late- since I have to feed cats at 5:30, I don't get to sleep in but I've been working on swapping out the photos and I have them all done now. I also realized that I did not have a charms page on WordPress- but I have one now! (Here.) There are some at the bottom that either I haven't decided to keep or have lost (Jonathan) and haven't decided if I want to replace or I haven't told the stories yet. However, I did get more of the stories listed.
This is a charm that I found the perfect charm... but I hadn't yet won a blue ribbon. I bought it anyway because I was confident that I would- eventually. And I did- September 29-30 at the Hamilton County Fair for my Don't Go Out A-Lone Star quilt in the hand pieced category. Em and I didn't get to go to the fair on Saturday because we had to go Sunday anyway to pick up my quilts so I didn't know if I had won anything until Sunday when we got there. I've only got so much patience so the Home Goods exhibit was the first place we went. My quilt was hanging directly across from the door and I could see the blue ribbon all the way across the room! I was so very excited, it was all I could do to keep from dancing.
This charm is- obviously- a round tuit. The story behind it is funny but with a little bit of mean in it. The year I was pregnant with Eliz, I was working as well as taking care of the house and getting ready for my first baby and I often ran out of energy before I ran out of things people wanted me to do. Apparently, Mom nagged me about something or several somethings and I kept telling her that I would get around to it. When Christmas came, I didn't go 'home'- I was 8 months pregnant, I couldn't get the time off work and I didn't want to go make nice with the family when I was the size of a house. So Mom sent my Christmas gifts to me. When I opened them, there was a round tin box- the kind you use to give home made baked good in- and I thought she was being awfully nice. She'd sent me cookies, knowing I wouldn't have the energy to make any myself that year. When I opened it, it wasn't cookies at all- it was round circles of paper that had "Tuit" written on the edge of each one. It must have taken her hours and hours to make all of them- there were hundreds. I still have the box with all those circles of paper in it... and sometimes I still wish it had been cookies.
I used to like unicorns a lot. Maybe it had to do with my fantasy background- most girls go through a 'horse' phase, I went through a 'unicorn' phase. Not that I don't still like them... I'm just not as fond of them as I once was. I still have this charm though- it started out as a necklace and was given to me by my first college boyfriend, Kris Jones (no relation to Ann). We dated most of my freshman college year and the necklace was a Valentine's present from him. I still like Kris and I still like unicorns and, for the most part, it was a pretty good year so it makes me happy to remember it.
Jun. 17th, 2006
I found the perfect book charm for my bracelet! It's a locket that has a place for 4 pictures (hildebrants shrunk very small, I forsee) and two pages that could be engraved in the center. I had them engrave the cover with "The Hobbit" and "JRR Tolkien". Perfect!
I've only been to New York once. We spent the night and a day there on the way back from Europe on that memorable spring break trip. Since I slept all the way over the Atlantic, when we got to New York, I was not at all ready for sleep. We got through customs- the customs man thought I was French and was stumbling over some very basic french until I gave him my passport and then he exclaimed "Why, you're American!" He also looked pointedly at the rose I was still wearing behind my ear under the beret as he asked me if I had anything to declare and I whipped it into the pocket of my trench coat and said, with a perfectly straight face, "No, nothing." After we checked into the hotel, I went out for a walk in the park. It was about one in the morning but New York never sleeps. I did wonder why the few people I saw in the park walked quickly the other way- just not very friendly, I guess. I wandered around the park and the streets until I came to a lovely lovely church- St Patrick's Cathedral. It was closed, of course, but even the outside is beautiful. While I was in New York, I had no money at all- I had spent it all in Europe- and got home with not even a dime to call if no one met my flight. But later I got this charm of the cathedral to remember New York and my lovely midnight walk in the park.
Ok, so technically, this is a wishing well. But the charm, for me, is for the cake Mom and I made for my 10th birthday. We had an old Whitman's decorating book and one of the cakes in it was a wishing well and that's the cake I wanted. So, not too hard, Mom made the roof covered with frosting and the cake in a bundt pan... but we got stuck on the brown frosting for the bucket. We mixed colours (remember, this is 1973, food colouring is four colours and comes in little bottles) and added sugar to thicken and mixed some more. We finally got a good brown...as well as an entire mixing bowl of frosting when we only needed about four tablespoons... and about that time we both looked at the tin of cocoa on the counter. It was definitely a face-palm moment.
Rock City- where do I begin? I don't remember the first time we went to Rock City. My grandmother lived in Chattanooga when I was growing up and almost every time we came to visit, Mom and Dad would take us to Rock City. Mom would never go over the suspension bridge but we did and Dad would go with us. When I was very small, I loved the fairy tale caverns. As I got older, I liked the scenery- always love that you can see seven states from up there. After the girls were born, I took a friend up there- he had never been to Chattanooga so we did some touristy things because they're really fun if you've never seen them- and then I took a girl I worked with at Sarah's and her girls and Emily one pretty afternoon. Emily and I should go back and take a camera- it's a great place for a walk. I don't like the fairy tale cavern as much as I used to... except the entrance. I still love that most of all.
I'm going to try and get all the pictures on my lists updated as well as the quilts and 'come for a walk' pictures before webshots goes away. It's so much easier to replace the code if you know which one you're looking for! But even if that gets away from me, I've got the pictures saved.
Other than that, it hasn't been an especially good day. It's nothing I can't deal with and I don't really want to tell it over again. I'm done venting and telling it all again will just get me stirred up again so I'd rather not.
Tomorrow looks like a very busy day but I'm going to try and get everything done so that I can quilt on Sunday- I haven't even touched it all this week.
This is a charm that I found the perfect charm... but I hadn't yet won a blue ribbon. I bought it anyway because I was confident that I would- eventually. And I did- September 29-30 at the Hamilton County Fair for my Don't Go Out A-Lone Star quilt in the hand pieced category. Em and I didn't get to go to the fair on Saturday because we had to go Sunday anyway to pick up my quilts so I didn't know if I had won anything until Sunday when we got there. I've only got so much patience so the Home Goods exhibit was the first place we went. My quilt was hanging directly across from the door and I could see the blue ribbon all the way across the room! I was so very excited, it was all I could do to keep from dancing.
This charm is- obviously- a round tuit. The story behind it is funny but with a little bit of mean in it. The year I was pregnant with Eliz, I was working as well as taking care of the house and getting ready for my first baby and I often ran out of energy before I ran out of things people wanted me to do. Apparently, Mom nagged me about something or several somethings and I kept telling her that I would get around to it. When Christmas came, I didn't go 'home'- I was 8 months pregnant, I couldn't get the time off work and I didn't want to go make nice with the family when I was the size of a house. So Mom sent my Christmas gifts to me. When I opened them, there was a round tin box- the kind you use to give home made baked good in- and I thought she was being awfully nice. She'd sent me cookies, knowing I wouldn't have the energy to make any myself that year. When I opened it, it wasn't cookies at all- it was round circles of paper that had "Tuit" written on the edge of each one. It must have taken her hours and hours to make all of them- there were hundreds. I still have the box with all those circles of paper in it... and sometimes I still wish it had been cookies.
I used to like unicorns a lot. Maybe it had to do with my fantasy background- most girls go through a 'horse' phase, I went through a 'unicorn' phase. Not that I don't still like them... I'm just not as fond of them as I once was. I still have this charm though- it started out as a necklace and was given to me by my first college boyfriend, Kris Jones (no relation to Ann). We dated most of my freshman college year and the necklace was a Valentine's present from him. I still like Kris and I still like unicorns and, for the most part, it was a pretty good year so it makes me happy to remember it.
Jun. 17th, 2006
I found the perfect book charm for my bracelet! It's a locket that has a place for 4 pictures (hildebrants shrunk very small, I forsee) and two pages that could be engraved in the center. I had them engrave the cover with "The Hobbit" and "JRR Tolkien". Perfect!
I've only been to New York once. We spent the night and a day there on the way back from Europe on that memorable spring break trip. Since I slept all the way over the Atlantic, when we got to New York, I was not at all ready for sleep. We got through customs- the customs man thought I was French and was stumbling over some very basic french until I gave him my passport and then he exclaimed "Why, you're American!" He also looked pointedly at the rose I was still wearing behind my ear under the beret as he asked me if I had anything to declare and I whipped it into the pocket of my trench coat and said, with a perfectly straight face, "No, nothing." After we checked into the hotel, I went out for a walk in the park. It was about one in the morning but New York never sleeps. I did wonder why the few people I saw in the park walked quickly the other way- just not very friendly, I guess. I wandered around the park and the streets until I came to a lovely lovely church- St Patrick's Cathedral. It was closed, of course, but even the outside is beautiful. While I was in New York, I had no money at all- I had spent it all in Europe- and got home with not even a dime to call if no one met my flight. But later I got this charm of the cathedral to remember New York and my lovely midnight walk in the park.
Ok, so technically, this is a wishing well. But the charm, for me, is for the cake Mom and I made for my 10th birthday. We had an old Whitman's decorating book and one of the cakes in it was a wishing well and that's the cake I wanted. So, not too hard, Mom made the roof covered with frosting and the cake in a bundt pan... but we got stuck on the brown frosting for the bucket. We mixed colours (remember, this is 1973, food colouring is four colours and comes in little bottles) and added sugar to thicken and mixed some more. We finally got a good brown...as well as an entire mixing bowl of frosting when we only needed about four tablespoons... and about that time we both looked at the tin of cocoa on the counter. It was definitely a face-palm moment.
Rock City- where do I begin? I don't remember the first time we went to Rock City. My grandmother lived in Chattanooga when I was growing up and almost every time we came to visit, Mom and Dad would take us to Rock City. Mom would never go over the suspension bridge but we did and Dad would go with us. When I was very small, I loved the fairy tale caverns. As I got older, I liked the scenery- always love that you can see seven states from up there. After the girls were born, I took a friend up there- he had never been to Chattanooga so we did some touristy things because they're really fun if you've never seen them- and then I took a girl I worked with at Sarah's and her girls and Emily one pretty afternoon. Emily and I should go back and take a camera- it's a great place for a walk. I don't like the fairy tale cavern as much as I used to... except the entrance. I still love that most of all.
I'm going to try and get all the pictures on my lists updated as well as the quilts and 'come for a walk' pictures before webshots goes away. It's so much easier to replace the code if you know which one you're looking for! But even if that gets away from me, I've got the pictures saved.
Other than that, it hasn't been an especially good day. It's nothing I can't deal with and I don't really want to tell it over again. I'm done venting and telling it all again will just get me stirred up again so I'd rather not.
Tomorrow looks like a very busy day but I'm going to try and get everything done so that I can quilt on Sunday- I haven't even touched it all this week.