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Sunday, April 8, 2012
I just love this Prim and pretty Handbag
Happy Easter everyone!! Just wanted to share this lovely pattern with you all. I think I might have to order this and start creating!! I came across this great looking handbag while surfin' around today.
Don't ya love it! It's actually a pattern off of Hannah's pinkeep website. The link below will take you there.
Get your handbag pattern here
Get your handbag pattern here
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Applique Table Runner
Yea, I know.....who wants to think about Christmas when we are heading into spring. Oddly enough, this table runner is so cute that I don't even mind it right now. I am just learning how to quilt and work with quilting blocks and I found this lovely site with great tutorials. I found this Christmas table runner to be so simple and thought I would share it in case there were any quilting newbies like myself out there. So enjoy!!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Primitive fireplace......Ahhh, the warmth
Now here's a primitive Fireplace
I love my fireplace. A few years ago we installed a fireplace insert and a wood burner with blower.
Wow, the heat savings that we have racked up! I just love the atmosphere the crackling fire gives to our home.
The fireplace was the central point of existence in the homes of the pilgrims and colonial America. Although they were constructed of logs plastered with clay or marsh reeds and some type of mortar and thus caused some obvious problems. Fire wardens were employed to periodically check the fireplace and chimney in each residence to guarentee safety for all the town's residents. We are responsible to check our own chimneys nowadays.
The fireplace was the primary heat source o f the seventeenth and early eighteenth centruies though and a typical one radiated so much heat that someone sleeping six to eight feet away woudl be freezing only on one side of their body. Water could not be left in jugs or crocks or ice would form.
Warming pans or bed warmers of copper or brass attatched to a turned piece of pine were used on cold nights to provide a brief hint of warmth. They would place the hot coals from the fire into the bedwarmer and slip them under the sheets so that their bed would be warm when they slipped in to get a good nights rest.
We've come a long way from the pioneer days thank goodness but, these early forms of heat and warmth is what led us to where we are today. The truth is, that these folks weren't as warm and cozy as we are today but, learning how they lived and what they had to use inspires me. Many people are still attracted to that way of life and surround themselves with wares from times past to capture the feeling of earlier times.
Early Brass and Metal ware
Here's a link to a site that I enjoy browsing. Very interesting early kitchenwares.
http://www.victorianpassage.com/2008/11/aluminum_cooking_ware.php
This is an exerpt from their page introduction:
Welcome!
A Victorian Passage has published 128 articles on a diverse range of subjects. Most of our growing archive of Victorian Era subjects are taken directly from 19th century sources to achieve a closer look into how our ancestors really lived. We have also been expanding our historical eras to include Early American from
1790-1839 and the Edwardian period of the
early 20th century.
If you found this would you know what it is?
The fireplace was the central point of existence in the homes of the pilgrims and colonial America. Although they were constructed of logs plastered with clay or marsh reeds and some type of mortar and thus caused some obvious problems. Fire wardens were employed to periodically check the fireplace and chimney in each residence to guarentee safety for all the town's residents. We are responsible to check our own chimneys nowadays.
The fireplace was the primary heat source o f the seventeenth and early eighteenth centruies though and a typical one radiated so much heat that someone sleeping six to eight feet away woudl be freezing only on one side of their body. Water could not be left in jugs or crocks or ice would form.
Warming pans or bed warmers of copper or brass attatched to a turned piece of pine were used on cold nights to provide a brief hint of warmth. They would place the hot coals from the fire into the bedwarmer and slip them under the sheets so that their bed would be warm when they slipped in to get a good nights rest.
We've come a long way from the pioneer days thank goodness but, these early forms of heat and warmth is what led us to where we are today. The truth is, that these folks weren't as warm and cozy as we are today but, learning how they lived and what they had to use inspires me. Many people are still attracted to that way of life and surround themselves with wares from times past to capture the feeling of earlier times.
Early Brass and Metal ware
Here's a link to a site that I enjoy browsing. Very interesting early kitchenwares.
http://www.victorianpassage.com/2008/11/aluminum_cooking_ware.php
This is an exerpt from their page introduction:
Welcome!
A Victorian Passage has published 128 articles on a diverse range of subjects. Most of our growing archive of Victorian Era subjects are taken directly from 19th century sources to achieve a closer look into how our ancestors really lived. We have also been expanding our historical eras to include Early American from
1790-1839 and the Edwardian period of the
early 20th century.
If you found this would you know what it is?
If you find what looks like a little soapstone tablet, just a couple of feet square, with a wire handle on it, then you've found a foot warmer. The soapstone block was placed in the stove before a trip. When it was hot, the foot warmer was wrapped in a blanket and placed on the floor of the buggy to make a cold trip a little more comfortable. They were used from the 1880s through the 1920s. These were also used in cars when there was yet to be heated automobiles.
There are also footwarmers from the 17th century that were used mainly indoors. They were usually made of some sort of metal, often tin and I have seen some all wood ones as well
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Happy New Year
Hi everyone, this is finicky from the finicky feline. Yes, I will attempt to start anew since my blog was deleted. I wasn't going to do it, I felt overwhelmed at the thought of trying to find all of my lost followers and trying to keep up with posting. And then I thought, what the heck!!
My resolution for the new year is to recognize that things are only as difficult and overwhelming as you make them. I used to think "Oh my, I didn't get a post done for the blog this week!", "I didn't get that project started" or "I didn't get that project finished". So with my new attitude these things will turn into " Great, I got a post done for my blog this month", "Yay, I finally started that project I've been meaning to start for 2 years!", or "At last, I've finished that project that loomed over me for so long".
You see the positive spin I have invented instead of the negative hoopla that burrows through my mind on most days? Yep, it's a resolution and this is just the beginning.
Here's hoping that you all find a new resolution to be excited about. Happy New Year one week late............better late than never....right?
Monday, November 14, 2011
Accidental Blog deletion
I know, how can you accidentally delete your blog when it takes several clicks? Leave it up to me and I will be the one to do it. Uggh!
Well, I was having trouble with someone hacking into my ebay account supposedly via my email on yahoo. Ebay suggested that I use another email server, at least for my ebay emails. Sooo, I started a gmail account not realizing that I already had one that I didn't use because I am registered with google for my blog. Once I realized that I had two gmail accounts I thought I'd better delete one or I would get confused. I figured I would delete the old one that was not associated with my ebay account and proceeded to do just that........not realizing that the one I was deleting was the one associated with my blogger account.......thus deleting my blog entirely! Oh, I was so disappointed, it took a long time to gather my friends and followers and in an instant they were gone.........POOF!
Well, I was having trouble with someone hacking into my ebay account supposedly via my email on yahoo. Ebay suggested that I use another email server, at least for my ebay emails. Sooo, I started a gmail account not realizing that I already had one that I didn't use because I am registered with google for my blog. Once I realized that I had two gmail accounts I thought I'd better delete one or I would get confused. I figured I would delete the old one that was not associated with my ebay account and proceeded to do just that........not realizing that the one I was deleting was the one associated with my blogger account.......thus deleting my blog entirely! Oh, I was so disappointed, it took a long time to gather my friends and followers and in an instant they were gone.........POOF!
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