Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, tagged baking, birthdays, cooking, mothers, quilting on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother turns 75 today!
If you’d like to see how up-to-date, active, creative,
and just plain amazing she is, check out her blog –
and wish her a happy 3/4 of a century.
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged ebay, fashion, material girl, shoes, vintage clothing, vintage jewelry on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Actually, I’m not into fashion at all. My clothes are cheap and ugly, I dress strictly for comfort, and all my taste is in my mouth.
However, a friend has her own fashion blog, which she just shared with me today. And I have to say, for someone who’s not into shoes and style, I really [...]
Posted in Needlework, cross-stitch, tagged bee hive, bee skep, bees, cross-stitch, honey bee, honeybee, Needlework, quilt blocks, quilting, wall hanging on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother has a post at her blog, Lillian’s Cupboard, showing her most recent quilted wall hanging. She had been telling me about a block design she’d found, called a honey bee block, and how she was eager to incorporate it into a project.
Earlier in the week I had been looking at one of the cross-stitch [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged Corolla, new car, old car, Saturn, Toyota on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday I went car-shopping with my sister and brother-in-law. I HATE the process of buying a new car, and my co-shoppers were along as advisors in all things financial. (In fact, I was told to say as little as possible.) When all was said, negotiated, and done, I wound up with a new 2008 Toyota [...]
Posted in My Chapbooks, Poetry, tagged chapbooks, Finishing Line, Poetry, Pudding House, small presses on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been lucky enough to have two chapbooks of poetry published in the last seven years, after struggling for at least two decades. I self-published one chapbook nearly 30 years ago; then in the early 80s I won a chapbook competition through La Reina Press — which went out of business before the chapbook was ever [...]
Posted in Folk Art, Ireland, My Collections of Stuff, Sheep, tagged collecting, Folk Art, Ireland, Sheep on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t know when my love affair with sheep began. It certainly wasn’t a childhood thing. I mean, I saw them at the county fair, but they didn’t impress me that much. I probably paid more attention to the chickens. There weren’t a lot of sheep raised in this part of Ohio, either, so I [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, tagged hodge-podge, hodgepodge, messy, salmagundi on September 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was looking for a synonym for “jumble.” At first I was going to call my blog “A Glorious Jumble,” but when I Googled the phrase, I discovered it had been used so much in general writing alone that it was a cliche. So when I consulted the thesaurus, I saw enticing choices such as [...]
