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Comments (12)Lots of times!! I made my DS's 1st birthday cake & it ended up with plastic train on it. I was glad it was only family seeing it!! I took lessons on cake decorating & got so I made all the cakes for weddings, showers etc at church. Crafting or decorating is learning how & having a good eye & sometimes even that doesn't work. If you have some 20 or 24 gauge wire & some beads(old necklace that broke etc) you could put about 8 wires with beads every inch with a loop on both sides of bead going across leave center area plain& wire on heart thereby filling in the heart kind of like a spider web but nicer,where wires all meet in center of heart add a couple of 1/2 marbles 1 to each side, Put a wire on top & hang in the wind for a sun catcher!! I was given some afghans to finish by GF's husband after she died. Well, she was right handed & I'm left, normally not a problem only I was supposed to start where I usually end. I had to find friends to make them up & they did & used them. If I had refused them, her hubby would have thrown them away. My crochet looks different but I wasn't going to throw them out. They were more than 1/2 done with the rest of yarn to match. Now they all remember Lora Mae every time they cuddle up in winter. I got some other things I could use & did. So it turned out well. You can use any color on the wires, about 4 beads to each wire, 2 before center(leave free for the 1/2 marble to be glued on) 2 going to far side of heart. About 32 beads total!! Good luck in whatever you do with it! Jan...See MoreHave you ever been on TV?
Comments (32)Back in '57 ... ... when TV was about as young as YouTube now ... ... I travelled from Ithaca N Y where I was in University to Saskatchewan to visit my family for Christmas. After graduating from seminary in Saskatchewan in '53, I'd applied to do missionary and refugee resettlement work in Korea, was appointed as the Korean War was winding down and it had stopped by the time of my arrival. After 4 years (usually 5) I returned via Hong Kong, India, Palestine and Europe, where I attended an ecumenical conference near Geneva and had arrived in Toronto just before I needed to head for school in N.Y., so hadn't seen my family for four years. Drove my VW bug out through Chicago, taking a Greek student to visit friends in Minneapolis, with a rug over our knees to keep us warm. As I neared home, just after daylight, a fox was running across a field and I decided to chase him: bad idea, as I got stuck when trying to get to a different roadway through deep snow ... so I had to knock on our neighbour's door at just after daybreak to ask his help to get me out. Our small village church asked me to be guest speaker on the Sunday after Christmas and one of the nieighbours told the TV station in Regina about it, so they called me to ask whether I could appear ... but the line wasn't good, so I wasn't sure which news medium was involved ... ... until they gave me directions to their location, on a major highway on the way out of town. They asked me to come in next week ... but I was to return to N.Y. that evening, so they had me come in that afternoon. The interviewer hadn't been able to talk to me prior to my appearance and I was on after a cooking segment, so she apologized for interviewing me in the kitchen ... but I told her not to worry, that clergy people were used to talking to folks in their kitchens. I asked whether she'd like to hear about various aspects of the refugee situation ... and yes, she would ... then about what life in Korea was like ... and yes, she would ... and about other aspects of the aftermath of war, etc. ... so I pretty well took over the whole interview! That was over 50 years ago ... and I don't recall having been on, since. Not handsome enough, I guess. And now one pretty well has to be young: old, lined faces aren't in high demand, I hear. Hope you're all having a lovely week. One thing nice about retirement: every day is holiday. And if you wake up ... look out the window ... and don't like the blizzard ... you can say, "Oh, well - I didn't plan on going anywhere today, anyway!". ole joyful...See MoreHav eyou ever been so overwhelmed you are hesitant to buy things?
Comments (27)Oh I know how you feel! I am frozen with finishing my living room, mainly because of one of my cats. I made some lovely plaid drapes and would like to get two new chairs. But my sweet Emma will scratch on the furniture despite having scratching posts and those corrugated box things with catnip. I've tried the squirt bottle with water, which helps for a short time, but then she's right back at it. There's now a small spot on the back of the sofa with threads sticking out. I just don't think I want the added stress with new chairs but what I have now doesn't work. So I spend a lot of time outside with my roses instead of making a decision. My DH just shakes his head. Good luck! You've gotten lots of good advice. Take your time and buy what you love. Maybe you'll find a painting or rug that will inspire you. I'm so sorry for all of you hurt by this lousy economy. My son lost his job at the first of the year. Luckily he is single, no kids, but he's still living on a fraction of what he made before. I'm just thankful we're in a position to help him out, if needed....See MoreHave you ever been insulted about reading?
Comments (54)When I was in my 20's, single and working in an office, a co-worker picked up the book (Oscar Lewis' La Vida)I was currently reading, looked at the price, and asked in a loud voice "You paid $-- for THAT?) She had announced earlier that she and her husband had just purchased an expensive new car with all the bells and whistles. Differenct strokes. . . When my boys were young I would read aloud to them during dinner. Great for the diet! I would stop in the middle of a exciting passage, and leave the book on the table while I cleaned up the kitchen. It was fun to see which boy got to the book first to take up to his room and finish that chapter. I've never worried that my boys, now 38 and 40, would not be readers. They're both still single and have very active lives, and I was pleased that on one weekend day each called me from the city they happened to be visiting, one to tell me he had met an author of a book we both loved, and the other to announce he had found an old book I had been looking for. Reading aloud has so many benefits. Years ago my late brother, who was 15 years older than I enjoyed reading each other passages from Robert Paul Smith's Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. For those that may not remember this lovely little book there are passages about how a child spends his idle time, including the wonders of the empty lot nextdoor. This book sparked conversations about how my brother and I each looked at our childhood experiences from different angles, and without a doubt, brought us much closer together. I certainly will treasure those times. I see I've strayed from the original topic of being insulted about reading, to more speaking in defense of reading. Sorry about that, but I guess defense of an action naturally comes after an insult....See Moremnwsgal
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