here comes the sun do-do-do-do here comes the sun n i say it's alright...

i can not believe how "hard"this winter has been! i know it's all so relative...but here in the sunny south the endless days of rain n soggyness is...discouraging....we have had misleading glimpses of sunny springy days but they only serve to get me all excited only to make me plunge into despair when i wake up the next morning to a heavy frost n greygray skies...ok that was probably waaaay too dramatic...lets just say i'm so adoring the sun this morning...i even popped..you've got mail into the dvd player to play in the background as i bounce around the house doing odd jobs...it's such a happy sunny day movie

i have a new project that i am going to be undertaken soo...

for the past 15 years r so my bedroom...well i should say "our" bedroom has been decorated the exact same way...lots of ecru lace n croched bed coverings n curtains...greens n dark rose colors....dried roses n other romantic flowers....i have loved it BUT i am ready for a change....

i was thinking light n white n vintagy...total redo....

does anyone know of a good site that has some ideas n pictures to look @....maybe your bedroom or that of a friend is something like i'm talkin....or maybe you just like it n think it would be fun for me to see....can you send me a picture or a fun site to go to....i'm open to suggestions...

my email is sewqt@ hotmail

even as a child i felt giddy @ getting an appliance as a gift

History Of The Apron

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.


The principal use of Grandma or mama's apron was to protect the dress underneath,because she only had a few,it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven or stove.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, wiping snotty noses and on occasion was even used for cleaning dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove or oven..

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen or living room in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.

After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In autumn, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma and Mama walked out onto the porch, waved their aprons, and the menfolk knew it was time to come in from the paddocks to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

less impact woman

ok so i just got done viewing the documentary called "no impact man"....its about a man n his wife n small daughter that go on a yearlong crusade to make no net impact on the environment some of the ways they do this include: eating only locally grown organic food, generating no trash except for compost and using no carbon-fueled transportation....they also get rid of electricity...laundry n other soaps...cosmetics...toilet paper...disposable diapers...other consumable paper products....

no going out to eat...no buying ANYthing new...they rent borrow or buy second hand ONLY...

so i was thinking...because my family already thinks i'm nuts because we don't use tupperware or have a microwave i know i couldn't go aaaall the way nor do i feel like i need to...

BUT i would like to try to make less of an impact....n not so much so i can save the planet but mostly because we waste too much...n we (as a family) have TOO MUCH stuff...

i recently shared w/ a friend on facebook that i was embarrassed @ the fact that we can not park our cars in the garage because of all the "stuff" ...dresser drawers that won't shut...food that goes bad n has to be thrown out before it gets eaten......

when lottie was little she loved the berenstain bear books...they had a series called "too much______...like "too much birthday" n such...i could write a book.."toooooo much STUFF"

ok so does anyone have good recipes for dish n laundry soap...

I'm baaaaack....

hey everybody...wow i can't believe it's been so long...

i spent last week in tacoma washigton visiting my precious little grand niece...

she is sooooo sweet n shaped like a ladybug....seeeeeee???

ava the babybug

holding her was a dream!