Starlet Challenge #

Starlet Challenge this week is

Tada

Mae West.

I definitely know who Mae West was but I am pretty sure her movies were never shown in my little town theater.

In fact I have never seen any of her movies.

And yes she is very much quoted.

Hooray for Mae.

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Vintage Thingie Thursday and Tea Talk with Ruth

Vintage Thingie Thursday

Found these in a thrift shop for .50 cents each filled with

pot-pourri

Found them for sale at about 3.50 on the internet

No mention of how long they have been in circulation.

There was a mark on the bottom

20Cl

which seems to mean ceramic lid but these stoppers were shown in the empty bottles.

The suggested use was for the sand ceremony in a wedding.
You may know but I have never seen or heard of a sand ceremony.
So



What is a Sand Ceremony?

The Unity Sand Ceremony is one of the most popular elements in today's weddings.  Often taking the place of the traditional unity candle ceremony.  The Sand Ceremony is much better suited to outdoor and beach settings!  These Sand Ceremony vases can be personalized with names, dates, monograms and even logos. We also offer the miniature Family Sand Ceremony vases so that you may include your parents or children in the Sand Ceremony.

Like the unity candle, the sand is used to symbolize the uniting of the bride and groom. Their separate lives are symbolized by two vials of sand (usually different colors). After the exchange of rings, the officiant explains the meaning of the Unity Ceremony. The Bride and Groom then come together, and pour into one vial, the two individual vials of sand. Their flowing together symbolizes the joining of the couple as they share their first experience of unity as husband and wife. The newly formed union is represented by the intertwined pattern of sand created by the couple. This symbol is then a keepsake of your wedding day.

Wonderful idea.

Now does any one know what this might be?

These look convex but they are concave.
Is it some type of game?

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Tea Time with Ruth

Having...........Aveno Tea with one of my favorite mugs.

Feeling..............Very ambivalent about all the changes going on in our family. Little kiddos who were so loving and fun to be with and loved coming to Papaw and Mamaw's house have new interests now. They are still so loving and very respectful but I miss the special times we used to have together.
Now when I stop to think It would not be normal for them to come and have tea parties with the toys like they used to.


On my mind.......These are normal changes and I must admit I have been guilty of watching the actual trial of Casey Anthony and my heart is just breaking.
I know that is why these thoughts are going through my head.

I pray that in time God will bless this family with understanding and forgiveness.




Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

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Happy Birthday special girl and Doing my thing day

Happy Birthday

to a very special little lady.

 Dear granddaughter

Holly.

We love you

Mot and Mamaw
(Holly is a big tease and she calls her gf Tom, 
Mot)

Antique bed warmer after painting and application of bird pattern.

University of Louisville tote bag

made from plarn.

Logo taken from a tee shirt


All my adventures are at home but linking up with 
Kathy at Adventure Express.
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Magpie Tales # 71

Magpie Tales
with
Willow

Wishin

I wish I could float like a wispy feather

I would poke holes in the clouds and miss with the weather

I would fly over the Pyramids and visit Agra

Pass over the Ganges and then over to Syria

I would love to travel to all those fine places

But unless I could float I am stuck here like molasses

I love growing old, it's the normal way to go
But wishing is less hard on the old torso






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Mosaic Monday

While doing Friday Shoot Out

I made this mosaic of hats for the theme found in one of our local museums.

Heritage Hall at Nazareth Campus

Today I am sharing it with

Mosaic Monday with Mary.

The top left is a typical bonnet worn by the women of Ky. at the time the congregation of

The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth were founded in Nelson Co.

The next picture is of a bonnet designed similar to the regular bonnet to be worn by the sisters.

On the left bottom a hand woven hat of bamboo strips made by the people of Napal where the sisters have missions.

Bottom right the back side.

These are some hand carved and hand painted figurines from their mission in Botswana, Africa.

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Sepia Saturday #80

Sepia Saturday with Alan

Courtesy of Nelson Co. Genealogy Roundtable

of which we are members.

James Henry's story was featured in the Feb. issue of The Nelson County Genealogist.

James Henry Spalding was born Feb. 19, 1841 in a modest log house which still stands in the southernmost reaches of Nelson County, near the community known as Howardstown.

His family was amoung the earliest settlers of our vastly Catholic county.

Very well one of the pillars of families in our area.

He was once a valued officer in the Union's 37th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry soon becaming a confederate guerrilla, preying on citizens in his own county and surrounding counties.

Spalding's change from Unionist to Confederate guerrilla, to be sure, was a radical transformation but still not all that surprising.

By the end of the war many Unionists were wondering if they had not picked the wrong side. Being a border slave state, in 1861, those Kentuckians that supported the Union cause did so in order to preserve the "Union and Constitution as it was." Their opinion was diametrically opposed to views held by many northerners who went to war as a crusade against the institution of slavery. During Spalding's  subsequent court-martial, George Radcliff, who kept a hotel near the family home was asked, "Do you know that Spalding's family are Southern Sympathizers, except himself?" To which Radcliff replied, "I did not know that they were at the onset, but they got to be afterwards."

His court martial began on March 25th, 1865.

In an agreement to save his life Spalding pleaded guilty to robbery but there was not evidence of murder or treason of his country so he was sentenced to 5 years in Ky State Penitentiary.

James Henry Spalding, from what little is known, led a relatively quiet life after the war but he was never married and died September 24, 1877, at the age of 36.

Yes he is in my family tree and the trees of many, many folks in this area.

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Friday Shoot Out June 24 th 2011

June 25th. 2011

Theme

Hats

Well I could go on forever.

Please forgive my personal ones.
These will be in my Etsy Shop eventually.

The Sunflower

The Americano

For Him

The Milady

Could not resist this.
Everyone has worn and loves party hats.
 

 The children on the left are now parents of ones on the right.

 These type hats are seen all over town especially since all the construction downtown.

 Seen in Heritage Hall Museum at Nazareth.

Click on to enlarge.

The very first head wear of the SCN was the same style as early women would wear in Kentucky.

In the lower pictures a handwoven hat made in Napal where the sisters have missions.




Kentucky Derby Hat.

Hitting the Wilderness Trail.



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That Healing Touch

Someone I love very much is going through a stressful time right now and I offered a session of reflexology, which was accepted right away.

My hands were tired and sore from the needle work I had done today but I felt that the combination of the Aveda oil and the stretching and movement of my hands would be therapeutic to myself also.

A flickering candle and meditation music and we were ready to begin.
 
It was great to do that work again.
It has been a long time since I had done any massage work.
Of course I had to make myself very comfortable to be able to do it at all.
But it worked very well.
She was pleased and I was too.
Thank God for the gift of love and touch.

 

Starlet Challenge- Greer Garson and Doing my thing day.

Starlet Challenge this week is 

Greer Garson 

Greer Garson was working at an advertising agency at age 24, when she decided to start a career as a full-time actor. While playing in "Old Music" in London, she was discovered by MGM's Louis B. Mayer who gave her a contract the following day. Her first part was in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), which gave her an Oscar nomination for best actress, followed by the part as "Elizabeth Bennet" in Pride and Prejudice (1940). In 1942, she played the title role in Mrs. Miniver (1942), a WWII morale-booster, for which she won an Oscar as best actress. Although not happy with always being given the same kind of roles, she stayed with MGM until 1954. After this, she made few appearances in films, although her portrayal as Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello (1960) gave her another Oscar nomination.

Framed at
Picnik.com

She was one of my favorite in the late 40's and 50's.
I was at that impressionable age and her portrayal of strong women made quite an impression on my young mind.
I wanted to be that kind of woman when I grew up.

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Doing my thing day.

As I continue to work on my items for the summer picnic craft booth I am finding amazing colored bags and cutting them up to supply my stash when I go on line with my Etsy shop.
Yes I am going to give it a stab.


 Trying to learn to make paper beads and jewelry.

The latest projects for the picnic.
I call these Toy Totes.
I filled each bag with water toys.

 These totes are made with heavier plastic bags along the bottom to give them more stability.


Double click to see the items.

 This is the latest purse I just finished.


Doesn't leave me much time for visiting my blogger friends but it will soon be finished.




Doing a little container gardening also.

Where the birds play.

Near the hummingbird feeder.