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13-16.............................................Storewide Sale at Valley Antique & Unique in Funkstown (pg. 16)
14.................................................................... Super Sew Day at Lilies of the Field in Easton (pg. 4)
14-15.................Baltimore Heritage Quilters’ Guild Quilt Expo at Goucher College in Towson (pg. 8)
15......................... Celtic Traditions Tea at Steppingstone Farm Museum in Havre de Grace (pg. 14)
20-22....................................................................Monthly Sale at Sweet Clover in Frederick (pg. 11)
21-22.....................Southern Comforters Quilt Guild Quilt Show at Samuel Ogle MS in Bowie (pg.7)
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28.................................Suffragette Tea at Steppingstone Farm Museum in Havre de Grace (pg. 14)
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Piecing Life Together
State
a gift of time
by Barbara Polston
A few years ago, my eldest daughter, Tracy, was an attendant at a
friend’s wedding. As things go, the couple is now expecting their first
child and Tracy shared their good news. Being a quilter, I believed that
this precious new arrival would certainly need his or her own quilt.
With my return to full-time work, sewing time has become very limited
and very precious. Without even thinking about how a new quilting project
would get done by the baby shower five months away, I offered to make
the new baby a quilt. Tracy checked with her friends who said they would
welcome such a gift.
Tracy lives in New York City but was home for the holidays. We selected fabrics and a quilt design. We discussed the name for the quilt and the
information for the label. The baby shower was now four months away.
My place of employment is closed between Christmas
andOsland
New Year’s.
by Sherry
That week was a lovely gift of time with the family. I cooked every day,
making family favorites and trying new dishes. We celebrated the holiI havedays,
a confession
to make. the
I have
suit ofofarmor.
If I couldn’t
get Caitlyn.
out,
which included
engagement
my younger
daughter,
I
never slept
under
a
quilt
I
have
made.
nothing
was
gonna
get
in!
And,
as
long
worked on my editing responsibilities to move another magazine issue into
There, I said it. Publicly, even! It’s never
as no hands or feet hung over the
production.
We enjoyed
a pottery-painting
outing.
I sewed!
been something
I’ve done
(or not done)
precipice edge
of the And
mattress,
I was safe!
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of time,
an entire
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for returned
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True Confession
personal quilts go vertical vs. horizontal.
I hang them on my Studio walls.
They become examples of quilted
design choices for my customers,
eye-candy decor, incentive,
atmosphere, etc. While I don’t see
any Quilt Police on the horizon,
something
about
that
confession leaves me feeling a
bit convicted and guilty . . . of
“something” -- but I’m not
quite sure what.
Of the quilts I’ve actually
made and kept, there was
always one I planned to take down
whenever our bedroom received a
coordinating coat of paint! I finally
brought it home to be used for the first
time a couple months ago. I took great
delight walking past the open bedroom
doors; glancing at the bright colors,
reveling in the texture of the quilting;
enhanced by the natural light coming
through the windows. I was so pleased
and excited I was practically giddy. For
the first week or so, I dutifully took it off
each night. I didn’t want skin oil on it, or
to maybe break some stitches, or have it
end up on the floor or, or, or. If I sat on
the edge of the bed, I folded it back. I
found myself uptight about its use, in
general. I thought, “Good grief! I’ve been
better able to let go of quilts I’ve given
away. This is nuts!” If I made it to be
used, I just needed to cut the apron strings
and USE it. So, one night, I left it on and
crawled in. I turned a few times, tried to
tuck and re-tuck a few times, then ended
up lying there thinking . . . thinking . . .
and thinking some more. I went back in
my mind to the various quilts I had slept
under in the past.
As a very little girl, there was the big
heavy comforter/quilt kept in the cellar.
I never saw it in any light other than that
of a lantern, so it remains fairly
throughout our grade school years. They
were made from the same patterns,
but mine were always shades of
blue and my sister’s dresses were
in shades of red. The quilt she
made me was a Sun Bonnet
Sue from scraps of those
dresses. I understood it for
the special quilt it was (and
is) and have chosen to
never actually use it. It is
my keepsake from Aunt B.
There was a time of
chenille bedspreads and
blankets made out of a new material
called velour, and quilts took a breather
in my life. Then, in my senior year of high
school, my maternal grandmother gave
me two feed sacks. I had no idea what
they were until she explained (now I have
a small collection). After taking Home
Ec. my freshman year, followed by sewing
projects in 4-H, I made almost all of my
clothes, so I had lots of scraps. I sewed
four-inch patches of dress materials and
feed sacks into a quilt top. Having no idea
what I was doing and no guidance, I
proceeded to find the heaviest cotton
blanket for the inside “stuffing” of my
quilt. I refused to use anything but the
heaviest! I was remembering the weight
of Grandma’s and the cellar quilt. In my
mind, quilts were associated with weight!
I also didn’t know anything about
machine quilting, so I ended up tying it
with yarn. When finished, I put it in a big
black plastic garbage bag and stored it in
my parent’s basement because life
happened: four years of college, a year
and a half of teaching overseas, then
coming back home and settling down. Six
or seven years later, I came across the sack
with my quilt in it. As I said, I had known
“nothing.” When I took it out of the
bag, all the pink gingham patches were
gone! They had simply “melted” away . .
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York City, the quilt top was done! It’s taken a little longer to get the backing and batting assembled but, finally, it’s ready to go off to be quilted. It
looks like I will meet the baby shower deadline with little trouble.
Steve Jobs said, “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
This quilter couldn’t agree more! Today, I’m giving myself the gift of
my time. You’ll find me in the studio.
*** Barbara Polston is the author of Quilting with Doilies: Inspiration, Techniques, and Projects (Schiffer Books, 2015) and an award-winning quiltmaker. You can see Barbara’s quilts, join
her on Facebook or book her class and lecture offerings at www.barbarapolston.com. She was inducted into Arizona Quilters Hall of Fame in 2013. Barbara, who has lived in Phoenix, for almost
30 years, is calmly quilting in Studio Narnia. ©Barbara Polston, Phoenix, AZ, January 2015
Over The Teacup
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Town and Country Cooking
Tastes of the Tropics
by Janette Hess
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Gratitude
Mar.–Apr., 2015
Discovering Life’s Repurpose
by Jace Sanders
I cringe now at the thought of having
missed a perfect repurposing opportunity,
but I was young and hadn't been initiated
into that uniquely creative world then. It
won't happen again!
Most of us know the three Rs of
Sustainability: Reduce, Reuse, and
Recycle. There’s a fourth R and it is
fabulous—Repurpose.
My education started
sometime after I spent
a challenging week
renovating
an
abandoned house in
Phoenix
that we
bought
My faether
always
used to say “Well
at auction.
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time,It’s all in the
begun
is half
done.
it felt I’ve
like always
I was
planning.”
found that to be
participating
in
true.
something
great
Back whenreally
we first
moved into our
by
improving
house out here in thethe
country, it had a
dilapidated
big
old tree nextproperty,
to it. It was an ugly thing
knowing that it would
really. Mostly dead, it produced only
help revitalize the neighborhood where
enough
pine cones and needles to clog
it was located. We spared no expense on
our
gutters
and kill the
lawn
it. that
It
the new windows,
doors
andbelow
stucco
creaked
in
the
wind
at
night
and
dragged
were badly needed. That home would
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roof. It was
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ever I have repented
better.
of my former
decided
to fall careless
over onways thanks to my
friends
at Merchant
out
house,
we’d be Square Antique
Marketplace
in
Chandler, AZ.
cur tains.
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I
told
them
about the renovation,
More than
my
friends
winced
at
the thought of my
once the
trashing
ninety-year-old
windows. They
dog
got
took me to a booth in the store where a
pelted with
similar window lay. Someone had seen the
falling
twigs
discarded window’s potential, dusted it
and
branches
hefor
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off and put itsoup
sale. walk under
it. The
squirrels
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livekids
in it.do
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We
decided
to
cut
it
down.
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was
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window.
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friend
typed of
a couple
quotesand
and
Building Harmony
printed them along with my children’s
pictures. We taped the images on the back
of the glass, using each pane like a photo
frame and—well, you can see here how
incredible it looks.
That was my introduction to just how
exciting repurposing can be—and cheap,
since the window only cost me fifty
dollars. Just yesterday,
a friend commented
on how great it looks.
By Jeff
Sure,
I’ve Cappis
got good
looking kids, but she
was more impressed
Despite the planning
though,
with the
homeywork
feeling
this accidentally
repurposed
started off rough. Blackie
hit
window
brings
to
Wayne in the head with a cable. Waynemy
boring
living
accidentally droppedotherwise
a 10 pound
axe on
room.
Blackie’s foot. While I was laughing at
Although
easy,
them, I tripped over the
chainsaw into
repurposing
does
Cathy’s flower bed. Yup, the work startedtake
off as you’d expect. some creativity. If
you’re stumped, just search the Internet
When we finally got the tree tied off
for that fourth R—Repurpose—and add
with
a cableyou’re
and winch,
I started
cut
whatever
thinking
abouttosending
into
the
tree
with
the
chain
saw.
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was
to the landfill.
big around,
but the
cutting
The doors
from
that wasn’t
housetoo
webad.
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Wayne
kepthave
the tension
on theinto
cableany
away
could
been made
so theoftree
was being pulled
away a
number
repurposed
treasures:
from shelving,
the house.wall
I got
the a“V”
headboard,
décor,
hope
out on
the front side
chest or notch
even acut
coffee
table.
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on abegan
crusade
the to
cutsave
intoothers,
the
like I’ve been saved,
from
throwing
away
back side. Deeper into
perfectly good junk
with
the
potential
the tree I cut. Blackie of
it becoming something sbeautiful
t e p p e dand
amazing once again. I’m back
not suggesting
to
that we begin hording. Clutter
isn’tthe
good
protect
for the soul, but before you
beer.go trashing
old stuff, just ask yourself if that item
The tree
has any potential for becoming
(under
a
lot
of
tension
from
something else. I promise the
youcable)
will be
began
to
lean
away
from
the
house.
pleasantly surprised at what you
comeIt up
creaked.
with! The old dry wood began to
Well Begun is Half Done
Blackie, out for the next Saturday. A guy
day. It started out as you’d expect- with a
couple of beers while we talked over our
big project.
At first we talked about the best way to
use the cables and chain saws. Blackie
suggested
we pull it over with a truck. I
Sometimes, like a story in progress, our
suggested
should
use aand
tank.
Wayne
lives needwe
a little
editing
revision.
wanted
to
cut
off
the
tree
and
have
Recently an editor asked me to itcut
hauled
with from
helicopters.
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17,000away
words
my 102,000-word
we
thought
about
wrapping
novel. I had labored to turndynamite
this short
around
the base
to see
if itbirth
would
story into
a book,
giving
to take
every
off
We all agreed
in the end
onelike
ofa rocket.
those thirty-one
chapters.
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cut allthe
thosetruck
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Unfortunately
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get
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like
first.
the hand winch, I was on the chainsaw
Then one day I
and
Blackie would hold our beers. Every
accepted the challenge,
step
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planned
and re-planned
in it
opened
manuscript
and attacked
greatest
detail.
We
must
have
spent
with new eyes and vigor. Instead of
another
2 beers
the operation.
searching
for refining
diamonds,
I hunted for
Ann’s Lovin’ Ewe
Work in Progress
excess to delete. Chapter by chapter, like
a dieter weighing in at Weight Watchers,
I eagerly checked my word count to see
if I had lost “weight.” With each cut, the
novel improved. When at last the
numbers dipped below 90,000, I deemed
it ready to submit to an agent.
That’s how I think of spring-cleaning
my house and life. Sometimes I have too
many darlings getting in the way of good
stuff. What cuts would make my story
cleaner and my life fuller? For me this
involves scheduling days on the calendar
to devote to specific rooms in our home
or projects. Or it may involve making a
chart of activities to determine priorities.
crack. I was down to the last inch of wood
when–Jace
something
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Sanders is abad
manager
at MerchantThe
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tree began waving back and
forth- on 1 inch of wood! It would lean
towards the house, then lean away, then
back again. You never saw
fools Stewart
run so
by 3Ann
fast in your life. Mostly in circles waving
our arms. Blackie dropped my beer (he
said
it wastomine)
and Wayne
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space
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morewas
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screwed!
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a
it’s crammed full of darlings? What
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for
of furniture is clogging your hall or
you?
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causing
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treasures?
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Wayne’s beer. (Well,
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happen if you had a free evening to do
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don’t
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how tothe
relate?
the darling, but maybe you need to take a
step away from him or her). Or do you
need to lose 17 pounds so you can enjoy
running around the playground with your
kids? Now is a good time to cut the fat—
literally and metaphorically.
And then keep practicing your slimmer
lifestyle. One of the reasons I write a 500word column is to practice writing tight.
And so I bow out now at under 500 words
with renewed vision to examine not only
my writing, but other areas of my life. If
you found a treasure in the 500 words,
hope you’re inspired to revise and edit,
too!
by Janet Young
Pg. 7
it is that they are thankful. This could
Having survived a long, cold winter,
make for interesting conversations.
perhaps we can all celebrate in gratitude,
Take your child to a dollar store and let
as the first signs of spring begin to appear.
him or her buy something for a less
With longer days, warmer temperatures,
fortunate child. Volunteer together as a
no more ice and snow; these are all good
family at a nursing home or a soup
reasons for which to be thankful.
kitchen, so that your children will learn
What got me to thinking about this, was
to appreciate what they have. After all
a brief blurb I read in a magazine about
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how a stay at home mother experienced
child might be, and they need to know
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Back Porch Break
by Nancy Parker Brummett
Books-a-Bazillion
Ah, spring! Time for tulips, green grass, baby calves
frolicking in the fields, and spring cleaning! My husband
and I have been in the process of downsizing for a while
now (or “rightsizing” as we Baby Boomers prefer), so
spring cleaning is sort of an ongoing thing at our house.
I’ve had no trouble at all sorting through clothes, linens,
dishes, pots and pans, and even jewelry. So many items
have found new homes or been relegated to the recycle
bins. But there’s one problem. Our house is chock full of
books, and I can’t seem to let them go.
My husband and I once fantasized about selling everything we own and buying a sailboat to sail around the
world. We figured we could generate enough income via the internet to keep the
galley stocked, and we could stay in touch with friends and family via e-mail. Only
one thing—well, besides the fact that neither of us knew how to sail—was stopping
us. What would we do with all our books?
It's not that we never give a book away, sell a book at a garage sale, or take a
stack of books to a used bookstore. We just don't seem to have done any of those
things frequently enough. Hardbacks, paperbacks, pocket-sized volumes and coffee
table tomes...our house is full of books.
Even with all the moves over the years, we both still have textbooks from college
courses we took in the late sixties. I saved valuable texts like the Norton Anthology
of English Literature and the Harbrace College Handbook. He, on the other hand,
has texts titled (I'm not making this up) Engineering Economy, Applied Regression
Analysis, and Principles of Operations Research with Application to Managerial
Decisions, copyright 1969.
Now, excuse me, but William Blake will always be William Blake and the tiger
burns just as brightly "in the forests of the night" in 2015 as he did in 1967.
However, any manager needing advice based on what was known about systems
operations in 1969 is probably managing a push broom—if that!
In addition to nonfiction titles and novels, we have a complete library of children's
books. Now I'm reading Dr. Seuss favorites like Hop on Pop, Mr. Brown is Out of Town
and The Foot Book to a second generation. I suppose I could forego the set of 1975
Encyclopedia Britannica Junior (minus Vol. 16, which one of my sons left at school),
but I couldn't abandon Tuggy the Tugboat for the most luxurious sailboat made!
We also have travel guides to every place we've ever been or dreamed of going.
Those would come in handy on the sailboat, but where would we put them? At least
I could toss overboard those for inland locations, like Beijing: An Illustrated Guide.
We would need one whole foot locker to hold those classics we plan to read
some day, including the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Complete
Novels of Jane Austen, and another for the books we bought but haven't read yet.
We'd need all the books we've saved from foreign languages we've taken so we
could look up how to ask directions to the post office in every port, and I'd need
my full supply of cookbooks in the galley, with titles spanning trends from fondu to
gluten-free.
You may be wondering why we don’t just read books on an electronic reader
like a Kindle or Nook. Well, we do. But somehow that hasn’t replaced the joy of
holding a book in hand and turning the pages one by one.
Although we do own a book titled Sailing for Dummies, I doubt we’ll opt for the
sailing fantasy. Far more likely is that we’ll move to a smaller house with a lot less
stuff—except for the books stacked floor to ceiling in every room!
Nancy Parker Brummett is an author and freelance writer in Colorado Springs, CO. “Like” her author
page on Facebook, or to learn more about her life and work, visit www.nancyparkerbrummett.com.
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Easy Easter Ham
1 (12 pound) whole ham
1 liter ginger ale
1 cup brown sugar
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple slices, drained, reserve juice
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1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
Directions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place ham in a roasting pan. Pour
ginger ale into the roasting pan. Rub brown sugar over the ham. Attach pineapple slices to outside of ham with toothpicks. Secure a cherry into the middle
of each pineapple slice again using toothpicks. Pour reserved pineapple juice
into pan with ginger ale. Tent aluminum foil over the ham. Bake ham in preheated oven for 4 hours. Remove aluminum foil and continue baking another
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night.
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who
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moon
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the fun is doubled.
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fragrant bars. A newspaper
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guilty satisfaction.
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roots are deep in southeastern Appalachian Ohio, where she and her family still makes
lifestyle.
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of
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reasons
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write
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house
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life.
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big sale and I stocked up with about four
and shelters in town I unloaded more of
their home. A self-taught student who has been drawing since childhood, Aleta takes us
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word column is to practice writing tight.
many darlings getting in the way of good
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bundles, which brought the soap count
my stash. I suppose the best news is that
on a rural journey into the customs, ideas and natural settings of her piece of our beautiful
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stuff. What cuts would make my story
up to thirty-two bars.
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Chocolatier
country to inspirational and from quirky primitives to Old World inspired folk art. In her
with renewed vision to examine not only
cleaner and my life fuller? For me this
the year, I kept buying it as I found it on
an added bonus heretofore unknown.
studio, her inimitable charm and warmth have come alive in acrylic murals and original
my writing, but other areas of my life. If
involves scheduling days on the calendar
Amy Carter, Independent Chocolatier #6579
[email protected],
(443)
sale or at discount stores for
pennies on
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to 605-7977
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prints with a familiar and easy-going attitude. A sense of home, neighbors and nature
you found a treasure in the 500 words,
to devote to specific rooms in our home
the dollar. Not one bar, mind you, but
soap hoarding began and I'm still finding
continue to make for a stylized array of ideas and finished works.
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hope you’re inspired to revise and edit,
or projects. Or it may involve making a
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that eight-bar package. Into my linen
packs of eight soaps in the most unusual
too!
chart of activities to determine priorities.
of
art to compliment their decor and to fill that special spot in their home or office. Gift
closet it all went. • Mashaun Barnes, Independent
places. I haveChocolatier
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purchase
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blessings, giving thanks for what we have
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intrigues
me the most!
as a family and as a nation. We cultivate
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ago,
Thanksgiving
was
more
than
I’ve noticed that my “antique eye” is branching out into other old relics. Conan attitude of gratitude by taking the
just a special day. With school and church
sider the tools, utensils, and time saving devices
of off
the 20’s
and 30’s.
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our "want
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elements
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characterize
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pieces,
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rust
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parts.
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me
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believe the
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thanks
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weekend
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of
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me
of
special
times...And
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pieces
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to thethe
collections
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a fun
hobby.
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and
out-of-place
against
in
the
world,
but
God
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still
in
control.
backdrop
of
autumn's
yellow
and
orange
the creative juices flowing as well as preserving the past.
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bless
us with
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in life.
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Coloring Easter eggs should be fun. But too many times we end up with cracked
eggs that can’t be used. This problem made us search for ideas on how to avoid
unattractive Easter eggs. Here are some of the best:
• Add one teaspoon of vinegar for each egg before the burner is turned on to
stop eggs from cracking. This apparently works because the proteins in the egg
white congeal faster and plug the natural cracks in the shell.
• Cover the eggs with cold water and bring them to a rolling boil. Cook for one
minute, then remove them from the heat. When the water has cooled enough
that you can put your hand in (about 20 minutes), the eggs will be perfectly cooked.
• Use eggs that have been in the refrigerator longer. When an egg gets older the
contents shrink. If there’s less content inside the egg it’s less likely to crack the
shell when it expands. But the eggs should be left to warm up before boiling,
since adding cold eggs to hot water will increase the chance of them cracking.
Gardening by the Moon Calendar
In ancient times when man had not quite got round to inventing the wristwatch,
the most reliable source of telling the time was the sun, moon, and stars. There
seems to be several opinions of who came up with the moon planting calendar
first. Was it the Egyptians or the Babylonians? It is more than likely that each and
every farmer had a planting calendar based on the moon phases, and there would
be different variations depending on the geographical location. As their calendars
where passed on through the generations they evolved to cover the different
crops they tried to grow, and the more productive farming techniques used.
It was noticed that different plants grow better when they are planted during
different phases of the moon. Each of these phases imparts an influence on the
way vegetation grows on the planet through the rising and falling of the moisture
in the ground and in the plants.To provide more accurate records it was noted
that certain crops faired better when planted whilst the moon was in a specific
constellation. As the moon can take only 2-3 days to pass through a constellation,
the planting calendar was a 'cutting edge' technology. Planting was not the most
important time for the farmer, harvest time also had to be recorded. If you harvest
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holiday has been celebrated on the North American continent since the late eighteenth century.
It is believed that St Patrick was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century,
into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father was a deacon and his grandfather was a priest in the Christian church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped
by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Gaelic Ireland. He spent six years there
working as a shepherd and that during this time he "found God".
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Pieces From My Heart
by Jan Keller
It Happens All The Time
The worst of all possibilities has happened.
Members of the family can go home.
Medicine’s administering hands are no longer needed and the medical professionals
can move on to other patients.
It happens all the time.
In fact, it’s so commonplace that when a funeral procession passes us along the
street, we, engrossed in our private world of worry and care, may hardly turn our
heads to notice. We might not even give so much as a passing thought to those
poor souls in that procession who are toting their loved one and a heavy load of
grief out to some cemetery.
It happens all the time.
It’s so usual.
It’s so commonplace.
It’s so ordinary ... ordinary, that is, until it strikes
those we know; those we care about; those we
love. Then it is ordinary no more. Then it comes
roaring into our experience like a runaway freight
train. Then it explodes upon us with a pain and a
despair of absolutely frightening intensity.
It doesn’t matter what the illness or how long
the suffering. In an instant—the time it takes to
draw a breath or fail to draw one—the sunniest
place in all the world is immediately transformed into dark and gloomy despair. At
that time, when everything is so very discouraging, friends reach out with the
encouraging gift of their presence.
Sometimes there may be enough in a handshake, a warm embrace, a hand on
the shoulder, or a soft smile. Sometimes that’s enough to keep hearts from breaking
and hopes from dying. But sometimes, those gestures just aren’t enough. And in
those, we need to learn and remember the ministering power of tears.
Tears are our most profound expression of sympathy for those about us, as well
as our most blessed emotional release.
In life we’ll all see joy and we’ll all see pain—but may we never see the pain
that can kill the joy of being supported by those who express their love and share
their tears.
© 2015 Jan Keller. No reprint without permission. Jan shares other pieces of her life in her books,
Pieces From My Crazy Quilt, and The Tie That Binds. These books can be ordered by calling
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