The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

beautiful work you are doing there

thank you.... I just got some clear glass cabochons I am going to give some artwork a try... My own.
then wrap it.

deb

 

[microchick]

SCG that pendent is gorgeous. I love the yellow jade and the style of the mount works perfectly with the color. It almost looks like an antique.

I can well understand why your arms and shoulders are suffering.

All I can say is God bless you for the work you are doing restoring those gravesites.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

you have a iron will to keep moving how is your knee handling this

The knee does not feel good today, but feels better than my hands after 8 hours of chiseling. Surprisingly my hammer hand feels 3 billion times worse than my chisel hand. This is the last stone I wanted to get done this summer, and I'm hellbent on getting it done, come hell or high water.

 

[perchie.girl]

here is what I am waiting for.... Sep 1-22 (free shipping) from India
Laboradorite They change color according to the angle you hold them.

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this is what they look like when set in copper

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[CapricornFarm]

Front and back boards on the roof line of the coop. Bought the gutter, downspout, etc so i can use a rain barrel for watering the animals. Also, the flooring is down but needs further trimming. Cut the last piece of plywood for over the front door.

 

[microchick]

I'm sitting here repairing an antique quilt that a little old lady gave me way back in the late 60s. She was a pip. My parents bought their home from her family and they would still come out and visit once a week. This darling 80 something lady would ask me "girl are you married yet?" I'd tell her no, I was only 13. She would take my hand and say, take my advice, never marry a German. I'd remind her that she was married to a German man and my dad was of German heritage and she would pat my hand and tell me that was why she was giving me that advice.

One day she showed up with her daughter and handed me a box holding a quilt that she had made by hand using squares she had salvaged from her husband's old pants. Every stitch is and sewn and she hand tied it. She told me to put it in my cedar chest and I did until I had a home of my own. It usually adorns the back of the sofa. I try not to wash it too often because every time I do a new square gives way on it. I try to repair it using like fabric but it's hard finding vintage cloth from the 50s so I use old pant material. As old as the quilt is I should pack it away but as I have nobody to leave it to I figure I may as well enjoy it.

Superchemical girl. I can well sympathize with you about your hand pain. Feel better.

 

[Peep_Show]

Anyone have fun weekend plans?

Packing out half the house as we're having a major remodeling done. So we're camping in the guest room while construction workers have 5 weeks of demolition and dust and noise. Fun? Not.....

The timing couldn't be more inconvenient as we're about to hit canning season and part of the work they're doing is adjacent to the kitchen. Sigh.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm sitting here repairing an antique quilt that a little old lady gave me way back in the late 60s. She was a pip. My parents bought their home from her family and they would still come out and visit once a week. This darling 80 something lady would ask me "girl are you married yet?" I'd tell her no, I was only 13. She would take my hand and say, take my advice, never marry a German. I'd remind her that she was married to a German man and my dad was of German heritage and she would pat my hand and tell me that was why she was giving me that advice.

One day she showed up with her daughter and handed me a box holding a quilt that she had made by hand using squares she had salvaged from her husband's old pants. Every stitch is and sewn and she hand tied it. She told me to put it in my cedar chest and I did until I had a home of my own. It usually adorns the back of the sofa. I try not to wash it too often because every time I do a new square gives way on it. I try to repair it using like fabric but it's hard finding vintage cloth from the 50s so I use old pant material. As old as the quilt is I should pack it away but as I have nobody to leave it to I figure I may as well enjoy it.

Superchemical girl. I can well sympathize with you about your hand pain. Feel better.

I have a quilt my great grandmother made with my grandmother for my parents. It is a wedding ring quilt. It ia actually in pretty good condition. Had to have been made around 1950!

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm sitting here repairing an antique quilt that a little old lady gave me way back in the late 60s. She was a pip. My parents bought their home from her family and they would still come out and visit once a week. This darling 80 something lady would ask me "girl are you married yet?" I'd tell her no, I was only 13. She would take my hand and say, take my advice, never marry a German. I'd remind her that she was married to a German man and my dad was of German heritage and she would pat my hand and tell me that was why she was giving me that advice.

One day she showed up with her daughter and handed me a box holding a quilt that she had made by hand using squares she had salvaged from her husband's old pants. Every stitch is and sewn and she hand tied it. She told me to put it in my cedar chest and I did until I had a home of my own. It usually adorns the back of the sofa. I try not to wash it too often because every time I do a new square gives way on it. I try to repair it using like fabric but it's hard finding vintage cloth from the 50s so I use old pant material. As old as the quilt is I should pack it away but as I have nobody to leave it to I figure I may as well enjoy it.

Superchemical girl. I can well sympathize with you about your hand pain. Feel better.

oh what a touching story... take a look online for people who make vintage style clothing and do a query there...

deb

 

[room onthebroom]

Humphrys?

The Embarcadero.