Love This Song

 

Quilt Dress!!!

The bodice is nearly done!!! Uh, yeah, I’m excited!

Isn’t my designer brilliant? The picture doesn’t do it justice, of course. I’m certainly no photographer.

 

My Recent Thoughts

Or some of them anyway. Many are completely random; you are warned.

THIS LINK is for Tricia Ann. Sorry, couldn’t help it!

Since I first heard this song several weeks ago, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means. I’m still puzzled. I understand that they combined a couple of songs, but why did they put in “Jane, Jane” and more, why did they call it that???

I was looking back through my blog archives a week or two ago, and I discovered that a video I posted was missing, so here it is again. Sorry, TJ.

I like digital clocks. Mmhmm. Yep.

Claire’s working on my quilt dress!!! Woo hoo! I keep bugging her about it ’cause she’s making the pattern. I am, of course, kindly giving her my input, which she, of course, appreciates immensely.

I’m back in the saddle again… well, I’m cooking again and slowing reclaiming the responsibilities my ankle injury prevented me from doing for the past 8-9 weeks. It feels SO good to be useful again.

Our Reformation Day/weekend is coming up! Daddy and Claire are coordinating the celebration, so we’re pretty busy around here. Most things are semi-last minute too. But, it’s gonna be tons of fun!!!

I want a fried Krispy Kreme.

That seems like a pretty good place to finish. Obviously these are not all the thoughts I’ve had lately, just a few of them, and a few of the happier, funnier/more funny ones.

 

All for the Hall!!!

I have the best parents! I really do! Daddy took me to the All for the Hall concert last night as a birthday present! It was my first real big concert, and it was totally awesome! We left home around 2:00pm. We had several stops to make before we grabbed dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen, including a quick stop at Russell Stovers for a delicious coffee ice cream milk shake!

Around 5:45pm we headed for the Sommet Center. We wanted to be there in plenty of time to find our seats, and possibly even a good parking spot! Daddy paid for a good parking spot. He rightly figured that the less walking I had to do the better. Told you I have the best parents. Anyway, we found our seats about an hour before the concert started. Daddy texted “Freebird!” to the screen while we waited, but we never saw it go across. He also gave bunny ears to one of the girls sitting in front of us when she and her friend were taking a picture.

We only had a cell phone for pictures, so ours aren’t too good, but here are some pictures from WSIX’s website.

The screen! Daddy got numerous love notes up there; a few examples being “Kayla <3 Keith!!?” [yes, the question mark is intentional. Seemed like everytime there were exclamation points they'd end them with a question mark...], “Keith is KING!” etc. He got a bit disturbed however, when one was from a Paul or Sean or somebody like that. A guy named Jason, and a Taylor person also got a lot…

The hosts: Vince Gill and Keith Urban!

One thing I never expected: Keith Urban performing “Coat of Many Colors.” It would’ve made sense had Dolly Parton walked on stage in the middle of the song, but nope. It was just him, and it was kinda strange.

True guitar heroes: Keith Urban and Brad Paisley!

Legends! They. Were. AMAZING! Brad Paisley didn’t play enough though. He and Keith Urban did “Start a Band” and an instrumental, but that’s all. :\

Little Big Town!

Dierks Bentley! He didn’t stand still once during his performance!

Lady Antebellum! They were good, but about halfway through their performance something happened to Hillary Scott’s mic. Couldn’t hear her very well over everything else.

Jason Aldean!!! He did “Big Green Tractor” and “She’s Country”! Everybody loved him! Aside from Keith Urban, he was probably the most popular artist of the night. Taylor Swift might have beat him… but not by much.

Faith Hill did a couple of songs with Vince Gill.

She seemed out of place to me. She looked much more like she was going in for an interview than up on stage for a country concert, and she was… well, old.

The queen of sparkle herself, Miss Taylor Swift! She shined… literally. Okay, so I’m not a big Taylor Swift fan. She did “Fifteen” and “Love Story”. The latter being definitely the better performance of the two.

She signed her guitar after performing, and gave it to the Hall of Fame to auction off.

At the end of the concert, they all came back on stage and did “Lay Down Sally.”

And to end it, here’s a shot of Hillary Scott holding a dog during “Lay Down Sally.” Looks like someone just ran back and told her “Everyone’s getting back on stage one last time! Come on!” and she forgot to put the dog down…

 

General Update

We got our Goodwill orders in late last week. Yeah, I can’t get over how weird that sounds… Goodwill… orders??? Well, anyway, we are pleased with the results! We got a couple of unique necklaces for a fairly good price! They could use a bit of cleaning though.

This week one of the girls at church told me about a website where they get just about all their jewelry. I checked it out (finally) today, and I like what I see! Of course, we haven’t ordered anything yet, but it looks like pretty nice stuff.  Just thought I’d share that with y’all.

The past couple of days have been full of apple canning and crocheting (for me). I think we’re about done with the canning; we only got three bushels this year. That’s about half of what we got last year, but we’re not doing any cider or dried apples this time around. Our cider press needs a little work before we’ll be able to use it again; the bucket we were using gave out on us on the very last round last year. Rather nice timing actually!

I’ve found crocheting to be a most acceptable occupation lately. If I’m just going to be sitting around anyway, I might as well be doing something useful, like using up every last piece of yarn we have, and begging to go to Joann’s for more! I have a couple of unfinished projects (I seriously hate those.) that I need more yarn to finish, and I have a pattern or twenty I want to try… including something for Daddy, which shall remain a secret, but I’m sure he will love!

I haven’t had a chance to work on my quilt dress/jumper any yet, so there’s still time to get your suggestions in! (Hint, hint…)

Let’s see, what else? Oh, we’ve really been enjoying the games Set Cubed, and Quiddler lately. Both of which Luke got for his birthday. One’s Scrabble with shapes, another’s Rummy with letters! Personally, I think they’re great!

Movies we’ve watched lately: High Society! It’s the musical version of  The Philadelphia Story. I liked High Society better, but I like Grace Kelly more than Katherine Hepburn. Frank Sinatra can sing better than Jimmy Stewart too. The whole jazziness of High Society appeals to me as well.

Luke got a set of classic Looney Tunes for his birthday, and we were watching those some before he started talking like Daffy Duck. We’re having to take a break from it for a little while now. I gave him a set of Three Stooges (close your mouths please; I don’t mind ‘em, and it’s hilarious to watch with Luke!), so instead of Looney Tunes we’re working our way through those.  ‘Cause, you know, if you don’t get through the movies you get within a two-week time period (and that’s only if you got a LOT) then something unknown, but undoubtedly terrible will happen! … Uh, or not.

Okay, this is quite long, and I have no pictures to post. Here’s a random one for you:

From our field trip to Nashville with the Stouffers! We hit the Frist and the Symphony Hall. We need to do that again, but we should go the the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ryman, and Opry.

 

Which one???

We’re setting up an Etsy shop! I’ve been working on some banners, but I can’t decide which one to put up! Which one do y’all like best? I can’t say exactly what all we’re going to have in the shop, but it looks like it will just be a random assortment of stuff.

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(I personally don’t like this one as much as the others.)

7.

8.

(Yes, it’s different than #7.)

9.

10.

(Again, yes, it’s different; it’s darker!)

I don’t think I have to worry about this with my 40-ish readers, but, I would ask, PLEASE! Don’t take the pictures here, especially #9 and #10! I could watermark ‘em as further discouragement, but I really don’t want to go to the trouble.

 

Of dresses and things…

I have this pet desire/dream/wish, but I could use a little help to make it come true. Guys, y’all can stop reading now; you wouldn’t be interested.

No, no… I don’t want to be carried off to some far off farm by a bunch of fellas thinkin’ that’s the only way one of ‘em would be able to marry me! However, I am in love with the quilt dresses in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” I mean, think how warm a dress like that would be in the winter!!! So, to try this out, I picked up an old quilt at Goodwill the other day, but I’m curious (and hopeful!) to see if any of my lately-neglected readers have any good advice on how I would go about creating something like the dresses in the movie. (I apologize for the very poorly structured sentence there, but I really don’t feel like rewriting it right now!)

Suggestions are VERY welcome! Please! No advice, on this subject, is unwanted!

Speaking of dresses, isn’t THIS one cute?!

In other news (sorta), we have lately discovered a pretty awesome site. We think it’s kind of awesome anyway! We’ve already ordered a couple things, but they’re not here yet. I’ll try let you know how happy we are with the end results.

Well, that’s ’bout all I have right now. Perhaps sometime soon I’ll snap and post some pictures of what I’ve been doing the past few weeks. (Knowing myself however, I highly doubt it. )

 

Star Trek!

So, I’m going through a big Star Trek phase right now; I’m even mulling over how to connect Star Trek to The Travels of Marco Polo. I don’t think it’s impossible either! Should be interesting if I ever get the finer details all figured out… In the meantime, I found this:

Your results:
You are Geordi LaForge

Geordi LaForge 50% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 50% Uhura 40% Jean-Luc Picard 40% Deanna Troi 40% Will Riker 35% Worf 35% Spock 32% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Beverly Crusher 30% Chekov 25% Mr. Scott 20% Data 17% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 15% Mr. Sulu 15%

You work well with others and often fix problems quickly. Your romantic relationships are often bungled.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test

Sure am glad they decided to put Geordi over the red shirt!

 

Someone please tell me why I thought this was funny…

I’m currently reading The Travels of Marco Polo, and when I came across this part, I laughed. Why???

The vessels built at Ormus are of the worst kind, and dangerous for navigation, exposing the merchants and others who make use of them to great hazards. Their defects proceed from the circumstance of nails not being employed in the construction; the wood being of too hard a quality, and liable to split or to crack like earthenware. When an attempt is made to drive a nail, it rebounds, and is frequently broken. The planks are bored, as carefully as possible, with an iron auger, near the extremities; and wooden pins or trenails being driven into them, they are in this manner fastened. After this they are bound, or rather sewed together, with a kind of rope-yarn stripped from the husk of Indian nuts [coconuts], which are of a large size, and covered with a fibrous stuff like horse-hair. This being steeped in water until the softer parts putrefy, the threads or strings remain clean, and of these they make twine for sewing the planks, which lasts long under water. Pitch is not used for preserving the bottoms of vessels, but they are smeared with an oil made from the fat of fish, and then caulked with oakum. The vessel has no more than one mast, one helm, and one deck. When she has taken in her lading it is covered with hides, and upon these hides they place the horses which they carry to India. They have no iron anchors, but in their stead employ another kind of ground-tackle; the consequence of which is, that in bad weather, they are frequently driven on shore and lost.

 

Cool Video

Watch this. The only thing I have to say is… WOW!