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  Playing catch-up again...

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  4 days ago in The Stitching Hour · Authority: 23

  A couple Topics of the Week, an SBQ...why can I not keep up with these things? Here we go: Topic of the Week April 28, 2008: Share a photo...and a little info...of yourself as a child OK, I don't have a photo. Most of the photos of me as a child are at my parents' house, and the handful that I do have here are located in a box somewhere. So I slack and have no photo. As for the info...I was a typical little girl growing up in the 1980's. I loved horses and animals, took dance lessons, played soccer, was in Girl Scouts, wanted to be a veterinarian when I grew up...and I was also *painfully* shy. Not around friends or people I knew, but put me in a situation where I was with strangers and I could not socialize. This annoying little deal carried on until I went away to college and literally had to force myself to mingle with the strangers. There you have it...I've been normally typical my whole life! ;-) Topic of the Week May 5, 2008: How did you choose the name for your blog? Is there a special reason behind it? Please share. I know I've answered this before, but instead of looking for the link, I'll just answer it again. My blog title - The Stitching Hour - is a play on words of the witching hour. When I got back to stitching a few years ago, each night as I was preparing to stitch, I would tell my husband that it was the stitching hour...trying to be corny and punny. When I set this blog up a couple years ago, that was the first name that popped into my head, so it became The Stitching Hour. ~~~~~~~~~~ This week's SBQ was suggested by Jennifer: Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future generations as family heirlooms? The permalink to this post is: http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2008/04/sbq-heirlooms/ There are a few pieces that come to mind: our wedding piece, the girls' birth announcements, the first haircut pieces (still need to make one for The Little Tot), my Alphabet Sampler Book...probably some more, but my mind is mush and I can't think at the moment. ~~~~~~~~~~ The rear-view picture of The Little Dog from yesterday...I played around with it a bit: :-) Nothing fancy, as I had to use Microsoft Paint because we don't have Photoshop (although I would love to have it!). Nonetheless, it's quite fitting, I think. I'm sure The Little Dog would be thrilled to know that I'm plastering his rear all over the Internet. At least his butt's not too big, unlike a lot of Dachshunds I come across. (and I'm wondering what kind of weird search topics will link to this entry...all this talk about dog butts and rear-view pictures...LOL) ~~~~~~~~~~ Have a good weekend!
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  SBQ: Family Heirlooms

  http://technomom.com/2008/05/07/sbq-family-heirlooms/
  6 days ago in Enemy of Entropy · Authority: 25

  And another Stitching Blogger Question of the week, which should leave me all caught up: Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future generations as family heirlooms? At one time, I thought so. My mother has a Tigerlily piece I did for her, and my father has a big Marine Corps Emblem that hangs in his office. Unfortunately, the first piece I ever framed and gave to them suffered smoke damage, and I haven’t been able to get it completely clean yet. They haven’t expressed any interest in having it back, either. Mom stuck another piece I did and gave to her in a drawer, and forgot that I’d done it at all. Some of the pieces I did for my first husband’s family, like a baby sampler and a nice serving tray, may get passed on. Maybe. They may have gotten rid of them because of the association with an ex-spouse. Who knows? ShareThis
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  Web Roundup - May 1

  http://familyhistorian.blogspot.com/2008/05/web-roundup-may-...
  12 days ago in Smoky Mountain Family Historian · Authority: 50

  Open Source applications are becoming more sophisticated all the time. Here's a list of 50 useful open source applications for online writers. I loved "Now is the month of Maying" over at Walking the Berkshires. I had not thought of a Maypole in years! I talked to someone down in Amory in the Hill Country of Northeast Mississippi today who told me they'd read Terry's column where he rambled about everyone who lived up in the hills. Let's hope he keeps on rambling! A few free online books of interest to genealogists and family historians can be found in the University of California Press' eScholarship editions. Do you have Virginia ancestry? You might want to check out the site that has tax lists from 1790-1800 on it. (Hat tip to Arlene) I added this to my del.icio.us bookmarks! Thomas shared a photo of his retro barbershop. Barbershops are becoming few and far between in the South. This week's question to stitching bloggers will generate some responses of interest to family history lovers. A few are already posted. The Great Smoky Mountains is a popular tourist destination, but those of us in East Tennessee need to offer a word of advice to all of you who might be thinking of coming through Knoxville this summer. Find an alternate route. Interstate 40 is closed through downtown Knoxville until the "Smart Fix 40" project which will provide additional lanes (which is desperately needed) is complete. In the meantime, traffic is being re-routed along I-640. Expect heavy traffic and possible delays. I've got my alternate routes planned when I can avoid Knoxville. Randy has a good roundup on Smart Fix 40 on his blog. Earlier today, someone posted a link to the Old Bailey Online on a listserv for genealogical librarians. If you are researching English ancestors who might have had a run-in with the law, you might want to check their online court proceedings. I fell in love with Jasia's Wordless Wednesday post. The 5th Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture has been posted. Ruth found John F. Kennedy in Mississippi. (Okay - so it's a century too early for the president, but it makes an interesting post.)
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  Distractions and SBQ

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  12 days ago in Coffee Cup Thoughts · Authority: 14

  I found myself home early from work today, with the girls and Scott out and about. So I thought after busying myself with dishes that I would bake some cookies. Don’t they look tasty? Even to me - and I have a strong dislike for peanut butter. Of course you all know this is just me distracting myself from frogging Isis. Have no fear, she is almost done, but it is a long and tedius process. On to the SBQ for this week, suggested by Jennifer : Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future generations as family heirlooms? My answer is pretty much the same as Renee’s answer - I would love for my BAPs to be heirlooms, simply to have someone else appreciate the work put into them. That is it for today. Have a good weekend!
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  SBQ Meme: Family Heirlooms

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  12 days ago in One Stitch at a Thyme · Authority: 2

  This week's SBQ was suggested by Jennifer is: Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future generations as family heirlooms? The permalink to this post is: http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2008/04/sbq-heirlooms/ My fantasy would be that everything I stitch gets passed along. That said, I doubt that any of them will become family heirlooms and will most likely end up in a yard sale long after I'm buried and gone. I'm not married and don't have any children, and by the looks of things I'm not going to have either in the near future. I do have 3 younger siblings,1 niece and 1 nephew so far, and they've all gotten wedding and birth announcements stitched by me. So hopefully some of them may appreciate my stitching after I'm gone and rat-pack away a few items.
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  SBQ - 4/30/08

  http://flosslady.blogspot.com/2008/04/sbq-43008.html
  13 days ago in Flosslady's Stitching Blog · Authority: 4

  This week's SBQ is from Jennifer: Do you have any pieces that you would liked passed on to future generations as family heirlooms? Well, yes... all of them!! Everything I've stitched, or that has been stitched for me, has a special significance to me. That said, I don't that any of them will become family heirlooms. I don't have children... and I'm not going to have them in the future. And I have no siblings, which means no nieces or nephews. I do have a very large extended family, though, and some of them may appreciate my stitching after I'm gone. I just hope none of my stitching ends up at a yard sale.

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