HAPPY NEW YEAR

May God richly bless you in this upcoming New Year

HISTORY OF GRANDMA'S APRON

History of Grandma's Apron

The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect
the dress underneath, but along with that, it served
as a holder for removing hot pans from the oven; it
was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken-coop the apron was used for carrying
eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to
be finished in the warming oven.

When company came those aprons were ideal hiding
places for shy kids; and when the weather was cold,
grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old
aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot
wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen
in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts
of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled it
carried out the hulls for the chickens. In the fall
the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen
from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was
surprising how much furniture that old apron could
dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the
porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time
to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents
something that will replace that old-time apron that
served so many purposes.



do you love aprons,my husbands grandmother believed in wearing aprons, such fond memories of all the gatherings at her house, even if you were in the kitchen just to talk you had to wear an apron lol, I have started collecting aprons as well as make ones that remind me of her

I came across a neat site that I though you'd enjoy of apron patterns

http://tipnut.com/56-free-apron-patterns-you-can-make/

MY PEPPERMINT THEMED TREE

This year I pulled items from 3 trees that I put up every year, added a few new items & came up with a peppermint themed tree for our church Christmas dinner party this year, I will post more pictures on my Nanna's blog this weekend, not sure why the candy canes turned out pink, I'll take more pictures before I take it down & Lord help me but I'm still in the sewing room & I'm about ready to turn it into something else LOL but we are making progress so I think I'll take a break, go shopping , get my hair cut & maybe a little something for me lol

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!

the sewing room is finally getting that much needed attention, after what a year of deciding, wondering, pondering LOL, remember way back I painted the walls yellow with green trim

there was just something about that green trim that made me cringe every time I was in there, pretty together but something about it made me wantta scream lol I was not feeling the love in the sewing room & on top of that both machines have abandoned me


but today is war on the sewing room , hubby is off 2 weeks & has agreed ed to help me , yippee! it will start with everything out, painting that green trim creamy white, shhhhh he doesn't know there's painting involved lol

A BUSY WEEKEND AHEAD

Can you believe it's less than a week till Christmas ,there's still way too much left to do, I'm still decorating for our Tour Of Lights party,my mom's 75th's b'day on the 26th, decorating the fellowship hall for the church's Christmas dinner/party

there's still those "just for me" projects ~lol~ not sure my machine will cooperate for that, I've got my eye on a new one & the hammer beside the old one to help it make up it's mind if it'll cooperate~lol~

do you ever wonder when do you know you're old ~lol~ my baby girl has asked if we want to spend the night Christmas Eve & wake up with them on Christmas, I turned & looked at my husband & said I think we're at that age where we don't need to be alone on Christmas ~lol~ the twins are growing like weeds & are a laugh a minute

LAST SHOW/ CHURCH CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

well I got talked into one more show LOL our church had a Christmas Bazaar this year, it did good to be a small one , next year we plan on it to be bigger & better, but guess who will be in charge m lol yea one more hat to wear LOL

this is my booth, can you tell lol, I still wasn't feeling up to par so there's still snowmen, santa & Annie parts still laying around, oh well next year right?

Debbie had purses, jewelry, aprons & wraps

Wanda had Angels, Santa's, Framed inspirations, gift baskets, candle globes & more

Avon & jewelry

baked goods, purses ,suitcases, etc.

CATCHING UP/CRAFT DAY

Whew! catching up can be rough ~lol~! a few weeks back I spent 3 days going back & forth to my daughters helping make Christmas stockings, ornaments you name it we did it ~lol~ we even made matching pj's for everybody , that was 6 sets! whew! so here's a few pictures of my daughter helping the twins Meagan & Madison with their stockings, they thought they were sewing, lol so funny & so cute! my oldest granddaughters were determined to do it on their own ~lol

Courtney was concentrating so hard, just gotta love the faces they made ~lol~

Hannah kept that deer in the headlights look the whole time~lol~

Meagan & Madison thought they were so big thinking they were sewing ~lol~they had so much fun glueing & making their gingerbread ornaments

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finally the stockings were hung

the babies got tired before we were able to get a group picture modeling our pj's, they wore theirs proudly as they went down the hall to bed ~lol~ maybe I'll make a specil trip for a photo shoot ~lol~
you should of seen the sales girls face when we said 15 yds please! ~lol~