Karen hasn't been painting much... she made this picture just to entertain some little girls who were visiting :-)
Karen's Latest
This one's older and I might have shared it already...
Karen hasn't been painting much... she made this picture just to entertain some little girls who were visiting :-)
Karen hasn't been painting much... she made this picture just to entertain some little girls who were visiting :-)
Nicholas Nickleby's Long Paragraphs
I wish there was a word for that, or that I knew what it was!
"Long paragraph," how dull.
Sesquipedalian's been my favorite word since I discovered it at a young age (displacing antidisestablishmentarianism), and learned that it defined me; and there's also that delightful to the tongue and ears word for long words, polysyllabic.
But how about a word for a long paragraph?
Anyway Nicholas Nickleby's full of them and they are wonderful.
(Read free http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967)
Examples:
Upon a hasty consideration of the circumstances, it may be matter of surprise to some persons, that Mr and Mrs Squeers should have taken so much trouble to repossess themselves of an incumbrance of which it was their wont to complain so loudly; but their surprise will cease when they are informed that the manifold services of the drudge, if performed by anybody else, would have cost the establishment some ten or twelve shillings per week in the shape of wages; and furthermore, that all runaways were, as a matter of policy, made severe examples of, at Dotheboys Hall, inasmuch as, in consequence of the limited extent of its attractions, there was but little inducement, beyond the powerful impulse of fear, for any pupil, provided with the usual number of legs and the power of using them, to remain.
Nicholas looked at the ugly clerk, as if he had a mind to reward his admiration of the young lady by beating the ledger about his ears, but he refrained, and strode haughtily out of the office; setting at defiance, in his indignation, those ancient laws of chivalry, which not only made it proper and lawful for all good knights to hear the praise of the ladies to whom they were devoted, but rendered it incumbent upon them to roam about the world, and knock at head all such matter-of-fact and un-poetical characters, as declined to exalt, above all the earth, damsels whom they had never chanced to look upon or hear of--as if that were any excuse!
Here was one of the advantages of having lived alone so long! The little bustling, active, cheerful creature existed entirely within herself, talked to herself, made a confidante of herself, was as sarcastic as she could be, on people who offended her, by herself; pleased herself, and did no harm. If she indulged in scandal, nobody's reputation suffered; and if she enjoyed a little bit of revenge, no living soul was one atom the worse. One of the many to whom, from straitened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria, the humble artist had pursued her lonely, but contented way for many years; and, until the peculiar misfortunes of the Nickleby family attracted her attention, had made no friends, though brimful of the friendliest feelings to all mankind. There are many warm hearts in the same solitary guise as poor little Miss La Creevy's.
Run!
"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us..."
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us..."
Free Swap Day
Big WIN for me, because I brought down a whole carload of fifteen or twenty bags of old junk, and came away with two bags of excellent stuff!
(But as I've said, the second funnest part is watching my old junk go away in other people's arms and they seem happy about it!)
The boys found several tall candles, a bunch of Christmas lights that work, a battery lantern, and a wind-up clock. I did, too!
This one's mine. I love old wind-up clocks.
Dave's got his name permanent-markered on his already, lest there be any confusion about it. His was made in USA :-)
Okay, he wins, but I like mine too!
The kids got four big fluffy deluxe Santa hats. Here they are fresh from the freezer (everything not machine washable goes through there to kill the cooties).
MORE jigsaw puzzles, isn't that what I need, well it's free, so why not :-)
I have a thing for jigsaw puzzles. Just love 'em.
I donated a 60s German grammar book that had bugged me with its post-war noblesse oblige, and found this one instead, from 1938 and in perfect condition! Even has the old style Gothic print that I like so much.
That's a roll of shelf lining paper. Looks like pattern making paper to me.
The buttons look medieval, n'est ce pas?
Fabric. There was a HUGE pile actually, and a bag of squares and strings that tempted me, but I limited myself to just this, which looks medieval, and a couple good-sized chunks that I really fancied.
The plaid flannel can always be pajama bottoms or pillowcases.
Boys got this for Andrea.
Andrea isn't a cat person, she's a dog person! It's just that she isn't able to keep a dog right now, and kitty's better than nothing.
The boys sorted through a box of toys and found these cool Legos.
Nice little cups, I like everything about them, size, style, colors and price.
A great heavy quilted bag, perfect for bringing handcrafts in the car. It has a metal snap closure that's broken on one side, but I don't care. Looks like it was never used.
New to me phone. Doesn't matter where it's made because I'm not profiting them this time around, and at least it hasn't any Spanish labels on it :-)
I'm without an answering machine and can't get a new one because they apparently don't make them in my price range NOT bilingual! Hmph!
I just machine quilted a queen size
Go me!!
The back is the same size squares, but solid fabric. So after pinning both sides roughly matching up the seams, I quilted in a back and forth pattern down all the seams. That's all I could manage with the bulk of the quilt rolled up and shoved inside the machine arm. There's really not much room to maneuver.
Then when it was all secured like that, I went back and filled in the blocks with random stitching, because I was able to wrestle the fabric around, not having to worry about accidentally scooting the backing.
"Just spraying thread around," DH called it :-)
How can black rubber doormats be pretty?
Like this.
We had mats already, but I saw these and realized we needed new mats.
I realized we needed to move the old ones go down to the bottom of the steps so they could pick up more fir needles down there!
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