Life Lesson #22: If you say it, own it! I own very few vintage linens with sayings on them, but I've certainly seen a lot through the years! Sometimes the sayings are gentle: "Sweet dreams". Other times they're very matter-of-fact: "Good night". And sometimes... sometimes I wonder why someone put *that* on something permanent–especially when it took so long to actually embroider or cross stitch it! But no matter whether I liked the phrase or not, it served as a reminder that if I say something, I need to "own it." The nice thing about saying something through handwork is that there's plenty of time to re-consider whether or not you really want to say it–unlike saying something with the mouth and then ... Keep Reading...
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Have you learned anything new lately?
Life Lesson #21: Never stop learning Daughter the Older lived in England for seven years, and twice, while visiting her, I managed to squeeze in time for a field trip to the textiles room at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Be still my heart... Virtually every textile technique of the past 5,000 years–from Predynastic Egypt to the present–are represented. There are cases and cases...drawers and drawers...files and files full of every sort of textile you can imagine–and then some. There are always students and conservationists studying the pieces. How I would have loved to sit with them all.day.long to learn more! The few pictures I took are nothing exceptional, but their subjects are! See ... Keep Reading...
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What Color is Life?
Life Lesson #20: Life is not all black and white I used to think Life was black and white. Actions were simply right or wrong. Period. (Some are.) People either "got it"–or they were doing something to stifle their intelligence because my the answer was sooooo obvious. I thought the young mother in the grocery store screaming at her children needed to be more patient–and teach those kids some manners. And the preacher who bribed his little girl with a new bike so she'd go to church–and everyone would think his was the "perfect Christian family"? Well, he needed to be a better father–and he really needed to get over himself. I thought the overweight, cigarette-smoking ... Keep Reading...
