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fawaid on Senin, 31 Agustus 2009
Run, don't walk over to T
he Apron Goddess Blog for a chance to win an apron from ME! They are
giving away the Darla Version of my new
Kitschy Corset Apron! It's a great way to start the week right? Why not have a giveaway and put a smile on everyone's face! See you over there!
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fawaid on Jumat, 28 Agustus 2009
Whew - what a week and September is creeping up on us very quickly. Excuse the blogging lull around here. We have been busy getting used to new schedule around here now that school has started. It's been a fun week - a week of first days, making lunches, new outfits and hairdo's...........getting up and ready and saying goodbye to the lazy days of summer when we got to sleep in and lounge around if we wanted to.......*sigh*
BUT aside from just my everyday "life", I have been busily working on patterns. More on that next week - promise! :)
Here's what my "everyday" life has looked a bit like this week
So grown up...........
So excited for Kindergarten.............
and sooo sleepy from such a crazy week............ (I feel the same way little buddy)
Enjoy your weekend.......more news to share next week! ~ Meg
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This is my 200th post to An Apple a Day and I had big plans for it. I had a big unveil of sorts lined up, but my negotiations with Michael Jackson's people fell through so I'm back to square one. And the funny thing is, I'm not joking.
Instead I'll show you my favorite, most meaningful find in the whole world.
After spotting
these old Dartmouth photos, I've been itching to find some similar ones of the Emerson boys at Dartmouth. The stars aligned on ebay last week and I found a copy of Dartmouth's 1942 yearbook, my grandfather's graduation year. FOR $5!
I know I post a ton of old family photos on the blog, but this one is really special, no one in the family has ever seen it before. I raced through the pages to find grandpa bill and sure enough, there he was. Words fail. I just inexplicably wept.
He was truly the most thoughtful and brilliant man I've ever met. After he died, we found he kept detailed lists of people's interests and accomplishments, along with their birthdays etc... so he'd always be able to reference back to the things they'd mentioned in the past. He'd send me copies of the latest NYT style section, with post-it note comments because he knew I loved that sort of stuff. As humans go, he was evolved.
Also totally amazing are the photos of all the other boys at Dartmouth in his year. Like the smarmy jocks above.
Boys of the canoe club, I love you. If you let me borrow your flannel while you paddle me around, I'll wake up early to make you coffee every morning for the rest of your life. Promise.
I'm kinda taken with this guy's socks/shoes/pipe combination.
A post hockey game party. Is it just me or do some girls have all the luck?
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fawaid on Rabu, 26 Agustus 2009
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It's hard to convey the divinity of a swingle in a photograph. It's hot outside so there's the melting factor, not to mention that they're just a bit too heavy to be held up by a little popsicle stick.
Plus, it's hard to have a swingle in your hand and not be eating it. I could only mange a few pictures before I gave in. Never heard of a swingle? Neither had I, so you're in good company.
They can be found only in the remote reaches of uncharted Red Hook at
Steve's Authentic. For awhile I thought it was called a swindle, not swingle, perhaps because it's more than i'd like to spend on a street side popsicle. But 5 dollars for pure heaven it sometimes necessary.
Anyway. It's a 4" key lime tart, dipped in dark chocolate and frozen. On a stick. Oh god. It's unbelievable.
And I am not the only one who thinks so. Shopdog Nea has also actively declared herself a fan of frozen lime custard.
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fawaid on Selasa, 25 Agustus 2009
It wasn't until I was going through some photos I took on my last trip home that I fully appreciated how witty and wise it was of my dad to lace a piece of driftwood through a perfectly matched rack of antlers.
Sometimes I forget how truly spectacular my parents are.
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fawaid on Minggu, 23 Agustus 2009
There are several things my papa and i bond over; botanic gardens, house plant propagation, family history, widdling walking sticks, broken-in leather bags and most of all pickles. We both are seriously devoted to pickles.
It's a running joke that his top requisite for a wife was whether she canned her own pickles. Needless to say, my mom doesn't even really like pickles. And yet true love endures.
Given the fact the pickle juice runs in my veins, when
Kate F. posted about her recent fridge pickle making
foray, I shamelessly copied.
And since then, I've consumed 5lbs of homemade pickles in two weeks. It's been
awesome. All thanks to Kate. Can I just take a minute to say how much I love this girl? After a year of reading each other's blogs, we had our first real live date last week. Not only is she holy smokes pretty, she was able to geek out with me about the various foods featured in
The Little House on the Prairie, a surefire mark of someone I will instantly and forever adore. Salted ham! Maple syrup snow! Kate, you're the best!
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fawaid on Jumat, 21 Agustus 2009
While we're talking
saipua, today is the official opening day of our fancy new flower shop at 147 Van Dyke street in picturesque Red Hook! Flowers to make you weep! Come one, come all!
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fawaid on Kamis, 20 Agustus 2009
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It's insanely hot in brooklyn and i've melted into one big puddle of frizzled hair and freckles.
I spent most of yesterday buzzing around saipua's flower cooler, pretending to be, oh I don't know, fixing and moving flowers when I was really just soaking up the extra refrigeration.
(And for the new kids- I assist the most truly awesome florist ever. Her name is
Sarah and the shop is called
Saipua. If you're not familiar, go and look at her work. But only if you're prepared to have your expectations so wildly exceeded that you will never ever look at arranged flowers the same way again.)
Is it me or does our vintage your extra touch florist cooler seem, uhh, slightly suggestive? Just sayin is all.
Wildflower bridesmaid's bouquets up top, garden roses down below. Those bouquets are going to be sauntering down the aisle tonight so wish them luck. Hopefully they won't wilt in the stifling heat.
These photos were snapped so I could have a reason to poke around in the cooler for longer because it was really
that hot.In fact, this whole post is just a ruse.
My "picture taking" was a diversionary tactic to distract Miss Sarah R. from my obsession with needlessly going into the cooler. Oh please, don't tell her. These days, I live for my cooler time.
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fawaid on Rabu, 19 Agustus 2009
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Have I properly conveyed to you how excited and nervous I am to have so many new readers this month? Honestly, I never thought anyone other than my mom and
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fawaid on Selasa, 18 Agustus 2009
The
Dress-up Drawer blog is featuring the creativity and talent of many women with a week long giveaway! There are several items to enter for a chance to win each day! One of the items up for grabs today is THIS apron from me! A
Kitschy Corset Apron made with Amy Butler Fabric, pink tulle ruffle, and pink lace up corset! Pop over to
their blog to enter!
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fawaid on Senin, 17 Agustus 2009
I recently "met"
Forever Folding Laundry on
Twitter. Instantly related to her blog, sense of humor and more. I have enjoyed tweeting with her and she even shared a little blog "secret" with me. Her blog is FULL of large images and I asked her if she wouldn't mind sharing or directly me to how I would be able to do that on my blog too. She was more than helpful and willing to share. :) She has posted a
tutorial to explain and show how to do it! Isn't that GREAT!?
You can post photos on your blog that can go from this: (normal upload)
to THIS fabulous, large eye candy image! :)
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When I was a kid, I used to go out to the garden and see how many cherry tomatoes I could fit into my mouth at once. Yes ladylike, but it gets worse. When I'd squeezed in the last one, I'd lay down in the grass, head turned to the side and count the seconds till they'd pop.
When you live in the country with no other kids around, you gotta do what you gotta do to amuse yourself. I was a really weird kid. Still am.
When I was home this week, I didn't stuff my face full of tomatoes with quiet the same, um, youthful creativity but I did eat more than would be considered proper right off the vine.
We used to grow enough tomatoes to set up a farm stand along the side of the road and my dad would let
Micha and I manage it. We'd put our profits into the "horse fund" piggy bank.
Micha was the fund's manager and somehow we never got those horses we wanted in middle school. Someone alert the
SEC!
The smell of honest to goodness tomato leaves makes me weak in the knees. It is, without a doubt, the one smell that inescapably reminds me of being a kid. A few others? A small town hardware store (no, home depot doesn't count) and baking bread. I know for my mom, it's gardenias and horse barns. Isn't it funny how certain scents can be so evocative of childhood?
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fawaid on Minggu, 16 Agustus 2009
English and French come together between the two sites
Blue Marguerite and
Blue Primrose. Blue Primrose is the English language division of the French craft and DIY indexing website. They had contacted me about adding a few of my tutorials to the french site. I said yes and the process began. As a thank you, they have featured me and posted our interview
HERE. I was their first English contributor to the site, with many more talented crafters to follow I am sure!
thank you Blue Marguerite and Blue Primrose! crafting has no boundaries right? :) Stop by and take a peek at the interview, maybe you will learn something new about me!
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fawaid on Sabtu, 15 Agustus 2009
I recently discovered that my great great great grandfather was a shopkeeper in Milford, New Hampshire. Sumner Emerson and his son, Charles, opened Emerson & Sons, general and furniture store, in the early 1890's. And photographic evidence still exists! What I wouldn't give to go back in time and stock up on carpets and crockery. Heck, I doubt I'd even need to use the family discount.
The quality of the photos is unfortunate, but the sign says "2 Miles To Emerson & Sons Furniture". Not sure who those little street urchins are, but I hope I'm related to them cause they're awfully cute.
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fawaid on Jumat, 14 Agustus 2009
So it all started from a whim I got to create a
quilt for my sister's upcoming baby girl. I dropped it by and she fell in the love with the colors and patterns and got the "bug" to design and create her nursery in something she really loved! We searched around for the perfect fabrics and found some
great deals plus had some help from my
twitter friends.
(thank you!)
Then she went on create the bedding, accessories and art all on her own to satisfy that "nesting" instinct. The nursery turned out beautifully! It's a wonderful mix of
Sandi Henderson's Farmers Market and
Ginger Blossom fabric lines. It's girly pink but so much more with all the wonderful colors!
Great job Sis!........enjoy the photos........
English and French come together between the two sites Blue Marguerite and Blue Primrose. Blue Primrose is the English language division of the French craft and DIY indexing website. They had contacted me about adding a few of my tutorials to the french site. I said yes and the process began. As a thank you, they have featured me and posted our interview HERE. I was their first English contributor to the site, with many more talented crafters to follow I am sure! 