along with all the reading, television watching, and relaxing i throw myself at in the summer, here are a few other things i'm working on:
this is a chair i purchased at goodwill for $10.96 that was a horrible shade of antiqued green and brown. it was screaming for this shade of blue. my sister saw it and asked if she could taste it. the color is positively drinkable.
this looks like a chair with a story doesn't it? yes, the pattern is quite outdated, but it's the one i chose almost 25 years ago. (i couldn't resist the little farming people--i remember that vividly!) the chair belonged to my grandmother, and it originally sat in her little consignment shop in the sticks, oklahoma. i don't remember the previous pattern, but one summer when i, my brother and my cousins were there for our annual 2 week visit, mammaw took me to the fabric store to pick out the pattern (maybe she had a vision of my future-she also bought me minature baking pans one Christmas). she told me then that someday i could have the chair. so, 25 years later the chair is in serious want of an update. the new fabric is purchased (although i'm not as committed to it as i was a year ago) and now i'm waiting for the nerve to strike.
this is a chair i purchased at goodwill for $10.96 that was a horrible shade of antiqued green and brown. it was screaming for this shade of blue. my sister saw it and asked if she could taste it. the color is positively drinkable.
this looks like a chair with a story doesn't it? yes, the pattern is quite outdated, but it's the one i chose almost 25 years ago. (i couldn't resist the little farming people--i remember that vividly!) the chair belonged to my grandmother, and it originally sat in her little consignment shop in the sticks, oklahoma. i don't remember the previous pattern, but one summer when i, my brother and my cousins were there for our annual 2 week visit, mammaw took me to the fabric store to pick out the pattern (maybe she had a vision of my future-she also bought me minature baking pans one Christmas). she told me then that someday i could have the chair. so, 25 years later the chair is in serious want of an update. the new fabric is purchased (although i'm not as committed to it as i was a year ago) and now i'm waiting for the nerve to strike.
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that second chair is precious. i know your new fabric will be beautiful, but aw, i like that one. it is trying to tell all sorts of stories to anyone willing to sit long enough.
yes, well that's part of the "nerve" i'm working on. i love the old fabric, and it's really worn out...plus all the memories that accompany the thing....ahhh!
why change it if it still has a story to tell? after all, it's your story and your chair.
I do enjoy the first chair. I think it should be made of Laffy Taffy
you know, if you look closely enough at that chair, in the background you can see laura ingalls wilder getting pushed down the hill.
yet another reason to keep the chair as it is - laura catapulting head first down a steep hill. (never really liked little house.)
oh, but that's the best episode...."nellie, you're my best friend!" (laura yells as she shoves nellie and her wheelchair down the hill--i think stephen king wrote that episode:)
now if king wrote all the episodes and the books...
i would be a devoted fan.
i remember being forced to read those dreadful books in grade school.
ummmmm are you trying to pick a fight?
i'm just inclined to fantasy rather than crap. (i love a good fight just ask elea. :-)
scroll through here and be inspired.
http://achairfantastic.blogspot.com/
love the blue.
ooo, that's fun!
one more item: laura is not crap. just ask the publishing companies who've made millions, and the children who learned all kinds of american history from their reading. (be reminded i'm carrying the book banner in particular, not the show.:)
it's just not my genre.
however, if i ever home school the munchkins they will be forced to travel in covered wagon, survive freezing winters in the big wood with nothing to eat because pa won't shoot a doe and its fawn, etc... after all, i would not want to deprive them of such an adventure on the great American frontier. in its defense it's better than sarah, plain and tall.
btw, we begin our adventures with shasta tonight!
love the 1st chair.
ahhh! the insanity!
we shall and we will and i hope you are well!
i sat in it-- the blue one. :)
wow, it's been forever since you posted...what's up in the life of elea?
you sat in it! i haven't even sat in it! you sneak.
doing well. just enjoying the final week of vacation bliss.
it was a joke. or was that your impression of me?
i thot you were serious. hence the accusation. :)
glad to see you are alive. i was beginning to wonder. in fact, i was starting to think that you and serendipity were undercover agents on a top secret mission and that's why the two of you disappeared off the face of the blogsphere...
i was beginning to believe you had finally come into contact with some "higher" life form and were currently living somehwere left of the horse-head nebula in a diferent dimension. Really, it's quite a relief to know that you are not or that if you were you've returned or found a way to over-ride the communication block set up by border-control between dimensions.
It seems the Patriot Act has failed yet again.
'scuse me while I go investigate what indeed I've been smoking.
oh you've tapped into the current craze at our house: intergallactic speak! my sister and i have been trying to intersperse intergallactic language throughout our conversation (we watched two buck rodgers marathons and a battlestar gallactica marathon this summer). one example: the parents are "the elders--council of two" and the founding fathers are "the ancients." and i must say you people are my favorite in this quadrant. i'll see you in a few centrons!
in what centron will you be warping into my galaxy?
uhhh that's not how you use that.
hey, qthomas has an infection at the base of his skull. so please be praying for him.
thanks for the update. i will.
no problem. hope you enjoy your last few days of freedom
em and i were talking about college yesterday (yes, i realize that she is 5) and she came up with an interesting name for professors - "college masters". so here's to you, oh great college master.
camille, that includes you too.
i feel that is how you should introduce yourself to your classes in a couple of weeks. :-)"good morning class, please address me using my new title, college master."
did the chairs eat you?
anyday now there will be a post to remember...
you must be a "glass half full" kind-of person, gloamer.
e, sorry for the jab. :-)
oh but she will, crt. and she's going to use a very cool word that she just learned. (yes elea, i've handed over the rights to you.)
i'm waiting to be educated and inspired, elea! :-) love, love
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