My Favourite Things

These are a few of my favourite things  . . .

(Cactus Needle)

Crazy Quilts, especially when they are adorned with such beautiful embroidery.  What a fabulous work of art this is.  One can only imagine the hours put in.  Do hop on over to the linked page to see more of this beautiful piece of art and handiwork.

 

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Fabric art.  I love this.  It has all the things I love . . .  fabric scraps, ticking, embroidery, buttons.  Beautiful.

Cups and saucers.  Especially vintage ones.  I have a few.  My favourite one is the one my sister gave to me many years ago for my birthday.  She picked it up in a charity shop I think and I just treasure it.  My love of it is two fold, one because it is a tea cup and old, and two  . . .  and most importantly, because my sister gave it to me.  I miss my sister very much.  We don't seem to talk much these days.  I am not sure why, I expect we are both busy with life. When I am online she isn't and vice versa I suppose.

Beetroot.  Any way I can get it.  I love them boiled, steamed, roasted,pickled, raw . . .  and I don't just love the root, I also love the tops.  Ohh . . .  baby beetroot, with the tops still attached, steamed and tossed with butter, salt and black pepper. So good! And good for you too!  (Well, except for the butter and salt.)

The illustration art of Jessie Wilcox Smith.  It captures a kinder, gentler, simpler time.  

 

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.  They are such a sweet young couple and a lovely little family. She is so stylish and very photogenic.  I think they are truly a love match.

Pretty pedicures.   I am unlikely to ever have one.  I have such ugly feet, but maybe my feet will be more worthy of one when I get to the other side.  I have bunions and ugly toe nails, swollen ankles, etc. Ahh . . .  youth is wasted on the young, lol.

Newborns  . . .  is there anything more beautiful on earth . . . those eyes, those lips, fingers and toes . . .  the smell . . . I could just eat them up.

Good fish and chips.   Everyone in my family loves them.  We could eat them until they come out our ears.   The best place for them back home is a little ice cream shack called Pearl's in between Paradise and Lawrencetown.  Over here, it has to be Blackstocks.  Sooooo good!

Rings, especially dainty ones.  I am not a lover of huge jewelry of any kind.  Too conspicuous. But if it is dainty, I am in love.  My favourite ring (next to my engagement ring) is my little sterling silver pinkie ring that I wear on the baby finger of my right hand.  It is a small cluster of forget-me-knots. I have had it for about 18 years now, and it still fits.  Like my earrings.  They still fit too.

Crowns and Tiaras.  I would never in a million years wear one.  Haha, can you imagine, but I love looking at them.  I am sure I must have been a princess in a previous life, because I am in love with all things princessy . . .

 

Bordertown on Netflix.  If you are a fan of good crime drama shows, you will love this. It is Finnish with sub-titles, but you don't even notice.  It is compelling.

Hummels.  I don't have any, but I have always loved them.  I have four hummel postcards.  Do they count?  They sure do.  We have them framed and they were supposed to go in Eileen's Room when we moved back to Canada. That is never going to happen now, of course, but I have them on the wall above the computer and they make me smile every time I look at them.

 

Sigh . . . . gorgeous . . . 

And of course each of YOU!  What are some of your favourite things?

A thought to carry with you through the day   . . . 

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 *.˛.° ˛The best part of life is when

the family become your friends,

and your friends become your family.

~Robin Roberts •。★★ 。* 。 

Spiritual Enlightenment  

 

In The English Kitchen today  . . .  Peach, Vanilla and Poppyseed Scones.  Served with lashings of clotted cream and apricot jam! 

Have a great Thursday.  We are off to visit our friend Audrey in the Care Home today.  Peter is on a much deserved holiday.  I hope she knows who we are.   Hope your day is filled with lots of your favourite things!  Don't forget!

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And I do too!

 

The things I find . . .

 

 We had some pretty important papers sitting on the table just prior to our guests arriving that we put somewhere for safety during their visit so that the table would be clean. Do you think we can find them.  They are papers pertaining to Todd's next hospital appointments, so we need to find them.  I know they are someplace pretty obvious, but for now they are escaping us.  In the meantime I found a whole bunch of other stuff . . .  yes, I do get distracted very easily.  The search for Todd's papers will continue today, but in the meantime, look at what I found in an old recipe tin, tucked in amongst the recipes!

 

When my children were growing up they belonged to a church group called Awana.  Here is Bruce's Awana membership card.  It's official!  This is over 20 years old.  I used to be an Awana leader as well.   Oh the memories  . . .

 With Mother's Day being only a week and a half away, this was kind of nice to find  . . . 

 Made me cry just a tiny bit.   Could this be the Cosmos telling me something???  I don't know  . . .  in any case its going into my memory box of things to hand down . . .

 

My temporary Temple Recommend to attend the Cornerstone Ceremony and Dedication of the Halifax, Nova Scotia Temple.  I hadn't been in the church for very long at that point. Only 4 months.  We had to be there at 8 a.m.   That's an early start because we would have had to get up at about 5 to be there.   

  

I remember being very excited about this.  The Saints in the Maritime Provinces had been waiting for a Temple for a very long time.  Prior to this the closest Temples had been in either Toronto or Washington DC.  This was a very special occasion for us, and to be able to attend the dedication of a new Temple is a special thing for a Latter Day Saint full stop.  You don't get to do that very often.  Our prophet at the time was President Gordon B Hinckley and I was standing very close to him when he laid the cornerstone.  It was a very special occasion.  Happy memories indeed! 

I am pretty sure this is our Eileen's printing. It's a recipe to colour Easter Eggs.  I love it.  I am not sure where she copied it from.  I love the "Iminerse".  It makes me smile. So does the "Fill a cap."  It has to be hers.  My boys would never have been so tidy in doing such a thing and this printing is very neat, and Amanda would never have made any spelling  mistakes.  She was and is a perfectionist. Thank you Eileen for making your mother smile. ♥♥♥

 This also made me smile bigtime.  My son Douglas had sent an e-mail both to myself and his dad to announce that he and his wife Kayla were expecting their first baby.  I love that he sees it within God's plan for them.  They had not long been married, only the July before and they had only just finished Uni, and were not really set up yet.  It was such an exciting time for them and I am so grateful that he chose to include me at the very start.  That baby was our Jonathan. There have been two more since then, Joshua and Jacob.

Its hard to believe that Jon will be turning 11

in just a few days now!

Time flies!

...

 

A handwritten recie for Carrot Cake Jam from my Aunt Freda to me  . . .  oh how I loved to see her hand writing . . .  and to read with Love to Alice, and the xx oo Aunt Freda was always my favourite Aunt, more like a big sister to me.  She died about 10 years ago now.  Oh how I miss her.  Finding this was like receiving a very special hello from someone I loved very much.  Thank you God  . . . 

  

A Letter to Santa Claus from Eileen.  She wants her own TV in her room with Cable, and a bike for Bruce and a tracing book for Doug.  I love it! 

 

A newspaper clipping from 1993, having something to do with the 4H club.  That would be Bruce who was 5 years old in this, Amanda who would be 14, and Eileen who would be 15.  (Part of the year they were 2 years apart and another part only one year apart in age.) Oh, it did make me smile. 

  

Like sands through the hourglass  . . .  so are the days of our lives.  (Sorry to borrow that from a soap opera, but it fits.)  They're all grown up now, married, some of them parents.  My babies.   I love them all so very much and am so proud of who they have each become.  They are good people, and a very important part of my life.  Always have been. Always will be.

I so loved finding these things.  Into my treasure box they go.

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *.˛.° ˛°. . 
˛°You can't control everything,

Sometimes you just need to relax

and have faith that things will work out.

Let go a little and just let life happen.

~Unknown•。★★ 。* 。 

Spiritual Enlightenment

 

In The English Kitchen today, a delicious Spinach and Gruyere Tart.  You will love this!

Have a great Wednesday.  We are off to our friends Tina and Tony's for lunch today. Looking forward to it!  Don't forget!

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And I do too!

The Simple Woman's Daybook . . .

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Small and Wonderful Things . . .

 

"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny?...It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get." ~Anne Dillard

A few of the small and wonderful things which bring untold joy into my life. It's the small things in life which truly mean the most. Simple abundance . . . it's the best.

Learning how to take a selfie.  Lura is such a great instructor!  I even learnt how to use a selfie stick, which Lura kindly left behind for me as a gift!  Todd's life will never be the same as I will be selfie-ing us wherever we go!

Once again John managed to take a selfie where he is the only one without a double chin, lol.  What is HIS secret!  Grateful for sunny, sunny days, even if they were cold!  I was so grateful that I had an extra Winter coat to lend Lura so that she could also be toasty warm despite that cold wind!

Getting to spend time with my Sister from another mother.  Eight years is a long time to wait to spend some quality time together again.  WE had such a great week, and Todd and John got along together really well also, which is always a blessing!  When the husbands get along, it makes everything so much easier!

Having the Power of the Priesthood in my home.  This is such a blessing.  When Lura was feeling so poorly, they were able to administer a Priesthood blessing to her.  Todd did the annointing and John did the blessing.  Lura felt a whole lot better afterwards, and was able to recover enough to be able to enjoy the rest of their stay with us.  Although to be sure, our age was telling as none of us was running circles by the end.  We were all feeling pretty beat, but it was a good kind of feeling beat!

Having friends you can be yourself with.  Just yourself.  Warts an' arl, as Angie would have said!  Oh, I miss Angie.  It's been six years and I miss her still.

Getting to spend a week with these dear, dear people.  I told John his love of Fish and Chips means he must be related to my family.  Wherever we go we usually all order fish and chips for our meal.  Me ordering the chicken dinner that day was most unsual actually!  This time together passed far too quickly!  Having said that we were in bed by 8:30 last night!  We were tired!  lol  Our age is showing!

My weekly Sunday Afternoon phone call with my mom.  They mean the world to me, and I really look forward to them each week.  Even if I know we mostly just talk about the same things each week.  It is so good to hear her voice.   All through the years whenever my mom needed help or anything at all, I was always the one to be there for her.  It pains me that I cannot be there for her now, because this was the one time I had always planned throughout my life to be there with her for.  Life has a funny way of ending up totally different than that which you have planned.  Nevertheless, I am grateful that my sister is able to be there for her, and for the care that she lovingly gives.  I wish that I could speak with my mother every day.  I really do  . . .

And with that I will leave you with a thought for today  . . .

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˛°If only you could sense how important you are 
to the lives of those you meet; how important 
you can be to people you never dream of. There 
is something of yourself that you leave at every
meeting with another person. 
~Fred Rogers  .° * 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •.° * 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ • 

Spiritual Enlightenment

 

Baking in The English Kitchen today, Oatmeal Muffins made from the leftover oats from the other day's breakfast!  Delicious!  

I hope your week ahead is filled with lots of small and wonderful things!  Don't forget!

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And I do too!