Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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I keep editing because as an English teacher I can't bear to see spelling mistakes publicly displayed!
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I'm still close to the group of women I met on BC.org when we all started chemo in October 2005. One of our younger members now has mets. When she got the diagnosis, we all crocheted/knitted afghan squares that were put together and mailed to her. We're from all over the world and she lives in Australia so we couldn't go to give her hugs and support in person. It's nice to think of her wrapped up in all our love and good wishes.
--Cindy
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Maria - too cute! I also go back and edit for mistakes. By the way, I meant to tell you thank you for posting your pictures. They were lovely and so are you!
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Sunflower, thanks! I haven't exactly read the book, but I have looked here and there in it. Its title in Swedish is same same but different – "man" meaning "human individual" is a word of its own, "människa", and "människa" in general is "she" rather than "he", so it's like "The human individual and her symbols" :-)
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Once again, the Swedish community has got it right!!!!!!
Chumfry - that is SO sweet. I hope she's doing well.
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They are still knitting I think..
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Yes, there's a group on the Moving Beyond thread who make afghans like that. We stole their idea and made one that was just from us. Our Australian friend is doing very well, so far. She plans to meet us this year for our annual reunion. We've been to Chicago, Las Vegas, Seattle, Nova Scotia, Niagara Falls...and this year, we'll be in San Diego for a long weekend in July.
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Oh, dear,it's warm & fuzzy and I have to drop my mini-bomb, because fact is, when i said, that's wht I do, I meant, I do it for a living. Yes, one of the last bastions of that antiquated item: the flannelette nightgown. Been doing it for abut 30 years. Sunflowers - everyone hangs on to their beloved ratty old nightgown till someone can no longer stand it & makes them buy a new one, or gives in and buys a new one for themselves. An emotional and very eccentric bond, and they basically almost no longer are made, except for the versions at places like Walmart. some people have huge collections, some wear them to play the cello, or paint pictures, or you put a big apron on and just start cooking at 8 am .I 've had quite a few customers with bc: some order red, to mitigate all that sterility in the hospital. I made them all through my 2008 chemo - I'd wake up about 4 am and start cutting (very old-fashioned) and cut till I was done in maybe 11 am or noon then go to bd. I don't sew them myself any more.I make the buttonholes on the Whaite Sewing maching my mother bought as in maybe 1960, and sew buttons on by hand. \my mother,, long, long ago, made men's shirts for a living and she taught me how to sew on a button so that it did not need a knot at the end, you only had to work from the right side of the fabric, the back looked almost perfect, and it never came off. I bless her every time I have to sew one on.
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I remember a flannelette nightgown I made in high school. You have pretty much convinced me that it's time for another one.
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I want to learn how to sew a button on that doesn't need a knot!
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OH MY DOG - Flannel - you make flannel nightgowns we can BUY...
"oh, frabjous day, kaloo, kalay, she chortled in her JOY" ( apologies to L. Carroll)
WHERE.....PM me if you don't want to post onine - might "violate" these BCO "rules"????
eta - I know this will REALLY date me, but my favorite Lanz nightgowns are not nearly as thick or soft, or wonderful as they used to be....alas....
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Flan ... That wasn't a mini-bomb at all!! It makes no difference if you do what you do as a charitable act or if it's what you do for a living. To me, it's clear that you do it with love and concern for the recipient. THAT is what makes it, and you, so special and cool!
Now, Chumfry, I believe you asked for some flower pics. I posted some a few pages back and then, in a moment of concern that I was posting too many angry posts here, went back and deleted a few of my posts.
So, please allow me to try again without anger this time. Here are some pics from a camellia nursery I visited recently.
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OK, I'm ready to be educated: What's the difference between flannel and flannelette? Thanks!
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Well, when the children were trying to name our first cat, they said it felt soft like flannelette so maybe we should name it Flanellette, but since he was a boy cat we called him Flannel.
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cookie monster - that's a good one. I have 2 theories - 1. Americans tend to use the word flannel, Canadians flannelette 2. sometimesI think it's flannel if it's napped on one side only, and flanneette if napped on both sides. these are just my theories.....the fabric I buy is processed in the US and isted as "flannel" and because it's printed is alwys napped on the printed side but flat on the other - don't know why.
Sunflowers I think my website is listed in my bio info...
Chumfrey - how to sew on a button online - tricky but possibly doable. You do need one knot to start - no knot at the end. Will try if you would like - my method is for buttons that are quite flat with either 2 hole or 4 holes, not for the shanked kind, which I have rarely used.
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My Mom used to make me a red flannel nightgown. It was the sure cure for cramps. About every 3 years she'd ask what I wanted for Xmas and I'd say another red flannel nightgown. Before she passed away, she gave me the pattern. I think it needs her love though.
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Regardless of politics, it's always nice when young families occupy the White House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn_DS2UjoXg&feature=player_embedded
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Flannelete, could you PM me the directions? Hate to take up space on this thread. <g>
And I love the flower photos, PlantLover! We've had an unseasonably warm winter here in southern Minnesota, but we'll still probably not have daffodils until May. (I spent most of my life farther south, where we had daffodils in mid-March.) Sigh.
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I'm off to Flannel's website ;-))))
WOW, just WOW. THEY ARE SO GORGEOUS!!!! Everybody has to go to Flannel's page & SEE WHAT SHE CREATES....
They look like the softest, cosiest creations in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD...yummy!
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PM me with the website too!
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The website is at Flannel's bio information - click on her screen name...VOILA, there it is ;-)))
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Glad you liked the pictures, chumfry.
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Hey Chumfry will pm you the button sewing later today after I've cleaned up some of my messy house - need to feel peaceful..and thanks so much for appreciating my work, Sunflowers. It always makes me feel good as I am have an Honours BA in French and NEVER used it as I had a very hard time stepping into becoming an adult, and had almst no confidence. So I was driven to create something of my own, which my Mother, for instance, found embarrassing. and it did lead me down the very low-income path, and for a while felt very dismal as everyone was so caught up in- whatever it was about a decade ago. Being successful by making money. But now, we've turned back oh about 40 years, and local eating and farmers markets and artisans are once again interesting.....so now I have a web-based business which certain others envvy - whoopee! I'm not so much a failure! One of the hilarious things is - my fabric comes here all the way from Oregon, and I get it delivered to the closest US UPS which is a marina on the other side of the river, and this adds stress as you NEVER know what a customs agent is going to pull, even after I've done this for 15 years. It's so grim in Secondary - ever been there in another country? CRIME is written all over your inocent face. then, when they\ve finished, and they hand you back your car keys, they're all smiles and have a great day! oh - what you can do when you wear a uniform...
just rambling on my "smoke break" it's wild and windy and like spring and the trees are just a-wavin' and whooshing and we never really had winter so that was probably very very bad for certain animals in the ecosystem - as it appears to be happening everywhere.
Have a great day all
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this is an etching my Mom gave me of Leatherstocking Falls in Cooperstown NY...I spent many quiet moments at the foot of the falls over the years...since we moved to the West Coast almost fifty years ago, not so much...but it is the one spot on earth that I feel as one with the earth...
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The textures of the Maritime Series were great, Maria_Malta!
What an etching TREASURE, SoCalLisa. I put in Leatherstocking Falls as GOOGLE IMAGE search and was treated with some wonderful reminders of the "old" mountains of the Mid-Atlantic States. I was also poignantly reminded of the orgin of the name, Leatherstocking.
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SoCalLisa...oh what a wonderful sight! I think I was there once, long long ago as a little girl. I haven't thought about that trip in ages. Thanks!
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SoCalLisa - that etching is absolutely divine - I love etchings.
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I'd like to preface this posting by saying that I do not enter it from or for a view of a particular religion. The interview reveals Anita Moorjani as a person who goes into frank detail regarding her specific NDE and life in general without religious bent.
Yesterday evening I did one of those crash after work scenarios. I awoke to the PBS TV channel in the middle of doing their fundraising thing, this time, via the latest Dwayne Dyer special. Dwayne Dyer was specifically including NDE (Near Death Experiences) and with particular reference to Anita Moorjani, a person who had a NDE.
Subsequently, I did a GOOGLE search: Dwayne Dyer Anita and "stumbled" upon the following interview with Anita Moorjan:
http://www.cherylrichardson.com/wp-content/files_flutter/1329251238DyingToBeMe2-14-12.mp3
If the above audio link does not work, I found it among the postings of the following link
which I randomly clicked WITHOUT noticing that the link was to a forum dedicated to NDE and similar experiences. I wanted to share the interview with others so I opened BC Discussion and searched for: near death experiences. This BC thread popped up and I felt good about sharing the link, here, during what is the wee hours of the morning for me.
I notice that the entries for NDE on this thread were around June of 2011. I don't have time right now to read all those entries and hope my posting this Anita Moorjani link will be received simply in the spirit of sharing.
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One has to hit "ENTER" after posting a link for it to work. Here is your link.
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