Wednesday, February 27, 2013

 
 
Misty Water Colored Memories
 
 
I can't begin to tell you how much it warms my heart, that my mother shared a love of "old" movies with me. I remember the Disney movies that she would take us to see, my brother and I.
Of course their are a bunch of remakes of many of the Disney movies I have seen, but they will never be as good as what I grew up on. I have some of the most wonderful memories of my mother and I watching Lana Turner
and Sandra Dee in Imitation of Life, by the end of it we were both in tears
with boxes of tissure each. I cherish that more than any gift I ever got.
 
There are so many wonderful old movies out there. A few of my favorites are:
 
National Velvet
The Aristocats
Candleshoe
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Dumbo
The Original Incredible Journey
Mary Poppins
Swiss Family Robinson
Pollyanna
The Ugly Dachshund
So many wonderful childrens movies.
 
When we got older we enjoyed things like:
 
The Bad News Bears
The Original Willy Wonka
Charlottes Web
The Original Where the Red Fern Grows
 
Then of course when they are older please make sure they see
 
Meet me in St. Louis
The Harvey Girls
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brigadoon
 
so many.. so so many wonderful movies that your children will miss
out on. These movies have heart and soul. They are cookie cutter
shoot em up and kill movies. Wonderful stories
with amazing actors and actresses that shouldn't be
forgotten.
Make some of your own wonderful memories with your children
and grandchildren.. snuggled up on the couch, eating popcorn
and just watching something magickal, an era that we will
only get to see on the screen.
 
Thank you Mother, I love you~
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Fabric Whoredom

 
 
Fabric Whore
 
 
Some things run in us, genetic or hereditary. There is hair color, eye color, personalities.. I believe things like alcholism and such. I also think that things like: collecting things might be inherent. I think my father has a genetic affinity for collecting junk. If there is a garage sale he will find it and buy something. Then he will drag it to my house and then tell me I have way to much shit at my house. I think to myself, "hmmm ~ could any of that crap be yours?" When half of it is! lol

Anyways, I don't know who I would have inherited this from, but I believe I have an affinity for fabric. I am a fabric whore. Is this something that runs in my family? I know my mother could sew clothes and make outfits amazingly well! My grandmother could crochet and draw beautifully. I make quilts, they are alright.. I like them and they keep us warm. But I just have this affliction, I need fabric. More and more fabric. There is never enough. I am always seeing quilt patterns that I want to make so I need fabric for them. I have lots and lots of fabric together for certain quilts I want to make, but I crave more! MORE! The fabric whore comes out in me at JoAnn's and Lori's Pins and Needles and Quilter's Nest.
 
So, I will embrace my fabric whoriness. I will indulge and gorge my quilters
heart and desires with fabric. Gimme, gimme, gimme. Is there a cure for this? A pill? I guess it could be worse, I could be a tequila whore and my clothes could fall off.