Wendy Buchanan and Dottie Theriault were yacking about.....
 WB> Hi Dottie!
-=>> Quoting Dottie Theriault to Wendy Buchanan <=-
 WB> I know.  I wish that I'd learned some things from my gramma before
 WB> she died 18 months ago.    Now it's too late.
 So sorry to hear of your loss, for what I'm sure feels like very recent to
 you.  I know that when I lost my Nana, it was a long time before I stopped
 thinking about her and feeling so lost on a daily basis.  I think of her so
 often even still, but the pain and saddness have lessened a bit now.  It's
 been 20+ years, but her passing diffinately left a huge hole in my life.
 She was such a talented lady.  Always crafting so many things.
 I remember that when I was a wee little girl, my Great-gram lived with my
 Nana and she tried to teach me to crochet.  Too bad she tried to teach with
 thread instead of yarn.  I got too discouraged since my little fingers
 couldn't handle the thread....so I gave it up till I was much older.  My
 mother still has several items that she made, as well as what my Nana made.
 I have a few too.
 DT>> buzzing in warm and funny chatter).
 WB> Yes, I think that's why they named them that.  Over 100 in a year!
 WB> Boy, they were prolific, weren't they?  Sounds like Julia!  
 WB> That lady can put them out, I've heard!  I'm so slow myself...
 You can say that again.  I keep an eye on her busy crafting on the Sew and
 Quilt as well and she does seem to get a lot done.  As for myself, I'm
 pretty slow too so don't go feeling like the "lone ranger" .
 WB> Ladies knew how to do those things and taught their daughters and
 WB> granddaughters in those days.  By the time they were five or six,
 WB> some girls had done two or three samplers and gone on to do a quilt
 WB> for their dolls.
I think that my Grandma A. was like that when she was a girl.  She had only 1
sister and her mother taught them very well in the arts of sewing, knitting,
etc.  My Grandma A. (from OK) made all her children's clothes (all 6 of
them), knit all their mittens, etc. and made suits for Church Days for my
Grandpa too.  They were farmers and didn't have a lot of material things, but
they were so rich in so many other ways.  I remember the very warm quilts
that she made by using scraps of wool that was left over from winter clothes
or from outgrown or worn clothes.  They were the warmest, although very
heavy, but made with lots of love.  I remember the only Christmas that I did
get a gift from Grandma A, I was 3 yrs old and she took an old cigar box, the
very deep ones, covered it in a gray cloth and embroidered my name, a spool
of thread and a threaded needle on the top.  Inside she lined with black
cloth and made little pockets all around the inside.  That was also the year
that Mommie and Daddy gave me my Sally doll. (An antique now, IF my baby
brother hadn't broken her plaster head.  I'm in Washington County, OK myself.  Bartlesville!
Yes, I saw that on your orig. line.  My mother is orig from Little Rock and
my dad from OK.  They met in Texas at college and have been married for 56
yrs now.  My mother was a city gal and never dreamed she would have been
retired on the "farm" 20 miles from the nearest Wal-Mart.  But when my
dad retired, he wanted to move back to the country and all his family retired
back on the old homestead as well so they have addapted quite well.
BTW, I saw that they have quite a quilt show there in Bartlesville.  Do you
ever get there?
 WB> Have you ever been to Branson, MO to Silver Dollar City?  A lot of
 WB> old-time crafts and things are demonstrated there and also for sale
 WB> there.  It's a great place!  There's a new place similar to Silver
 WB> Dollar city there, too, Mutton Hollow, and it's basically the same.
 Never have made it there.  Hope to one of these days.  Right now it is not
 on the route when we visit OK since we fly into OKC and drive to Woodward
 from there.  I hope that once we retire, we will be able to get around out
 there a bit more.
 WB> It's not too far to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and there are loads of
 WB> old shops and houses there.  They have many Victorian homes and B&Bs
 WB> there, too.  It sure is hilly country, though.
  Yes, I love that area too.  The winding roads are something else tho'.
  Hope that I can visit more of the antique places once we build in OK so I
  can furnish some of our guest rooms.
 WB> Except that it was a very repressive culture other than crafts!
 How true.  I like my freedom, but the niceties of life back then really
 appeal to me, big time.  Afternoon Tea?  Oh, what charm and grace.
see ya
 Dottie Theriault
... M‚merŠ = Another word for "Grandma" ;)
 * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 51108
 * Silver Xpress V4.01
--- OLMS 2.53p+ [EJCCF667]
---------------