Hi Dottie!
-=> Quoting Dottie Theriault to Wendy Buchanan <=-
 DT> So sorry to hear of your loss, for what I'm sure feels like very
 DT> recent to you.  I know that when I lost my Nana, it was a long time
 DT> before I stopped thinking about her and feeling so lost on a daily
After I got out of high school I lived with my Gramma for several
months.  She showed me how to do some crochet stitches and I still
remember the pillow covers we crocheted for her living room.  I
wonder where those went?  My cousin's got a lot of Gramma's stuff.
But those weren't the kind of thing she'd treasure like Gramma did,
so I imagine they went out.  
 DT> basis.  I think of her so often even still, but the pain and saddness
 DT> have lessened a bit now.  It's been 20+ years, but her passing
 DT> diffinately left a huge hole in my life. She was such a talented lady.
 DT> Always crafting so many things. 
They had to, if they wanted anything!  And it was second nature to
them, I think.  They were brought up that way.
 DT> myself, I'm pretty slow too so don't go feeling like the "lone ranger"
Nope, I'm not looking for Tonto, I know what it's like!  
 DT> lots of love.  I remember the only Christmas that I did get a gift from
 DT> Grandma A, I was 3 yrs old and she took an old cigar box, the very deep
 DT> ones, covered it in a gray cloth and embroidered my name, a spool of
 DT> thread and a threaded needle on the top.  Inside she lined with black
 DT> cloth and made little pockets all around the inside.  That was also
Oh, what a neat present, and with the doll clothes too!  I'll bet
you felt like the luckiest little girl around!  
 DT> the year that Mommie and Daddy gave me my Sally doll. (An antique now,
 DT> IF my baby brother hadn't broken her plaster head.  and a night gown for my new "baby".  That was 48 years ago and is still
 DT> one of my fondest Christmas memories.
I'll bet!  What a lovely thing for her to do.
 
 DT> they have addapted quite well. BTW, I saw that they have quite a quilt
 DT> show there in Bartlesville.  Do you ever get there?
I've been to a couple of them.  The guild here is so good, I'm too
poor a quilter yet to think of joining them.  Although I know that
isn't reasonable, they could teach me so much if I was braver!
 
 DT> Yes, I love that area too.  The winding roads are something else
 DT> tho'. Hope that I can visit more of the antique places once we build
 DT> in OK so I can furnish some of our guest rooms.
Tom and I got married not too far from Eureka Springs, in a little
wedding chapel called (what else?) the "Little Bell Wedding Chapel.
We had dinner in Eureka Springs that night.  Those roads are a real
trip in December late at night, I nearly had a heart attack!  
Some autumn I want to take the bus and go to the craft fair/sale at
War Eagle, too.  It's not far from Eureka Springs, and if you take
the bus they drop you off right up front, so you don't have to walk
the two miles from the parking lot!  And you can get on the bus when
the day's over, and let the bus driver get you home--what a way to
go!    They run a bus from Bartlesville over there each year.
LadyBear Hugs,
Wendy
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