I’m calling you out!!!! On a roll … call, here’s where you can read about the amazing accomplishments of Sisters who earn Merit Badges. “Hear YE!”
Last year, Jennifer Porter and the gals of Fancy Feathers Farmgirls on the Loose got together for their second annual weekend of all-girl-get-out-fun! We highlighted the great time they had here on the blog and in the March 2012 Cluck Sisterhood Newsletter …
Can you feel it in the air? We’re transitioning to fall, and soon … winter and the holidays! We’re just finishing the December issue of my magazine and have been decorating Christmas trees. Tra-la-la, deck the halls with …
Michele Hieb made this adorable little prim angel for me. I met Michele during our Glampers on the Loose trip to South Dakota. Just lovely, darling, sweet, and thoughtful.
Wondering who I am? I’m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life …
For this week’s Merit Badge, I decided to tackle cross-stitching! Why, you ask? Well, that’s easy. I started a book club.
Huh?
Let me explain.
Cathy R says: MBA Janes entries are a hoot! Chuckles & grins! My one question ~ where are you shopping ~ your clothes are fabulous? Keep earning those badges and telling us about them! C:
Cathy in ID to the East
To celebrate National Sewing Month, I asked if you’d send in the projects you’ve been working on. Here they are, and ladies, they are just Sew Wonderful …
It is so good to read about one of my favorite things. I’m so glad others are getting to enjoy it.
Too Fun MJ! Love sewing….:) Thanks for sharing the link for the sewing merit badge requirements… I think I’ve got beginner and intermediate licked!
I’ve got my hand in the paint bucket now.. Is October National Paint month ? LOL!
Love,
Deb ( your BEACH farmgirl )
MaryJane says: If it isn’t, you better declare it! Are you using the colors of your gorgeous dahlias?
Consider it DONE! Believe it or not I’ve painted over my apricot walls with a fresh creamy off-white… It makes a lovely backdrop for all of the ‘ other colors’ I have in our house… The kitchen is RED, BLACK and OFF WHITE and My kitchen curtains remind me a lot of my dahlias. I fell head over heels in love with them this summer!
I’m going to frame some of the dahlias and a few of the ” cottage hens” for some farmgirl artwork too!
Would I be taking things too far if I spray painted my almond colored stove ‘ stove red ‘ ? Nah, I didn’t think so!
MaryJane says: No wonder. You are like a dahlia. Many shades of HAPPY.
Gifts galore!!!!!
This, this, THIS came!!!! A newfangled chicken waterer (with handy winterizing heater) made and sold by a most adorable family in Florida. Called a Chicken Kooler, it’s a must have (watch the video on their website, Cheery Chicks showcasing 4-day old baby chicks using one). She also made a darling …
Candice Buerer says: Cucumbers. It seems so ordinary and unexceptionable, but there is something unique in the flavor of a homegrown cuke. I’ve known for decades that homegrown tomatoes are sweeter and more flavorful than their store bought counterpart. But the difference in cucumbers I only discovered last year after growing my own for the first time. It is subtle and more of a refreshing feeling than a distinct easily described flavor.
Last year I grew the usual green variety of cukes and this year lemon cucumbers. Both kinds I find pleasantly satisfying and no where near ordinary.
A couple of years ago, a poem about aprons caught fire on the Internet. Here’s a newer version (well, new to me). I thought (or rather, I knew) you’d enjoy reading it along with a collection of our apron photos.
Remember making an apron in Home Ec? Remember Home Ec?
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few and because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons required less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
Many decades ago, when I was in jr. high school, I took a class in sewing. Our first project was to make an apron and it looked very much like a couple of these. I also took a class in home economics. These were required classes for girls…not electives. Do they even teach these things in schools today?
Siobhan McBride says: Those aprons are so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing the nostalgia!!
Barbara Sanders says: Love these aprons! Have to celebrate the one my cousin made for me for Christmas. I asked for an old fashioned one, similar to these. Wonderful, frilly & floral. We trade skills: I take help care of her computer issues, she sews for me when I can’t. (flunked sewing in Hume ec, too busy playin with computers!)
Well, you know me . . the “apronista” from southwest Colorado. Make ’em, lots of them! Sell them at Farmers Market, on my blogspot and give them as gifts! I believe you might have a couple that came from my “apron shop”.
THANKS for singing the praises of aprons!
CJ
Rick Hill says: These aprons are great.
May they never be used to prepare GM foods.
Char Clark says: Did I read you sell some of these? They are gorgeous! I have scoured second-hand stores looking for ‘grandmas’ aprons’. I love love love your photos and the aprons. Please email me with prices. Very interested in an apron to do most of the things listed in the poem. (We don’t have chickens, yet.) Do have apples, pears, plums, apricots, walnuts, strawberries, rhubarb, grapes, and 15 or so flower beds. I have two granddaughters, two daughters, and a daughter-in-law. Wouldn’t it be grand to have similar aprons – matching yet different. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to hear from you.
Sandra Flammia says: Hi my name is Sandra I love aprons I sew aprons myself all kinds I sell my aprons at craft fairs and such I am very proud of my aprons I make my own patterans . I love what you have done.
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
Angles are singing with this one you have!
It is close to 90 everyday and we have rain showers and humidity still. So, it does not feel like fall at all!! It still feels like July. Boo. Fall and Christmas seem so far away even though the calendar reads October.
It feels like fall here on the west side of the Palouse. We are supposed to have a freeze either tonight or tomorrow night. I’m picking the rest of my red tomatoes and getting the garden ready for its winter nap. Have to till the grass clippings into the soil for a little extra nitrogen. The lawn needs mowed and I have to get some coleus clippings in for the winter in preparation for 2013.