We'll get this one going in time to celebrate the REAL birthday, Harper. Your last one was so full of good wishes that it was getting slow to load, so here's a fresh new page for you.
Many 'Happy Returns'!!
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This message was edited Aug 16, 2008 11:45 AM
Looks like a 1930 fantasy Hyiasenth
of course it's not spelled right!!!!
I thought we got a pass for poor spelling on DG.LOL
might be hiasynth
hyacinth
Microsoft Word almost always gives me the correct spelling.
LOL Thanks Candyce. Can't believe I spelled it wrong twice. It didn't look right the second time either.
Jo Ann
Thanks, I will have to remember MS word. I dont know how many times I have had to ask what a flower was on here to do ebay. It makes me feel like my IQ is 32 = idiot savant.
Here it is on ebay, and dont bid on it or I will get thrown out of here. I know my background is roses!!!!
www.cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250283484175&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015
Howdy Ho!
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. Sherrie, that's a really cool flower. If it's not a hyacinth, I don't know what it is.
I read the Big Foot article. The photo looked entirely bogus, but if they're doing DNA tests, it makes me wonder. Still, I always thought the whole thing was bogus. I like the faries and leprecauns idea, though!
Today I'm going to visit my Aunt Helen to celebrate her 75th birthday.
Oh, it's embroidered or needlepoint or something! I thought what unusual-looking HYACINTH until I clicked on the thumbnail - I thought you were selling bulbs!
Candyce, how do you get MS Word to check your spelling while you're online? Do you use IE? Firefox?
Oooops - my bad - my horribly awful - I neglected to say HAPPY 29TH BIRTHDAY, HARPER! WELCOME TO YOUR NEW THREAD!
Embroidery of the 1930's to1940's
Had a style like that.
There were many types of fantasy flowers without a hint as the where the original started and the makebelieve ended.Just call it Fantasy flower in blue.
I remember my grandmother and mother embroidering tea towles in designs like that. I don't know what the name of the stitch is, I did at one time.
Sherrie, Jo Ann should get10% when you sell the piece. People pay a lot for marketing. I think you can charge 10% more with this description... Early to mid 20th century hand embroidered, on linen (looks like to me). Then just add a title... "Fantasy Hyacinth".
Laurel
BTW Carrie, stop fudging Harper's age. She is thirty nine and we all know it. It comes up here, now and again, so that those of us who are fifty nine, or more, can really feel down. Now you get packing while we await Harper's first gray hairs and wrinkles.
Happy BD Harper.
Laurel
59 is child's play in my world........and Harper is just about to enter her best decade EVER! Count on it, Harper........there's lots of good stuff ahead for you! I feel it in these old bones! LOL Happy Birthday, Harper!! (early!)
Fiftynine? Nuttin to it.
Fifties was the best ,and it got better.
Made me feel easier about standing up for myself and not volunteering for issues I really didn't care about.
Tendancy to feel less guilty, and more self confident, if thats possible for a "mouthy know it all"
Jo Ann
Right there with you, Jo Ann!
Well, ahem, never having seen that side of 50, I am eagerly awaiting my 50th birthday party. I knew Harper was feeling mildly squeamish about 40, hence the traditional 29th birthday wish. But I agree with everybody who has said "it's getting better". It is for me, too. My 30s were a nightmare. My 40s have, so far, been full of joy.
My fifties are a time of finally finding out who I am and what to do about who I am.
My sixties are gonna be the best!!
Go, Candyce!!!!
When your sixty you realize your fine just as you are and no change is necessary.
Seventy is when you realize,all the trouble you took to overcome self imposed changes in a personality you didn't like, come back and you are powerless to do anything about it.
Rely on the goodness and forgiveness of others, cause thats all youve got, good and true friends are worth their weight in gold..
Rely on the goodness and forgiveness of others, cause thats all youve got, good and true friends are worth their weight in gold..
Woo Hoo! You guys are the greatest!! AND, you know what? You're right! My forties are gonna be FANTASTIC! I can feel it. I already feel that I am well on the road of loving life, but feel the last few clingy insecurities that I will shake free before sundown today.
Oh, by the way, Laurel, I have plenty of grey hairs and wrinkles. I even have a few coarse wiskers growing out of my chin. I pluck 'em and they keep growing back!
LOL. Harper, be careful what you divulge. You don't want to run out of mystique before your forty (and don't forget to pluck before we meet)!
Laurel
We should have a ladies only True Confessions thread - no, we shouldn't, on second thought. But yeah, Harper, your forties are going to be fantabulous!
Happy Birthday from Oregon, Harper. I'll be home on Tuesday. DH emailed me and said my mom had climbed up onto the roof twice, thinking she was an Olympic diver or something. BTW, he was just kidding. My mom can hardly get around. They are anxiously awaiting my arrival. He has become quite the cook since I've been gone apparently.
While out here we landscaped the strip between the street and the sidewalk. I have never dealt with clay soil before. YUCKO!!! I found Recycled Gardens from going on the NW forum and asking for suggestions. Pretty cool. DDIL went on Craig's List and found used brick not too far from their house, so we got some and then I cleaned the old mortar, leaving some of the white. it looks great. So sections of brick interspersed with graoundcover and mulch accented with some rocks they pick up every time they go to Mt. Hood on their way to relatives. Neighbors kept stopping by, partly to see what we were doing, but also to wonder if we were crazy working out in 90 degree heat. Alot of it we did at night when it was a little cooler, but we had to do it while I was there. Hope they keep things watered. lol
Pictures? We're not gonna just take your word for it! Seriously, Jan, it sounds like the work of a loving mom.
Sorry, I don't have a camera or a phone that takes pics. DDIL does though, so maybe we can get them on somehow. I am really techno-challenged. :(
We'll wait.....
Yippee! DDIL is the best.
I wanted to add more plants, but maybe next time I visit we can. There is creeping phlox and rubus pentalobus "emerald carpet" I'm not familiar with that. The "Mt. Hood" rocks are really nice. Kinda rough like pumice. The used bricks with a little white mortar still there adds character. She had some ivy so we planted that around the mailbox hoping it will climb. Looking at the strip now, it's hard to believe it took as long as it did, but that clay was awful. I was wanting to dig the whole strip up quite a bit and amend the whole thing, but, out here they were told to kinda make clay "pots" in the ground so that's what we did. We (my DS that is) dug deep and then we added stuff to replace the clay. Hopefully the plants will be happy. The plants were kinda small, but the price was right. Maybe before I go out next time I can contact DGers in the area to help us out. Anyway it was fun. Today, we made a stepping stone to remember Gramma's visit. When that cures they can add it to the garden.
Looks mighty fine! What did it look like before? By the time you're home, I'll be gone....
We have clay soil here and use LOTS of mulch.
The new gardens were started with sheet layering and when we put a plant in the grownd we plop some compost on the spot where we dig and then digg the whole thing in, make a hole and put the plant in.
Other parts of the garden are done that way too.
Surprising how many plants are clay lovers.
The before strip was basically bare with some allysum and weeds.
No, no, no.... you done good, Jan, great job! And Happy Birthday, Harper!
Very nice job, Jan. Welcome home! Kudos to DH for being such a great SiL.
Jan, what an improvement. It will be a gift to them as well as the neighborhood. Welcome home.
Happy birthday Harper.
Laurel
Thanks.
Yep, Mom said to give him an A+. She really loves him and vice versa. Imagine after 10 years of living with us, we still are on speaking terms. lol( just kidding) We are truly blessed to have her here. She is like a cat with 9 lives 'cept she has had more than that.
Just a quick question - will it be obvious when we really hit Harper's birthday? I think this is WAY cool to have a perpetual bday.
My DS and DDIL in OR. have her grandmother living with them and it is a challenge. I give them a lot of credit. My DDIL said though that they got the easy GM.
Someone on the NW forum said they use a mattock in the clay out there. I wish I had known that a few days ago. lol
