Evangeline, MLI style
lucretia borgia
to be 'our' Evangeline as romanticized by Longfellow ? I hope not as
Evangeline lived a very peasant life, did not wear flowing gowns and
was said to be pretty.
The statue at Grand Pre more truly represents the grit of Evangeline,
handsome face with great fortitude in it.
Sharon
Christmas freebie this year was a repeat of 1997's too - just changed
the colours and the direction she was facing. Has she lost her knack,
her interest?? Just wondering.
Sharon
Chris Howard
> Has she lost her knack,
> her interest?? Just wondering.
>
> Sharon
>
>
Her last "Marilyn Says" on her website is from April of 2002. That
kinda sounds like she's lost her interest to me. I didn't much like
this statment:
"If the designs of needlework have progressed to the realm of fine art,
then we should have a palette of colors that represent fine art, not
dingy dusty threads from bygone years that don't even have a number
system to identify them as color groups!"
My favorite floss happens to be "dingy dusty threads from bygone years
that don't have a number system". Bleh, well I've never had much
interest in her saccharine designs, and I certainly won't be doing any
of them now.
Sharon
really liked her earlier designs but nothing for a few years now.
There are so many wonderful designers out there, one doesn't have to
deal with people who think they're a step above everyone else. Blech
I don't know what type of stitching you're into, but some of my
favourite patterns these days come from Kustom Krafts, Mystic Stitch
and Mirabilia - gorgeous stuff.
Sharon
Lucille
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote in message
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MLI's version of Evangeline certainly doesn't look like my idea of
Evangeline and the bottom of the skirt of the dress looks suspiciously like
part of the dress on the Angel of the Morning piece.
I think it looks kind of chopped up, using bits and pieces of other
projects.
Her stuff has never been my taste anyway so why do I care?
Lucille
Pat P
"Sharon" <cla...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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Well, several of us have thought that that has been her modus operandii for
years! Personally, I much preferred her Amish designs.
Pat P
Lucille
Now let's see if anyone picks up on that or it's just going to be ignored
like last winter's snow !!!
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote in message
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>>
>>"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote in message
>>news:pf6ns1tt9crov6l9p...@4ax.com...
>>> Can someone tell me - is the Evangeline showing on MLIs site supposed
>>> to be 'our' Evangeline as romanticized by Longfellow ? I hope not as
>>> Evangeline lived a very peasant life, did not wear flowing gowns and
>>> was said to be pretty.
>>>
>>> The statue at Grand Pre more truly represents the grit of Evangeline,
>>> handsome face with great fortitude in it.
>>
>>
>>MLI's version of Evangeline certainly doesn't look like my idea of
>>Evangeline and the bottom of the skirt of the dress looks suspiciously
>>like
>>part of the dress on the Angel of the Morning piece.
>
> Angel of the Morning - is that the one that is to be the Firehouse
> Angel ? Are there any updates on that ?
Gill Murray
Gillian
Carey N.
http://firehouse.heritageshoppe.com/history6.html
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"Gill Murray" <gillm...@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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Gill Murray
Gillian
Harry and Anita
According MLI, this is her version of Evangeline. The face is based on an
actual photograph of a friend's daughter I think she said. This is supposed
to be the Acadian Evangeline, Sheena. HTH.
Anita in snowy, cold Alaska
Jangchub
Jangchub
<lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
>Well I certainly can't see this lass out working on the dikes, knee
>deep in mud. I get the impression her robes would drag her down and
>drown her arggghhhh!
>
>To see her representation in statue form you can try here
>http://www.evangelinetrail.com/ and I would suggest her clothing was
>more suitable to the period and her labour. The statue is very
>interesting. Set high you can circle the base, starting from her
>right hand side and very slowly her visage changes from a hopeful
>young woman to a despairing older women, worn down by hard labour and
>a lost love.
Actually, I like the new design, but the skirts are way too fru fru
for someone, anyone, who just came through a hurricane. I like the
design on the apron and her face, but the skirt would have been better
if it were more like Feathers and Friends in the Butternut collection.
I think the blue flowers behind her are not appropriate and don't fit
with the rest of the design, unless they are the blossoms like a lotus
our of the mud. If her skirts were not as scalloped, I might stitch
this one. My favorites are still Celtic Christmas, Celtic Banner,
Feathers and Friends, Spiritdancer and Earthdancer.
And no, I'm not defending that woman.
Pat P
"Jangchub" <saka...@kopan.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah, nothing. I didn't think it would get done. Oh well.
The time it`s taking, it will soon have lost it`s point!
Pat P
Ericka Kammerer
> Actually it was going through my mind, can she just take something
> like that and declare her's is Evangeline ? What about copyright, to
> us here and also to the Longfellow estate ? I thought she was the
> one so hot on copyright she didn't even want people buying her charts,
> doing the work, then selling it ??
? "Evangeline" and all of Longfellow's other works
have been in the public domain for a good 50 years. Copyright
does not endure forever.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Becky A
> x-no-archive:yes
>
>
> Personally, that figure does not represent, in the least, anything to
> do with Evangeline. Doesn't fit one little bit and is demeaning, IMO,
> to Evangeline.
LOL, Sheena, you managed to get me to hunt down the tale of Evangeline
and read it. Very nice. I really enjoyed it.
And I agree...it's such a poor representation. Awful, in fact.
Besides...independant of any assocation with a person or story...it's an
UGLY piece. Yuck!
The color of the ground fabric is best described with a term I got from
my grandfather: Sh*t Brindle.
Ah...Pa-Pa, I miss you...
Becky
Brenda Lewis
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2039
There is also a version with notes and plan of study at
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15390
--
Brenda
Bilge Queen of Puzzle Pirates
Gill Murray
lucretia borgia wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
>
> Sheesh, you sound like BillyBoy lol
>
> Actually it was going through my mind, can she just take something
> like that and declare her's is Evangeline ? What about copyright, to
> us here and also to the Longfellow estate ? I thought she was the
> one so hot on copyright she didn't even want people buying her charts,
> doing the work, then selling it ??
>
> Personally, that figure does not represent, in the least, anything to
> do with Evangeline. Doesn't fit one little bit and is demeaning, IMO,
> to Evangeline.
Do you really think she is equating it with "the" Evangeline? I mean, I
guess it was not a totally unknown Christian name in olden times. Just a
thought.........
And, no, I'm not defending that woman. LOLOL
When we were at Grand Pre, the archaeologists were working on some
excavations, and were only too happy to show thw American tourists what
they were doing. I found that fascinating; I do wish I had known about
circling the statue, and seeing her visage change. However, it was
crowded, being the 400th Anniv and all.
Gillian
Chris Howard
> Whew - that is quite an uppity statement to make, isn't it Chris?
Sorry Sharon, just my opinion. Everyone else here seems to feel free to
voice theirs, figured I might let mine be known. I've posted before on
the style of stitching I like to do. If you are genuinely interested,
I'd be happy to discuss it again.
Chris Howard
> x-no-archive:yes
>
LOL well leave it to me to misinterpret everything.
Karen C - California
Anyway, you can't copyright a title.
If I wanted to write "Gone with the Wind: Category 5 hurricane", there
wouldn't be much the original copyright owner could do to me.
--
Karen C - California
www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Finished 12/22/05 - Wolf (Leisure Arts)
WIP: July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn,
Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe
See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com
Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html
Gill Murray
>>When we were at Grand Pre, the archaeologists were working on some
>>excavations, and were only too happy to show thw American tourists what
>>they were doing. I found that fascinating; I do wish I had known about
>>circling the statue, and seeing her visage change. However, it was
>>crowded, being the 400th Anniv and all.
>>
>>Gillian
>
>
> attention to that very clever aspect of the statue. It was
> deliberately done by the sculptor. You'll have to return to take
> another look, yes, good solution lol
I totally agree!! This summer is ruled our, and maybe the following
would be the NW coast and Alaska, but I would LOVE to come back to the
Maritimes on our own, and spend a LOT of time there; all summer rewally.
Whoopee!! I just heard a "ping". I finished making a batch of apricot
and red pepper chutney, and heard the first jar seal! Amazing to get
only five small jars after all that chopping up!
Tomorrow........kumquat and rhubarb chutney. I have picked the kumquats
from my little tree, and had to buy frozen rhubarb ( from Canada), since
fresh isn't available. Not very popular here.
Gillian
Chris Howard
> Whoopee!! I just heard a "ping". I finished making a batch of apricot
> and red pepper chutney, and heard the first jar seal!
My hat's off to you Gill, I used to watch my Momma can in the summer
time. It's a pile of work!
Sharon
were uppity - I meant MLI's statement that you quoted from her site was
pretty uppity. So sorry about that. Sure - go ahead and tell me/us
what you enjoy stitching - I don't keep records on who stitches what,
so I was genuinely interested and genuinely asking. I like it when
people voice their opinions instead of *steaming* (or whatever) in
lurkdom - heaven only knows I voice my opinion enough. :-)
Sharon
Gill Murray
I love doing it, but DH is a diabetic, so I don't give him jams etc.
Now, with the advent of Splenda, and Brown Sugar Twin, I can make some
of these things. The smellis soooooo good when the garlic, slivered
ginger, fruits, spices, onions, fruit etc are all simmering away.
I used to can (bottle to the UK contingent) veggies but I gave that up
a long time ago. I don't like them canned, either fresh, or good
quality frozen. I used to make a lot of V-8 type juice, I think it had
about six veggies in it, but got rid of the cookbook containing the
recipe when we went full-timimg in the RV. I should love to get that
again, because sometimes I can get overripe tomatoes very cheap at my
local veggie stand.
Gillian
Dr. Brat
> Yeah, nothing. I didn't think it would get done. Oh well.
Nothing? She's got a whole wing and collar more than she had when she
was here. So the progress is slow, that doesn't mean she won't get done.
Elizabeth
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and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich
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Dr. Brat
> The color of the ground fabric is best described with a term I got from
> my grandfather: Sh*t Brindle.
I call it baby poop. Up until 3 days ago, my kitchen was that color.
Now it's a lovely pale purple. By accident actually. The purple paint
was bought to be the trim in a dark purple room, but we ended up going
with a pinkish white instead and had a gallon of paint left. Decided to
throw it on the kitchen walls to hold us until we can afford to really
do the kitchen right. It's lovely. Better than the other two rooms,
which were planned.
Lucille
"Dr. Brat" <epc...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple
walls. My very dearest friend has a lightish purple on her bedroom walls
with a slightly darker purple carpeting and a dark purple bathroom.
It isn't something I would ever have thought I would like, but it's really
very pretty.
I can't wait to tell Pat that I know someone else with purple walls. She's
probably going to laugh and say: "See, I told you it would look nice."
Lucille
Chris Howard
stitching Winter Row by Bent Creek. I'm doing the "Rows" for all
seasons because we recently replaced the mantlepiece in our old house
(well old for America- 100 years) and it now has double the space to
decorate. After that I want to make some of the little motifs in
Cardiology by the Trilogy into little pillows to hang on this peg
rack/shelf thingie in my front hall. I'm also working on "darks"
(things stitched on dark linen) for my back hall. So far I've only done
Matter's Choice by Carriage House Samplings but I plan to start on Mary
Pleasant Curry (by the same designer) really soon. My favorite
designers are Bent Creek, The Trilogy, Heart In Hand, Carriage House
Samplings, La D Da, Birds of a Feather (sniff!!), Homespun Samplar, Ewe
& Eye & Friends, and Blackbird Designs. How about you?
Chris Howard
I should love to get that
> again, because sometimes I can get overripe tomatoes very cheap at my
> local veggie stand.
>
> Gillian
>
For my family canning was all about tomatoes. My Mom and Dad used to
plant a big garden full of tomatoes every year- more than just the three
of us could ever eat. Mom tried her hand at canning ketchup (catsup?),
spaghetti sauce, soup base, and just about everything you could ever
possibly make with a tomato. I have a lot of memories of her standing
over a steamy hot stove in July or August canning huge batches of
tomatoes and looking very much like a wilted lily. This is why I buy my
ketchup at the grocery store and pretty much stay away from canning
altogether. I love to recieve canned goods as gifts though, because I
know a lot of love and hard work went into it.
Chris Howard
> Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple
> walls.
I absolutely love the color purple and yet strangely enough I have no
purple walls or decorations (furniture, paintings, etc). I wonder why
that is?
Jere Williams
second favorite is a soft sage green.
I have a friend whose daughter painted her kitched pale purple and a pale
lime green, and it's gorgeous.
--
Jere
"Chris Howard" <cho...@lesandchris.com> wrote in message
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Ericka Kammerer
Beats me--it's a great color to live with. My
bedroom is a lavender, my ceilings are a pale lavender,
my powder room is a very deep eggplant, my main floor
curtains are a dusky purple, and my couch is a deep
purple. Oddly enough, my home doesn't seem very purple
at all. Purple (certain shades, anyway) is actually a
fairly good neutral. And I couldn't begin to list the
articles of purple clothing I have ;-)
Best wishes,
Ericka
Ericka Kammerer
> Me too -- but I know why -- dh hates purple. He also hates green, and my
> second favorite is a soft sage green.
My living room has a soft, silvery sage green on the
walls to go with the dusky purple curtains and the very
purple couch ;-) It's actually very soothing. Fortunately,
my husband doesn't have any heartburn with purple.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Lucille
"Ericka Kammerer" <e...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I own lots of purple clothes too, but I never thought of it as a wall color
until recently.
Lucille
Dr. Brat
>
> Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple
> walls. My very dearest friend has a lightish purple on her bedroom walls
> with a slightly darker purple carpeting and a dark purple bathroom.
It's actually DH who wanted the purple. We have a very large room on
the third floor and it carries the darker purple very well. Then the
hallway and stairs leading to the kitchen are that purple sponged over
with a lighter purple, which is the purple in the kitchen. DH's study
is yet another shade of purple, lighter and bluer. I call his study
"easter egg purple" but he really likes it.
Brenda Lewis
> Sounds delish. I love rhubarb. Rhubarb and ginger jam and Rhubarb
> Crumble with custard - all of which makes the rhubarb become
> fattening, sigh.
{Full alert mode} Rhubarb crumble with custard?! Sounds
deeeeeeelightful. Easy rhubarb sauce isn't fattening. Clean and chop
about 2 cups of rhubarb, cook it down until it is mostly liquid, toss in
a box of sugar-free gelatin (dry), stir well and serve. Raspberry gel
is the family favorite although other flavors can be used. While the
sauce is particularly good on real ice cream, it can be used on
less-fattening items as well.
Lucille
Now that I'm giving this some thought, my bedroom is painted a medium blue
with a definite purple cast and the adjoining bath is a darker version of
the same color.
I guess it sounded stranger to me than it looked. lol
Lucille
Jere Williams
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Jere
"Ericka Kammerer" <e...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Brenda Lewis
I love purple but doubt I'd ever choose it for wall paint or carpet
although I wouldn't rule it out for drapes, furniture, or accents.
While house-hunting I visited one place where the master bedroom was
painted a ghastly lavender and the floor was covered with celadon
carpeting. Throw in the old, yellowish lighting and too-dark wood trim
and it was enough to make me sick. The house was vacant so I have no
idea what color of window treatments and bedding they used in this scheme.
Gill Murray
That sounds good!! Off to the rcipe folder it goes!
gillian
Joan E.
Ericka Kammerer wrote:
> Beats me--it's a great color to live with. My
> bedroom is a lavender,
My stitching room is lavender, painted it just last year. DH isn't
crazy about it but he only likes neutral colors (blahblahblah!!!)
> And I couldn't begin to list the articles of purple clothing I have ;-)
Funny thing, I was just talking to a friend recently about how all the
clothes I've purchased lately are lavender!!! I think it all started
with Silver Lining's Dream lover, stitched year before last! :)
Joan
Jangchub
<eaxstit...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>"Jangchub" <saka...@kopan.com> wrote in message
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>> Yeah, nothing. I didn't think it would get done. Oh well.
>
>The time it`s taking, it will soon have lost it`s point!
>
>Pat P
That and the money I spent on the materials less the fabric too. The
point was missed a long time ago. Oh well, live and learn.
Jangchub
<lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
>>Actually, I like the new design, but the skirts are way too fru fru
>>for someone, anyone, who just came through a hurricane. I like the
>>design on the apron and her face, but the skirt would have been better
>>if it were more like Feathers and Friends in the Butternut collection.
>>I think the blue flowers behind her are not appropriate and don't fit
>>with the rest of the design, unless they are the blossoms like a lotus
>>our of the mud. If her skirts were not as scalloped, I might stitch
>>this one. My favorites are still Celtic Christmas, Celtic Banner,
>>Feathers and Friends, Spiritdancer and Earthdancer.
>>
>>And no, I'm not defending that woman.
>Sheesh, you sound like BillyBoy lol
>
>Actually it was going through my mind, can she just take something
>like that and declare her's is Evangeline ? What about copyright, to
>us here and also to the Longfellow estate ? I thought she was the
>one so hot on copyright she didn't even want people buying her charts,
>doing the work, then selling it ??
>
>Personally, that figure does not represent, in the least, anything to
>do with Evangeline. Doesn't fit one little bit and is demeaning, IMO,
>to Evangeline.
Who be BillyBoy? Who you callin BillyBoy? LOL
Cheryl Isaak
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
>
>
>>
>> Whoopee!! I just heard a "ping". I finished making a batch of apricot
>> and red pepper chutney, and heard the first jar seal! Amazing to get
>> only five small jars after all that chopping up!
>>
>> Tomorrow........kumquat and rhubarb chutney. I have picked the kumquats
>> from my little tree, and had to buy frozen rhubarb ( from Canada), since
>> fresh isn't available. Not very popular here.
>>
>> Gillian
>
>
>
> Sounds delish. I love rhubarb. Rhubarb and ginger jam and Rhubarb
> Crumble with custard - all of which makes the rhubarb become
> fattening, sigh.
I just stew it and add sugar at the end. Love the stuff, used to eat it raw
too!
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
j_mdnTlLmplF6lDe...@adelphia.com, "Lucille"
<lucillez1no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Elizabeth's home has lots of purple, including the stair!
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
"Lucille" <lucillez1no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
DH's best buddy has moved here from upstate NY. I had a few good giggles
with the color choices for the house he had built. His kitchen is dark red
and black, the main living area is Jersey Cream, one bedroom is "Hot
Mustard" (how any one will ever get any sleep is a mystery to me). But the
killer is "pool blue" which has become "tidy bowl blue" in one bathroom.
Talk about overpowering.
I did warn him.
Cheryl
Lucille
I should get him together with my friends DIL. She has an orange dining
room and uses old odd pieces of fabric culled from stuff she collected from
all over the world. She was an army brat and lived in weird places like a
small town in Egypt, several places in North Africa and all over Europe.
The rest of her house is similarly decorated and she too has every room a
different, and striking color. Oddly enough it all comes together and
certainly looks "interesting."
Lucille
ps--All shades of blue are now and have always been my very favorite colors
but I'll never, ever think of one particular shade as anything but Tidy Bowl
Blue again.
>
Gill Murray
lucretia borgia wrote:
>
>
> This spring a friend made a great recipe. Cook up some rhubarb. Let
> a pint of vanilla icecream soften. Stir in the rhubarb and pour half
> the mixture into the cake pan with a graham cracker crust on the
> bottom. Over the first half, sprinkle some more graham cracker mix
> and pour in the rest of the rhubarb/icecream mix.
>
> Refreeze. Unmould. Serve in wedges with some extra stewed rhubarb.
>
> Very simple, but very tasty - given you like rhubarb of course.
Sounds wonderful. Maybe I could even get Jim to eat it!
Gill
Dawne Peterson
>
> Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple
> walls. My very dearest friend has a lightish purple on her bedroom walls
> with a slightly darker purple carpeting and a dark purple bathroom.
>
and I painted the bathroom a lovely purple to go with the purple in a new
shower curtain with a frog pattern. Poor DH was quite lost for words.
Dawne
Jangchub
Chris, you need to come OUT of the closet with your inner purple! I'm
not a purple person, but I'm a wedgewood blue person and when I
painted my bathroom that color, in Ralph Lauren Suede paint, I had
some strange looks, but everyone who comes out of that bathroom loves
it. And I remember a big thing a while back about people hanging
needlework in the bathroom, but in my guest bathroom is hanging
"Feather's and Friend's" and she looks beautiful on those wedgewood
blue walls.
So, let your inner purple come out! LOL
V
Sharon
stole rhubarb and carrots - tasted so good coming right out of the
ground. It was the thing to do when we were young to raid gardens ....
then one night when my brother went out to do it, the guy who owned the
garden was ready for them - threw green paint all over them ... by the
time brother made it home, four cops were coming thru the door of my
Mother's house and caught him - just gave him a warning ... that bloody
paint was hard to get off tho. : - ) When we raided gardens as kids,
we didn't destroy anything - took a couple pieces of rhubarb and a
couple of carrots, and ate them dirt and all.
Sharon
Dawne Peterson
"Sharon" wrote .
> MLI's designs sure aren't as nice as they used to be, IMO. Her
> Christmas freebie this year was a repeat of 1997's too - just changed
> the colours and the direction she was facing. Has she lost her knack,
> her interest?? Just wondering.
>
This one doesn't fit together well at all--the big head is out of
proportion to the body, which never happened with the older designs, but
did happen with those grim little Buttonbox Babies. IMO, the more
successful ones, like Celtic Christmas or Earthdancer, have the costume
emphasised, all swirly skirts and flowing bits, and because they are
clearly meant to be romantic and slightly fantasy in nature, the
stylisation works. Realism isn't her design strongpoint.
Dawne
Jangchub
<lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
>x-no-archive:yes
>
>
>>Who be BillyBoy? Who you callin BillyBoy? LOL
>
>Billy Boy Clinton. Such an infinitely more interesting, vital person
>than GWB. If I had the choice for a weekend with one, every time I
>would pick Bill. If it had to be GWB, well I do declare, I would
>shoot myself lol
Oh my gosh, My President! The best president this country has seen in
a very long time was MY President Clinton. I would never call him
anything other than Mr. President. The chimp we have now, well, if he
was your only choice I'd shoot you too! LOL
Ericka Kammerer
> Ericka Kammerer wrote:
>> Beats me--it's a great color to live with. My
>> bedroom is a lavender, my ceilings are a pale lavender,
>> my powder room is a very deep eggplant, my main floor
>> curtains are a dusky purple, and my couch is a deep
>> purple. Oddly enough, my home doesn't seem very purple
>> at all. Purple (certain shades, anyway) is actually a
>> fairly good neutral. And I couldn't begin to list the
>> articles of purple clothing I have ;-)
>
> I love purple but doubt I'd ever choose it for wall paint or carpet
> although I wouldn't rule it out for drapes, furniture, or accents. While
> house-hunting I visited one place where the master bedroom was painted a
> ghastly lavender and the floor was covered with celadon carpeting.
> Throw in the old, yellowish lighting and too-dark wood trim and it was
> enough to make me sick. The house was vacant so I have no idea what
> color of window treatments and bedding they used in this scheme.
Well, as with any color, the devil's in the details.
The exact shade you choose makes a huge difference. You'd
be surprised, though, how neutral some shades of purple
are. No one ever really notices that my ceilings are
a soft lavender, but if I were to paint them white tomorrow
people would likely notice the difference. If I had a
party and you asked everyone the next day what color my
powder room is, I'll bet fewer than half who'd been in
the room would be able to tell you it's a deep eggplant
shade of purple. It doesn't strike you as purple, just
as a deep, rich color that recedes and makes the small
room seem a bit less confining.
I probably wouldn't go purple with carpeting,
but then again, I'm more a hardwood kinda gal. My
throw rugs tend to have either a lot of colors in them
or be earthy colors.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Brenda Lewis
Thinking back on it, I believe the lighting is what killed the whole
thing. The paint and the carpet had blue tones and the very yellow
lighting made it all look like baby barf. A brighter, whiter bulb
and/or a cleaner fixture cover might have improved the situation
immensely. The room in question only had one small, north-facing
window. The color combination might have been ok in a room that
received more natural light. The ultra-dark walnut stain on the
woodwork and closet door had to go though.
Chris Howard
>
> DH's best buddy has moved here from upstate NY. I had a few good giggles
> with the color choices for the house he had built. His kitchen is dark red
> and black, the main living area is Jersey Cream, one bedroom is "Hot
> Mustard" (how any one will ever get any sleep is a mystery to me). But the
> killer is "pool blue" which has become "tidy bowl blue" in one bathroom.
> Talk about overpowering.
>
> I did warn him.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
What color is Jersey Cream? Artists owned our house before we bought it
and they were NOT afraid of bold colors. Our bedroom is Communist Red
on all four walls. It was a little hard to sleep those first couple of
mornings because your eyes would sort of flutter open a bit and WHAMMO!!
GOOD MORNING COMRADE!! Heh, we still haven't painted over it but I've
gotten used to it. It's kinda like going to sleep in the womb every
night....
Chris Howard
> Chris, you need to come OUT of the closet with your inner purple!
I really do need to! I wear a lot of purple, and I even like purple eye
shadow, but I just have never decorated much with purple. We still
haven't painted our house (inside or out) since moving in, so I'm hoping
to incorporate some purple in that way. The problem is, I'd have to
actually get off my butt, make some decisions, and do it. I tend to go
for a country/primitive look, and it's odd, but you never find much
purple in that style...
Catherine Milton
> >Tomorrow........kumquat and rhubarb chutney. I have picked the kumquats
> >from my little tree, and had to buy frozen rhubarb ( from Canada), since
> >fresh isn't available. Not very popular here.
> >
> >Gillian
>
>
>
> Sounds delish. I love rhubarb. Rhubarb and ginger jam and Rhubarb
> Crumble with custard - all of which makes the rhubarb become
> fattening, sigh.
I enjoy rhubarb, but find it makes my teeth go funny.
I've done some chilli relish in my time. Bought a crate a few years ago,
and made all sorts of things, as Christmas gifts. The rule to remember
there is: DON'T TOUCH YOUR FACE!
<g>
Catherine
Cheryl Isaak
Howard" <cho...@lesandchris.com> wrote:
Jersey Cream
http://sherlink.sherwin.com/swapp/search/search.do
I don't think I could do a dark red bedroom
C
Cheryl Isaak
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
> Just as I thought - the colour of the cream that surfaces on milk from
> a Jersey cow lol
You got it in one!
It turns out to be very mellow and calms that dark red kitchen right down.
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
"Lucille" <lucillez1no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
The painters are returning to redo several rooms, including the blue bath.
It is going much paler.
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
>>>>
> Even just handling one or two for a supper recipe, it's very hard to
> wash ones hands adequately so as not to get stingy eyes when you take
> your contacts out last thing at night.
Makes me glad I don't wear contacts!
Cheryl
Karen E.
valk...@sasktel.net wrote on 1/17/06 8:58 PM:
>
> "Sharon" wrote .
>> MLI's designs sure aren't as nice as they used to be, IMO. Her
>> Christmas freebie this year was a repeat of 1997's too - just changed
>> the colours and the direction she was facing. Has she lost her knack,
>> her interest?? Just wondering.
>>
> This one doesn't fit together well at all--the big head is out of
> proportion to the body, which never happened with the older designs, but
> did happen with those grim little Buttonbox Babies.
The hair isn't right in relation to the face either. It looks to me as
though one or the other was just cut out of a different design and stuck
into this one. And where are her feet?
Karen E.
Ericka Kammerer
> Thinking back on it, I believe the lighting is what killed the whole
> thing. The paint and the carpet had blue tones and the very yellow
> lighting made it all look like baby barf. A brighter, whiter bulb
> and/or a cleaner fixture cover might have improved the situation
> immensely. The room in question only had one small, north-facing
> window. The color combination might have been ok in a room that
> received more natural light. The ultra-dark walnut stain on the
> woodwork and closet door had to go though.
I can imagine. My bedroom has lots of natural light
and nice, white trim (and a pale yellow ceiling that looks
very sunshiny). The lavender comes off looking very fresh.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Ericka Kammerer
You can, but they tend to be the redder purples,
which I think are a little more challenging to work with
(and I don't find them as soothing). Lavender might not
work, though. You'd probably be in more the wine-y purples.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Jangchub
Lovely, I also collect primatives. Their muted tones could use the
backdrop of a real punch of color. There are so many hues of purple
that you don't have to go with a "primary" color of purple. Also, you
can use pillows here and there, and many other accents using glass
etc. You HAVE GOT to get rid of white walls! I have one bathroom I
haven't gotten to yet in the six years we've owned this house and it
is driving me crazy.
V
Cheryl Isaak
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
>
>
>>>>
>>> Even just handling one or two for a supper recipe, it's very hard to
>>> wash ones hands adequately so as not to get stingy eyes when you take
>>> your contacts out last thing at night.
>> Makes me glad I don't wear contacts!
>>
>> Cheryl
>
> I had an eye infection recently and that was my greatest fear when I
> went to the doctor, that she was going to say it was something to do
> with the contacts and I couldn't wear them anymore. Trust me, you
> can't love glasses after using contacts. I have bifocal contacts.
Contacts and I did NOT work. I am too phobic about touching my eyes to begin
with and my eyes are the first thing affected in an allergy attack.
Cheryl
Chris Howard
>
> You can, but they tend to be the redder purples,
> which I think are a little more challenging to work with
> (and I don't find them as soothing). Lavender might not
> work, though. You'd probably be in more the wine-y purples.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ericka
>
The winey-purples intimidate me a bit. Maybe it's just that I'm tired
of so much red?
Chris Howard
You HAVE GOT to get rid of white walls!
That's not much of a problem for me. The artists who lived here loved
Christmas so EVERY wall is some shade of red and green. Our bathroom
has black cherry stained wood paneling with lime green walls and hand
painted copper stars. It looks as weird as it sounds. I have learned
to hate red and green....
Cheryl Isaak
Howard" <cho...@lesandchris.com> wrote:
> Gill Murray wrote:
> I should love to get that
>> again, because sometimes I can get overripe tomatoes very cheap at my
>> local veggie stand.
>>
>> Gillian
>>
>
> For my family canning was all about tomatoes. My Mom and Dad used to
> plant a big garden full of tomatoes every year- more than just the three
> of us could ever eat. Mom tried her hand at canning ketchup (catsup?),
> spaghetti sauce, soup base, and just about everything you could ever
> possibly make with a tomato. I have a lot of memories of her standing
> over a steamy hot stove in July or August canning huge batches of
> tomatoes and looking very much like a wilted lily. This is why I buy my
> ketchup at the grocery store and pretty much stay away from canning
> altogether. I love to recieve canned goods as gifts though, because I
> know a lot of love and hard work went into it.
>
Funny, I have great memories of canning with my grandmother, despite the
heat, fraying nerves and the rest of it. We would talk and talk. For a woman
that never finished high school, she just knew so much of the world, good
and bad.
Cheryl
Dawne Peterson
"Chris Howard" wrote
> That's not much of a problem for me. The artists who lived here loved
> Christmas so EVERY wall is some shade of red and green. Our bathroom
> has black cherry stained wood paneling with lime green walls and hand
> painted copper stars. It looks as weird as it sounds. I have learned
> to hate red and green....
>
blue, and now can't bear it in my house because my ex-MIL painted every
single room in her home some variation of blue and beige. Enough to make
you fall out of your chair in boredom.
Dawne
Susan Hartman
> Lucille wrote
>
>>Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple
>>with a slightly darker purple carpeting and a dark purple bathroom.
>>
>
> You know someone else too---one weekend last summer while DH was away DD
> and I painted the bathroom a lovely purple to go with the purple in a new
> shower curtain with a frog pattern. Poor DH was quite lost for words.
> Dawne
>
Me, too....painted the bathroom a deep purple, around DMC551, IIRC. It's
gorgeous. Shower curtain is maroon/deep gold/purple stripes in that
tafetta-like fabric that changes colors as the light hits it - very
rich. Which makes it sort of the "throne room!" LOL!
sue
--
--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
http://www.dirtylinen.com
Jangchub
Oh but how could you hate true claret red? I would love a beautiful
claret red persian rug if children weren't abused into making them.
Ericka Kammerer
> Ericka Kammerer wrote:
>
>>
>> You can, but they tend to be the redder purples,
>> which I think are a little more challenging to work with
>> (and I don't find them as soothing). Lavender might not
>> work, though. You'd probably be in more the wine-y purples.
>
> of so much red?
I think they *are* a bit more challenging to work
with than the bluer purples. But, that doesn't mean you
can't. I think it helps if you've got an idea of a color
palette for your whole house. You don't have to be slavish
to it, but if you've got some overall plan it's easier to
make sure everything hangs together nicely. You can get a
nice palette from a piece of art (stitching? ;-) ) or you
can even look up historical palettes from the era associated
with the styles you like. You can find books with those
sorts of things in the library, and they can give you a
good idea of a half dozen or dozen colors that all seem
to work together well, and you can start from there.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Lucille
"Jangchub" <saka...@kopan.com> wrote in message
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And I LOVE white walls. They make a perfect backdrop for the needlework and
objets d'art that hang all over my walls. My bedroom and master bath are
medium and darkish shades of blue and that limits what I can put up.
I even have needlework in my guest bathroom.
Lucille
Joan E.
lucretia borgia wrote:
> I have bifocal contacts.
I've talked to my eye doctor a couple of times about these and he said
most people don't like them. Well, I've had what are essentially
monovision contacts (one eye for distance and the other for close-up)
for over a year now and my brain has never been able to compensate like
others' have. I'm going to talk to him again and see if I can try a
pair of bifocal contacts. They can't be worse than what I've been
putting up with. Are yours soft or hard, Sheena? I currently wear
hard/gas perm lenses.
Joan
Chris Howard
> I think they *are* a bit more challenging to work
> with than the bluer purples. But, that doesn't mean you
> can't. I think it helps if you've got an idea of a color
> palette for your whole house. You don't have to be slavish
> to it, but if you've got some overall plan it's easier to
> make sure everything hangs together nicely. You can get a
> nice palette from a piece of art (stitching? ;-) ) or you
> can even look up historical palettes from the era associated
> with the styles you like. You can find books with those
> sorts of things in the library, and they can give you a
> good idea of a half dozen or dozen colors that all seem
> to work together well, and you can start from there.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ericka
>
Thanks for the suggestions Ericka :) I actually have a friend who is an
interior designer, but I hesitate to ask her help (I wouldn't ask my
friend who is a doctor for prescriptions).
Chris Howard
> Oh but how could you hate true claret red? I would love a beautiful
> claret red persian rug if children weren't abused into making them.
>
Heh, well waking up in a communist red bedroom is a good way to make you
start hating red. I do kinda like the darker more purpley reds though.
Dr. Brat
> x-no-archive:yes
> Soft Joan. I had to wear them about a week before I was totally
> comfortable, but I was warned about that. She said 'most' of her
> patients love them, but she has the odd one who doesn't.
My mother wore hard lenses for years and had one bifocal lens and one
regular one. She loved them and swore by them and I assume that I will
go that road when the time comes.
Elizabeth
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Jangchub
<lucillez1no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>And I LOVE white walls. They make a perfect backdrop for the needlework and
>objets d'art that hang all over my walls. My bedroom and master bath are
>medium and darkish shades of blue and that limits what I can put up.
>
> I even have needlework in my guest bathroom.
>
>Lucille
>
Not me, I have to have color. Not even my ceilings are white. They
are a lighter color of the walls so it is seamless. I have mostly
earth tones in my home. The living room I used Paint Magic which is a
double roller with foam cut outs and two tones of paint are used to
make a mottled look, or how do they call it, old world? All of my
wood looks more glowing and beautiful when the walls aren't white.
But, I've seen magnificent homes with all white walls. It's a matter
of comfort. So, I suppose I shouldn't have told Chris she MUST get
rid of the white.
V
Lucille
"lucretia borgia" <lucreti...@florence.it> wrote in message
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> x-no-archive:yes
> the perfect foil for pictures, photos and needlework.
>
> The condo had just been painted when I purchased it so I went with the
> colours she chose. I always hated blue but my bedroom is wedgewood
> blue and I have grown to like it. The rest is varying, and I mean
> varying even within the same room, shades of pale yellow. Another
> colour I had never used myself except years ago in a north facing
> bedroom, but I actually quite like it now too.
>
> I shall keep egg plant in mind for when my bedroom needs repainting
> though, it could look great with the white carpet.
I would worry a little about eggplant being very dark. Here in this mostly
hot climate I keep the shade closed nearly all the time to keep the sun out
and I think it would be dreary. I think I would love to see it as a
bedspread and curtains, or valances and as an accent color.
I've got to go back to my knitting. I have three more lines on the
never-ending blankie and if I can get that done tonight I will do the last
sleeve for the sweater tomorrow, put it together and make the hat and I'll
be FINISHED. Hooray!!! Don't you even try to talk me into making mittens
and booties.
Lucille
Ericka Kammerer
> At Shad Bay I had all white walls everywhere. As Lucille says, it is
> the perfect foil for pictures, photos and needlework.
Actually, if you look at most art museums, the
walls are not white (some are, but not most). They are,
however, generally very neutral. But even if you want
stronger colors on your walls, most artwork will still
work as long as you're careful with the framing. I
do have one piece of art that it's very problematic
to find a home for, though. The colors in it are just
*so* very far from anything in my home, and it's *quite*
large. I'm still working on a strategy, though. I
think I can work it in on the 1st floor with a little
effort once I get the chance to do some remodeling there.
Best wishes,
Ericka
Ericka Kammerer
> I would worry a little about eggplant being very dark. Here in this mostly
> hot climate I keep the shade closed nearly all the time to keep the sun out
> and I think it would be dreary. I think I would love to see it as a
> bedspread and curtains, or valances and as an accent color.
I think it can be a bit of a misconception that a dark
color will be dreary in a room. It can actually be very
expansive. You can put a very deep color on the walls
with a nice white trim and often the walls will really
recede. If your walls are in decent shape and you do a
really good job of prep work, it looks *especially* nice
in a glossier finish (with several coats, of course). It's
a lot of work, but the room will practically glow.
I'm not saying that everyone should do such a
thing, or that everyone will like it. But I do think
that people are often more afraid of dark colors making a room
appear too small or dreary than they need to be. My parents'
dining room is a deep chocolate brown. At night, when there's
no natural light at all, the room is absolutely delightful,
especially with candlelight.
Best wishes,
Ericka