Sheller Girls

Russell Emery WWI Post Card
Esther Litsinger Bright
Grandma Emery, Uncle Reeder Emery, Aunt Jeannette Emery.
Wayne in the Navy
Mom and Joel
My horrible Christmas 1969
Edna and Dorey Slack and Marie Emery
Carolyn and Marie Emery with Whiskers

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  • Godey’s Fashions 1832 uploaded

    Here is the second fashion plate from 1932 as well as the description.

    Click on all the pictures, they will open a new window for a larger view.

    GodeysFashions1832bsm     Fashions1832bdescription

    The color plate and description as well as London fashions described

    Fashions1832adescription

    This description is for the first color plate I posted a couple days ago.

    The two pictures were scanned from two different  books. Here are pictures of the covers:

    Godeys1832cover1      .Godeys1832cover2

    The book on the left is a hard cover with a paper pattern and worn leather. It is called a 3/4 leather bound book.

    The book on the right is a black leather covered book with gold stamping.

    Godey’s Lady’s Book Magazine was published monthly. Women would save their issues and get them bound every six months or yearly so every bound book is different in the binding. Godey’s were publish with the idea they were to be bound. They had excess paper on the edges, a book plate for January and July as well as indexes every six months. This wasn’t in effect for the first few years of the magazine. Godey’s Magazine was published from 1830 to 1899.

    A printable/editable file for both fashion plates have been uploaded to the media folder. They are both over 6MB:

    Go to the media folder. The files for download are unattached.

    GodeysFashions1932a.jpg

    GodeysFashions1932b.jpg

  • Grandpa’s WW1 Picture

    Dear Sisters,

    I have had a trial learning how to do matting for pictures. This is the reason for not sending the picture to you all. Finally I’ve had a breakthrough and I think I can do a half decent job. So far I have spent money buying pre-cut mats for $6.00 each. The pre-cut mats are all that I can buy in a retail store. If I buy online I would have to buy larger sheets and I don’t have a straight cutter just the bias cutter. Anyway I need to make these a standard frame size that all of you can easily find. In the case of this picture of Grandpa the frame size will be 16 x 20. Here is a bad cut but it is the opening size I can cut using the same measurements for each side. I could try to take a little more off the top and bottom to get the whole picture but that might mess up the cut. I won’t go into all the reasons that might be a problem. If all of you think this looks good then I will settle for this size opening. Tell me what you honestly think.

     The large picture will show the the bottom and top are jagged edged. That is because my blade was too worn and it didn’t cut all the way through. Please disregard this. I promise not to send you any junk.

    gramdpaww1

    click on the picture to see an 800 dpi width picture.

  • Godey’s Lady’s book Fashions from1832

    This is the hand colored fashioned plate from Godey’s Lady’s magazine from 1832. I own many years of Godey’s and other books that have graphics and advertizing.

     

    Godeys1832

    click to see a large 800 dpi width picture or download it from the media files. If any of you want a nice printable picture let me know.

  • Wonderland Book

    I have a Set on my Flickr account where you can look at all the pages in my new book project, as they are right now (before further embellishment)

    Wonderland Book

    or see it via Flickriver Wonderland Book on Flickriver

    See my Photo Stream

    See my Photo Stream via FlickRiver (really nice way to view Flickr)

    I made the book via buying the covers (7Gypsies) then papering the inside of the covers, inking, stamping a flourish all over & then chalking various brown colors on those papers. Next cutting Graphic45 “Hallowe’en in Wonderland” 8×8 paper pack down to fit inside the covers (for a ‘real’ book look paper is 3/16″ smaller than covers.) My covers are 5 1/2″ wide, 7″ tall.

    I used a neutral basic cardstock in between each sheet of Graphic45 printed cardstock. On those basic pages I made pockets to hold tags, embellishments, photos, journaling, etc. (I cut a piece of cardstock and glued it down to the page on two sides and the bottom.)

    Once all that was ready I bound it using my Bind-It-All machine and 3/4″ O-wire.

    Wonderland Book Wonderland Book Wonderland Book Wonderland Book

  • Ocean Waves Necklace

    Oceanwavesnecklace

    Click to see a larger size.

    I created this necklace for Becky a couple of years ago. It took about 6 months to figure out how to make it. I did plan this to be a multi layered necklace with rows of waves but Becky only wanted a single row with a frontal section. Ocean Waves was also the color theme. The bluish beads are 3 cuts-transparent-aqua lined with brown; this is the water. The bugle beads are the wave tops with foam; the beads are white with a satin finish. The beading pattern is my own worked out over a 6 month period in which I made many samples till I got it right. If I ever do offer patterns to sell I hope to be able to design things in a much shorter time. This necklace is an intermediate to advanced pattern. I need to learn how to make graphic directions. There are a few good sites to sell beadwork patterns but I plan to sell them on my own site eventually.

    Beadwork is like drawing, playing the piano etc, things I want to do but I am mostly on my computer all day long. 🙁

  • Testing Word 2010

    This is a post testing to see if Word 2010 works with WP to post correctly.

    Does this picture go to the correct space?

    It did, but then I had to resize it and reinsert it here to work right. Word 2010 doesn’t provide “sizing” like uploading photos to server from the WP Admin section does. But it does provide a lot more options for formatting and picture frames and looks and such, than Windows Live Writer does, and I don’t know how it compares to Word 2007.

    Getting Office 2010 Home& Student (for non-commercial use) lets you put it on 3 computers, and is $119 at Costco stores, $124.99 shipped from Costco.com. Word/Excel/PowerPoint/OneNote

    From how it looks and feels on either my Win XP machine or my Windows 7 laptop, it’s fast and slick and more intuitive feeling than the previous version (which I didn’t use on my machines, but Frank had on his for awhile and I didn’t like it at all.)

  • The Willpower Parodox: Scientific American Mind August 2010 edition

    I just got done reading this magazine today and I found this article on willpower and motivation to be very interesting.  I thought all of you would gain some useful information from it as well. It is only 2 pages. By clicking on the picture it will open it to full sized view in a new window. You many want to print it if you have a hard time reading it in a browser.

    willpower01  willpower02

  • Nook

    I got a Nook (Barnes & Noble eReader) for my birthday. It’s very nice. There are other eReaders out there, this one is open to ePub & PDF from anywhere (plus other formats, & music) and works nicely with Barnes & Noble online store.

    If any of you have a Nook, there is a feature where Nook users can “lend” books to other Nook users. Not just any book, but selected ones, yes. So if any of you do have a Nook, let me know!

    Update [07/22/2010 9:39am]: check out my blog post with the pictures in it.

  • Happy Birthday Marysue!

    I hope your birthday is a good one.  Sorry I didnt get any cards out to anyone, and I was late wishing Debbie happy birthday on email, so count yourself lucky, Happy Birthday!

  • Shoutbox help

    Marysue and Sharon,

     

    Thank you for the Belated Birthday messages but I never received them in my email, I just noticed them in the shoutbox list today. Is there something wrong with my email setting? I am using Outlook 2007.