I was dying to use this apron, so I paper pieced it along with my little cutie pies yesterday and vowed to make a card right away. What surprise I have when I realised I could have as many rolling pins* I wanted by printing and printing and printing...get the idea, this is digi!!! LOL
*I'd used my only little charm one on this card. Is this what they mean by "you recieve so much by giving". Maybe...
Used this week's sketch, had so much fun with it, along with Crafty Creations challenge and the Twisted sistah challenge; paper piecing.
Thanks for looking and enjoy the day, and if you feel like recieving...I mean giving you can always stop by Jak's blog anytime!
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 GMT Views: 423
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Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Tue, Apr 19, 2011 @ 4:21 AM
Oohhh Peggy!! This is just darling!! What a fun paper pieced apron!! Why, I do believe I've got some of that cool paper! My printer will not pirnt up paper -need a new one , one day -but I did send an Easter Card to Katie! Oh - love the rolling pins too!!! Darling , Peggy, my carrot/ chou!
Registered: May 14, 2008 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 1318
Wed, Apr 20, 2011 @ 5:01 AM
Your card is so cute! It reminded me of one of my old-time favorite poems I'd like to share:
Grandma's Apron
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears�
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.
After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men-folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I never caught anything from an apron�But Love. (Author Unknown)
NOTE: This poem Grandma's Apron is often listed as "Author Unknown" but the original version was written by Tina Trivett
I have wonderful memories of my Great-Grandma in her ever-presen apron. Thanks for triggering those memories for me with your beautiful card! Thanks for sharing your creativity.