Posted By drsao on February 16, 2011
I am heading to Quilt Camp bright and early Thursday morning…..the car is packed, Nellie (my Ford Escape) is full of gas…..and I have visions of ocean waves and sewing machines dancing in my head! Good food, giggles with friends and that wonderful ocean air for five days……..I had to pull up some of my pictures from last year so that I could anticipate the beauty …..isn’t Corolla, North Carolina pretty?
Here is one of the things I will be working on……SUMMER JEWELS from Augusta Cole’s Cutting Bee……it is out of my comfort zone – BRIGHTS – we will see how it turns out! And this year I am only taking one sewing machine – if I have a MACHINE BREAKDOWN, no problem, I have my sock knitting packed. I just might get those socks knitted afterall. (One of my socks is now 5 1/2″ along and hasn’t been torn out! YEAH!) I will post when I get back…..
Have a HAPPY PRESIDENT’S DAY EVERYONE! I will too!
Summer Jewels
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Posted By drsao on February 11, 2011
It was a BEAUTIFUL DAY and we enjoyed our field trip to Agecroft Hall today. I have HURRIEDLY attached some of the highlights!
I wish that we could have taken pictures inside – the furnishings inside the house were amazing. It was so much fun to learn about the culture and social history of the times. The children just couldn’t understand how that people could SURVIVE without cellphones, television, i-pods, computers, and Wiis! Hey, I don’t see how they survived without BATHROOMS!!!!!
I wish the gift shop would have been open – I would have purchased some pictures of the inside of the house!
IT WAS A LOVELY MEMORY!
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Posted By drsao on February 8, 2011
On Friday I get to go on a field trip to AGECROFT HALL with my 5th grader grandangel, Sarah. I have never been and I am REALLY looking forward to it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE all homes with interesting social history! I LOVE being with my grandangel too…..so Friday is looking like a PERFECT DAY!!!!
 
n the rolling banks of the James River stands a remarkable Tudor estate. And by Tudor, we’re not simply referring to an architectural style. This manor house was actually built in Lancashire, England in the late 15th Century.
For hundreds of years, Agecroft Hall was the distinguished home of England’s Langley and Dauntesey families. At the end of the 19th century, however, Agecroft fell into disrepair, and in 1925 it was sold at auction.
Hearing of this tremendous opportunity, Richmonder Thomas C. Williams, Jr. purchased the structure, and had it dismantled, crated, and shipped across the Atlantic, and then painstakingly reassembled in a Richmond neighborhood known as Windsor Farms.
Today, Agecroft Hall stands beautifully re-created, in a setting reminiscent of its original site on Lancashire’s Irwell River.
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From Elizabethan England, to the banks of the James. Built in England about 500 years ago, Agecroft Hall now overlooks Virginia’s James River.
A landmark of history, framed in beauty. Agecroft’s Elizabethan knot garden.
England’s past. Crated, shipped, and carefully reassembled in Richmond, Virginia.
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Posted By drsao on February 6, 2011
Oh Boy Oh Boy – can’t wait. I look forward to this (wonderful display of commercials) Super Bowl Football Game (ON MY LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS!) every year. The whole family will be gathered around the screen to watch! I used to live in Milwaukee so I am a GBP fan – and my DD Christi was born in West Allis, Wisconsin….so there is NO DOUBT who we will be pulling for!
Get your healthy snacks ready everyone.
Peoria Journal Star
The biggest day in football has arrived, and Green Bay Packers fans are ready for the hometown team to capture its 13th world championship.
GO GREEN BAY!!!!
And……just in case ……
If you aren’t into (commercials) football, you can join in the SUPER BOWL MYSTERY QUILT PARTY hosted by Planet Patchwork! (Yes, of course, I signed up – who doesn’t LOVE a mystery!)
http://planetpatchwork.com/squarecentermystery/onedayentries.htm
HM….I wonder how many things I can do at once! :):)
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