Feb 29, 2012

Farmgirl Sisterhood

I am now a member of MaryJanes Farmgirl Sisterhood 


Member # 3883
I chose this for my farmgirl picture
it is from a Simplicity Pattern 
It must be out of print, but I found it on Ebay so guess I'll make it.
Isn't it cute?  I love to garden, to cook and love aprons just like my grandmama.



Farmgirl Sisterhood
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Farmgirl in wide-brimmed black hat and with a red necktie - Join Us
Where did this Sisterhood originate?

MaryJane Butters
MaryJanes Farm

Check out the website for more information


This is a wonderful video to watch about MaryJanesFarm



Where did I first hear that name?  It was at our local Belk Store. My daughters and I love her merchandise. The towels, the comforters, the pillows everything is so soft to the touch.  Organic cotton I love the look and feel of it and that is what she uses. 


Belk - MaryJane's
MaryJane's Home Chenille Bedspread Collection




This is my Henrietta Patch.
 I am thinking now of how to embroider and what I am going to put it on


Maybe Chuck will let me place this on his truck?

My certificate


Wonderful Blogs from Farmgirl Sisterhood
I am excited because my blogs are a part of this too!
painting of a woman holding a chick
GirlGab.com
brought to you by MaryJanesFarm


This really is fun kinda like girl scouts for women!
I am so new to this still learning.

This Friday I will be having one of my dear Farmgirl Sisters
in Hibiscus House Spotlight
She is a very talented writer and such a genuinely nice person.
She is a beautiful person inside and out.

Until then have a wonderful day......


Dolly






Feb 26, 2012

Our Trip Up Walton's Mountain



A few years back we took a trip up the mountain to see Earl Hamner's Home and
The Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, Virginia.

Feb 14, 2012

Valentine's Day



My Valentine









Past, Present and Future













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I have always been romantic .....




Feb 11, 2012

Retro: Paris 1976



Please step back in time with me to 1976.

Retro: The Claridge, Paris France 1976

The Claridge
Paris France
1976

I had the privilege of meeting this very nice door man. When I stayed in this wonderful
one of a kind hotel

Hit the photo for story and photos of my stay in Paris





PARIS (AP)—Doorkeeper Victor Mary, who has shaken the hands of princes, maharajas and movie queens in his 39 years at the entrance to the Claridge Hotel, will escort his last guest into a taxi on the Champs Elysees on New Year’s Eve.
     The Claridge, one of the French capital’s few remaining old-time luxury hotels, is closing its doors to make room for a shopping center.
     The disappearance of the prestigious 215 room Claridge will leave the Champs Elysees without a single hotel, but with at least eight shopping centers, specializing in expensive ready to wear clothing, gadgets and souvenirs.
     “The Champs Elysees is not what it used to be,” sighed Victor, 66, as workmen carried the hotel’s rented television sets out into a van “It’s become vulgar.  There is no elegance left. It’s no longer the right street for a hotel like this.  Just look around at what they are selling in the shops, No quality.”
     The old fashioned elegance of the Claridge and a few remaining hotels like it has been overtaken by events.  Big hotels with up to 1,000 rooms have sprung up on the fringes of the city since World War II.  They belong to airlines and conglomerate corporations and make ends meet by catering to large groups and treating their clients like items of merchandise, Victor said.  “The human touch has gone.”
     The Claridge—not linked with the equally elegant Claridge’s in London—was built at the beginning of the century and became a focal point of the city’s social life in the gay ‘20’s.
     It was one of the world’s first hotels to feature an indoor swimming pool, and one of the first in Europe to offer an American invention known as the cocktail.
     Victor Mary started as a bellboy nearly half a century ago and has never worked anywhere else.
     “The ‘20s, that was the really great time, “ He recalled.  “We were filled with the famous and the wealthy all the year round.  The afternoon tea dance was where everyone who was anyone in Paris wanted to be seen.  And at night we had dancing and gaiety until the small hours with everyone dressed in elegant evening clothes.  Those were the days.”
     In the depression years of the 1930’s the Claridge came on hard times, largely because the company operating the hotel did not own the building.  The old monumental entrance was converted to shops and restaurants, and guests entered the hotel through what used to be the servants entrance next door.






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