Kathy, I hope you don't think I was making judgment on those who don't like kits. To each their own is how I feel. When I read that others don't it doesn't bother me that I do. I think, good, leave those kits for me! LOL
I used to think I have a problem following directions but the more I do, the more I learn and the better I get at it. I was wrong about myself! I can learn this way as well as learning visually, see I've learned something about myself early on so kits and books are a great learning tool, for me. Yes, this is about me, me, me.
I don't have techniques down pat yet and cannot put together an idea the way that you do. Oh, I have plenty of ideas, just don't know enough about off-loom weaving yet. I truly am a beginner where this is concerned. I want to learn enough so that I don't have to think about the technique anymore and move on to the creative process. While I don't want to be you, I surely wouldn't mind having some of that natural talent. As far as I know, I don't have any and this has always been a way for me to learn. Baby steps and lots of them.
Thank you, Kathy. I haven't done RAW officially yet but you could very well be right! The pattern does emulate it. Oh you are good!
Laughing hysterically! As far as WE know, you DO. Silly Margie. :-P ~~ Sooz
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On Mon, 3 May 2004 15:27:26 -0400, Candace wrote (in message ):
For us, it's not "stuff," but experiences. We give each other our time, which has turned out to be the most precious thing of all. Bob has taken me to bead shows, sat in innumerable doctor's offices, and has twisted my arm to go see my grandparents when we really had to scrimp for the money. He's fought for me when was far too sick to fight for myself, and stood right behind me when I fought for the people and causes I believe in. (Even if he doesn't agree - they're important to me, and that's enough) Most of all, he lives day to day with a wife who needs far more help than either of us ever bargained for, and he knows that our retiring together into the sunset is rather unlikely. When I'm in pain, I think he suffers more than I do.
In turn, I have gone to endless car *parts* swap meets (which are horrible, just greasy metal things on old bedspreads), sanded Bondo and drywall, learned to appreciate Italian food three times a week, drove far more places than I ever dreamed (I prefer to fly), and wrote down every story his family members ever told. I don't complain about his terrible budgeting or his disconcerting habit of going through cars like kleenex I daub him with calamine lotion every year when he gets poison ivy from head to toe, even though I have tried to teach him to identify the plant for over twenty years. He is allowed to "be comfortable" indoors, and I rarely complain, even when he's had beans. His friends are my friends, and I care about them simply because he does.
Almost none of these things cost money, and they've turned out to be our treasures. Most of his family members are gone now, but I have their stories and all their recipes, and we've taught both to our daughter so the next generation appreciates where she's come from, and knows about their lives. We've held hands during the horrible times (like when they told us DD would likely end up blind and brain damaged), and wept for joy together during the happy ones (When we found out she'd be all right). We've been so broke that we ate rice and ramen for months on end, and had times that we felt positively rich because we could afford a meal at Burger King *and* pay the electric bill. We're delighted that we have our "grown up in the blink of an eye" miracle, and maybe we'll even be blessed enough to have grandchildren to spoil.
We'll never be wealthy or famous, but we're happy. I think that's probably a lot better than wealth or fame, because it's *ours,* and no one can ever take it away from us. As a matter of fact, the more happiness and love we give away, the more we get for ourselves.
Don't worry about the material things - stuff is transient. The things that really matter are the things that you can't buy.
Eggsacktly. That's why I sat through two days of horrid horse racing at the Kentucky Derby for the love of my man!
It was amazing, and horrid. I will never forget it. DH said "Yeah, they always talk about things like the Derby as if they're once in a lifetime events, and I really think they shouldn't be."
To which I replied..."It was for me, dear. Glad you loved it!"
ROFL...in the pouring rain and lightening, I sat there in my tennies and linen pantsuit, watching the women in their 4" stiletto mules skid across the grandstands!...BAWHAWHAW.
I kept all your advice and musings about my 'dilemna' in my head the whole time. Thanks!
The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)
On Mon, 3 May 2004 17:02:34 -0400, Dr. Sooz wrote (in message ):
Oh please. Your work is beautiful, and anyone who says otherwise is blind. Besides, does it really matter if you needed instructions to learn a new technique or if came to you in a dream? You made a gift you can be very proud to give, and now have the knowledge to make lots more things using your new skill.
I think that if natural talent exists, it's very rare. Some people may learn more quickly than others, but I can't say I've ever met anyone who came out of the womb with all the skills they needed to get through life. All of the rest of us have to slog along, make mistakes and learn step by step.
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (LC aka Fiddy) :
]ROFL...in the pouring rain and lightening, I sat there in my tennies and linen ]pantsuit, watching the women in their 4" stiletto mules skid across the ]grandstands!
i thought about you all day, especially when it started storming. glad you made it through okay!
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Thanks, that's very sweet of you! I proudly sat with my handbag full of novels and read and read. Even when the folks on both sides of us got smashed and were smoking big stogies. On the way home, I kicked Evander Holyfield out of my airplane seat (he had "c", I was in "a" but he was sitting in MY seat!!) he was very nice about it!
Oh, and we flew into kentucky with Lynn Redgrave, and saw Anna Nichole Smith as she departed from our hotel on the "Trim Spa" bus. Boy, talk about a *snort* time! LOL
I survived.
The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)
I'm in absolute agreement with Kathy's first statement. I would rather have a life of experiences than a life of acquisitions. I've had the acquisitions and they are nice to have and have had, but most of them I don't have anymore. I do have the experiences of visiting 137 countries, 39 of them with my mom. She used to tell me what a gift it was to her that her children did things like that. Another woman for whom experiences were more important than acquisitions...and she and my dad could afford just about anything they wanted. My dad was one of those men who was of the "but she's not my mother" thinking...until we got old enough to convince him that being the mother of his lovely and loving children was worth acknowledging.
My husband didn't know what he was getting into either when we first met...over the phone. He met a woman who had been hit by a car, broke virtually every bone in the left side of her body, gained 100 pounds because she couldn't walk, never mind exercise, and whose clinical depression had worsened to the point where "waking up" was the only activity on my to-do list. A year after we met, my mother died, and the depression worsened; 11 months later my dad died, and I was practically comatose. Although he lives
900 miles away, he was here when he knew I needed him most, and arranged for help when he couldn't be. I have a nice sized savings account, but he won't use a penny of it. He was an attorney, working in private practice for the physically disabled and developmentally disabled and often didn't get paid. Now he's getting his Ph.D and works only 20 hours a week. I have never received a tangible gift from him, nor a store-bought card, and we've been on vacation once because I insisted on it.
But the gifts that I have received from him far outweigh anything he ever could have bought.
Even when I kid him that he gave his ex EVERYthing, the house, the truck, the MicroSoft stock and that's why he's never bought me anything, he always tells me "It mattered to her. It doesn't matter to you." And he's right. From what I know of him from his former colleagues and friends, she was amazingly disappointed that he wasn't a high-powered, wealthy attorney that she could "show off".
For those of you who are mothers, like mothers, godmothers and grandmothers...Happy Mother's Day. Thank you for doing the world's most important job.
Exactly (great post snipped for brevity). That's why I was not-getting-it when it came to not getting anything for Mother's Day (birthday, fillin the blanks whatever). Things you give aren't always material. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (LC aka Fiddy) :
]Thanks, that's very sweet of you! I proudly sat with my handbag full of novels ]and read and read.
so . . . . which ones did you take WITH you???????
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Well, the ones you recommended (about the boy in the era of Dr. King) came as I was about to pack, and my MOM claimed them to read first...(dang!)
I ended up with Good Harbor by Anita Diamant (I love her "Red Tent"), and it was a great, easy, "womanly" read...
and Fortune's Rocks by Shreve, about which Amazon sez: Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father's New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of Fortune's Rocks is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She's especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse, and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair.
So far, it's a good romp!...I'm a fast, careless reader, usually, and it's good to be reading books that are so well written that I savor each line.
Also, I read the Vanity Fair cover to cover. Agree with the politics or not, it's well written!
Thanks, I am glad I now can settle down with the other books (since MOM'S done with em!!!)
The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (LC aka Fiddy) :
]Thanks, I am glad I now can settle down with the other books (since MOM'S done ]with em!!!)
i love it when that happens.
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