Evangeline, MLI style

Very descriptive lol

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But she does allude to Cajun (read Acadian) and most people find Evangeline and Acadian mean 'that' Evangeline.

I wish they would put something near the statue to draw a persons attention to that very clever aspect of the statue. It was deliberately done by the sculptor. You'll have to return to take another look, yes, good solution lol

Sorry Sharon, just my opinion. Everyone else here seems to feel free to voice theirs, figured I might let mine be known. I've posted before on the style of stitching I like to do. If you are genuinely interested, I'd be happy to discuss it again.

I don't think she meant you, but I can't find the post again waaah.

LOL well leave it to me to misinterpret everything.

Anyway, you can't copyright a title.

If I wanted to write "Gone with the Wind: Category 5 hurricane", there wouldn't be much the original copyright owner could do to me.

I totally agree!! This summer is ruled our, and maybe the following would be the NW coast and Alaska, but I would LOVE to come back to the Maritimes on our own, and spend a LOT of time there; all summer rewally.

Whoopee!! I just heard a "ping". I finished making a batch of apricot and red pepper chutney, and heard the first jar seal! Amazing to get only five small jars after all that chopping up!

Tomorrow........kumquat and rhubarb chutney. I have picked the kumquats from my little tree, and had to buy frozen rhubarb ( from Canada), since fresh isn't available. Not very popular here.

Gillian

My hat's off to you Gill, I used to watch my Momma can in the summer time. It's a pile of work!

Chris - I think you misinterpreted my post. I didn't mean that you were uppity - I meant MLI's statement that you quoted from her site was pretty uppity. So sorry about that. Sure - go ahead and tell me/us what you enjoy stitching - I don't keep records on who stitches what, so I was genuinely interested and genuinely asking. I like it when people voice their opinions instead of *steaming* (or whatever) in lurkdom - heaven only knows I voice my opinion enough. :-)

Sharon

I love doing it, but DH is a diabetic, so I don't give him jams etc. Now, with the advent of Splenda, and Brown Sugar Twin, I can make some of these things. The smellis soooooo good when the garlic, slivered ginger, fruits, spices, onions, fruit etc are all simmering away.

I used to can (bottle to the UK contingent) veggies but I gave that up a long time ago. I don't like them canned, either fresh, or good quality frozen. I used to make a lot of V-8 type juice, I think it had about six veggies in it, but got rid of the cookbook containing the recipe when we went full-timimg in the RV. I should love to get that again, because sometimes I can get overripe tomatoes very cheap at my local veggie stand.

Gillian

Nothing? She's got a whole wing and collar more than she had when she was here. So the progress is slow, that doesn't mean she won't get done.

Elizabeth

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Sounds delish. I love rhubarb. Rhubarb and ginger jam and Rhubarb Crumble with custard - all of which makes the rhubarb become fattening, sigh.

I call it baby poop. Up until 3 days ago, my kitchen was that color. Now it's a lovely pale purple. By accident actually. The purple paint was bought to be the trim in a dark purple room, but we ended up going with a pinkish white instead and had a gallon of paint left. Decided to throw it on the kitchen walls to hold us until we can afford to really do the kitchen right. It's lovely. Better than the other two rooms, which were planned.

Elizabeth

Something interesting for me is that I now know 2 people who have purple walls. My very dearest friend has a lightish purple on her bedroom walls with a slightly darker purple carpeting and a dark purple bathroom.

It isn't something I would ever have thought I would like, but it's really very pretty.

I can't wait to tell Pat that I know someone else with purple walls. She's probably going to laugh and say: "See, I told you it would look nice."

Lucille

Yep, leave it to me to misinterpret everything. Currently I am stitching Winter Row by Bent Creek. I'm doing the "Rows" for all seasons because we recently replaced the mantlepiece in our old house (well old for America- 100 years) and it now has double the space to decorate. After that I want to make some of the little motifs in Cardiology by the Trilogy into little pillows to hang on this peg rack/shelf thingie in my front hall. I'm also working on "darks" (things stitched on dark linen) for my back hall. So far I've only done Matter's Choice by Carriage House Samplings but I plan to start on Mary Pleasant Curry (by the same designer) really soon. My favorite designers are Bent Creek, The Trilogy, Heart In Hand, Carriage House Samplings, La D Da, Birds of a Feather (sniff!!), Homespun Samplar, Ewe & Eye & Friends, and Blackbird Designs. How about you?

Gill Murray wrote: I should love to get that

For my family canning was all about tomatoes. My Mom and Dad used to plant a big garden full of tomatoes every year- more than just the three of us could ever eat. Mom tried her hand at canning ketchup (catsup?), spaghetti sauce, soup base, and just about everything you could ever possibly make with a tomato. I have a lot of memories of her standing over a steamy hot stove in July or August canning huge batches of tomatoes and looking very much like a wilted lily. This is why I buy my ketchup at the grocery store and pretty much stay away from canning altogether. I love to recieve canned goods as gifts though, because I know a lot of love and hard work went into it.

I absolutely love the color purple and yet strangely enough I have no purple walls or decorations (furniture, paintings, etc). I wonder why that is?

Me too -- but I know why -- dh hates purple. He also hates green, and my second favorite is a soft sage green.

I have a friend whose daughter painted her kitched pale purple and a pale lime green, and it's gorgeous.

-- Jere

Beats me--it's a great color to live with. My bedroom is a lavender, my ceilings are a pale lavender, my powder room is a very deep eggplant, my main floor curtains are a dusky purple, and my couch is a deep purple. Oddly enough, my home doesn't seem very purple at all. Purple (certain shades, anyway) is actually a fairly good neutral. And I couldn't begin to list the articles of purple clothing I have ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka