Projects to be featured in crafting article

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Wow, what a difference 90 minutes made! Fortunately there are some great folk programs on Saturday night radio. Riders in the Sky! Love 'em! (And there were the cowboy boot Xmas stockings from last year.)

Now I have to finish loading up the shelving, arrange the boxes some, and pound some nails. Have some really cool sewing-related wall decor (including the wrought iron spool thing).

--Karen D.

Here 'tis.

--Karen D.

Nice article,I think she captured some of what we know about you. OF course we will never really know You, will we Karen. That's what makes the group fun. You think you know someone but never really will so you build your own image of a person and then wonder how close you came. Sort of like building and image of a person you hear on radio but have never seen. Juno

Very nice! The article, and both the pictures of you, and I couldn't find a glass eye. You are truly a multi-faceted lady.

Hah! I am all over my own contra calling website (moving pics and audio). Astute searchers could unearth a local radio interview about Tuba Christmas.

So I want to know if any of y'all would a) make a special "tool belt" type of apron, in a cheerful holiday print, and b) wear it in public, without tools nor cooking accessories ??

Jennifer is a loveable nutjob. I explained to her some of the ancient history she missed (garter belts, and the "other" kind). Maybe someday there will be a pre-feminist re-enactment event, and aging boomers will have a fine fun time revisiting all the horrors of their early years.

(The digital pic on the paper's website looks odd in terms of my [own] left eye. Blink!)

Sure wish I'd Mardi Gras'ed up the shelving...next time!

--Karen D.

Nope. The only time I wear aprons are A) When boxloading for my flyball club (to hold tennis balls) B) When working on something messy

And even when boxloading I tend to be fairly paranoid about having balls drop out of my pockets when I lean over to load the box. I have long fingers and I can hold four large balls and two smalls without much of a problem. And if we wind up needing more balls than that we're obviously pretty much borked so having to turn around and grab more from the bucket is the least of our problems.

I wear an apron, The only one I own when eating pasta and red sauce or if I'm cooking something messy and have my newest top on. I always tend to mess up something brand new. Actually it's a pretty neat looking one. It's from New Orleans, has a picture of an alligator on it and a recipe for alligator piquant. I occasionally will put it on when I expect guests for dinner and tell them to read the recipe carefully because that's what we're having for dinner. Juno

Would you wear it out in public ???

The newspaper gal wears one atop her jogging clothes, to go running. And she wore it to the "Y."

--Karen D.

LOL!!!! I hear ya, Karen. I too love my aprons, at home, while doing something messy. (wished I had a longer one the other day. Dropped a cheese sauce covered whisk while making mac & cheese (from scratch) the apron saved everything from about the knee up, but the whisk bounced around on the floor flinging cheese everywhere!! - - the dog was happy to help clean up.) But my aprons are not an American Express Card, and I can leave home without an apron. Nor have I felt compelled to wear one over my clothes to just go about town. What a hoot!!!

The article was very nice though. Great that your talents were recognized and acknowledged like that. Very cool. :)

Sharon

Not lately, maybe when I was 4 but certainly not in the past 69 years. Used to drive my mother crazy. I can still hear her yelling, put on an apron when cooking. Yeah mom,maybe. I did have to wear them when I was a student nurse. always hated them then and still hate them now.We weren't allowed to wear them outside the on the street though. Juno

No apron here, either. I don't think I even have one, except for maybe one from Guatemala that is too pretty to get anything on it. Have thought about picking it apart to make pillow covers or something.

Now a bib would be handy. I have gotten really, really good at dribbling food down the front of me. *sigh* To think that I used to be noted for my table manners, too. I have a good excuse, though. There's a hole in my mouth.

I have one apron; it's one I received for Christmas some 13-14 years ago that 3 of the DGC painted for me. It is never worn, but when they come for a visit, I hang it on a hook in the kitchen like my DM and DGM did their aprons when I was young. Invariable one or all of them will go over and look at it, then make comments about it. Good conversation item. Emily