Category: Meanings and Memories
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What is it about “The Holidays“??
Well, I must admit. I’ve been stumped again, and scratching my head thinking, “What is it about the holidays??” After a recent conflict with my younger sister, which has left me in an “untethered” mode, I had to contribute it to”The Holidays”. This is when all the issues of childhood come out–conflicts over jealousy, feeling […]
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Mother’s Day 2017
We mothers can be a funny sort. We have children, or adopt them, raise them into adults, and hope and pray that they are fed, happy and sheltered. We don’t ask for much, just for those Basic 3 as I call them, and go on about our business, in our own worlds, knowing all is […]
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Anyone Ever See Dotted Swiss?
So many years ago, when I was starting out in my sewing lessons in middle school, there was a fellow classmate whom I admired from a distance. You know how young girls could be–seeing someone and wish we could be like them. Maybe have their hair, their clothes, their eyes, or something that we just […]
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The Journey of a Hippie Chic Laptop Tote
There was a movie (and two books) a while ago called The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. A delightful tale of four women and a pair of jeans. Each woman had a story to tell about her adventures with the jeans, and each came away with a greater experience. Well, so it was with my […]
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Life Comes Back in Memories
Working with vintage textiles is such an adventure for me. Many times I come across a piece of vintage embroidery and I remember the year which it was created because it was similar to a piece I stitched way back when. It brings back for me the time spent calming down from a very stressful […]
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Goodbye Sweet Hippie Chic Laptop Tote
One of the things I love the most about my online shop, Aunt Mayme’s Attic, is the opportunity to stretch my creativity. Sometimes I get hurried, realizing that my shop is a little empty, and I get busy to make a bunch of things. I tell myself that I “need to get XXX amount of […]
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This Past Week in Retrospect
I’m intensely horrified and deeply saddened with the events over this last week. As an American, I’m ashamed as to how my country is no longer the strong country it was. What was, in my childhood, a proud place to live has now become a battleground over racism and violence. Growing up in California, of […]
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One of the Things I Truly Love About my “Job”
Throughout my travels and connections with people, I come across some real gems. “Gems” meaning people who are kind and enthusiastic about what I do. The relationships I’ve established with them are wonderful and rewarding in such a way that I never experienced before, and I’m so very grateful for them. Just the other day, […]
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Today, Memorial Day, will have a new member
Today is a sad day. Not only for it being Memorial Day, when we remember our dead. But also a friend died today. He was a good friend of Husband’s and he and Husband shared that relationship for longer than we have been married; over 20 years. We all come to the end of our […]
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Hush Little Baby
“Hush, little baby, don’t say a word. Mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird And if that mockingbird won’t sing, Mama’s gonna buy you a diamond ring And if that diamond ring turns brass, Mama’s gonna buy you a looking glass And if that looking glass gets broke, Mama’s gonna buy you a billy goat And […]
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Winken, Blinken and Nod One Day….
Set out in a cardboard box. Went through the mail all along the way, To someone I hope who loves them alot. I was sad to see them go, Off on their little trek. But the delight in the receiver’s face aglow Would be enough for me to say, “What the heck?” Yes, I sold it. […]
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