~ More Outside Windows Looking In ~

It was requested that I display our stained glass panels found in a resale shop and bought many years ago for our anniversary. They were purchased to specifically hang in the spaces of our deck view. They reflect the stained glass panels in our home,which we made reflecting the hills of the town we live in when we moved to North County in the mid 70's.

~ Looking Through the Windows Into Summer ~

My blog friend Lylah, La Maison Et Le Jardin.com, was blogging about shutters and how we use them, and what character they add to the home.
Her's is a French influenced blog. I quickly clicked on the links to view the various blog answere and to view the pictures.

I was sitting out on my back deck porch enjoying the atmosphere I had created and realized that we have put up windows as art to be looked through out into the garden.

Here are a few pictures of my Summer porch looking out through the windows into Summer here at Beverly Cottage.

~Enjoy~

~NEW POST~

I was just thinking that I needed to gather up all my past posts, as I have done before, to keep them as a recorded journal that I have in my hand.
It occurred to me that this is just about what scrap booking is.

I have always looked at scrap booking as a record of the outings of the "Family".
And I enjoy doing this.

I am going to copy my posts and have the pictures printed that I have posted and put them into a scrapbook of "My Life". This will be a great thing for the grand kids in the future.

For them to be able to read what I have written and see how I think and know what my values are.
Sounds like fun~ What do you think?

I remember finding a 5 year diary of my Great Grandmother and being so excited to read her thoughts recorded in this precious journal. I was very disappointed when I opened it to find the daily record of," I did the work." Written repeatedly throughout the journal.
There was hardly a mention of her daughter and grand daughter, my mother!

I want to leave a legacy~

Quilts in the Garden

I had long wanted to hang my quilts in the garden to enjoy their beauty and love the patterns made of tiny cut up squares of carefully purchased fabrics.
One morning, after a conversation with Steve, we went out and rigged up a close line of sorts to display these lovelies. I wish that the garden always looked dressed in its splendor in the spring, but as summer turns her heated eyes upon the gardens of Beverly Cottage, the plants and grass loose their blush of color.
I am glad that I have these pictures to gaze at and remember this past spring and enjoy the beauty and creativity that God has blessed me with!
Enjoy!

La jolla Cove and A feeling of DeJa Vu

This Saturday I attended a wedding Shower for a dear friend's daughter, held in La Jolla along the Cove.

I was taken a back as I looked out upon the view of the Cove from my vantage point.
I couldn't help but feel as if I were looking back in time to the Fifties with the beach seen I was surveying. I felt as if I were looking upon a picture puzzle from the past,of a visit to the shore and how it made a summer day wonderful!

Beach umbrellas displaying their colored crowns, protecting those underneath sitting in the sand. The beach was bustling with the throng of sun bathers and swimmers desiring to plunge into the gentle surf slapping the shore. The swimmers were floating along the top of the water,too many to be counted, and it wasn't for a moment until I finally realized that these for the most part were snorkelers enjoying the underwater view.

The scent of the salt sea air mingled in the warmth of the sun baked day with a hint of seaweed in the breeze.
Everything called to me to come down the cement steps to join the holidaymakers.

I could envision a child building a sandcastle encrusted with tiny sea shells and a flag perched upon its turret.
It truly was a marvelous summer day at the cove and it made me reminisce on days gone by when to sit upon the shore and play was a delight

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Let me know which doll is YOUR favorite!

Patriotic Tassel Doll

This doll has the same feel as The Columbian doll.
It is made to symbolize Love of our country with the feel of early Americana, much like the Wooden Indians that stood in front of the Tobacco Stores.

The Golly Doll

Another pattern by doll maker, Karen Cunagin, Golly was a prominent character of Children's stories in England. One of his friends was a peg doll. One that I hope someday to make.

The Queen Ann Doll

This doll is another favorite of mine.
I didn't say, but both this doll and the Columbian Doll, made of cloth, have been jessoed and painted to provide a firm foundation.
I especially enjoded picking out the fabric to adorn her, her hair and her face.

The Godey Lady

The Godey Lady doll was a pass around doll.She was inspired by the Godey's Lady's Book, a publication beginning in 1840. It was a prominent monthly subscription for ladies of the day, to educate the total woman and help provide her with solutions to the challenges of everyday life. Each issue $3.00 or $27.50 for a year's subscription, included works of fiction, the latest fashion. recipes for cleaning and cooking, educational activities foe children, and the exchange of ideas among their readership. Articles attempted to keep women appraised of technical developments, such as the sewing machine, the latest medical information, home remedies and advice.
Each month each member received a different member's doll to add a piece of clothing, or orniment or accessory that fit with the dolls theme. At the end of the year we received our dolls complete.

Some Kinda China Doll

This doll pattern was created by a friend, Karen Cunigan.
Her body is embroidered with the "Unmentionables".
I like her lovely face. She is made of damask fabric to give the feel of porcelain.

Bride Doll

This doll was imaged after my daughter and made from remnants of her wedding dress train.
The wedding dress is a replica of the dress that she wore on her wedding day.
My grandaughter is especially fond of this doll.

Little Red Riding Hood

She speaks for herself.

Miss Columbia

Miss Columbia is one of the most challenging and my all time favorite doll.
One of our dear doll friends, and Doll Artist, Conni Tognoli, was asked to re-create the famous Columbian doll created at 1900 by Emma Adams.
This famed doll circumvented the globe to raise funds for Childrens Chairities in the years 1900-1902. Her first visit was to San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado. A trunk and journal accompanied her in her travels.
The original Miss Columbia is on display at the Wenham Museum, Wenham, Massachusetts.

Roberta Rose

Doll Club member and doll artist, Pat Saunders designed this doll and it was features in Cloth Doll Magazine shortly after our club was formed. She chose one of our members name for the doll.

Black Folk Dolls

Well known Southern Californian doll and Bear artist, Flore Emory taught us in a workshop her way of creating the black cloth folk doll.

This doll "Emma"was inspired by a friend who wore her hair in plaits and used different color rubber bands to tie them. It was very colorful!

Rag Doll Construction Company

In 1999 I joined as newly formed doll club, Rag Doll Construction Company, a group of women who create dolls from cloth.
I joined not because I wanted to make dolls, but I had a fascination in black folk dolls and this group knew a woman who is a known bear and black folk doll maker. I didn't want to pass up this chance, so I plunged in!

We are a sisterhood of girlfriends who share the joy of creating cloth dolls.
We meet monthly working on projects set up at the beginning of the year and have a yearly doll challenge.We collaborate with each other and take classes and field trips and enjoy each others company. Sadly through these years we have lost two members to cancer.They are still near and dear to our hearts, and greatly missed.

I m going to share some of the dolls I have made over these years.
I hope that you will enjoy the tours.