“The world if so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings !” Robert Louis Stevenson journal entry: I love to make “Sunday Aprons”. I love mixing and matching the fabrics. I love finding just the right trim, or lace, or flower. …
“The years teach much which the days never knew.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson- journal entry: Here is another “Sunday Apron” for another unique personality. It is very feminine. The fabric will shine, shimmer and rustle as she moves. I made pleats at the top and scallops at the bottom. I gathered …
“It’s not what you look at that matters . . . it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau journal entry: Everywhere I look there is a picture. A picture of a child picking up a bug. A child hugging his mommy. A child with a dirty face. I am learning …
“If your picture’s not good enough . . . you’re not close enough.” -Ansel Adams- journal entry: On Easter Sunday little Afton couldn’t believe her good fortune. Instead of taking away all of the things she found around the floor . . . everyone was eating the things they found …
“Think left and think right, think low and think high, Oh, the things you can think of if only you try.” Dr. Suess journal entry: Well, Dr. Suess. I have searched high and low for unique labels to sew into my projects. I have found nice labels . . . …
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Goethe- journal entry: I am a failed journal keeper. I love other people’s journals. Perhaps other people would like my journal . . . if I had one. I love to buy journals. I love to make journals. I love to …
“It was the best of times . . . it was the worst of times.” -Charles Dickens- journal entry: It’s true. Things can be wonderful and awful at the same time. I love this photograph and wanted to try it as a cover for a journal. I think it is …
“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother !” -Italian proverb- journal entry: Everything is going well . . . for me. I am very grateful for that. I don’t know about everyone else. actually . . . I do know about some people and wish all would be well …
“It’s more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “what about lunch?” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: A person doesn’t have to look very far to find “happy things”. When I spotted this scrapbook paper, I knew instantly what it was meant …
I once knew all the birds that came and nested in our orchard trees, For every flower I had a name . . . my friends were woodchucks, toads and bees; I knew what thrived in yonder glen, what plants would soothe a stone-bruised toe, Oh, I was very learned …
