Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real this week and I can’t believe it’s nearly Thanksgiving. For various reasons only my family will be here. I just found out today that Belinda and Stefan are coming up. We’ll be having chicken instead of turkey because there isn’t enough time to thaw one of my big turkeys. That’s OK, we’re not obsessive over food, it’s the company we like on holidays. Ella will be very happy (it’s a surprise) because she was sad that we weren’t going to Grandpa and Grandma Lorraine’s.
So I got brave on Monday and went to the fabric sale at the farm of one of Colin’s Mennonite friends. I’m so shy when it comes to doing something like that. You should have seen the looks I got when I walked in the machine shop door! I swear everyone stopped shopping to have a look. I was getting a rather cold reception until an older lady came over and asked if she knew me. I told her I was Colin Fletcher’s wife Paula and we had a little chat. After that everything was OK. Most of the fabric the ladies brought up was polyester (that’s mostly what they use for their dresses) whereas I like cotton. But the prices were good and the prints were pretty, so I picked out a couple of pieces. And I found a cute cotton one for Ella.
The middle one is more of a light purple than grey. The top one is obviously the one for Ella. The bottom one is about the colour of my favourite dress from the summer and is a little more ‘seafoam green’ in person. New fabric makes me Happy.
And here’s my Funny girl. First she’s wearing ear muffs on one of the most beautiful days we’ve had all of October. But I’m sharing the picture for another reason. Do you see how she’s holding the phone and talking to Grandma? She’s got the phone under her ear muff so she doesn’t have to hold it. What a funny girl!
glad it worked out for the fabric! Ella is after my own heart. I have two head phones for my phones and the one for my cell has stopped working and it drives me nuts. I want only hands free phone calls so I can do other things!!
Spoken like a true multi-tasker elizabethroosje ! lol I had no idea that fabric was bought up for the Mennonites. Us ‘English’ people have so little knowledge of the Mennonites or the Amish. I have been reading some Mennonite Christian fiction and plan to read some Amish of the same genre. The authors are often living among these people or have a background of the people they write about so there is lots to learn from these books. Our church book club discusses them. Some of our church ladies have been to the communities in Pennsylvania, Ktichener, etc. and have come to know some of the families that live there. I have also read the biography of a Mennonite couple from Germany that lived in the Ukraine for a while. I admire these people for their tenacity to keep separate from the world. … as Christians we are to be in the world but not of it. How well they follow this!
Nice of you to break the ice and get some lovely fabric. Won’t be so hard the next time either. You have to remember you are the outsider, but doesn’t mean your not welcomed. I’m not doing turkey either despite the great turkey sales this week. My time is the issue, and cooking a turkey does not fit in ( actually the trimming of it takes so long). we have a roofing job this weekend and really hoping for some dry weather, and no ( called for) snow. Its our Fair weekend here as well, but this year with all the stuff I have had to deal with, with my mom, I want to just stay home.
I was looking forward to doing a turkey since it’s our first year growing them. Oh well, there is always Christmas.
Oh yes, the ladies are always nice once I tell them who I’m married to, it just doesn’t help my shyness to have everyone staring. At least they were all speaking English while I was there.