Hi everyone…
I showed the picture of me and Cindy and Bob yesterday, but today you can see our picture at Easter with Deb included!
We don’t know Deb’s eye looks like it does, but she always laughs and says it looks like somebody poked her in the eye…
When I looked back at Bob’s eye yesterday, it looks like Bob had someone poke his eye too…strange…
Well, I’m busy…
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, I forgot to check the blog last night before I went to bed, so that’s why I hadn’t commented yet!
OF COURSE the purple dress was my favorite! I loved everything about it, and I particularly loved the shoes and purse!
But….Janie’s dress is really one of my favorites, too, even though it’s not purple, and I do love the silk ribbon embroidery on the collar of Bitty Bethany’s dress.
Fun to see you and your siblings as children, Jeanne! I think Dorothy has a good idea, for you to make a dress and hat, similar to what you had on in yesterday’s picture, for one of your dolls. I, too, can see it on a Little Darling. Hint hint!!
Dear Charlotte, thanks for liking my idea. I think it would be fun to have a doll dressed like a “little” Jeanne, our fearless leader. It would also be fun to see what spin Jeanne would put on the dress. Maybe she can think about it at the end of Summer when things slow down.
Charlotte Noelle, your namesake, is waiting for the Easter Bunny. She has her basket on the counter in the kitchen in case the EB doesn’t have enough baskets in his sack. She thinks that the EB borrows Santa’s sack for his “deliveries.” Honestly, that girl (smile).
Oh, so there she is! What a cute lineup of children, and I must say, you girls sure do have the hair! I always had hair more on the thinner, silky side that you could never do anything with, except curl it and then watch it flop as the day went on!
Did your mother make your dresses? I notice that you and Cindy have identical dresses on, but different material. And those gloves!! When did they go out of style, because I wore them too. I still have gloves that I wore as an adult! What I mean is dress up gloves, not the kind to keep you warm, which I have plenty of now!
What a cute little boy your brother was! I bet he was spoiled with all those darling sisters! And Deb looks so sweet in her little navy dress! That would be a cute one for you to make for a little girl doll.
Maybe some of us can find pictures of ourselves at Easter as children. That would be fun to show!
I thought of the picture sharing idea too. When my mother passed away in 2007 my sisters told me to go through the family photos and take what I wanted. I really thought the pictures had burned up in a fire in the storage room of an apartment my mother lived in before she bought her house. Thankfully they hadn’t so I do have a few to choose from. Unfortunately my baby sister (born 11 1/2 years after me) is not in any of them. I think maybe my sister kept the ones she was in.
Dear Jeanne, thanks for sharing your sibling photo. You all look so cute!
I’m seeing Jeanne’s mom in the family photo yesterday and the one today and her dad as well. Genetics are so fun.
I like the idea of sending Jeanne some vintage Easter photos. Would be fun to see for sure.
It looks like I may have a delivery today from France. One that I have been awaiting for some time as it appeared to have been lost. Hoping that other person is occupied and that I can sneak in the package which is shaped exactly like a doll box. 🙂
I often think of the personal things one can order that come in a “plain brown wrapper”. Unfortunately even shipping a doll box in a plain brown wrapper would not disguise the idea that it’s a doll box. Even my small dolls are recognized by hubby as a doll box and he’s quick to point out it must be a really small doll but he’s sure that’s what it is.
Those boxes are engraved on the brain of other person too. He can spot one the minute the mail carrier gets out of the truck carrying one. Darn.
Precious photo Jeanne. Boy, those were the days.
Your dresses are so sweet. Your brother looks so happy
Thank you for sharing this.
One month until closing on the new house. This old house, we have no hurry but it is good to get started on some of the fix ups. we need a new fence and new lighting for outside. all of the things.
I have to write everything down. I can’t rely on my brain to remember everything.
It is cold and windy today so I am going to do inside things
Happy Tuesday dear friends
What a beautiful family photo. What Deb, and Bob yesterday, have is a case of “red eye”. They were turning in just the perfect position so that when the camera flash went off it reflected in that eye. Speaking of red, I love the red shoes, especially Deb’s. I also love the everyday gloves. Such a shame those were mostly out of style when I was little and then a teen when I would have especially loved them, Except for my preppy 70’s and 80s clothes everything I love is from another time.
I love the family photo. I was wondering if your mother made the dresses. What were your ages in the picture? I can’t remember ever having gloves for Easter. Or a purse. Definitely a hat because back then you didn’t go to church without one but none of my pictures show gloves.
I didn’t realise you had posted yesterday until I checked today’s post! The ‘cake’ hats are really cute. Joy mentioned being in high school in 1965 and Laura said she wasn’t born then, oh dear, I feel old! I was working in late1965 I left school when I was 15. I didn’t go to university till I was 48.
About 20 years or more ago Sam and I were into creative scrapbooking so we made a family album using my Dad’s photos. He had two albums which he had given to my brother and sister and I had all the loose photos. I got him to bring the albums back on one trip he had to UK (he used to save to go every two years for a long time). The albums were on their last legs and not the quality they are today. Our album started off with their respective families the first page was four separate photos of four generations the first was my great great grandmother with my great grandmother, grandfather and dad’s sister who was the baby. The last one was my dad, me, my son and his baby daughter. Anyway, I digress. Nowadays I could have gone to the store and had all the photos copied on to photo paper or even done it myself but alas that technology wasn’t around at an affordable price in those days so I had to just have photocopies. When the album was finished I had the pages photocopied twice then I put the photos that had been in my sibling’s albums into the photocopies. That way we all had our original photos in the same album. They loved it and Dad took it to a family reunion they had when he was there and they all loved it too. Most of the photos didn’t have any information on them and my dad was almost blind by then so he wasn’t able to help much but my cousin Pauline, who was the eldest grandchild on my mother’s side was a bit indignant when I had labeled a photo of her as a baby as another (male) cousin lol.
I think Easter is the one time here that I really miss still being in the Northern Hemisphere. The is something about Spring that really fits into the Easter message and I struggle with Easter/Autumn. I don’t even mind Christmas being in Summer but Easter should be Spring.
Gotta go and start my day. Have a good one everyone