Hi everyone,
I mentioned yesterday that I saw an American Girl Felicity doll in the 1994, “Miracle on 34th Street” movie I was watching. It was almost at the end of the movie, where Susan goes into her new house and is looking at all the beautiful Christmas decorations. The camera pans out over all the things under and around the big Christmas tree and when Susan moves out of the way, there is Felicity…in her green velvet riding habit, and looking ready for someone to befriend her.
I knew it wasn’t my imagination and so I turned on the TV movie again today while I was baking cookies… and waited for the Big Scene to pop up again.
I put my camera on video mode and waited, hoping I wouldn’t miss the shot.
Here it is…
Did you see her? It looks like she is standing in a basket with a checked fabric inside the basket.
I have only seen this version, (many times) but love it. I’ll have to try and see if I can’t find the earlier version and watch it too.
Also look what Cindy sent me this morning… she found this in a building her son was cleaning out. She said it’s the 1947 edition. She is prominently displaying it in front for Christmas!
Something happened to my computer this morning when I tried to click on a picture. It turned kind of hazy-like and has stayed that way all day. I can’t make it do anything and it won’t even manually shut down. This is a Kristoffer problem. I texted him but haven’t gotten an answer yet… so I’ve written this post on my phone.
This is all I have… hope you can find something to talk about. Tonight is the Married Couple’s Christmas Party and I hope I have thought of everything I needed to do. I spent most of the day in the kitchen… baking cookies and putting together my favor bags. I will try and remember to take some pictures.
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Yes, I did see Felicity! She’s in the background, and you have to “look fast” to see her, but there she is.
And, oh, your lucky sister, to find the book and even with its original dust cover!! Jealous!!!
Joy, wouldn’t it be something if our gingerbread boy cookie cutters are “twins”?! I will have to dig some of my cutters out and take some pictures, I think.
Laura, I’m with you–I think the original versions are my favorites. And as to Jane Eyre–I’ve seen every version that was made, I’m sure, and have read the book multiple times, probably about every 8-10 years since I first read it in high school. Even though I’m actually a mystery buff, Jane Eyre is my favorite book EVER.
Elizabeth, I have heard of The Great British Sewing Bee, but have yet to watch any episodes. Maybe some day….
Dorothy in PA, I love “Christmas in Connecticut”, too! Haven’t seen the other two you mentioned, though. I will have to watch for them!
I was able to get in to see my doctor today, and, as I suspected, I do have a bladder infection, so am on antibiotics again. I was trying to tough it out, drink cranberry juice, etc., but it was just getting too uncomfortable, so I messaged her over the weekend, and Monday I got a reply, asking if I could come in Wed. at 10:30. YES! So for the second time in a month I’m on antibiotics (last time it was a sinus infection). No wonder I’ve gotten so little done for Christmas as yet! Still have most of my shopping (mostly gift cards) to do, as well as write my letter and address Christmas cards. Well, I figure if those go out by New Year’s Eve, I’m good!
It actually stopped raining (Seattle area) today and–big surprise–when I went out to get in the car this morning, there was actually a little snow on the ground!! It didn’t last, of course. We rarely have a white Christmas out here.
Oh, Charlotte, I’m so sorry about your infection, I used to have them pretty often. For years now, though, I drink cranberry juice every morning and add a cranberry pill with my regular pills and haven’t had any in years. Several years ago I was planning to fly to CO to one of Helen Kish’s conventions. I woke up in the night and could tell the infection was starting. I just could NOT stay home, I was even going to give a workshop for making hankie dresses. I drank the small amount of cranberry left in the house, and prayed! On the way to the plane we stopped and I bought the biggest cranberry bottle they had and drank it all. It WORKED! I know that the praying helped. I will pray for you!
I know what you are going through with these pesky infections. I suffered this year too. I finally convinced my PA to change the type of antibiotics and that seemed to work. Months ago Barbara wrote about drinking cranberry juice daily so I am trying that. I hope you are well for Christmas. Enjoy the holiday!
Hope your meds kick in quickly. I’ll have to try to get a pic of the blue/green cookie cutter here. I’d love to see yours. If not twins, maybe cousins? 🙂
Dear Charlotte, oh my goodness, please take good care of yourself.
Here’s a story to make you smile. Your namesake, Charlotte Noelle, has been sneaking around the house, looking for Christmas gifts. Of course, I don’t keep them in the house.
Yesterday, I asked her what she was doing. She said that she knew there were gifts for her somewhere. I said that I thought gifts came from Santa. She said, “yes they do but some gifts come from Mamas and Daddies.”
I asked how she knew that. She said that the only gifts that come from Santa are the ones you put on your list. All of the other gifts come from parents.
Honestly, that child is too clever.
I asked her how she knew that she was getting anything from Santa. I said maybe she was on the Naughty List I know if there really was a Naughty List, her name would be at the top.
She said, “I know I am on the Nice List because I say my prayers at night.”
I said, “yes you do and that is a good thing but what does that have to do with Christmas and the Nice List?”
Here is where she got me. She said, “Well, Christmas is Jesus’ birthday, isn’t it?” Wow! She managed to tie Jesus and Santa together and justify her position on the Nice List.
Honestly, that girl!
Thank you for sharing the point of the movie with Felicity. Now I can watch the movie without focusing constantly on the back ground.
Have a great fun and wonderful time at the couples Christmas party, Jeanne and George. It will be so nice to be with friends.
Charlotte I am very glad you got in to the doctor! those UTIs can be awful, and painful. I am just a little bit surprised your doc made you wait until Wednesday!
I am happy you are on the way to recovery.
today is my craft and chat group. I am going to bring the same old quilt I have been binding but also bring along the finished quilt top of under the maple tree and also a stuffed goose ornament I made.
I hope all of you have a very happy day
I finally got enough cookies made to start mailing them. We also got a huge box of goodies from Pennsylvania from my younger son and his wife. One of them was a cake. We are going to my high school class’s lunch today and we will certainly take it to share. With a kitchen full of cookies, we don’t need a big cake!
Yes, Jeanne, I saw the doll and we are still trying to find the old, good, movie on our tv. I may just have to try to buy one if I can find one.
Jeanne, your blog did not show up in my email today. I was able to get it because I had saved yesterdays blog.
Y’all have a great time at the party, I am going to start wrapping cookies to mail.
We are having some rain again and so the temp has warmed up again.
Sissy, I want to write a belated message about your Christmas decorations, they are so beautiful and traditional. I love the sea creature theme tree. We have one devoted to birds. Love your family heirlooms. I am afraid the only thing I have left is a box of Shiny Brite pastel and glitter ornaments. I am looking forward to dressing my Little Darlings in the charming hankie dresses you made for me this year. My Little Darling population grew a little this year so they will be welcome in the spring. Merry Christmas!
Thank you, Debbie, for loving my Christmas things. I would love to see your tree with the birds! I have two old ones of those funny old birds from my childhood. They are the kind that clip on. One has lost his tail. He is red so I found some cardinal feathers on the ground…I guess he was molting, and I used that for his new tail. He seemed very pleased.
I am so glad you still like your dresses. I take my sewing machine to Helen next month like last year, and will be making some Valentine dresses for my dolls. Have a Merry Christmas!
Good for you on the cookie baking. I’m sure that they will be greatly appreciated by the receivers. Maybe take a pic of a plate of cookies? I’d love to see them. 🙂
Joy, I will send you a photo later, on your email. Recipes are always easily given.
Have fun tonight Jeanne! Your cookie baking is inspiring me. I haven’t baked Christmas cookies in years so I am pulling out the old Betty Crocker red cookbook from the 70’s.
I did not know there was a remake of Miracle on 34th street. We always seem to find the original at Christmas time. I always loved Felicity’s riding habit. I have sold my entire collection except for the green trunk. I will be curious to see if AG does anything special for the 250th anniversary next year, and the 40th anniversary of the company.
Yes! I think I saw the doll! How exciting! Just for you Jeanne 💜
Can you see it? Can you see it? Very late yesterday, I tried to find a clip of the movie, but failed. So, how nice to actually see Felicity this morning, thanks to Jeanne! How fun.
With all of the moving around and cleaning behind things going on around here for the new appliance arrival, I wasn’t able to get back to comment yesterday. So, here goes: I would love to watch the Great British Sewing Bee that is on Roku, but we only have YouTube. I’ll have to look around for it. Thanks, Elizabeth. Thanks Barbara for looking for the pattern name for me. I’m sure that Linda’s cookie cutter gingerbread boy is like mine. How fun. I’d love to see a pic. 🙂 I agree with Laura, about the original Miracle movie being the best! Natalie Wood, who grew up and lived not far from where we live now, was the child star. And Anne’s Christmas, tale of moving over the holidays and it being very hot and her husband sweating and trying to hang Xmas decorations was so fun to read. Hope that I didn’t miss anyone.
Now, on to this morning. When I saw the great photo of Cindy’s book, at first I was confused by the couch and background. For whatever reason, I thought the pic was at Jeanne’s, and that she had a new couch. Quickly figured it out. And I do love Cindy’s beautiful home. Her decorating is outstanding.
I was able to move out all of the cleaning products from under the sink yesterday and discovered that we have a big problem with the dishwasher installation. No GFI outlet and no water shut off. So, we may have to have someone come out and make some changes, but we won’t know until the installers arrive sometime Saturday. I think the other appliances should be okay. So, today I still have more to move in the kitchen and boxes to take to the garage. Funny, but we received an email from Costco with instructions on a clear path for delivery. Can’t imagine that someone would leave things in the way, but you never know.
It’s been so nice with slightly warmer weather and some showers too. Got in a walk between chores yesterday, but looks like another busy day hauling that frozen food up to the refrigerator at the other house. Lots more to get done today including laundry. Oh goody.
Oh, Good Grief, Joy! What an awful thing to find. I hope it all gets together and working soon.
Dear Jeanne, thanks for finding the movie clip with the American Girl doll. The United Federation of Doll Clubs (UFDC) began a club recently which is dedicated to American Girl collectors. I am going to share this posting with them! If any of the Sofa Sisters are interested in joining, just let me know and I can share contact information with them.
Jeanne, I sent through a bunch of questions for the Sofa Sisters that you can use when your day gets really busy. I will send them again, in case you didn’t get the email.
Is Christmas really only a week away?
Well, here I am again! I wrote earlier this morning, and then I touched something on my iPad, and whoosh, it was gone just as I was writing my name in. I’m sure most of you have had that happen, and it is no fun, especially when I needed to get going and start my day of cookie baking, so I waited until lunchtime to write again. I did see Felicity when I sped up my movie, but this shows it better! Funny, but I have seen this movie many, many times, but never caught Felicity sitting there underneath the tree!
I’m having a wonderful time making cookies with my cookie press, NOT! The doggone dough never sticks to the baking sheet, and I am using parchment paper So then I read if you put a couple of dabs of Crisco under the paper to hold it, that will keep it from sliding. Well that didn’t work either, so Michael is holding down the paper while I press out the cookies. Then to get the whole cookie to come out of the press is another challenge! I have a couple more sheets to fill up, and I won’t be making any more of those, but they are so cute with sprinkles on them.
Oh Charlotte, I hope you get relief from your infection soon! Everybody is saying to take cranberry juice, but I can’t stand the taste of cranberries, so that won’t work for me!
Joy, your comments remind me of the columns that .Erma Bombeck used to write! She had a way with words and made everything so funny and relatable! You need your own column with all your adventures!
Jeanne, if the weather there is like here, it is a gloomy, day and we will be getting rain soon, looking out, it is here now, but you will be inside at your party and I’m sure it will be lots of fun! Be sure to take pictures to show us like you usually do.
Well, you are so kind about my writing and it’s punctuation deficits. I can remember well my mother and the cookie press. Loved those cookies. Is it possible that the dough was too warm? Not sure about that at all, but maybe?
I do believe that was the cause,k since it worked just fine with the first couple of batches, then I stopped a bit for lunch and I guess the dough got too soft. I shoud have out it in the refrigerator while I ate.
Enjoyed the quick view of the scene from Miracle on 34th Street, where you can briefly see the AG doll! I loved the AG dolls when they first came out and have even saved a couple of the early catalogs for the photos. Always thought her body was stout and her arms and legs “sturdy” looking whenever I would sew outfits for her, to give to my first Granddaughter. And then the Wellie Wishers were on the scene and her body seemed more like a little girl…and I acquired many patterns and sewed for her….plus, her outfits didn’t take as much fabric as the AG dolls! But then, I saw the Ruby Red doll with her sweet face and much more realistic (and jointed) little girl proportions and knew I’d need to order one, since she was a doll that I could fit into my budget. Now I have a shelf of Ruby Red dolls on display and really liked the Siblie dolls but gave the one I had to my Great-Granddaughter for her Birthday along with the closet full of clothes!
Hoping to order one more Siblie doll this spring to sew a complete equestrienne wardrobe for a girl that loves horses and would have given anything to have her own when she was young! That would be my eldest daughter, who at one time had a collection of Breyer model horses that filled three shelves in her room! She saw my photos of the the Siblie doll and the wardrobe and closet I made…and thought she had the sweetest face, and said she would like one with either an English or western riding outfit. So my thoughts are leaning towards outfits for a little girl (the Bailey Siblie) that has many ranch-style outfits plus riding outfits, and maybe the English saddle for a traditional size Breyer horse. (already purchased the PDF saddle pattern online!)
My daughter attended a week at horse camp when she was around 10 or 11, where kids were assigned a horse to care for and ride for the week. She was over the moon with the experience! And as a teenager, she was a volunteer helper at the Indiana “Reins of Life”, which offered therapeutic riding for children and adults with disabilities. I know she will probably display the Siblie doll to enjoy at home for a while and keep her to give to a Granddaughter she may have some day, and will share her love of horses.
Must say, to all who commented on the “Cranberry juice” solution for UTI’s….I couldn’t agree more! When I was trying to ward off a full-blown infection, I would buy the 100% cranberry juice which is mouth-puckering for me…so I always had to have it on ice and be really cold. But it does work! I developed the start of an infection over a year ago and hadn’t had one in years, and the juice wasn’t helping as fast as I thought it would (It was a concentrate and not the 100% juice). So my daughter had mentioned that she did a telehealth UTI appt. with our Texas medical group of doctors, where you answered a lot of questions online and they would prescribe the medication and call it in to your pharmacy or I believe they could send it to you. All for $40.00 which the online form stated, you could be reimbursed thru Medicare. (The medication was almost another $40. at my pharmacy).
Since I don’t have a car to drive and would have asked one of my daughters to take time off of work to drive me to my PC doctor, I decided to try the telehealth appt. online. I did get the medication and then sent in all of the telehealth diagnosis and print-outs, med prescription, receipts, etc. to Medicare, only to hear back from them that they wanted MORE information and proof of the medication, etc. and I had 30 days to submit. I was stunned because I had sent everything I had, short of sending a photocopy of the medication box/wrapper…..so time went on and I never did follow up with more of the same info they already had. Even spoke to a Medicare representative. I think they make it harder to receive a reimbursement so they don’t have to reimburse. I have excellent supplemental insurance as well and had I gone to my PC in person, the entire process and prescription would have been covered entirely as my insurance doesn’t require copays. Lesson learned. I only wish that the medical group would take your existing insurance numbers to bill thru, on the telehealth online form, like they do when you go into to see the doctor.
I only mention the telehealth visit for UTI’s because it is an alternative, while staying at home and dealing with that issue. Maybe someday, they will offer the medication as over-the-counter, if possible. I remember once receiving a prescription for Voltaren ointment for arthritis and knee pain from the doctor, and it was rather expensive. And I saw it ON the pharmacy shelf not long ago, and mentioned to my daughter that I used to need a prescription for that. A woman standing near me in the pharmacy heard what I had said and she mentioned that she had recently filled her mother’s prescription for the same ointment and it was almost $300., and now it could be purchased over-the-counter.
Must return to my schoolroom project today. Hard to believe that Christmas is almost here!
Elizabeth, I just read your comments about The Great British Sewing Bee. I have been watching it since it started. I saw last years while I was in UK……. till the penultimate episode so missed out on the final. I will have to wait now until next year to watch that!! We are a year behind UK. I think my absolute favourite outfit was the final dress in, I think, the series two years ago, where the winner made a dress that started out as a short day dress and the model turned around and a green evening gown appeared. I have no idea how she did that! The woman who made it was a breast surgeon and used her sewing skills to make bras for the women who had had mastectomies. When I first started watching it I felt I could apply for that but now they have upped the skill level and no way could I do most of the clothes etc they have to make. Sam and I both love it, so does our friend so we love talking about it at coffee.
Charlotte, I hope your infection clears up soon. I am one of those lucky people who have never had a UTI. Not sure why not I don’t do anything in particular and I rarely have cranberry juice.
Joy, so sorry you have found a problem with your dishwasher. I really hope it doesn’t hold everything up especially at this time of the year. Here it would be a real problem because most places are on holiday just before and after Christmas. Getting anything done in a hurry is likely to be a problem. When we first came to NZ in 1974, after that first Christmas we used to joke that NZ could be invaded on Christmas Eve and no one would even know about it till the third week in January. It isn’t quite that bad now, though lots of places still close down till the Monday after New Year.
Jeanne, I hope you get your computer sorted. I don’t think I could use my phone for anything that complex.
We have had quite a lot of rain the last two days, we really needed it though. The weather forecast for Christmas Showed a map of NZ with a small sliver of dry weather on the East Coast of the S. Island, that’s us, so it looks as though we might get a fine Christmas here though not in all the holiday spots! The North Island looks dry too. Of course, long range forecasts a notoriously difficult to predict here so things may change in a week.
I had better go got things to do. It is forecast to rain again this afternoon so need to get the washing out. (We don’t have a dryer). Have a great day everyone