HI everyone,
Just a reminder… Kirsten’s “Home Sweet Home” set ends this evening on Ebay! It’s that pretty blue dress with the white apron in case you missed it. If you’d like to check it out, please click the picture at the right side or click HERE.
My day was just too busy to get into my sewing room, so I’m having to improvise for a Friday post. But first I wanted to answer just a few things about what some of you commented on.
Linda mentioned where American Girl is collaborating with the movie “Clueless” to release limited-edition collector series outfits for their 18-inch dolls, featuring iconic looks of Cher and Dionne from the film. These outfits are part of the American Girl Collector Series and are designed to celebrate the movie’s 30th anniversary. Here is the link to the AG doll outfits for sale.
Cher’s As If! Clueless Outfit for 18-inch Dolls by American Girl® Collector Series
Here are 2 of the outfits from the 1995 movie that were copied for the American Girl dolls.
I haven’t seen the Clueless movie, so I’m pretty clueless about what happens in it, but the outfits copied to replicate the 2 actresses outfits have parts of them that are cute, but overall, I’m not that fond of them. (Everything I’ve learned about matching plaids…. right out the window!)
Second, Joy asked why I didn’t take the plaid and novelty fabrics that are stacked in my shelf above the props, and put it down on the bottom shelf where all the rest of my fabric is, so it’s ALL in one place, and then move the clear bags of the stretchy tights fabrics up on the shelves where the props are.
Well, believe it or not, that’s where the clear bags were… back behind the curtain where I can close and hide it all. The problem was, the bags of the stretchy fabrics were SO SO heavy it was almost impossible to get them out…reaching out over my black table that sits right in front of the built in shelves. If I needed something in the bag that was in the back, it wasn’t worth trying to get to it. I moved them to the bottom of the fabric bookshelf because they are enclosed in plastic and will be much easier to get into. I can’t have my fabrics down that low… things get too dusty on the bottom shelf in my sewing room. I have to have things in plastic if it’s on the bottom shelf… hence no open fabrics there.
Okay, so let’s see what my title means today… it might not have been the “best” wording… but I hope this will make sense!
My day was busy and I had too much to do to play or weed or organize in my sewing room, so I came up with something for this Friday…
You can answer as many as you want or only one if you want… This is just something for the time being until I’m not so busy.
What is your Favorite Food?
What is your Favorite Fabric?
What is your Favorite Flower?
Who is your Favorite Friend?
Well, I need to get to bed…
I will see you Monday,
Have a wonderful weekend,
Blessings, Jeanne
I will skip the “Clueless” stuff (as I am clueless about that movie!) and head straight to the questions.
1–Favorite Food–too many!! Fresh peach pie (you start with raw peaches, sugar/cinnamon mix, and heavy cream!) for sure is one. Also cookies (almost any kind). Scalloped potatoes with wieners is probably my favorite main dish.
2–Favorite Fabric–for both sewing and wearing, 100% cotton interlock. It’s so comfy to wear, and so easy to sew! Just lengthen your stitches a little, and stretch slightly while you sew it!
3–Favorite Flower–I have two, lilacs and orchids. (I knew I had found the right man when I discovered he had a lilac bush in his front yard! LOL)
4–Favorite Friend–my best friend, June, of course. We have been best friends since November of 1952!
I have been doing more digging in my sewing room today, and unearthed several more unfinished projects: a square dance dress I started about 35 years ago (I don’t think it’ll fit….and I haven’t danced in quite a long while anyway!), two sets of quilt blocks, one of hand-appliqued Sunbonnet Sues, and one of a set of blocks I got from a block exchange in which I participated, and a “mystery quilt” I started long ago. I’ll have to look that over and see where I left off; maybe I can finish it–eventually. I think I will soon lay claim to the title of “queen of the UFOs”!! 😂
…. probably Queen of UFO’s I might be the the runner up, then!
Congratulations of course.
Food, Georgia peaches, can’t get enough of them in the summer because once they are gone you wait another year!
Fabric, Liberty of London, such beautiful colors and the fabric is so soft and easy to sew.
Flowers, hydrangeas! I finally found a way to keep the deer from eating them and I love drying them to use in the house, or make a wreath.
Friend, my dear husband, Peyton of course.
Yes, here too, I am clueless about this movie. I am not sure if I should be interested.
Have you seen the remake of Wizard of Oz? Is that it, Wicked? Either case.
A few days ago, Hubbs put in an olden CD and we watched The Great Train Robbery.
Really great!
Anyway, hmmmm, Favorites:
These are good ones. On X there is a guy that asks many questions every day. I do not always answer, but his handle is @Wiseconnector
Okay Jeanne, let’s do this.
Favorite food: cookies
Favorite fabric: pretty fabric mostly cotton.
Favorite Flowers, Roses, zinnias Dahlias, oh my, there are so many cuties
Favorite person: my hubbs and my best friend. and I have some olden friends that are beloved my friend Jean in Maryland, and my friend Denise in Maryland and Marsha lives all the way in Oregon now… and so so many that have been such loveable frolicksome friends with lots of laughing and adventures
Happy Friday dear loveys, I hope all of you feel happy and well. stay hydrated ❤️
I would love to see a plaid Clueless outfit for one of the Ruby Reds. It would definitely use up some of those hidden behind the curtain plaids at Jeanne’s place. 🙂 Maybe there would be a matching shirt for the latest boy doll too. Plenty of time for that as he’s not arriving until late October. Those Barbie outfits are so cute. I do love plaid.
I can see the inconvenience of trying to pull out those big bags of stretchy material behind other things, but I didn’t mean to put them on the stair shelves. Just leave them at the bottom, but purge them down to maybe one bag and add the plaid in another bag. So all fabrics would be together. Just my take. 🙂
I threw in a comment late yesterday. The yellow jacket guy arrived yesterday morning and treated the first nest I found. The one that other person denied was there. Ha ha But the other one he couldn’t find, so I’m going to have to do more sleuthing. He did mention that the beasts do like some shade. Of course, why not build your nest is a nice shady protected spot. Maybe with a view of the garden included? Anyway, now I’m going to try and carefully pull out more blackberry in the area where I saw the soldier jackets fly out. Not today though. Another hot one expected, and I have an eye appointment.
Stay in the shade everyone, but watch out for yellow jackets. 🙂
Something went wrong on my iPad, and I could not get the blog! It was just a plain white screen. I found it in a roundabout way, so who knows when I can see it again?
Those Clueless outfits were never on my radar, but I could not believe the mismatched plaids on the yellow skirt! Yes, an outfit like that would be perfect for a Ruby Red!
Gee, I think I am clueless about those “f” favorites! As for food, I like just about everything, except stewed tomatoes and cranberries. As for favorites, it depends on the season. Right now I’m all about cool pasta salads and barbecue!
Favorite fabric for sewing is, of course, cotton, crisp and colorful!
Favorite flower, lilies ,begonias, impatiens , mandevilla, and things that are constantally blooming, giving a good “show”. Actually I love just about any flower! Not particular! Only thing I won’t plant or have are geraniums.
Best friend, well, I do have several that will remain nameless, you know who you are!
Joy, yellow jackets here are not giving us trouble until September or so. Then you better watch out, since the live underground and you never know when they will come out when you are weeding.
I’m pretty “clueless” about Clueless as well and happy to stay that way although I do know it’s a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s, Emma. Personally, I will stick to Emma, the book, and the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow and beautiful Regency style dresses.
Now to the questions…
Favorite Food – I like so many things it would be difficult to name. It is also linked to the seasons. Right now my favorites are peaches, plums, strawberries, and cherries, tomatoes, sweet peppers, and soon summer squash. Also time to make my grandmother’s version of peach pie. Yum!!
Favorite fabric – any beautiful pure cotton, preferably with flowers.
Favorite Flower – no way to list just one. My favorite type is old-fashioned/ cottage. My non-exhaustive list of those I can think of right now: hollyhocks, roses, delphinium, foxglove, canterbury bells, four o clocks, forget me nots, bleeding hearts, coneflower, dahlias, lavender, dianthus, bee balm, yarrow, coral bells, Jacob’s ladder, Solomon’s Seal, cowslips, baptisia, Caryopteris “bluebeard”, columbine, sweet william, butterfly bush, pansies/violas, phlox, perennial geranium, iris, peonies, lupines, catmint, sweet peas, and violets. I also love ferns.
My favorite color of flowers is blue. If I see a blue flower at the garden store at the back of the plant display and I am at the front I hone in like bee and go and see it.
Favorite Friend – my mom and daughter and my precious frisky, furry felines, of course, but also real life friends along with some wonderful online friends I’ve met through the doll world. One is just like the sister I never had and thinks like a twin in so many aspects.
I love lilacs as well.
I do like geraniums. My grandmother had some by the back patio along with angel wing begonias and her oleanders she brought from Texas. She had dozens and dozens of different flowers in the front and backyard.
I hadn’t thought of Oleanders growing other than here because that’s the only place I’ve seen them. They line the sides of Interstate 10 and are beautiful. A few years ago when we had that winter storm come through Texas it destroyed all the Oleanders and we thought they were gone forever. But they are coming back on their own because I know they are not being helped along.
That’s the way June and I are, Laura–practically twins! Even our last names are very similar–just one letter different!! And we can practically read each other’s minds at times!
I too am “clueless” about “Clueless”. I’ve never been much of a “chick flick” person so rarely seek them out. I looked it up to see who was in the movie and the only name I even recognized years later was Alicia Silverstone. But I did finally see “Sweet Home Alabama” which turned out to be an amazing movie, however, I still prefer a different genre. But amusingly David and I watched “The Long Ships” the other night. It was from 1964 with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. When I saw it I was 17 and thought it was the greatest movie ever. After watching it the other night I wondered why I thought that. It was actually quite silly.
Now for my favorites:
Food(s) – Seafood and Cupcakes
Favorite Fabric – Definitely Liberty of London Tana Lawn (agree with Sissy). I don’t have anything made from it for myself but my dolls sure do. Mostly because I can afford small pieces of the fabric from my favorite small scale fabric doll shop French Fashions..
Favorite Flower: I have two, Lilacs (since I was a little girl in PA) and Crepe Myrtle (since I now live in Texas and can’t grow Lilacs). But Lilacs still are in first place for their wonderful scent.
Favorite friend – I think I would have to say my family on this. When I want to do something other than by myself I will call on one of them, depending on what I want to do. I used to love when my grandkids lived next-door. They were always up for a trip to the park or the pool or going for snow cones.
I remember when we had ground wasps for a while. David saw them one day and did some research to learn how to get rid of them. But before he could do the deed Jason ran into their nest one day while mowing (he was told to look out for them). Yep, he got stung, thankfully only once but it had more impression on him than David warning him did.
The yellow jacket people here use a pythium product that they spray into the nest entrance hole. It is toxic to the wasps, but doesn’t harm the pets or people. They basically only do ground wasps which is mostly what we have here.
Kind of late with this, but had to go to my eye appointment this morning and then of course couldn’t see very well until now.
As to the F questions, I couldn’t think of any favorites at all as I like lots of different things. But, one F word I do like are the Funnies! I have always read the funnies, and I think I even learned to read while my mother read them to me at lunch when I was little. So, my favorites are the funnies! 🙂
My F word of the day is “fingers.” Josephine Baker said she had an intelligent body. I had intelligent hands. They could knit, sew, cook, type, draw, letter, embroider, repair things…. Now they are stiff and numb, but I do have them, they are not useless, and though they were not supposed to improve after a year, they never give up. Of course the disease that got them was supposed to kill me 5 years ago and didn’t do it, so I’ll stick with being grateful for my fingers and their determination to keep trying.
How blessed you are to keep such a positive attitude and think of your glass as half full rather than otherwise. You are amazing!
I’m not seeing the (“Clueless”) mis-matched yellow plaid skirt – YES the yoke is placed on the bias, but otherwise what’s not matching?
Flowers – Love lilacs, lily of the valley, orchids, tulips, peonies – I don’t think I saw anyone else mention them (which surprises me). Not only would I NOT be able to grow them here partly because I don’t have a green thumb, but also I don’t think ANYONE can grow them here. I DID see some at a Trader Joes about a month ago, but that’s the first time I’ve seen them here (AZ) in the past 40 years!
Food – fresh peaches!! Love them!
Fabric – silk, Liberty Tana Lawn.