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From: Sewhappie
Date: 01-14-2005, 12:22 PM (1 of 53)
| My hobby, besides adding to my stash, is collecting Sewing Machine Music Boxes. They are becoming harder to find, so if you know of someplace to check out let me know. |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: Hogmami
Date: 01-14-2005, 12:41 PM (2 of 53)
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I collect pigs. Any kind.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: Dede
Date: 01-14-2005, 01:15 PM (3 of 53)
| Cups and saucers |
User: Dede
Member since: 03-23-2001 Total posts: 469 |
From: joannequilts
Date: 01-14-2005, 01:19 PM (4 of 53)
| Porcelain dolls |
User: joannequilts
Member since: 12-22-2000 Total posts: 3070 
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-14-2005, 01:24 PM (5 of 53)
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Jo, do you have one of the Anne of Green Gables dolls?
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: joannequilts
Date: 01-14-2005, 01:37 PM (6 of 53)
| No ma'am, one of my very favourite stories....just loved her poetry to express herself. |
User: joannequilts
Member since: 12-22-2000 Total posts: 3070
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-14-2005, 01:47 PM (7 of 53)
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For 30 yrs I collected dragons..now I've asked my sister and husband to STOP the dragon gifting..I've had enough.... Now I collect fabric, thread, machines and dust... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Melanie T
Date: 01-14-2005, 02:06 PM (8 of 53)
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"Now I collect fabric, thread, machines and dust..." That about sums up my collections, better add notions & patterns as well.  My collections are slimming down quickly though, with the mold problem in my basement/sewing area.  It will be interesting to start fresh in the next several months. When I worked for Michigan State University in the Entomology Dept, everybody gave me bug stuff.  There was lots of great fabric out there for a while. Most of that was sewed up long ago of course. Now I am into little boys. Have a great day Melanie
4 little sewing machine mechanics (6, 4, 2, Born June 14) Ontario Canada |
User: Melanie T
Member since: 09-21-2004 Total posts: 155 |
From: toadusew
Date: 01-14-2005, 02:09 PM (9 of 53)
"Fabric, thread, machines, dust, notions, and patterns" pretty much sums up what I collect, too! 
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User: toadusew
Member since: 01-08-2005 Total posts: 369 |
From: beachgirl
Date: 01-14-2005, 02:44 PM (10 of 53)
| I collect sewing stuff, music boxes, hummels.have some old sewing thimbles, & guess you could say Grandkids since I have 10 already. |
User: beachgirl
Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615 
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 01-14-2005, 03:07 PM (11 of 53)
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I collect Angels.Any kind, shape or size. I also collect fabric of course but I am getting better about that. Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: siwian
Date: 01-14-2005, 04:23 PM (12 of 53)
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Thimbles, sewing stuff, craft supplies. The last two must be collectables cause I never seem to use them. Peggy |
User: siwian
Member since: 12-27-2001 Total posts: 114
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 01-14-2005, 05:06 PM (13 of 53)
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Besides sewing things, I collect, or should I say the family gives me, Owls. I also collect thimbles from different places that I've visited. Lately that collection has been growing.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-14-2005, 05:47 PM (14 of 53)
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Stuff for making things. Dust Daughter has 130 My little ponies that Are All Still Here - enven though she is at Uni. When you go in her room the eyes follow you around the room.... Daughter 2 has Cows, thankfully not real ones. Husband wants to live in minimalist loft....poor lamb. mind you his camera gear....more dust.. love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: sewcarve
Date: 01-14-2005, 05:56 PM (15 of 53)
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I collected the Amish Heritage figurines with the little miniature Amish quilts mounted behind them; had nearly all of them when we moved to a much smaller home. Now they are all in their boxes, neatly stored away. I need to find another home for them. Aside from the usual quilter's array of quilting stuff - fabric, etc., I also collected Singer Featherweights, and other old machines. Have whittled that down to a select dozen or so. Then there are the sewing boxes and tables......... Oh, flamingoes! just hopelessly addicted, Becky |
User: sewcarve
Member since: 12-07-2004 Total posts: 21 |
From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 01-14-2005, 07:49 PM (16 of 53)
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I love questions like this! I have a large collection of Precious Moment Figurenes....1st collection. An even larger collection of frogs; rubber, plastic, stuffed, metal, glass and rock. Friends give me frogs all of the time. I get to work and there is a new one on my desk....collecting them is lots of fun! Along the lines of crafting....I collect crochet patterns, yarns and hooks. And now that I'm sewing I have a large collection of sewing patterns...  mgf~ 
Blessings & Smiles
Frogs have it easy....they just eat what's buggin' them. |
User: MyGirlFriday
Member since: 12-05-2004 Total posts: 288 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 01-14-2005, 07:59 PM (17 of 53)
Collections??? Hmmmmm -- well, DH started me a collection of the special and limited edition Hallmark Seraphims. I have several of those -- one which is out of circulation and is now in the neighborhood value of approx. $500. I also collect angels and have them hanging, sitting, standing, etc. all over the house. I also have a small collection of specialty rabbits that DH has purchased one for me every Easter since we've been remarried so, I only have about 10 of those. Otherwise, I think I'm just collecting STUFF at this point in my life or so it would appear from my sewing room -- i.e., garment fabrics, patterns, batting, quilt fabrics, sewing and embroidery machines. Man, this room is really getting crowded.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Pudge99
Date: 01-15-2005, 10:21 AM (18 of 53)
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I collect shot glasses from all the places we go. Funny thing is I don't drink. Well you know an occasional glass of wine or a drink when we go out but never just a shot. I picked those because almost everyplace you go has them, they are small, and they are normally cheap.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: sewingrandma
Date: 01-15-2005, 11:10 AM (19 of 53)
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Gina, that's why I picked thimbles, small and found everywhere. When we went to CA they even had one in the shape of a sea otter. DD collects shot glasses and has them from all over the world and US since she was in the Navy she had the chance to get them.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 01-15-2005, 11:28 AM (20 of 53)
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there are even pretty cabinets and special display cases for shot glasses and thimbles.....lucky for y'all. Where is your most unique shot glass or thimble from?? Just wondering~ mgf~
Blessings & Smiles
Frogs have it easy....they just eat what's buggin' them. |
User: MyGirlFriday
Member since: 12-05-2004 Total posts: 288
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From: shirleyp
Date: 01-15-2005, 01:17 PM (21 of 53)
| I used to collect tins, but the dusting got too much so I got rid of most of them except what my children bought me for birthdays and such. I love bowls. Usually the bigger sizes, different colours and with patterns. Have to quit because I have no place to put them. |
User: shirleyp
Member since: 02-12-2002 Total posts: 352 
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 01-15-2005, 03:55 PM (22 of 53)
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Our Dollar Store had unfinished shelving in the shape of houses with various size openings that I bought and finished. I've got about 6 of them finished at this point. I've got 2 thimbles that catch your eye. One is pewter with Stone Henge around it and the other is the ceramic Sea Otter.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: giggleshpd
Date: 01-15-2005, 04:50 PM (23 of 53)
| i collected unicorns till i moved back into my parents home and now i just collect dust every now and then i get some freedom and get to dust myself off. |
User: giggleshpd
Member since: 12-14-2004 Total posts: 13 
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From: esrun3
Date: 01-15-2005, 05:09 PM (24 of 53)
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shot glasses from places I've been or others I know have been. Also the usual fabric, craft supplies, computer crafting supplies.
Lyn
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User: esrun3
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 2345 |
From: Pepsigal
Date: 01-16-2005, 12:50 AM (25 of 53)
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But I collect Pepsi memorabalia. My great-uncle was prez and CEO of Pepsi-Co Canada in the early 60's, so there is a bit of history of why I collect it. I also have a HUGE collection of crafting supplies, that seem to multiply when I'm not looking! LOL  Maggi 
Have a great day! :)
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User: Pepsigal
Member since: 02-28-2004 Total posts: 29 
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From: Pudge99
Date: 01-16-2005, 11:55 AM (26 of 53)
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I just get the regular old shot glasses. Started getting them on our Honey moon. I don't have any reall interesting ones. I have a few from when we lived in Germany, that is about as interesting as mine get.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-16-2005, 12:07 PM (27 of 53)
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Gina, I have to ask - is that a battery doing the macerena or am I going bonkers?
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-16-2005, 12:26 PM (28 of 53)
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Funny how the mind works. I thought for sure it was a bullet!
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Magot
Date: 01-16-2005, 02:29 PM (29 of 53)
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You're right! I first thought it was a crayon... how old am I? love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Sherri
Date: 01-16-2005, 03:13 PM (30 of 53)
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Its a macroni noodle. You know doing the Ma-croni. Sher My website
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User: Sherri
Member since: 02-07-2001 Total posts: 357 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 01-16-2005, 04:43 PM (31 of 53)
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A shot glass doing the Macarena? Having it's own party, huh! Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-16-2005, 10:52 PM (32 of 53)
| I collect bells and angels. And of course sewing things. I have bells from all over the world my Mother gathered for me on her trips and the angels the kids and grandkids gave me along with the ones I inheridited from my Mother when she passes away. |
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From: Pudge99
Date: 01-17-2005, 02:18 AM (33 of 53)
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I think it is a noodle. I don't know for sure I just found it on a site somewhere. I have been trying to find some cool animated sewing ones. But this guy was just too cute to pass up.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: Dexter
Date: 01-18-2005, 03:14 PM (34 of 53)
| I collect NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) games. I only have about 170 NES games, but I soon expect my collection to rise to a more superior degree soon enough. Games are partly responsible for making me the creative, dexterous, wonderfully gentle person I am today. |
User: Dexter
Member since: 11-05-2004 Total posts: 48 |
From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 01-18-2005, 03:42 PM (35 of 53)
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I collect dragons and shot glasses. And quilt books. And quilt magazines. And fabric....and.... I'd love to collect sewing/embroidery machines. I'm getting there! photos.yahoo.com/greendragondesigns
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User: GreenDragonLady
Member since: 07-29-2004 Total posts: 495 
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From: mommydionne
Date: 01-18-2005, 04:48 PM (36 of 53)
I collect ... lots of stuff, sewing things, fabric, yarn, books, dust bunnies  , I also collect pewter, and christmas angels.
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: sable
Date: 01-19-2005, 12:30 AM (37 of 53)
| Fabric (lol), Lilliput Lane Houses (though have stopped that due to cost and lack of space), DVD movies, books. |
User: sable
Member since: 01-10-2005 Total posts: 76
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From: kashworth
Date: 01-24-2005, 11:19 AM (38 of 53)
| I collect ladybug stuff, miniature cups and saucers, and vintage pill boxes. |
User: kashworth
Member since: 10-08-2004 Total posts: 2 |
From: Pudge99
Date: 01-24-2005, 11:31 AM (39 of 53)
OH my gosh I forgot my most favorite thing to collect. I love collecting TY Beanie Babies. Back when they were so hard to get and people were charging $$$$ for them, my husband and I would go to flea markets and once a month we would drive an hour+ to an outlet mall where a lot of stores carried them. Then we moved to Germany and I got Germania. That by far is my favorite one. I still collected them while in Germany but not as seriously as when we lived in FL. Now that we are in San Antonio I haven't found many places that sell them. Although I did find a store downtown that sold only Beanie Babies. It was just last weekend, and I was shocked to say the least to find those very same Beanies that I would drive all over FL to get, on a buy one get one free table.  . I kept saying "I paid this much for that one and that much for this one." I never paid more than $20 for one and most I got for less than ten but still I was floored to see so many of them on that shelf.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 01-24-2005, 02:09 PM (40 of 53)
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Royal Winton chintz pattern china (pre-war) - and plenty of dust! I also collect muddy paw prints on the kitchen floor. |
User: Domestic Goddes
Member since: 01-04-2005 Total posts: 108 |
From: JoanieB
Date: 01-29-2005, 12:06 PM (41 of 53)
| I love to collect anything with hummingbirds on them. |
User: JoanieB
Member since: 01-28-2005 Total posts: 68 |
From: MariLynnTX
Date: 02-02-2005, 10:46 AM (42 of 53)
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I collect shells from everywhere. Also books and fabric, although I am trying to reduce that, since I am rapidly approaching 78. My Strolling the Block quilt is nearly finished and it is made entirely from scraps. After years of FME classes and custom sewing, I have enough scraps to make a couple more of them! But I'm not. I also have 15 grandchildren. And a collection of demitasse cups, and another of coffee mugs. I'm trying to break this collecting habit! MariLynntx Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: Sailorliz
Date: 02-02-2005, 11:26 AM (43 of 53)
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or anything sailing related. My Family/Living room is all decorated with boats!! I even have three sailboats that I sail. Yes, it is an obsession for sure. I also like to collect fabric and yarn. I have a very large house, all of our children are gone and I have now room to collect lots more....
Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
Liz Visit my photo page http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sailorlizmi/albums |
User: Sailorliz
Member since: 07-20-2004 Total posts: 386 
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 02-02-2005, 12:14 PM (44 of 53)
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Do you live near the water? I have always wanted to, but my DH didn't. I have seven children and 15 grandchildren, and most of them live in Houston and Friendswood, on the Texas coast. We spend part of each summer on the beach on Bolivar Peninsula. We have several friends who sail, but we just loll around on the sand; the Gulf of Mexico is pretty rough for sailing. I'm just a lazy old lady nowadays...my daughters and daughters-in-law do all the cooking and the men keep an eye on the kids. Marilynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: Sailorliz
Date: 02-02-2005, 12:46 PM (45 of 53)
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Marilyn, Yes, I do live close to the great lakes. I don't know if you are familiar with the geography of Michigan, but I live in the Northern Lower Eastern side of Michigan. So if I go 30 miles North, I'm at Lake Huron, if I go 21 miles East I'm at Lake Huron and if I travel 45 miles West, I'm at Lake Michigan. I lived on a small inland lake many years ago. Where I lived when I grew up was within a mile every direction of an inland lake. So I grew up playing on the water. I swim (of course), water ski, (not these days, my body gets sore), fish and of course sail. I learned to sail as a teenager and use to race sailboats. Nowadays, my husband and I sail in the summer when ever we can. We like to cruise. We sail to Mackinac Island every spring for our first sail of the season, for the Lilac Festival that they have there. We have sailed the North Channel (beautiful Canadian waters) and of course all around here in Northern Lake Huron. Too many ports to mention. We have a 40 ft. wooden ketch that we are restoring as our retirement boat. We hope to live on the boat and sail for a few years. We plan to sail the rest of the Great Lakes and then out to the east coast, then down to the Bahamas. Then after that who knows, maybe we will come to visit you and take you for a sail in the Gulf. Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
Liz Visit my photo page http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sailorlizmi/albums |
User: Sailorliz
Member since: 07-20-2004 Total posts: 386
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 02-02-2005, 02:15 PM (46 of 53)
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My Dd(13) informed us the other day that if you live in Michigan you are never more than 7 miles from fresh water, a lake, stream, pond, or river. She knows lots of useless geography trivia that comes in handy sometimes.
Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115
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From: Sailorliz
Date: 02-02-2005, 02:23 PM (47 of 53)
She's right! I have a creek that runs close to behind my house! Less than a 1/4 mile. But I also have heard that Michigan has more shoreline than Florida. 
Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
Liz Visit my photo page http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sailorlizmi/albums |
User: Sailorliz
Member since: 07-20-2004 Total posts: 386
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 02-02-2005, 02:47 PM (48 of 53)
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The house my DH and I built here (which one of my daughters and her DH bought--I am in a nearby apartment) sits on a little peninsula of land that drops steeply down the pine-tree-covered hill to Copperas Creek. It has a lot of water in it now as we have had rain, rain, rain this winter. Sometimes in summer it is totally dry; you can walk down its limestone bottom barefoot and come out with dry feet. MariLynn
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: vicious kittie
Date: 02-02-2005, 06:01 PM (49 of 53)
| hmm..i love anything vintage..my kitchen is done in a 50's style in red/black and white..lots of chrome old coffee pots...salt and pepper shakers.old. fabric!!!!! old pin up girl postcards and photos..and it seems like i keep collecting more and more kitties...real kitties..they appear out of nowhere and jump into my heart.. |
User: vicious kittie
Member since: 02-02-2005 Total posts: 27 |
From: Hogmami
Date: 02-02-2005, 07:07 PM (50 of 53)
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Your daughter is probably right. Where I live in Michigan. I have the bay in front of me, Elk River on one side, Elk Lake on the other, and Bass Lake on the other end. All within a couple of blocks of my house.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800
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From: MaryW
Date: 02-02-2005, 07:08 PM (51 of 53)
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Hi Vicious kittie and welcome to Sew Whats New.
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: mamadus
Date: 02-03-2005, 03:50 AM (52 of 53)
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Besides sewing stuff, I collect LLadro porcelains (especially the christmas bells) and any kind of angel... my first Lladro I bought when I studied at the University of Madrid in 1976.. In Madrid I paid about $15 for that first figurine of Don Quijote... that Christmas I came home and found it for $76... I don't even want to know its value now... I probably wouldn't enjoy it for fear of something happening to it... I just enjoy them for their beauty.. MO life is too short, not to explore
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User: mamadus
Member since: 12-31-2004 Total posts: 492 
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 02-03-2005, 10:49 AM (53 of 53)
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Mo, I would love to see your Lladro porcelains! I have a few antiques in my demitasse/cup/mug collection, but nothing like those. We seem to be a pretty diverse group except for our common cause: fabric! MariLynn
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
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