New Dress!!

Well here's a bit of a previes of my new dress, My dad took these pictures and he didn't catch the whole thing. So I think Mom and I are going to try another shoot later, when it's good and sunny again. It's a Sense and Sensibility 1914 afternoon dress. I have yet to make a sash, and I'd like to take up the hem with a few pin tucks and put a false "Under Layer" beneath it of a solid peachy pink. But anyhoo, like it?

Also, I have sort of a favor to ask of my Titus two ladies, yup that means you ladies that are older than me and have ever given me advise before!

You're all bloggers I assume, and I need some inspiring posts for my sister blog "Stay at Home Daughters Fellowship" Do any of you have any advise to give some young women who have chosen a homemaking life Vs College?

Any advise to those of us who are going the whole way and plan on having an old fashioned simple life? If you wrote it down would you let me post it? I'd be truly greatful!!

I'd like to have a series of "Titus 2" posts from you ladies that are willing to write.

If you have anything (And it can be something you have already posted on your blog that you think would work) would you email it to me? Avonleamountaindreamer[@]hotmail[.]com (remove Brackets)

I'd be eternally greatful!!

And by the by!! I'm getting internet soon! It's a sure thing, it may just take time to get everything set up, but I'll be sooo glad to be back posting again!

Love you all so much!!

Meggie

The Best of Lovers!

Well... I missed Valentines... Which is sad seeing as it's my Holiday...

But I wanted to say, I had the best of days! Instead of feeling lonely and wallowing in my singleness, as I was cleaning the yard, I found that God had left me a gift!

FLOWERS!

They haven't bloomed yet, but what a day to discover them!

Who knows better how to love than Christ Himself?

Needless to say, I wasn't sad or lonely any longer!

Happy Valentine's All,

I hope spring is jumping fast on your heels as it is here!

~Love Meggie

Who Said...??

Who said Homemaking doesn't have it's occupational hazzards?

Dad's Birthday

On the 11 of this month, my Dad turned the ripe old age of 62. :D

mmm steak.. men are so easy to please, eh?
we were pleasantly snowed in, so we made the best of it with some steaks we had in the freezer, and I scrounged up enought butter and eggs to make a pie. :D My first reall pie as it were.


(Actually.. I had to use lard.. for lack of butter... animal activists don't hurt me! My mom used to make soap...)


Birthday boy cutting his pie. :D



I made the pie out of Spelt flour since my dad is Gluten intolerant. (Spelt has a lot less gluten than regular wheat flour) and my mom had bought some great big red apples maybe a week before upon my request. (Don't ask me what kind they were....)

I think I'll just let you enjoy the pictures, since there's not much else to say on the subject, we had a wonderfully pleasant day, and I think my Dad really enjoyed it. :D

mmmmm pie.....

impromptu family photo

Wonderfully old

An older lady at the Church was going through some of her 90+ yo mother's things. She must be trying to clear out some things because she brought me a whole bag full of vintage jewelry and hats and lace!!!

I only got pictures of some of the jewelry, a few select favourites. On opening the locket pictured below, I noticed a makers mark.

Now I've seen my fair share of "Antique's Roadshow" so I decided on a lark to google it. (The name was clearly printed as well as part of the mark)

I went down the list until the mark appeared and guess what??? It was dated 1945!!

I was so excited! So I jumped on the others to see if there was a mark printed on them.

This one did, it was the same company, so I figured to find a close date.

The mark was placed only two above on the list from where I found the one above.

My jaw dropped.

I showed my dad the mark on the necklace, then showed him the picture on the phone. He confirmed it, they were identical.

Can you take a wild guess at the date??

1919!!!

Can you imagine? I'm wearing (Athough fake costume jewelry) a necklace that some fashionable lady bought in 1919!!! The others weren't near as remarkable as these two, but I thought I'd share them anyways. :D

I'm still in shock, and I found all this out over a week ago!

Enjoy the pics!!

~Meggie

Out With the Old, In With the New

Well I hope ya'll are having a WONDERFUL new year so far!!

As for me, mine is great!

You see I only set Two resolutions, and those were to make my bed every day and keep my room tidy, and to read my page in "My Upmost For His Highest" Every day, and guess what?? I've gone 20 days and stuck with it! I'm so proud of myself, usually I have NO drive and my resolutions never stick, not even this long. But it was like it was already a habbit when I started, This time there was no margin for error in my mind, I was NOT going to quit, and I haven't :D

As I mentioned earlier I got to ring in the new year with my Wonderful best friend "Lady Weaver" okay well sort of... She had to take me home at 11:30... but still!!

We had an absolutely WONDERFUL weekend at "The Our Generation Summit" It was so nice to have a weekend surrounded by Christian people who truly had a drive for God!

If you are in Tennessee around New Years I HIGHLY encourage you to participate! Keep an eye on this post I'm going to have Lady Weaver Find some of the Video and some links on it and add them to this post. They Videoed everything... I just can't find it...

Videos:

Promo Video

For His Name? Or For Yours?

But anyways... I didn't feel right taking any pictures... so I got some of Miss Weaver and I afterwards. We went out to eat at a restraunt in Pigeon forge called "The Partrige and Pear" And here's pictures of it. :D

And it was raining so... yes... Weaver is wet...

Oishi!

Tata for now!

From Avonlea_Dreamer

And Lady Weaver

New Blog and Update!

Hey Ya'll!

I wanted to let you know that this weekend has started off awesome! I was given a chance to go to a missions conference with Lady Weaver, up in the mountains. It's so amazing so far! Not only for the lessons, I'm following a "Women's only" Class schedule, (they had five or so classes you could chose from at one time) but for the people. It's so encouraging to be around people who, at a public restraunt, can talk openly about the Bible, and what God has done for them. It's not that people I know won't, it's that other subjects come up first. Yup.. it's sad either way you put it... So anyways... that's my weekend. :D More on that with pictures later.

Secondly, I started a new blog... yes another... But this one is more for my benefit. During the day, while watching home improvement shows, looking at magazenes such as Victoria, Going to Lowes, I keep looking at Doors, and Wallpaper, and kitchen cabinets and saying, "Now that's what I want in my Home of Dreams!" So I decicded to create an online portfolio for all my dream furnishing and of homes that give me inspiration.

So Click Here to check out my Home of Dreams.

or the beginings of it anyways....