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This week, I was lucky to be able to visit one of my longtime readers, known in the comments section here as MMHoney. She is a hoot.
Next time I visit her, I’m going to bring Georgia because I know they would enjoy meeting each other. When I am old, I want to be like Georgia and eat my jam with a spoon right out of the jar, and I want to be like MMHoney and shake my cane at people who come to see me.
That looks like so much fun, I want a cane RIGHT NOW!
MMHoney grew up on a farm not far from where I live. She can do it all and she is one of the grandmas and great-grandmas who did everything many of us are trying to learn now. After she left the farm, she worked and raised three children in the 1950s all by herself–and sent them all to college. She is someone to be admired for many reasons, not the least of which is that she is still, in her 80s, setting an example by being one of those little old ladies who is so much fun to be around. Can’t you just tell?
And she’s really feisty!
MMHoney is the one who sent me my Treasure Trove book. She was also an avid crafter in her day and she shared some of her craft stash with me during my visit. I had a lot of fun looking at the vintage craft patterns and ideas. Would you like to look at some of them, too?
She’s a serious craft stasher. I want to show you this bottle with the old crochet hooks. They kept them in cornstarch to keep them from rusting.
She sewed many aprons in her time.
This one is a half apron with cross stitch on gingham.
Check out the cute walnut mouse (and there’s walnuts!).
A crocheted vase.
Crocheted snowflakes.
Create a snowland!
A pig!
Or a butterfly!
How to make an ornament angel (out of tulle).
MMHoney showed me one she made. It’s gorgeous.
SOCK MONKEYS!!!!!!!
She also shared some old recipes with me. Toffee Orange Bars. That’s gotta be good.
This one is handwritten, so you know it’s true when it’s just called Real Good Rhubarb Pie.
I kept getting sidetracked on one thing or another, wanting to keep looking at it, and she’d take it away and say, “We have to move on!” And smack me on the head with her cane. (I’m just kidding about that last part! Maybe.)
She took me on a tour of her garden and to her cute little shed in the back where the ceiling was lined with traffic court summons. The teenagers in her neighborhood would always come over and tack up their traffic violations, as a sort of ritual.
Her place was the neighborhood hang-out. You know why, of course. She was the fun mom on the block. She was also once upon a time an avid gardener, and I made off with a cutting she’d rooted for me from her big blackberry bush.
I’ll be sharing more of her recipes and craft patterns soon (and in detail) for the holidays. Right now, I’m gonna go find me a cane. And then everybody better watch out!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on September 18, 2010
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She looks like a lot of fun. I’ll be looking forward to more of your visit.
Diane
PS. You forgot to show us the toilet paper roll covers.
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My grandma made me a little pink crocheted basket similar to the vase up there. It was stiffened with sugar water. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, I don’t know what happened to it. I remember I used to lick it every once in a while
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http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/2010/09/fridays-fabulous-find-holiday-gift-idea.html
Seriously stop by and check it out!I’m considering having my Grandmothers popcorn ball recipe, that she handmade 100 each Halloween to hand out, printed onto a towel.
P.S. this is not my blog nor am I affiliated with the printers…Just a very neat idea and wanted to share with ya’ll.
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She would be a great neighbor.
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It looks like you had a fun afternoon hanging out, Suzanne…look at all those patterns and recipes!
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Hugs Granny Trace
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MMHoney seems like someone to hang out with for more than just one afternoon. I bet you are now inspired, Suzanne, to craft a bunch of awesome stuff.
I collect snowflakes. I have ALL of those crocheted snowflakes. Times three! And other patterns as well. My mom made them for a little Christmas business our family had years ago. Our tree is filled with homemade ornaments.
Did I see a recipe for Real Good Rhubarb Pie? Oh yummm! I hope you post that one. I haven’t had *real good* rhubarb pie since my grandma made it when I was little.
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THANKS!!!!
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I used to make those butterflies, wrap pipe cleaners around them for antennas and add magnets to the back, for refrigerator magnets. I taught my Mom to make them, too.
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What a great friend you have.
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Thank you, MMHoney, for sharing such neat ideas with Suzanne.. And thank you, Suzanne, for sharing them with us ! I SO love CITR !!!
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You can do the same thing for yourself.
You will need a computer, printer, computer transfer paper, an Iron, surface to iron on, material or apron/towel/T-shirt.
Wallyworld or another store sells transfer paper for the computer (it’s in the aisle with the other computer papers).
Pick out the apron, towel, etc that you’d like to transfer the recipe to or the material that you want to make the towel, etc out of – that determines whether you need “light” or “dark” transfer paper (so the recipe will show up). I’d suggest a plain color rather than a patterned material. If you’re making the apron, you can make the bib plain and then make the skirt with calico, gingham, etc. Or make it plain and then use a patterned material for the trim.
After you have the item or material, pick the appropriate transfer paper and head on home.
Take the recipe you want to use and place it in your scanner. I’ll bet that if you don’t have a scanner, you can get someplace like Kinkos to transfer it and put it in a computer file for you to take home. Failing that, you probably have a friend with a scanner. Take a CD, DVD or thumb/flash drive to record the file on.
Transfer the file to your computer. Once you have the image in a file on your computer, follow the transferring instructions on the transfer paper package. Print the image (in reverse!) and transfer it to the article or material. Then, you can finish the gift as you normally would by following the directions on whatever pattern you’re using to make the apron, etc. If it’s a pre-made item, it’s ready to wrap.
You can make a LOT of items this way. You can print family photos, recipes, pictures of your pets, etc. and can make cute T-shirts, aprons, towels, and other crafts.
HTH,
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Looking at the recipe card in your photos I’d just sure this will be exactly what I’ve been wanting these many years. My attempts at creating it myself have not been successful but I’ll make these up this week and revisit my childhood. I’ll even let my sister have a couple… maybe just one… or maybe she’ll have to wait until I make up a second pan full next week. I’m finally going to get my fill!
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