Abigails Bloggy!

Updates!

2011-09-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

Much needed updates in process! :P :)

Wow!

2011-09-06T07:27:00.000-07:00

Long time no see! Er, write! lol! I had totally forgotten that I had even decided to give this blog a rest! :P I'm glad I decided not to delete it! :P Thats usin' the ol' noggin'! ;) :P

So! Its about a years since I've done pretty much ANY blogging! :P I've learned a lot within that short time, and reading back, I feel like almost a totally different person. :S :P Maybe not totally differnt, just, older?? :P Is that good or bad?? lol! I donno! But it feels good, so it must be! :)

I've decided to get back up on 3 of my blogs for sure!

Those would be:
This one, dressingthepast.blogspot.com and makingpatterns.blogspot.com

We'll see how it goes! I might even start a few more blogs.... I know! I know! Just what I need! :P ;) lol! Like I said! We'll see how this goes...

A Farewell for now!

2010-10-27T12:21:00.000-07:00

I've decided to focus on my other blogs and give this one a rest. I would have deleted it, but thought maybe I'd pick it up again someday. We'll see! So tata for now! Farewell! And Adios! :D

Lupine Ranch Signature contest

2010-02-03T08:07:00.000-08:00

On February 5th, Lupine Ranch its anniversary! One of the things we are doing is having a signature contest and here is what I've made for it! :D :) I like how it turned out a LOT!! hehe!

Isn't it lovely! :D

Things around!

2009-10-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures I took a week or so ago.

The Doggies! They are so sweet! Poor things! In a cage!

Me, Yikes! Look at that short hair! :S

Tomatoes flowers!

I like this one!

Our Compost Pile! Isn't it lovely! :D :P We need to stir it up a bit!

Can you find the tomatoes?!

Pretty sunset!

It was gorgeous!

Pics

2009-06-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple pictures I just took! :)

How Far,..

2009-06-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

After the colonial year, I felt like I lost touch with the style I had. I look at it as a good thing, now I can rethink and evaluate what I want to wear and what I want others to see me as on first appearance. But every time, the question "How far?" always goes through my head. Is there a point where I could be over doing it?

How far does a person go, in being pure?
Can a person ever be too Pure?
Does wearing skirts knee length or longer make you more pure?
Or is that just being modestly feminine?
What about long hair?
Is it okay to cut it short?
What about starting a new?
Would cutting it then be fine?
There are so many opinions, what does a person choose?
What direction do I want to go?
What direction should I go in?

I know I'm not going to get all or any of these answers right away probably, but I believe that if I wait and continue doing what I feel lead to do, they will come, and I will know in my heart.

I've already decided that I want my clothes to be a little plain, not with lots of designs or sparkles. Simple designs are fine, like calm stripes or a clam plaid. I also want the material its made out of to be more natural than not. And I want it all to be on the country girl side. :)

I know there are a few articles of clothing that don't fit into my new wardrobe plan and will have to go! :)

I'll tell you how it goes!

Board the RMS Titanic!

2009-03-20T14:52:00.000-07:00

5 Days on the RMS Titanic!! Are you in? I know I am!! See you there!! *winks*

Yesterday,..Day 1!

2008-10-09T17:30:00.000-07:00

So yestesday was day 1 of moms studio front project! Blu and I are making a front wall for her studio(which used to be a garage(I think,.. :P ))! I haven't done any kind of building work for at least a 2 years, when we were doing the shop. All I remember from that was having to lift really heavy wood siding, hammering nails that were always bending and dreading to go out there to do it!! I didn't know what I was doing and (I must admit) wasn't very good at it. But in this case! Things are different! :P lol! Mommy shows us the plans and explains to us how to do it(Daddy helps do that too!) and then I tell Blu what to do! ......... Okay! Okay! So I don't have it that easy! :P lol! Me and Blu take turns drilling!(though both our drill bits are broken now,.) Screwing in!(though sometimes the screws won't screw unless we drill holes first,..) Hammering in nails!(they still bend,..) and Sawing!(something I'm actually better at than I thought!) :D So! As you can see! It still is pretty hard! But you know! I'm not dreading it!! Not at all!! I'm actually looking forward to it!!

It might be 'cause I want to build my own tiny house,....

Isn't it Cute! :D
(found pic at windowsdisplay.blogspot.com)

Or because I'm the one in charge(most the time at least! Mommy sits in the studio so she can tell us what to do next! :P )
Or maybe just 'cause I'm older now! :P
The wall has french doors and a window, though you can't really tell from what we got done here. But we did get some funny pictures! :D :P Enjoy!

Hands!

Kaja in the studio at mommy's loom!

Kaja snapped this picture just as Blu's saw did one of those wobbly things! :P

Blu was making a funny face as daddy was explaining something!(didn't get dad in the pic though,..)

Me! Sawing! :D :P :)

Blu holding a board up! lol! :P

Lol! Violet was being silly when she saw me taking her picture!

Cutie! :)

This was when she didn't know I was taking her picture! tehe!

LOL! I Love this one! :P

I thought this one was kinda cool!

Now I'm holding the board up! That drill was Heavy when it was upside down!

Anyways!
Mommy is 8 months along with the new baby!! YAY!! :D I'm EXcited!!! *Sighs* ...I love babies!
We also have a little dog that is due to have babies any day now! Fun! Fun! Stuff!! Babies! Babies! Babies! :D Lol! FUN! :P
We have 2 tumbler pigeons and they are so cute! They fly up in the air and then start tumbling down, doing flips and flapping their wings and then they swoop back up into the air! They are SO PRETTY!! I love 'em!
We also have two big toads that live in our back steps! I love them too! :D :P They come out every night to eat the bugs that collect at our back steps light! We also have a bunch of tree frogs that come at night usually, also to eat the bugs that collect at the light. The tree frogs are all named Fred or Fredrika, but we've never named the toads,.. I wonder why,.. I like the toads much more than the frogs,..
The frogs actually have some stuff on them, because one time Ellie was holding one and then rubbed her eyes and they began to sting! :S SOOOO! We don't touch the frogs if we can help it! But the toads are nice!! :D I LOVE 'EM!! I should kiss one! Maybe it will turn into a prince!! lol! :P

Around Our Place! :)

2008-10-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

Okay!! So here are some pictures I took a few days ago! :D I was having fun until the camera battery died,.. :P I hope you enjoy!

Underneath the pretty flowers! :P

Some white flowers!

Pretty Scene! :P

More of those lovely white Flars!

Our Back yard and Barn Yard! Thats Kaja filling the goats water bucket and Violet back by the corner of the house! (you can see the chickens are hungry!)

The "Creek" :P

One of our egg boxes!

More underneath the Flars!

Mr. Buggy!

Sir Moth! I got REAL close to him!!!!

I really liked these! :P :D

And Mr Buggy again!

Me and Kaja!!

2008-04-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

Heres a picture of me and Kaja from fall 2007! (There is also Rebecca's arm! :P )

Well! Well! Well!

2008-01-01T18:46:00.000-08:00

SOOOO!!! I've started my historical fashion journey!!! YAY!!! SO! The rest of my posts should be
at dressingthepast.blogspot.com !! And then story writing posts at my story writing blog!
( http://blueyedmiss.blogspot.com/ )

THANK YOUZZZZ!!!!!! :D

Today!

2007-10-30T14:12:00.002-07:00

Well! Todays been okay! Kind of boring, but okay. I got Sam's letter in the mail! Yay! *dances* lol! :D And I also got the pattern Wendy(the knowledgeable lady whos been helping me with Colonial stuff!) in the mail today! Yay! *dances again* :D So those were Exciting! :)
I had to clean my room this morning though, and that was annoying! I don't really enjoy cleaning my room! I feel like I have a TON of other stuff I could be doing besides that! And I do! :S lol!

Well! Yesterday I was suppose do have my picture taken at wal-mart along with my sisters Kaja and Libby, and my brother Blu. But I didn't. Grandma Lulu likes to have pictures of us about every year. We went and they said since we had had 3 pictures the other day we could only have 1 more at the special price. So it was just going to be Kaja for a while, but then Grandma asked if we could have 1 more, an they let us have 2 more. So Blu, Kaja and Liberty got their pictures and Grandma said we'd go to a different wal-mart in town and just put it in her name instead of moms. But it didn't make a difference to me whether I got pictures or not, so I wasn't bothered! lol! But then we went to HobbyLobby! I looked at fabric, but didn't find any that I thought would work for colonial. But then we went to Braums to have ICECREAM!! :D :D :D !! Lol! I had a double dip cone with EggNog on bottom and Pumpkin on top! Lol! Aren't I a seasonal person! Haha! Not really! I knew I liked EggNog and I wanted to see what Pumpkin tasted like!! ... It tasted good! :) :P Lol!
But then when we went to the other wal-mart they didn't ever HAVE a photography place! So! I didn't get any! But then we went home to have our family pictures taken! And My sisters Rebecca and Susan took extra pictures of me! :D lol! So thats what the pictures are! Family and me! The oneof me are the ones Susan took and she was having a little to much FUN! lol! :P No! Just kidding! Some are REALLY good I thought! Some are funny so I'm posting a few of the too! :D :P
Anyways! I think I'm gonna go work on some projects! (*wink*) lol! Talk to ya laterz!! :D

p.s. It seems the image thing is not working! :( I'll have to post them from another site later!

So! So! So!

2007-10-25T13:06:00.000-07:00

Hi!
Well today is Thursday! The day we have our Sabbath!
Grandma Lulus been here a few days! She came on,.. :P I'll ask mom! It was Monday afternoon! :) I think she'll be here til next monday or so! :D Yay! I'm not sure though,.. We'll see! lol! :P
I plan on posting some pictures later! I should have posted them a long while ago, but, never got to it! lol! :P Oh well! my siblings want to watch the movie "Nanny Mcfee"! And they have Popcorn! I better let em get one anf grab a bowl! :D Until next time I post!
*hugs*
Abigail!!

Okay! Okay! Okay!

2007-09-15T18:53:00.000-07:00

OKAY!!! I'm SORRY!!! I'm such a bad blogger!! I get destracted and busy with normal day to day stuff and then other stuff I REALLY want to do!! :S Its hard sometimes!! Will you forgive me!?

Well music lessons has started up again! We've only had one lesson so far and we're only going every other week, not every week. Which I'm ok with. Ooh! I'm also taking!!!! ............*drumroll!*....................................... !!!!!GUITAR LESSONS!!!!! YAY!!! I know a few chords! And can strum the chords to a few songs! YAY! My finger hurt a bit, but not to bad! I can't wait til they callous(sp?)! lol! I'm having fun though! :D

I've really been thinking about my wearing colonial clothes for year and building my strawbale house! They are both so cool!! BUT! I have a few projects I need to get done before I go an get started on those!! :S Grrr!! There always seems to be something I have to do!! :S lol!

Ooh! Did Any of you know that my cow had her calf!!! YAY!! It is a sweet little girl! Shes pretty much all white with just a hint of cream!!!!! I'll have to post some pictures soon!! *sigh*

Lol!

AAAAAHHHH!! :S

2007-07-07T20:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry! I know I haven't posted in a long time! But I haven't really been able to find the time or interest!! :S lol! oh well! But I am feeling an itch to write more on my stories! So be sure to check out my Story Blog in the next few weeks! k? lol! So! I've been in minnesota for the last 3 weeks about, and I can say I'm ready to go home! Not that I didn't enjoy myself, I just miss my family, my diet and just my usual life! lol! Weell, I think I'm gonna go now! I know! I know! This is short, but I'm gettin' tire and want to research some historical fashion before going to bed!! So, NIGHT!!

Luv ya!!

Abigail!! :)

Hmmmmm........

2007-05-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted in a little, but I guess thats ok. lol! Alrighty! I've decided to post something from the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Book! Rebby posted it on her blog, but it was getting old, and I really like it, so I've decided to post it on mine now!! lol! I love it!! hehe! Its real long, but its soooo funny!! Here it is!!!

"I'm throwing the television set out the window the moment we get home!" Shouted Mr. Teavee
"The most importent thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare untill their eyed pop out.
(last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they'er hypnotised by it,
Until they'er absolutely drunk
With all that shocking, ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb on the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink-
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND!
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWER OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK-HE ONLY SEES!
'All right' you'll cry. 'All right' you'll say,
But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY....USED....TO....READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells to good what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrl Nutkins, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How The Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away!
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And all the children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start-oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.

P.S. Regarding Mike Teavee,
We very much regret that we
Shall simply have to wait and see
If we can get him back his height.
But if we can't-it serves him right."

~Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

What did you think?! :P

Wow!

2007-04-29T15:45:00.001-07:00

Wow! I need to update more often! Sorry! I've not been to great at it recently! lol! Aw, well! lol! :P
Ok! Well star had her babies!! Two cute little things that look just like her! Ones a boy and the others a girl! They are SO ADORABLE! They have their mama's "bananna ears" as my little sisters and brother call them! Their ears are long and white with little black poka-dots/splaters and they curl just a little at the ends! They are simply CUTIE PIES!!! I think my sister will probably post the pictures of them on our family blog! So check that out and maybe you'll get to see them!!! lol! Star is such a sweet goat!! Always letting you pet her! So sweet! :)

Hmmmm, what else! What else! I slept over at Christine's house friday! It was really fun!! I put on some of my funky clothes and some of her accesories, and she put some WILD makeup on me and we took pictures! We were playing pretend and I was the super model and she was my photographer! LOL!! Not really but it was fun! She sent me the pictures today so I'll try to post some on here!! hehe! Tell me what you think!!!!! :P I only wish I coulda stayed longer!! :( Her and Lacey came up with every 2 or 3 weeks seeing each other, they aren't doing that now, but they want to! and I think its a GREAT IDEA!!!! That way we can put it on our calendars and we always know we have to do something that day!!! Such a good idea! Christine, Lacey, you two are brilliant!

Hmmmmm........

2007-04-13T14:35:00.000-07:00

I want to go visit Karyn in indiana for 2 weeks and then come back down with them when they go on vacation, I'm hoping and praying that its the Creator's will!! I want to go so bad! :( But I do understand if it not His will and I'm willing to wait til it is(if it is!). And hopefully that will be next time they come down! :) I want more fabric! I hope we can go to Wal*mart to buy some! lol! I love the $1 a yard! But I don't love at all that they won't have any more soon!! I like cheap fabric!(money wise of course!) lol! Hopefully all the other fabric places will put down there prices once Wal*mart is done! Hopefully! But thats ok if they don't! I'll just have to sell ChaCha(my heifer) and buy more goats!!!!! lol!! :P Oh well! We'll see!

Abigail

Ok!!

2007-04-03T07:48:00.000-07:00

Ok!! This is now my everyday journal like blog! Well, I'm sure it won't be everyday! But you get the idea! Lol! So! Recently one of Blu's goats had babies!! Two little girls! They're so cute! They look like poodles puppies!! Except different. lol! But they're cute anyways! One of my little baby goats got hit in the eye with another goats horn or something! Poor guy! Its all swollen and there is some discoloration on the actual eye where the horn or whatever hit!! I'm thinking either he'll heal or be blind in one eye! :'( But I guess thats ok! I guess I don't mind! Ha! That sounds mean!! lol!! So about a week ago when we went to hobby lobby, they had these little radios that were likr 4 dollars and something cents! They looked like a little kids toy, white with red, blue and yellow. But they got the stations really well! So my brain was being striked with little knowledges I had never thought of! I don't even listen to cds and such! And I would HATE to pay a dollar a song on itunes! (Sorry! I'm a penny pincher!) So! I was like! I want this!! Even though its ugly!! I want a portable radio!! No, I didn't get it, I had no money(still don't)! And Rebi wouldn't buy it for me, though if I did have money or if she bought it, it would have been stinky! Because!!!...........!! When she and Angie whent to the Goodwill!! They found a nice little one for 50 cents!! Yay! its kinda cheap quality, but it works pretty good! Once in awhile it'll cut out or something! But I can deal with that! lol! So now I have my little portable radio! Yay! Fun! hehe! Alright! Well! I better go! I think thats enough for today! :P

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