I am a Jane Austen heroine (and my husband is glad)  

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I am Elinor Dashwood!


Take the Quiz here!



I think it was Meari who had this quiz on her blog; I started this post back in March before my husband's surgery and before Lent turned into Passiontide, and I'd forgotten it until I was posting yesterday on Easter.

My husband adores the works of The Incomparable Jane, so he was pleasantly surprised that I took the quiz and actually ended up a recognizable Jane Austen heroine. (If he sees this post, he probably won't remember this whole thing.) I would have pegged myself as a Shakespearean strong woman--Portia, or Beatrice (or Kate, except that if I were Kate, I'd have slapped Petruchio and told Dad to just marry off Bianca.) Elinor seems to be the closest to those women, so I'm content.

Try it yourself!

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Pirate Treasure Completed!  

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2 March AD 2009
As of 17 February, I had finished all the stitching and was awaiting my son's decision about what charms to use:

Pirate Treasure stitching and beading finished

He does not particularly like pirates, and so did not want the skull-and-crossbones charm provided for the location of the treasure, so we made a trip to the LNS and he chose a scallop and two sailboats, but we did not find anything for the treasure except a shovel, which was our backup idea if we couldn't find something in my beadwork stash.

What we found in my stash were some stitch-on rhinestones. DS specified the colors and arrangements (can we say "Type A personality"? "INTJ"? :-)

Here is the finished project:

Pirate Treasure Completed!


DS wants it finished as a pillow. He likes to sleep and read and lounge and watch movies all propped up with pillows-pillows-pillows!

I personalized it to the three of us. Can you tell we like The Princess Bride? :-)

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Some old stitching found!  

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2 March AD 2009
While rooting through the garage looking for my portable(albeit it HEAVY) sewing machine, I found these two completed cross-stitched pillows:

The 440 Washington engine

The General engine

I did these while pregnant with DS. I have always loved trains (real and model) and had repainted his room and put a terrific train wallpaper border around at chair-rail height, then did these. They had been packed away when we moved in 2006 and I had forgotten all about them.

The patterns were in two old issues of either CS&CC or Leisure Arts--The Magazine, the former, I think. They were historically important engines in the 19th century United States.

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