Over the past week I’ve been working on two large sewing projects (along with my writing). Each project has a pattern with very lengthy instructions. For one project, I’m trying to make a stole, and the fifty page instruction booklet has these words on page 38. Now we will try to make the stole. from [...]
As I mentioned a week ago, in 'A Little Detective Work' (November 28), I have been looking intently at the Stations of the Cross in my home parish. When our church was built the pastor, Father Saunders, did a lot of scavenging for the furnishings. The Stations came from Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in [...]
My beautiful parish church has marble statues from a church in California, that was damaged in an earthquake. (They were free, except we had to pay transport. So, not free. Very expensive, in fact.) There are stained glass windows from two different churches, torn down in Pennsylvania, and the Stations of the Cross are molds [...]
This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I'm open to correction. This was [...]
I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]
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