More Summer 1975

My brother and I goofing off, playing dress-up- weird that we were wearing such items on a hot day though. The air conditioner must have been on! The blanket, scarf, hat, and whatever is on my head were handmade by Mom.
 

June 13, 2015- Mom

Mom used to make some of my clothes and costumes when I was a little girl. She knitted me nice sweaters. Once she made the same pattern in 3 different colors - mine was blue and the 2 others were for my friends Cindy and Jessica.

   She also made Mike and I yarn dolls when we were kids. I only kept one of them but wish that I had them all. She liked doing counted cross stich as did her two sisters and mother.

   I remember her doing ceramics at the community center in the 70 and early 80s. We loved when she would have some of her pieces glazed- this made them look really nice. She did busts of 4 classical music artists for Dad.

   She had a few Tupperware parties and a Faye Swafford pocketbook demonstration that were fun. I remember most of everything that we used to have from both of these.

   She’d make some good meals like stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers, stew, and desserts too like chocolate mayo cake. Our family friend Jeff didn’t like mayo but had a 2^nd piece of it even after finding out that this was one of the ingredients.

   She made this delicious dish that we called “the ugly meat that tastes good” in the Crockpot that we still have. It was beef roast that was so tender that you could cut it with a fork. She often made us pancakes or French toast as a weekend treat.

   We’d bring her baked beans to barbeque parties. Of course, we’d have them at ours too, along with her potato salad and coleslaw which she also made at Easter time.

   I can almost taste her special party punch in my memory now- pineapple juice, ginger ale, raspberry sherbet and frozen strawberries. She made us freezer pops from fruit juice with the Tupperware molds.

   Everyone loved her lemon meringue pie and stuffing which was even better than grandma’s and Aunt Ann’s. Her meatloaf in tomato sauce was also good.

   Mike and I really enjoyed baking cookies with her at Christmas time. We used her mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe that is probably from the mid- 40s. We still have the original card that it’s on.

   We also made sugar, peanut butter and oatmeal cookies. Sometimes we’d make magic cookie bars which is Aunt Ann’s recipe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photos from internet- last 6- food, PF stuffing cubes, lemon meringue pie, Magic Cookie Bars, and the Faye Swafford pocketbook                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Decorations 8

The one with the cow is my mom's. The bunny in the top photo is handmade. I hope that everyone has a very Happy Easter.

Easter Decorations 6

I had drawn a picture based on this Easter placemat in the bottom photo back in the early 1980s but I foolishly used it for my Spanish project for this holiday in high school. My teacher liked it alot and I was too afraid to ask her to give it back to me. I redid the drawing in the late 80s but it's not as good. Mom liked it though, she even bought a frame for it. I used some cute Easter stickers for the other handmade decoration, also done in the early 80's. We got the color cling on one at our grocery store a couple of years ago