Saturday, May 30

Individual Style in a Traditional Wedding

Do you know someone who is getting married???

Rockerchic wrote  a great article  in the handmade news about making the day more individual.

Individual Style in a Traditional Wedding in the handmadenews


Create an Extraordinary Look with Handmade Designs
Extraordinary Handmade Wedding Accessories
 

Monday, May 25

The Fight for Freedom...

In Civil War, Woman Fought Like A Man For Freedom

Jennie Hodgers as Albert Cashier. Credit:  Courtesy Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library And Museum
As Union soldier Albert Cashier, Jennie Hodgers marched thousands of miles and fought in dozens of battles during the Civil War. Credit: Courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Weekend Edition Sunday, May 24, 2009 · Albert D.J. Cashier was the shortest soldier in the 95th Illinois Infantry. In one of the few existing photographs of Cashier during the Civil War, you can faintly detect the outline of breasts under his uniform.
But that's if you're looking for it. And the military apparently was not. "They didn't conduct physical exams in those days, the way the military does now," says Rodney Davis, a retired professor of history at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. "What they were looking for was warm bodies."
Jennie Hodgers, masquerading as Cashier, marched thousands of miles during the war. She was at the Siege of Vicksburg and the surrender of Mobile. Her regiment took part in more than 40 skirmishes and battles.
"Albert Cashier seems to have been in [the war] from the beginning to the end," Davis says. "She stuck it out."

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Memorial Day

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Monday, May 4

CALYPSO ART GLASS LAMPWORK NECKLACE SET by MonaDesigns

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Here is part of her description:
A collaborative effort combining my hand torched beads in hues of reds, oranges and purples with the lentils of Mariya Anton. Wire wrapped elements in Sterling, Sterling Silver beads, and Bali Sterling Silver in several embellishments create a very dimensional and excitingly colorful Art Glass Necklace and Earrings set! The lentils have beautiful colors worked over Fine(pure) Silver foils to create a delicious organic reaction between the colors and sparkling veins of the Fine Silver run between the colors!........