Look Who's 1 Year Old Today....

That's right! My sweet little grand daughter is 1 year old today.Her mommy (Framed by Amber) took this picture and the little dress was made by Rosie Rose.Happy Birthday Auna, Nana loves you very much.

Live Deeply,
Vicki

Teaching Rug Hooking in Clarksville.....

 Miss Auna is almost a year old now and she thinks she is a big girl.She is trying to feed herself.She did get a little of it in her mouth but most of it got on her face and hands.

 This last weekend I taught a rug hooking class for an art group in Clarksville,Ar. I had a great time and I hope the ladies did too.

                         It was a beginning hooking class and everyone worked hard and did a great job.

    Lynn was my hostess for the weekend.I really enjoyed getting to know her, her hubby and her mom.

                                                Kaethe got comfy on the couch as she hooked.

                                                              Sherry is working on a horse.

                                                  Janie is making great headway on her rabbit.

                                                          Barbara is working on a bird.

                                                  Sally's little sheep are coming out very cute.

 

We added some green strips in the background of Lynn's horse.

I hope all the ladies will send me pictures of their finished rugs.

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Vicki

Funny,Funny,Funny..

I love this lady's work! I hope to take a class with her someday.

I love this video! Can't tell you how many times I have see someone wearing something that caught my eye and all I could think of is "that would look great in one of my rugs."I love hooking with recycled wool.

Live Deeply and recycle something,
Vicki

I Love My Country......

Happy 4th of July to everyone!I hope ya'll have a safe and wonderful day.I feel very lucky to live in the USA and I love my country.But there are people in this country who are trying to change our history.I keep hearing about our Constitution saying we have "separation between Church & State".That the church should stay out of the "State".If you read the letter I have posted below you can see where that saying came from and what it was meant to be talking about.Thomas Jefferson wrote this letter to a church that had wrote him with worries that the "state"was trying to tell them what to do.Jefferson's letter make it clear that he was talking about the "state" staying out of the church not the other way around.Below is a link to where I got the copy of this letter.

Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter

To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.


Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.


I hope we as a country will take back our history and teach it to our children the way it really happened.

Live Deeply,
Vicki