tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716841463726306014.post-43162117473509658262008-04-16T14:14:00.000-07:002008-05-12T06:09:12.528-07:00<div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kyU5FYftPoc/SAa2HiFrw9I/AAAAAAAAA0k/MHbGYTDy_p0/s1600-h/daffy%2520down%2520dilly%27s%2520spring+Large+Web+view.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190035861117060050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kyU5FYftPoc/SAa2HiFrw9I/AAAAAAAAA0k/MHbGYTDy_p0/s400/daffy%2520down%2520dilly%27s%2520spring+Large+Web+view.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kyU5FYftPoc/SAZsYiFrw8I/AAAAAAAAA0c/YSIyJ35LGxE/s1600-h/daffy%2520down%2520dilly%27s%2520spring+Large+Web+view.jpg"></a><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">One evening, over a year ago now, I sat with my daughter on her bed playing </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">with her lap top...</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">"oh, I've got to get one of these!" I said, emphatically.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">Speaking of her lap top, of course, and exclaiming over her then new blog </span></div> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.homekeepinghearts.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#339999;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">HomeKeeping</span> Hearts </span></a><span style="color:#999900;">all at once.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">How <em>luxurious</em>,I thought to myself. To sit upon your bed and sail the world over! </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">To visit exciting places and wonderful people, </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">seeing such things that I had no idea even existed.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">things that can only be dreamt of.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">and so~~~~~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">with Katie's help,</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"><span style="font-size:130%;">T</span>he <span style="font-size:130%;">P</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">astoral</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">D</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">oll</span> Maker was born that very evening.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">From my chair by the window I can see our farm unfolding hill upon hill, dressed in her best soft green gown of spring...</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">the twittering of the meadow lark, the sound of contented frogs</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">singing from the newly filled pond.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">oh! there's the scent of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">crab apple</span> blossoms catching me by surprise while I write.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">and I can share it all first hand.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">This has been a wonderful year of learning, of growth &amp; discovery and I am grateful for all of you, my dear friends, new &amp; old, who have come to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Deerfield</span> Farm </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">for a visit &amp; peppermint tea on the porch or </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">for a walk through the fields with me.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">I have visited &amp; made new friends in countries all over the world from my old wing chair.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">all while sitting here, snug, by the crackling fire on snowy winter evenings.</span></div> <p align="center"></p> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>~*~</strong></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong></strong></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color:#999900;">To celebrate my First year blog <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Anniversarie</span>, </span></p> <p align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">I invite you to write a sentence or two, a paragraph maybe and tell me what you have enjoyed most while visiting me here this year...</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">and what you would like to see &amp; hear more of.</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"><em><strong>This is your entry into the First Anniversarie Celebration.</strong></em></span></p> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">Mr Fine <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Pigg</span> is away for a few weeks away to visit his family at the neighboring farm </span><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">and so I will be drawing the name of a lucky someone who leaves their kind thoughts.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">There is a lovely Paper Trifle to be given away~</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">hand made especially for this occasion.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">The winner will be chosen on Friday, May 2, 2008 shortly before my</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"><span style="font-size:180%;">S</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">weet</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">S</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">pringe</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">C</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">elebration</span> </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">beginning at 5 pm that First Friday of May.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">I hope that when you do come for a visit, </span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">that you'll feel comfortable and please leave a comment. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">~please leave your name and a way for me to contact you~</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">I love to hear from everyone and will do my best to do the same for you.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">I look forward to hearing from you~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">with love</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">on this day,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>hristine</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://christinecrockerdeerfielddollmaker.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#336666;">~news from the Deerfield Doll House~ </div></span></a><div align="center"><span style="color:#336666;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#336666;"><strong>~*~</strong></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">ps</span>. I have heard from a little bird that the newest issue of <a href="http://www.stampington.com/html/artful_blogging_sum08.html"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#003333;">Artful Blogging</span></em> </a>may contain</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">a little something about <em><span style="font-size:130%;">The Pastoral Doll Maker.</span></em></span></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"></span></em></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#999900;"></span></em></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">April 24</span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">***after traveling for hours and miles </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">and spending my children's inheritance for gas...</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">I have not yet found the newest issue of Artful Blogging. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">We sat on the floor in front of the artist's &amp; crafter's </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">magazine shelves </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">at Barnes &amp; Noble </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">had </span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">wonderful mocha's.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">We basked in the heady coffee aroma &amp; delightful atmosphere </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">of a real live book sellers .</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">Spent some delicious time looking through</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">all the newest magazines,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">but did not find the one issue </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">I was looking for.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">it surely is coming ... and it is somewhere...</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">my little bit of being published is <strong>not</strong> in the Spring 2008 issue.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">but rather the <strong>Summer 2008</strong> issue</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"><strong>on the newsstands May 1</strong>.</span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">I can be patient....being surrounded by rows upon rows</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">and piles of books </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">and other bookish people was heaven.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">double mocha's and patience...do they mix?</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">ah yes, they do for me.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">I have not yet seen this little bit of story about the dolls myself,</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;">but I <em>hope</em> to very soon.</span></div> <div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#999900;"></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="color:#999900;">love,<span style="font-size:130%;">C</span></span></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4716841463726306014-4316211747350965826?l=thepastoraldollmaker.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christine Crockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533913606916785532deerfield@palmain.com36