The Little Red Hen

Flashback Friday

1967 - at the Virginia Tech greenhouses

Flashback Friday

1974 - Mt Rushmore

 

Flashback Friday - campsite fun

1975 - Somewhere in the Colorado Rockies. It seems the camera had a timer...

We were so easily entertained.

This campsite was right next to a beautiful lake and there was no one else anywhere around. We stayed here several days and hiked around the area.

I remember making this little town in the snow.

Flashback Friday

1972 Wading in the Gulf of Mexico.

This was AFTER visiting the St. Louis Zoo and the incident with the door to the aviary. My sister was kind enough to help me "wade" in the gulf with one foot.

I think this was our first visit to the Gulf of Mexico. I remember that there were blobs of sticky black oil goo on the beach. We wanted to get our feet wet so we walked/hopped through it. Again, I was wearing my FAVORITE outfit ever.

Flashback Friday

1972 at the St Louis Zoo. I'm wearing my FAVORITE summer outfit, a reversible sun dress with matching panties. It can also be seen here at the Grand Canyon. My oldest sister had some cool shorts on that trip. They must have gotten worn out before they were passed on to me because I don't remember wearing them.

1972 was also the year of the fluffy yarn pony ties.

These photos must have been taken early in the day - before the incident with the door to the aviary in which I lost a toenail.

Flashback Friday - the handmade clothes edition

1975 Modeling handmade clothes - don't you love the school shoes and knee socks?

My oldest sister is wearing a dress she made of wool plaid. I remember thinking she worked really hard to get the plaids matched at the seams. She entered it in the Make it Yourself with Wool competition as well as the 4-H dress revue. I am wearing a pinafore and dress made by her as well. I LOVED that outfit and could hardly wait for her to outgrow it. My middle sister is wearing a lovely dress she made out of a mushroom print fabric.

Fabrics from the two outfits on the left can be seen in my first quilt. Go have a look; it's a riot of 70's prints.  I finished that quilt in 1976 just in time for the bicentennial celebrations. It even won a big rosette ribon at one of the local fairs that summer! 

 

Flashback Friday - the Easter bunny edition

1968. With our uncle. I loved those dresses and I remember that I REALLY wanted to hold one of those bunnies.

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1970.

Flashback Friday

1970 - at the Cascades (Va.) with Mom and our cousin.

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1975 - Siblings. somewhere in Colorado.