today's word is actually 'attic' but last night as i went around the neighbourhood to take photos of a row of houses i was asked by a man to not please take photos. i was going to argue with him with my legalese but i was so pooped with work at the office plus it was cold, windy and miserable. i looked at the list of swap words but i haven't really caught an alien in action so i thought i'd draw another wildcard (i thought we only can draw one wildcard but i've seen some who had more than one wildcard), and so i chose 'apron'.
i have a few aprons in the cupboard but i very seldom use them now. i don't know if aprons are still in use as i don't see them in the stores anymore. a long time ago when i was into cross stitching, i cross-stitched almost everything that could be cross stitched, including my own personal apron. that's the one on the right, complete with my name!
when i went to study hotel and restaurant management in the mid-1990's, we had to use regulation aprons and i bought one for each day that i had to be in the kitchen. then when partner's mother had to move to a home, i unearthed her aprons, some of which belonged to her older relatives. i kept the one with the blue gingham print for posterity; that one there is really vintage, as it was her project when she was still in school which would have been between 1914 to 1917. just look at those ric-rac and ribbon detailing. june cleaver would have wanted to covet that, i'm sure!
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so far, i have three candidates for the necklace posted yesterday. the boys are going to be here on the weekend and i will ask them to pick out the winner. i probably will have them draw lots, and just to make it more fun, i'll include the names of everyone who commented on the post. yes, mike and beau, i'll include your names! :-) maybe howard and brian, too, if they show up!
ps: i shall catch up with everyone's photo tonight. thanks, folks!
My goodness- such an adventure for a shot of an attic. Sorry about the weird neighbor- guess you'll have to take a shot of those houses when he's not around! Technically you are correct, there was only one wildcard, but I just can't hop on a plane and scold all the double wildcard players! And am I really upset about it anyway? No. (o: So, double, triple, quadruple wildcard if you have to in the remaining 5 days! Also- my first daughter-in-law Becky has an apron which I have seen her wear on a number of occasions but mostly when she's baking bread. And she would like these- she loves anything vintage/retro. Nice shot!
I am impressed by your apron Vikki. It looks so professional but you are a pro in every task you take on! I might have an apron tucked into my linen closet somewhere but it hasn't been worn in years. Nice of you to have the other apron too. It is a connection between the past and present.
i know of one person who uses aprons when he is bbq-ing and i keep thinking i should use them as i am quite a messy cook, especially when i bake. malcolm says an apron would not save the kitchen, however. very nice shot with wonderful composition. wonder what was up with the neighbor? i took shots yesterday, came home to my horrid laptop that decided it did not want to restart and for the first time, lost all my shots. erased my card. don't know if i am more mad or sad.
Your writing draws me in and I stop doing everything else and enter your world. I wish that we lived closer to each other and could have tea or coffee together and laugh and shoot photos together sometimes. I don't get the guy about "not taking photos!" And yet it happens all of the time to me. I guess that's why I feel safe with flowers for now. We have a lake nearby and you CANNOT get near it from any pov to take a photo. No Trespassing all over the place. Just a lake. Sad. I LOVE these aprons. Reminds me of my grandmother who wore one all day long. Thank you for the beautiful memory, summerfield.
Aprons were a part of our wardrobe growing up -- but nobody seems to wear them anymore. However, there does seem to be an interest in vintage ones again. These are real treasures -- and very beautiful!
@olivetreeann - actually, the last five days' prompts are do-able for me, so i don't think i will have to draw another wild card or use any of the swap words. :-) wouldn't it be fun if you can just hop on a plane to australia and tell @alia_801 alia that she used too many wildcards? oooops, although i didn't get the idea from alia! ;-) thank you, ann.
@pamfromcalgary - thank you, pam. partner's nieces went through his mother's stuff and they weren't interested in these aprons. 'send them to amity' they said. but i could picture in my head how the old lady painstakingly made those aprons, when electricity was still a luxurious commodity. i'm sure if they were given to goodwill someone would have bought them and cared for them, too, but how do we know? i don't understand it when people do not care about their own past and here i am caring for it because it belonged to my partner's mother.
@catsmeowb - oh, camille, i'm sorry about your photos. but how could they've been lost? i hope you didn't lose a lot. that happened to me last year, probably about 200, i uploaded them to partner's laptop because i was having problems with mine and it just disappeared! when i went back the next day, it wasn't the same feeling i had the first time. apparently there is a program or site to recover those. maybe browse the discussion forum and you might find them in the older discussions.
@karenann - for sure! if we lived nearby, for sure. but you know, so far, the only 365er i've met is that young man when i was in manila. i think maybe it's time i bug the heck out of sue @roth for a meet up. thank you, karenann.
@cscecil - i can imagine YOU wearing your apron as you bake that delicious Christmas bread! let me guess, black with white polka dots and red cherries? thank you, CS.
@tklein - thank you, tina. mine is not vintage - i bought the apron from a craft store and i stitched the design probably around mid-1990s. my apron is only vintage because i am vintage! hahahaha!
@michaelelliott - wow! must be my lucky day. howard steele posted a picture for me and you're visiting. bah, i should check my lottery ticket, they say luck comes in 3's! hahahaha. thank you, ME. much appreciated.
thank you so much for that advice. the forums have so much info and i never even thought of that. i have found them but they are in a format i have never heard of before, now need to convert them and have had trouble doing that in the past. wonder why that happened. do not enjoy computer doing things on its own like this. think am going to backup and undo latest update - things ran fine before that.
