After all of Pop's health issues for the past few years, my needle-felting had sort of been pushed to a back burner -- but this year, I decided to get back into the swing of it and try working on some dolls again. Before getting back into Thorin's Company of Dwarves from The Hobbit film trilogy, I thought it might be fun to make something totally different. So, I decided to make an 8-1/2" Pin-trading Jawa as a surprise gift for a friend (photos of that are posted on the Wool Dolls page). Once he was finished, I was ready to tackle another very special subject as a not-so-secret gift for a very special friend. This friend is really crazy about Kanan Jarrus from the Star Wars Rebels animated shows, and we have video chats together a lot. It seemed like a fun thing (during all the craziness going on in the World these days) to have this project to concentrate on together -- for no other reason than just being friends. So, I started working on Kanan at the end of January and just finished him at the end of September. |
Kanan the doll stands 10-3/4" high, which makes him the second largest wool doll that I've made to date (Elrond is the only one to stand taller). He weighs three ounces and took 77 hours to complete -- which also makes him the longest felting project I've made so far! I used .40 and .42 gauge needles to make him. When it comes to fiber, Kanan's legs, arms and torso have a solid-wool felted base made of Romney wool that I just love. It's dark brown (which you never see on the finished doll) and makes such a sturdy base for these dolls. His skin and clothes (including his two-tone shirt, pants, two-tone boots, holster, belts, buckles, knee pads, gloves and hand/forearm armor) are felted of 100% Merino wool -- all from Ashland Bay or England. His hair is made from a really cool piece of blended fiber that I've had for more than ten years. It was just enough of a piece to do this, and my guess is that it's a mix of Corriedale wool and Llama fiber. And the facial details are made of various wool -- almost all Merino. Click on any of the thumbnail images to enlarge. As a short clarification, this doll (aside from the decorative accessories described below) is 100% needled-felted wool. He has no wire frame or special base inside of him. I made it with wool roving, felting needles and a printed "model sheet" showing pictures of Kanan from different angles -- imagine sculpting with wool and a needle, rather than clay. There is no pattern here. In fact, this is the printed model sheet that I used: Sis made the fabulous shoulder armor and weapons for this doll. Because he doesn't weigh very much (being wool), the trick was to figure out how to make such substantial pieces in a light-weight way that the doll could support. She ended up using Crayola Model Magic, which is an extremely light-weight air-drying modelling "clay". She then painted it with acrylic paints and coated it with clear coat. The armor and pistol are completely made of the Model Magic, while the lightsaber was finished with extra details made of a silver-tone endpin attached to a Hematite bead -- and steel washer. Kanan has a steel hook on his belt, and a Comlink made with Model Magic and a metal tube bead. For display, it was obvious that Kanan needed a really cool stand that matched him. Pop cut out a piece of wood, and then Sis went to work. She ended up using metallic acrylic paints to make a really shiny base with the official Rebels logo (which sort of looks like a Star Wars version of a rising Phoenix). The stand is 5-/12" in diameter and 3/4" high. Two large needles are fixed into the wood, and the doll's feet/legs are pushed down onto the needles to use the stand. Click on any of the thumbnail images to enlarge. And there was no way that Kanan could leave for his new home before meeting Baby Yoda . . . er, Grogu . . . right? Hopefully, it won't be so long between the next blog post here or the completion of another wool doll!
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Well, another needle-felted doll is finished. I started him in January and actually got him done in record time! This is Oin, another dwarf from The Hobbit film trilogy. He is one of the oldest dwarf characters and will be holding an ear horn . . . at a later date. Elizabeth and I plan to sculpt an ear horn out of clay and paint it, but that may be a bit before we get to it. He is one of the taller dwarves, standing at 9-1/4" tall. He weighs 4-1/4 ounces and took approximately 64 hours of work to complete. Oin was a really fun doll to make and one of the characters that I've been looking forward to felting for quite a while. In the end, it turned out that he is made of all natural-colored, undyed fibers --- save for his skin tone and a Merino underskirt that does not show unless the doll is tipped upside down. (I just can't stand tipping a doll upside down and seeing all the way up the legs!) The coat is made of American Buffalo fiber with just enough wool carded in to keep it firm for felting. The coat trim is made from Camel Cashmere, and the boots are Coopworth wool with Brown Tasmanian Polwarth soles. His hair is also wool. Perhaps the neatest part of him, though, is the Stansborough wool! Stansborough is a special breed, found on just one farm in New Zealand, and is the special wool used in all the wool fabric and yarn in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films! This makes Oin very authentic. :) I've never felt wool as soft as the curls on his boots! His pants are made of a piece of woven fabric from the Stansborough looms, his boot tops are made of some scraps of Stansborough pelt, and his hoodie is knitted from single-ply Stansborough yarn. The hoodie is really the prize piece on this doll, since it was such an undertaking. To keep it from being to large in scale and too bulky on a doll of this size, I used the single-ply yarn (thinner than crochet thread) on 0000-gauge dollhouse scale knitting needles. That means really tiny work . . . and twenty hours of knitting! But it seems well worth it when viewing the final result. Here are some pictures of him, all you have to do is click any to enlarge. More later . . . I've finished two more needle-felted dolls in the last two months, and it's about time that I posted the pictures. :) These are two more dwarves from Tolkien's fantastic Middle Earth. They are based on the characters as seen in "The Hobbit" film trilogy, and one of these is heading down to the State Fair this weekend! Here they are . . . Bofur (just finished last night) is on the left, and Dwalin is on the right. Elizabeth made the leather accessories for both dolls, which includes belts, Bofur's boots, Dwalin's boot wrappings, Bofur's hat, and Dwalin's harness and matching hand armour pieces. She also drew Dwalin's tattoos on his head. To see more photos and specs for these dolls, just click here to see the photo gallery on this blog. I still need to get webpages on our site for both of these, but that link has a nice amount of photos already! Last year, Bifur and Nori went to the State Fair. This leaves us with even pairs left of the brother dwarves, so Bombur and Bofur are going this weekend. Bombur was finished last year, but he's been very patient about waiting his turn. Tolkien's dwarves are divided into two or three-member family groups. Bofur makes a whole trio complete of a family --- Bifur, Bofur and Bombur. So, in honor of their happy reunion, the three gents posed for this picture: On a more serious note about these guys . . .
Each doll is totally needle-felted out of solid 100% wool. The only non-wool on them is used for any of the decorative accessories. Each doll body is usually felted out of Romney wool, because I think it makes a nice solid base --- which really makes the dolls stand up by themselves very well. I needle-felt all of their clothes out of various types of wool, sometimes throwing in some alpaca, mohair or llama fiber for texture or color variance. If you check out the link in the paragraph above, you'll see some fiber charts made for several of the dolls. That kind of gives an idea of the variety used in each character. It takes a long time to felt one of these dolls. Dwalin has 57 hours of work in him, and Bofur has 61 hours. That usually translates to about two or three months of my "free time". They all stand between 8-1/2 to 9-1/4" and weigh between two to four ounces. Bofur and Bombur will be in the Needle-Felting division of the Ohio State Fair, so if you're in Columbus over the last few days of July or first week of August, you can stop by and say "hi" to them! More later. It's that time of year! The weekend of Memorial Day is always a great time, because we don't live very far (in the grand scheme of things) from the annual "Great Lakes Fiber Show". This takes place at the fairgrounds in Wooster ever Saturday and Sunday before Memorial Day. Being Ohio, the weather can be pretty wonky --- which means that we've gone in the freezing cold (wearing winter coats) and the blistering heat (coming home sun burnt). This year was rather in between those two weather extremes, so we were chilly in the morning and hot later on in the day. One great thing this year was the fact that I didn't have a shopping list of dyed Merino colors. That makes things a bit more fun, because we didn't have to be looking for one particular color match --- or end up disappointed when we couldn't find just the right color. Alpaca is the "in thing" right now, so there were a lot of vendors there with everything from the raw fiber to finished sweaters. We have special friends in Pennsylvania who are very creative (one of them being a fantastic knitter!), and we really wished they could have come with us this year . . . so, we took the camera to send a photographic record of the show! Hence, I've got a ton of photos posted here. We found some great stuff (some of which we brought home), but the highlight for me was certainly the farm that brought three Gotland sheep up for display. Not only that, but they also had Gotland locks for sale! I was able to buy about 10oz. of black 1st Clip locks! Those are hard to come by even online, and this is the first time that Gotland anything has been at the show. The black locks will be perfect for some doll hair. (Scroll down to the end of the photos here to see the locks and some of the other things that we bought.) Okay, now you can get started on the photos. All of the little thumbnails click to show the photo at full size. This booth is a local Alpaca farm, and they have beautiful things. The also sell imported Peruvian Alpaca plush bears. Elizabeth bought a larger one last year, and this time she found a baby one that matches her large one exactly! A lot of booths have the Alpaca plush animals, but this year there was a wide variety aside from the normal teddy bears. The photo above shows some adorable dogs, rabbits, etc. The center photo above also shows some amazing hand-turned wooden yarn bowls. They were beautiful. All of these photos show various yarn and roving booths. That Elizabeth (on the right) and me standing outside in the full sun (hence the squinting looks) after buying her little Alpaca bear. The bags of raw fiber on the inside table are part of the judged area from the fiber competition. Farmers can bring in fiber from their animals and have it judged. The last two photos above show the coolest handmade Walnut yarn-ball boxes. These are to be used instead of the yarn bowls, and they were honestly some of the most beautiful things there. This was a vendor who came all the way from Nashville, Tennessee, for the show! Here they are! These are the Gotland sheep that were on display at the show. Honestly, they were fabulous. I absolutely love to felt Gotland fiber (thanks to it being used in the LotR and Hobbit trilogies, I tried it --- only to find that I love it!), and it even Kool-Aid dyes amazingly. It was really neat to see the "fiber on the hoof", you might say. Thanks to Blumoon Valley Alpacas, we brought home a ton of raw alpaca fiber. They had a great deal with approx. 5-pound bags at Buy-One-Get-One-Free. We brought home almost thirty pounds for Elizabeth to use as stuffing in her plush animals and amigurumi. (Scroll down to see a picture of one of the colors that we got.) If you're into knitting, this is a great place. The yarn was beautiful and enough to make you take up a yarn-using hobby. This booth (Dreamweaver Fiber --- or something similar to that) had some fabulous shirts and tote bags with great wool sayings on them. Not only that, but they also sell some amazing Blue Faced Leicester fiber. The Village Weaver booth was amazing. I got an amazing pair of double-thickness hand-knitted house socks (scroll down to the bottom to see a photo of them). She had beautiful designs of knitting and weaving. The three photos above show some really cute gourd art. Take a look at the cats . . . and the dinosaur!! If you use yarn, this is the all-time best vendor at the show. They are there every year and never disappoint. The shop name is "Briar Rose", and they don't have a bad color in the place. These are the Gotland locks that I got at the show! Totally amazing! They are now all washed and ready for me to incorporate into some future doll. Here are three other things that we bought at the show. The house socks are hand-knitted and double thickness. Can't wait to wear them, so it makes me look forward to some cool weather coming in the fall! The little plush lamb is just cute, and I couldn't resist it. The legs are wired, so it stands up very well and looks so realistic. The screen full of fiber is half of a bag of alpaca fiber that we got (it's drying out in the kitchen here after being washed). Not only were large bags of this stuff on sale at a BOGO price, but smaller bags were only 3 for $5.00. This screen shows half of a smaller bag (we had two screens like this from the one small bag), which makes it work out to $1.67 for the fiber on the two screens! Can't beat that for an amazing show deal, that's for sure! Well, this gives a nice view of the show, and I hope that everybody enjoys the photos! More later.
After eight months, I've finally finished another large needle-felted doll. The long gap between dolls this time is due to the fact that Elizabeth and I are working on three dolls at a time. Once we had decided to make dolls of all of the dwarves in Thorin's company, we made a detailed list of the work entailed for each character. A few of them are very intensive as far as leather work or embroidery (Elizabeth's department!), so we've got two of those "in the works" right now. This gives Elizabeth time to work on the hand sewing and leather, while I'm felting on a different doll. Well, Bombur was finished yesterday! He is a very round little fellow, standing 8-5/8" tall and weighing in at a whopping 4-1/4 ounces! He was felted with .40 gauge needles and took approximately 41 hours to complete. Bombur features a wide variety of wool. His body was made of Romney, which is a great felting wool and makes very sturdy support for a doll of this size. His boots and soles are made of Shetland Moorit (Ashland Bay) and covered with a thin brown leather (gathered along the top). His little leg warmers are knitted from a silk-blend yarn in simple stitch. (This was the first knitting that I had done in years!) His pants are made of a carded mix of Gotland roving and a Border Leicester/Merino mix, while his hand mitts are made of pure Gotland. His shirt is a greenish-gold Border Leicester/Merino mix, and his vest is chocolate brown Corridale. Elizabeth made the shoulder bag from brown suede and braided cotton cord for the strap. Bombur's head and face are made of Cotswold roving, and his hair is Lt. Auburn "All Cooped Up" wool doll hair. Because of the size of Bombur's head and the length of his braided beard, it took a complete three-foot length of the doll hair to finish the beard and mustache.
I think that the most challenging aspect of Bombur was the sheer size of his torso. Instead of constructing him in the usual manner, I had to continue felting torso-extension pieces --- and even stuffing certain areas before felting the roving to a solid, sturdy feeling. His head was a challenge, too, because of the double chin. This was a first for me --- and very fun! The mustache was also really fun! More dolls are in the works. Bifur is soon to be finished, Balin is about half-way done, and I started Nori last night! Keep checking back for other updates. Another doll will be finished before July, because I have to have two entries finished for the State Fair. :) More later. For the first time in five years, I have decided to work very hard at getting my two entries for the State Fair finished before the actual day of entry! Well, I've been working at it since January, and I finally finished a second doll. This doll is based on Thorin Oakenshield as played by Richard Armitage in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" Trilogy. Thorin weighs 3-1/4 ounces, stands 9-1/4" tall and took 61 hours to complete. He is needle-felted out of Merino wool roving (with a little Cotswold for the skin tone) using .40 and .42 gauge needles. The wool in his pants and overcoat is a Merino/Silk blend of black and navy blue. His boots are felted from dark brown Corriedale roving, and they are completed with Rabbit fur and leather thong. He has a lighter-blue tunic, then a grey-leather piece of "chest armour". His short sleeves and the bottom of his armour tunic are felted Merino in two colors. The dark blue is put on the bottom and felted up into the light grey to give the modeled effect. His next coat is felted from dark blue Merino roving, and the belt is navy blue leather that Elizabeth painted with Thorin's designs. His "arm guards" are made of black leather with real metal "buckles" (also made by Elizabeth!). His overcoat is felted with real Mink trim sewn on and trimmed to shape. His face is completely felted wool (no paint or anything), and his hair is made from Mohair Kid Locks. Elizabeth also made the metal bands in his hair, which I think is just the perfect finishing touch. :) I've been making Middle Earth themed dolls for Elizabeth over the past two years, and after seeing Tauriel (the first doll that I have been totally happy with in a while!), I thought that it would be fun to make a doll for myself. After all, years from now, I would like to be able to show my kids a nice doll that I made --- not just the photos. The only doll that I've actually kept is Carmen Miranda (which is one of the best, I think), but, since making her in 2012, I have improved a lot of my felting techniques and proportions on the figures.
Once I have finished a doll, I really like it for three days. I look at them all the time and just enjoy each one, but on the fourth day I am ready to get on to the next character. This is the main reason that I don't keep any dolls. I like them for a few days, but it is really the making of them that is the fun part --- not the owning of them. It seemed like a fun thing to make one that I would want to keep at this stage in my felting. Each doll is better in some way than the previous one, since I am always trying to work on some aspect of the felting or construction. Being the year of the final "Hobbit" film coming to disc, it seemed like a fun idea to have a Hobbit character of my own! We're also a bit "Hobbit crazy" right now, and it's always fun to work on a character that you are really inspired to make. My two favorite characters from all six of Peter Jackson's Tolkien films are Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield. Bilbo as a "hero" and general character and Thorin as far as character portrayal and acting. Bilbo didn't seem like he would be challenging enough (from a felting perspective), so I waffled for a few weeks about doing Thorin. Would he look good in felt? Did I think that I could make him? How would his armour piece work on a doll? Mom and Elizabeth really encouraged me to go for Thorin, and I had a package of Mohair Kid Locks that looked exactly like Thorin's hair. They convinced me, in the end, and I started on him. Elizabeth had made the "chest armour" for Tauriel out of a piece of leather, and that gave a really rich effect to the finished doll. What appealed to me were the metal hair bands that she had made for Tauriel's braid. Thorin had four of those, so that was a real deciding factor in choosing to make him. Well, Elizabeth offered to try some more detailed leather work for Thorin, and it certainly made Thorin look really grand. Having met some new friends who are as nuts about Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films as we are, Elizabeth and I decided to take some photos of various Middle Earth souvenirs that we've collected and made over the years. We bought the Extended Edition DVD of The Fellowship of the Ring in December 2002 and have crazy fans ever since. Our dream vacation (besides our trip to England, of course!) is to go to see the real Hobbiton in New Zealand. Sigh . . . Elizabeth and I thought that we would burst while waiting a whole year for The Return of the King to come to theaters. A thrilling experience came with the announcements that a limited number of theaters across the US would be hosting "Trilogy Tuesday". This was an event meant for all of the loyal fans who had been supporting the three films as they came out. Extended editions of FotR and TTT were shown, with RotK starting at 10:00pm (two whole hours before anyone else could get a ticket to see it!). Tickets went on sale in October, and the price was fixed at $25.00 a seat. This was New Line's way of saying "thank you" to fans, since they weren't even charging extra on the tickets. Purchases were first-come-first-serve, and every last one was sold within twenty minutes of going on sale. Thankfully, we were able to actually get five tickets --- enough for us to go and take our friend, Sarah, with us! In the end, Dad had to spend a week in Cleveland in a training class, so we sold his ticket to someone who hadn't been able to get one and wanted to go with friends. We kept scrapbooks (starting with "Trilogy Tuesday") all about RotK, and we've added to them since. Still have some stuff to stick in for the "Hobbit" films and the pages at the back aren't finished yet. The first spread with the detached black pages show Two Towers tickets that I had put into a different scrapbook (since torn apart). I took this scrapbook on trip to Tennessee once, and we were with our little cousin, Kelly. She decorated the inside of the back cover for me in her best Middle Earth style. (She was 7 years old at the time!) Click on the thumbnails to see my scrapbook: As special "thank you" gifts, everyone in the theater was given a frame (made by Weta Workshop) featuring three film cells, one from each film in the trilogy. Elizabeth and I have ours in display boxes in our room. Mine has a picture of Frodo, Aragorn's hands and Aragorn. Elizabeth's (in the photos below) has Elrond, Haldir and Samwise. You can click on these pictures to see them at full size. I tried to get the film cells to show, too. For Christmas that year, I made a handwritten book of Elvish for Elizabeth. The paper is handmade paper and all the pages are written with a fountain pen. Below are photos of some of the pages. The first pages are all of the Elvish lines spoken in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are also pages with the Lord's Prayer in Elvish, Psalm 23 (in Sindarin and Quenya), assorted translated Bible verses and Galdriel's poem in Quenya as written by Tolkien himself. Again, you can click on the pictures to see them at their full size. That same Christmas, Elizabeth gave me the most fabulous present of a drawing and frame that she made herself. Well, Dad did help her with the frame, but she did the woodburning. She drew the picture of Aragorn's sword hilt, the Evenstar and the Leaf pin. She has the poem from the book written along the edges of the mat board and the Tree of Gondor wood-burnt into the frame itself. She's fabulous! Click on the pics to have a good look. The waiting lasted another year, since the Extended Edition was not released until November 2004. Mom and I ordered it and gave it to Elizabeth for Christmas. Not that it was much of a surprise present! ;) All of Elizabeth's presents that year were Eowyn-themed and wrapped in gold and white paper. We decided to hold our own "Trilogy Tuesday II" on December 28 and watch all three extended editions back-to-back. Elizabeth and I made our own "rule sheets" (made just like the originals handed out at the theater the year before) and tickets (complete with Tree of Gondor background) with a ticket deposit box. We decorated the TV room with some of our Lord of the Rings posters and made food and snacks in advance. Here are pictures from that day (except the first, which shows E. with the RotKee still wrapped on Christmas!). Between the years of the LotR and Hobbit trilogies, we made a set of mini dolls based on the nine characters of the Fellowship. We even entered them in our local fair and won Best of Show! :) They were really fun to make, and we even got Dad to make miniature accessories and weapons for each of them. The tallest ones are four inches tall (not including Gandalf's very pointy hat!). Somehow, we have always forgotten to take the camera to the theater for any of the Hobbit films. Too bad! However, we have gotten some really fun Hobbit souvenirs, as well as making them. We've got full-size sword replicas of Sting, Arwen's sword and Eomer's sword, but I don't have pictures of those. They were made by United Cutlery. These four pictures show souvenirs that we have from either Weta or the Noble Collection. 1) Kili's Rune Stone, a Dwarven Erebor coin from the premier of The Desolation of Smaug in Berlin (2013), and a keychain with the Key to the Lonely Mountain and Thorin's Map. 2) Letter Openers from the Noble Collection. going from top to bottom on the left column and then the right column they are: Tauriel's Dagger, Hadahafang (Arwen's sword in LotR and Elrond's sword in "The Hobbit"), Anduril (from LotR), Sting (from "The Hobbit"), Orchrist and Sting (from LotR). 3 and 4) Prop replica of Thorin's Key to the Lonely Mountain from the Noble Collection. It weighs a lot! During the Lord of the Rings films, we saved up and bought matching Evenstar pendants from Noble. They are sterling silver and have Swarovski crystals in the center (fitting, too, as all the gems in Erebor are Swarovski!). We've had a lot of fun with those over the years. Just a month or two ago, we found someone on Etsy who has a store and sells miniature Evenstar pendants for your doll. Of course, our dolls just have to have those! So, here they are side by side: Finally, we've made some Hobbit-themed dolls in the past two years. I made Elrond and Tauriel needle-felted dolls for Elizabeth. She is 9-1/2" and he is 11". I also made Beorn as a needle-felted doll, but he is actually made at 1:12 scale (making him 8-1/2" including his hair), as Elizabeth would like to make a "room box" of his house. We've also been making some more mini dolls. So far, we've done Thorin, Bilbo, Legolas, Bard and "The Bardlings". On top of that, Elizabeth has taken up engraving Hobbit-themed Rune Stones. There are tons of those (which you can see by clicking here), but one is shown here. The stone is engraved with the symbol of the Arkenstone. Photos below are clickable. Well, this is now a loaded blog entry with an awful lot of photo galleries, so I'll call it quits. :) More later.
I have finished another doll! This makes 24 needle-felted dolls or sculptures that I have made in just under five years. Elizabeth wanted one more Hobbit "souvenir" to go with the final film of Peter Jackson's trilogy. With the first movie, I made a doll of Lord Elrond (E's very favorite Middle Earth character!). With the second it was a doll of Beorn. So, she wanted Tauriel for the third one. I have been sort of hankering to make another female doll, since the last girl that felted was Carmen Miranda (about three years ago!). We looked at a few photographs, but it was one of the Concept Art paintings that really inspired me to try this character. I made a model sheet in Photoshop and set to work. Since we have spent most of January at home, either because of extreme cold or ice, I have had a lot of felting time! This really paid off, as I started this doll about three weeks ago. She is made of merino roving felted with .40 and .42 gauge needles. She stands 9-1/2" tall, weighs 2 ounces and took approximately 57 hours to complete.
I have a lot more photos of this doll. You can see some of them by clicking viewing the Fogleberry Photo Gallery. There are a LOT of pictures on our website, so you can check them out by CLICKING HERE. More coming soon.
The State Fair opened on Wednesday, so the three of us went down to see how my dolls did. :) I'm always curious to know and don't want to wait until the end of the fair to find out! Elizabeth and I were both very excited and happy. Elrond won 1st Place and Best-of-Show. Beorn did well, too, as he got a 3rd place ribbon. Here is a photo of the happy pair: Now I have to begin planning on the dolls to make and enter for next year's fair! I really enjoy making them to enter. It gives me a good deadline and reason to make them. I think that I'm ready to take a break from fantasy characters, though, so that will play into the next doll. My favorites to make are the men --- just because of the types of clothes. The last girl that I made was Carmen Miranda (two years ago!), so maybe it's time for a girl again. We'll have to see. Since it takes several months of my evening time to make these, I have to pick a subject that I really want to work on for a while.
We've been doing a lot of canning and freezing around here. Produce auction is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so that keeps us busy. Lots of zucchini this week --- and green beans! More later. |
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My "favorite" member of the Clapham Sect. Not very much is known about him, but what is preserved keeps a beautiful memory alive of an exemplary Christian man. William Wilberforce Quote:
May I look to Him for wisdom and strength and the power of persuasion, and may I surrender myself to Him as to the event with perfect submission, and ascribe to Him all the praise if I succeed, and if I fail say from the heart thy will be done. For you Jesus Christ came into the world. For you he lived and showed God’s love. For you he suffered the darkness of Calvary and cried at the last, ‘It is accomplished.’ For you he triumphed over death and rose to new life. For you he reigns at God’s right hand. All this he did for you, though you do not know it yet.
Where there is one, there is a majority of one; and when the rights of the majority take away from the rights of the one, then the many will themselves suffer.
~Henry David Thoreau~ I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong. That's home. That's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
~ Bilbo Baggins ~ FAVORITE BOOKS & FILMS
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell) Genesis of a Legacy (K. Ham) Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) Scaramouche (Sabatini) Amazing Grace (2007) Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) Farmer's Daughter (1947) Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) Secondhand Lions (2003) Sweethearts (1938) SCARAMOUCHE QUOTES
He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad. The future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Man never changes. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON
KING GEORGE VI "His conduct on the Throne may well be a model & a guide to constitutional sovereigns throughout the world today & also in future generations." "For 15 years George VI was King. Never at any moment in all the perplexities at home & abroad, in public or in private, did he fail in his duties." |