Americana

It's really hot here--in the high 90s--but you'll be relieved to know I staggered off to the LNS this afternoon. I decided I should celebrate my first Alegbra test grade (100%). I've been feeling in need of a smallish project, and I'm excited about my upcoming vacation which commences with the July 4 Friday and goes through the following week. I'm not going anywhere--staying at home to do homework, housework, needlework--the three works. My goal is to finish this and frame it before the end of July. Anyway, here's "Simply Americana" by Waxing Moon Designs. It's done on 32 count Belfast light mocha with GAST threads.

And here's a picture of my start:

Does anyone recognize this graphic? I collect these dishes. They're fairly difficult to find, so I have to add one or two at a time to my collection. This weekend I won two full-size plates on ebay. I suspect most of the supply that's out there was lifted from the original restaurants, so there are a fair number of dessert plates and saucers. It's harder to find the dinner plates. I'm not sure how spread out across the country this restaurant was; I know there were quite a few of them in New England. When we visited my grandparents in Vermont, we used to stop by and have our favorite, one of the restaurant's signature dishes. Anyone know what that might have been? Eating out was a huge occasion for us (gulp--in the 60s), since there weren't that many places to eat and most families didn't have the budget for it. It's weird to me that we've become a society--at least locally--that now eats out so frequently that it's more routine than special.

Pink has discovered popsicles. I offered a taste of mine to each of the rabbits, and little Elvis turned up his nose. Pink loves them though, and gets the juice all over his chin whiskers. He takes dainty little bites. Here he is, begging for one.