tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post7500788729183239466..comments2024-03-18T18:45:59.168-07:00Comments on Home Living: Most Requested PostsLydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-91170291764086369762009-11-18T07:36:38.027-08:002009-11-18T07:36:38.027-08:00I agree with anonymous above ^ who comes here to b...I agree with anonymous above ^ who comes here to be refreshed after becoming weary with the world. I've stopped reading or listening to the news because it is just so sad. I really enjoyed reading these older pieces.<br /><br />~Jo~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-18642625839255983712009-11-16T15:18:32.921-08:002009-11-16T15:18:32.921-08:00I have so enjoyed rereading these posts. They are...I have so enjoyed rereading these posts. They are truely classics. I cannot however get Peter Marshall's Keepers of the Springs to come up. It is so inspiring to reread and think again on these principles. Reading them then sharing them with the younger generation is really what I need to be doing. I have found no other place except LAF that is so in tune with my feelings. How has the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-57865219483494460202009-11-16T09:11:35.482-08:002009-11-16T09:11:35.482-08:00I think that is the same pattern I have used for a...I think that is the same pattern I have used for all the dresses in this dress series. It takes any sleeve just fine and the neckline is not too low. It is loose enough but fitted and does not need a zipper or buttons. I do llike to sew more complicated things, but for this series I used an easy pattern. I added collars and trims and all the dresses look different.n I have one coming up that I Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-24134197305835758072009-11-16T05:35:46.463-08:002009-11-16T05:35:46.463-08:00Thank you for organizing your posts this way. It w...Thank you for organizing your posts this way. It will make it easier to print them out for my notebook. I appreciate you allowing readers to print these inspirational posts out for personal use. <br /><br />I have finally found a good dress pattern for beginners. It is New Look 6352 and it can be a long, short sleeved dress or a long sleeveless dress. I am making the sleeveless version, but it isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-20091665033081224812009-11-15T14:53:15.458-08:002009-11-15T14:53:15.458-08:00I have passed on your web site to my daughter and ...I have passed on your web site to my daughter and some of her friends.<br />So thank you for sharing again all these topics!<br />Love it, love it, love it!!!<br /><br />Bless you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-72087690303752053272009-11-15T13:15:56.258-08:002009-11-15T13:15:56.258-08:00Emmarinda,
Hmm... There are still plenty of indi...Emmarinda,<br /><br />Hmm... There are still plenty of individuals on the airwaves (radio, television, and electronic) who would like for nothing else than a wholesale departure from manners and treating one another with decency and civility... Indeed, in many ways, the Australian national persona is one of the most uncouth in the world; grossly iconoclastic also (happy to throw out the good Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-45454560758281573632009-11-15T10:55:19.360-08:002009-11-15T10:55:19.360-08:00Dear "Anonymous" Sarah,
(Yes, I also kn...Dear "Anonymous" Sarah,<br /><br />(Yes, I also know it's you, giggle). It sounds like you have more guidance in your country than we do in the U.S. I think our Miss Manners is very good. She is secular, but is a bastion of respectability with loads of common sense. We need more of these people, and of course, we also need to be these people. Just wanted you to know I always enjoy Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-30568764382441867902009-11-14T20:02:45.850-08:002009-11-14T20:02:45.850-08:00This list is great - thank you so much for making ...This list is great - thank you so much for making it.<br /><br />I am looking forward to reading all of these.<br /><br />God bless!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495298953834229360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-11378808968021011542009-11-14T19:26:26.962-08:002009-11-14T19:26:26.962-08:00Indeed, Lydia, you are correct; the naysayers do a...Indeed, Lydia, you are correct; the naysayers do attack love!! They are so fueled with bitterness and a type of envy that pricks their conscience (which they promptly ignore and rebel against) that all they can do is mock and criticize; remember my husband's friend's wife who, a tourist from another country, was publically accosted in the US simply for taking that extra little bit of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-15816135747775045672009-11-14T17:24:46.487-08:002009-11-14T17:24:46.487-08:00Well, then, it must have been an attack on love!Well, then, it must have been an attack on love!Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-9554805495975660262009-11-14T14:28:24.825-08:002009-11-14T14:28:24.825-08:00Lydia,
Love is what motivates us to have good man...Lydia,<br /> Love is what motivates us to have good manners, order and decency. Just loving someone will make us desire the best for them. <br /> God is a God of order and we should be too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-62952311559957698292009-11-14T12:27:35.725-08:002009-11-14T12:27:35.725-08:00I do remember. It was funny how the socialist girl...I do remember. It was funny how the socialist girls came out and accused me of being inhospitable and uppity, just because I thought the home should be respected. I will certainly add it to the list. The girls who have spent their lives in state institutions from birth, beginning with daycare and into school and then off the college and then career, do not understand the privacy of the home.It Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-85349991467396264042009-11-14T12:00:14.683-08:002009-11-14T12:00:14.683-08:00I also loved your post(s) about the formal home. I...I also loved your post(s) about the formal home. It tied in, I thought, with the theme of architecture affecting life. Anyway it got me thinking of the many ways that outside, physical things affect relationships and one's own interior life. I remember there being some controversy about the formal home, as if, gasp, any attempt to order one's home and life in a manner anywhere above that Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-16856612775501502162009-11-14T08:03:23.162-08:002009-11-14T08:03:23.162-08:00Thanks Lydia for sharing these, especially about a...Thanks Lydia for sharing these, especially about architecture. Even my young daughters recognized this that something is amiss with the way the house we live in is designed.<br /><br />Thanks for the comments from the other homemakers it helps to see what others are thinking and that we are not alone. <br /><br />I used to say, "I do not need to read the news because the Bible tells me theseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-89636391686883889462009-11-13T20:58:26.206-08:002009-11-13T20:58:26.206-08:00Thanks for fixing the link. Great articles.Thanks for fixing the link. Great articles.Neo-Victorianisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14645232177126938226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-60876661625605979452009-11-13T17:45:20.483-08:002009-11-13T17:45:20.483-08:00That is similar to what I did today. I always go t...That is similar to what I did today. I always go to the dollar store first, for what I need, just in case it might be there. I was very pleased that there were things identical to some things in high-end stores, that I needed. My next stop in WalMart and then the fabric store. I did not come home with much, but it is fun to go and see what is going on in the market place and see what creativity Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-35719716592301013652009-11-13T17:11:54.151-08:002009-11-13T17:11:54.151-08:00Love the sleeves and collars in this painting. It ...Love the sleeves and collars in this painting. It gives us an insight into the clothing of the times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-78767895975597079572009-11-13T10:37:05.347-08:002009-11-13T10:37:05.347-08:00The link to "The
Effect of Architecture on H...The link to "The <br />Effect of Architecture on Home Living" is also not working. <br /><br />Thank you for re-posting these favorites. Would some of the blog sites that are already listed in the left column please consider allowing new readers? It is rather frustrating to want to read a link and find it is only for invited readers with no way to ask for an invitation. (Is asking even Stephanie in ARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117946992633230458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-52611538857128523032009-11-13T10:13:10.209-08:002009-11-13T10:13:10.209-08:00I am getting ready to add links to blogs and homem...I am getting ready to add links to blogs and homemakers. Please post your link on a comment if you want it added and please add me to your blog, too. I will also post pretty shops online, so if you have an enterprise or an etsy, etc. post it too.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-47931048870744714212009-11-13T09:20:34.270-08:002009-11-13T09:20:34.270-08:00Thank you for posting them! I am excited to read t...Thank you for posting them! I am excited to read through them ~Emily of A Beautiful Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12344634575410261040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-77260135977306073392009-11-13T08:33:09.584-08:002009-11-13T08:33:09.584-08:00Yay! Thanks for posting these old favorites. Espec...Yay! Thanks for posting these old favorites. Especially Thirty Times Yes. As a younger woman, I was at a Bible study once where they were discussing if Christian mothers should work. The leader, an older woman in her 50's, said, "Well, some women are gifted enough to do both." That never sat right with me, because even as a young wife with no children, I was becoming aware of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-21026700029140956492009-11-12T22:02:58.459-08:002009-11-12T22:02:58.459-08:00Hear, hear! You have recommended a few of my pers...Hear, hear! You have recommended a few of my personal favorites!<br /><br />I enjoyed Taylor Caldwell's piece so much, in fact, that I hunted down the book from which it was taken, "On Growing Up Tough".<br /><br />Another very worthy one, I think, is your post "Do What God Says Do, & Let Him Take Care of the Rest". I find myself repeating that mentally during Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-25104281429714919162009-11-12T21:20:56.764-08:002009-11-12T21:20:56.764-08:00Try the link again. I tried to fix it.Try the link again. I tried to fix it.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-13837240699053025462009-11-12T21:10:21.675-08:002009-11-12T21:10:21.675-08:00The link to"Don't Miss Out on Real Life&q...The link to"Don't Miss Out on Real Life" does not work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com