New Favorite website!!!

Hello everyone!
The other day I was on the Sense and Sensibility forum and I was looking a young ladies signature on there. Her name is Ginny and this is what I found. It is a compliation of resources for historical clothing!! I thought how wonderful and useful ,as well as fun to look through! I am so glad she had this list and I came across the Smithsonian womens collection womens dresses collection half way through the list of websites!!! I was so excited and I showed my sister all the wonderful gowns that apparently are in the smithsonians collection! Even some of them are on display in the smithsonian american history museum, which is only 30 minutes on the metro or by car from our house!! My mother said that we will have to make a trip to see them as well as the declaration of independence in the National Archives! I am so excited about this trip hopefully by the end of this month or in march!

Here is my favorite gown of them all! I really want to do the 1770-1785 gown like the one pictured here. !!! It is gorgeous and it would be a dream for me to make this gown or for my sister to make it for me someday!! I just adore the light blue silk over the red silk!!! Oh its just gorgeous I think and I have always wanted to do colonial! This is the era I am studying in government currently and it would be just lovely to own a gown or even go and see this gown to study as well! eep!!

I also adore this dress! The bonnet is also exquisite! I am going to be possibly making a 1860's fashion bonnet soon with some other ladies from my reenacting group. But we shall see. I would love to have an excuse to reenact the 1850's as well as the 1770's!

Well do check out their collection online and if you can do go and check them out in person at the smithsonian! Its free and its great for study! Of course they do not have all 30,000 peices that are in their collection on display, but many of these dresses are! *sighs*

Well have a lovely day everyone and keep warm!
In Christ,Rebecca

What About me?

Hey everyone!

I was so pleased to read this wonderful article that I think is long over due over at Visionary Daughters. I think that I am very much guilty of coveting other girls family situations as well as judging girls who are not in the same situaton I am in. I can relate to the Botkin sisters, having girls of different backgrounds in my life, those who are in christian families I have to say are more so in my life than girls without christian parents. But I am working on that and so is my family with mentoring and ministering to the unreached. But please read this article even if you are that girl who does not have "perfect" family! I know that I don't! Even read this article if you do live in a christian home, because you could learn a lot about what you might need to change in regards to relating to unreached girls who are in totally different situations than yourselves.

Visionary Daughters blog -the article is called What About Me? I think that I really needed to hear this article now and a few years ago when there book came out I really needed this, but I know its for a reason that I have changed without this article. I found out for myself that I needed to change and be content with my family situation and be thankful I lived in a christian home with the parents that I have. I am so thankful now for my christian parents, now I know how to respond to their guidance and their help in a more loving and Christ like manner because the Lord changed my heart. I am still not perfect, but I am working on it, now that I see the problem.

Have a lovely Lord's Day everyone!

In Christ,
Rebecca

Explanation on my civil war paletote

Hello ladies and gents!

I have had many people asking me what pattern I used for my civil war paletote and my sister has completed an explanation on how I made the pattern with her help. I actually used 2 different patterns and had to size them down significantly. It is not that complicated to do yourself though. Head over to my sisters blog here to find out the secret! :)

God bless,

Rebecca

My antique treasure

Hello everyone!

Here is my promised post about something vintage or from the thrift store I have found each week. Here is my antique/vintage post! I love finding old stuff for good prices and used items for free! here is my freebie antique dresser my mother and I found while going on a walk in our little town last summer. I was so suprised to find this treasure! It is used obviously and our neighbors down the street were just throwing it out, so I rescued this peice! Its my favorite peice of furniture besides my hope chest in my room! I love the curved top of the dresser! its such a nice touch I think!

It even has the same curved lines on the bottom as well! :)

The drawers are even curved! I thought this peice had so much character and charm I just could not leave it there to be taken to the dump or another person's home! :)So here it sits beneath the one window in my room as the snow keeps falling outside. I keep my civil war hats, my regency bonnet, and my cloche hat on top of my hat box, with my vintage fur muff inside. I also keep a box for my jewelry and a little plate to keep jewelry I am currently going to wear. And of course some photos of family and friends and my dried flowers from my parents for my 18th birthday last year I had my favorite yellow roses. I dried them to remember.

Have a great day! we have about 25 inches of snow here! And the snow is still coming down!

In Christ,

Rebecca

Haiti updates

Today I was looking Mr. Philips blog and at this The livesay family blog and I smiled as I heard about miracle after miracle that is happening in Haiti! Praise the Lord for healing of the soul and body.

In Christ,
Rebecca

My 2010 reading list

Hello everyone!

I have been drowned in piles of school work this past week and I have been getting reading in here and there to keep myself sain. I have not had much time for blog posts or much sewing. But I have been practicing piano an hour and a half each day! My voice is also back and I plan to start my singing studies again today. I thought I would share with you all what I have been reading lately to tide you all over until I have another sewing or music post ready. All these books I highly recommend and are appropriate I believe for gals and guys ages 13 and up. Of course with the permission of their parents for reading them. :)

I just finished Little Women by Louisa May Alcott WHen the darkness will not lift by John Piper back in January, as well as by John Piper. Both were very good reads and very different in content and all obviously! But I throughly enjoyed both! I received the one by John Piper for christmas from a dear friend and Little Women is also from our family library, which we picked up at a used book sale. My version is not the same as the link I gave you and its a hardback edition.

I have been reading my ESV Bible of course, I received the ESV study Bible for Christmas and I just love it! Its a great tool for studying the Word more in depth. I also use my regular ESV translation as well. You can purchase both of these off of Amazon.

My small esv bible , which I have had for about 7 years is this one from amazon.

And the ESV study Bible is great! Mine was not this expensive, they must have racked up the price for the leather bound. I love this ESV Bible for in-depth study of the Word. Its great with all the foot notes, extra maps, concordance, etc.

Here are some books I have been enjoying in my spare time.

I bought this book back in December, but since I am so busy I still have not finished it. But I plan to finish it before the month of February is over. It is called Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper! I highly recommend this book! It has a wonderful message any christian that is new to the faith or has been walking with the Lord for a while should hear!

I think this book should be owned by every christian or every christian family! Its a great resource for those tough questions, which sometimes are not so easy to understand about manhood and womanhood. Since the world and even some of the church today have a distorted view of what it means to be a man or woman biblically this book is a great way to understand what that means Biblically and not by the worlds idea of masculinity and femininity. I highly recommend this book! I have read only through the intro and chapters 1 and 2 of part one! But I have learned a lot and I have also been reminded of a lot! So definately add Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by Piper and Grudem to your reading list if you have not read it yet!

I also have 4 chapters left before I finish Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen! I love this book and I would recommend it for ages 16 and up only because for younger girls it could make them discontent and I think more mature gals should read it. Its a romance novel, but its also about character and maturity in the lives of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood who are sisters. Jane Austen is brilliant and I would recommend the movie also for older gals and their parents and guys to watch. I would recommend the 1995 version though, its my favorite with Kate Winslet as Marianne, but the new one is also good, but I think not as good a representation of Marianne. She seems to be more immature and silly in the newer one than she really is to me in the book or 1995 version. So I like the older one better. I would recommend it as my favorite Austen book so far, but I have only read S&S and Pride and Prejudice and I have a feeling I will love Persuasion, which I plan to read next.

The last book I have been reading is the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques. I do like book and it is well written, I would recommend this book for boys and girls 12 and older. It may be a little scarey or too hard a read for younger boys and girls. But the story so far is delightful, funny, and mysterious. Amazon does carry this book for Kindle, but not in paper book form. I bought mine at Barnes and Nobles many years ago and never read it until now. There are 2 others in the series, this is the first installment. great book! very adventurous!

I have also been listening to The United States at War- The American Revolution audio series by George C. Scott and I have been enjoying it even though it is for my Worldviews of the Western World course I am doing for school. I love learning about history and I have gotten lots of notes, new ideas, learned much, and gotten lots of hand sewing on a civil war quilt done while listening to this series. I love learning while sewing! :) Amazon does not have this, but here is the website for my Worldviews course and you can buy it there.

Books I plan to read in March are What is Reformed Theology? R.C. Sproul, I have read the first chapter and a little bit of some of the other chapters and it is quite good. It gives a good idea to me what reformed theology is, because I had been wondering what it is as I have some friends and know some families who are reformed. I want to know for sure if I am reformed etc.

I also will be starting Persuasion by Jane Austen. Now my version of Persuasion as well as all jane Austen's other works are all in one big volume my family bought at a used book sale many years ago. So the books I am linking to on amazon are not the copies I own. So be weary of versions that may be abridged! I despise abridged books!!

I will also probably still be reading Biblical manhood and womanhood by piper, because its so long and is a lot of information. :)

I am not sure what else besides that, but I have lots of books under read on my shelf that I will probably read as well.

I hope you all have a lovely day! I plan to get more worldviews done, listening to that audio series, as well as reading many government documents. I also have chemistry and practicing spanish to do. I also plan to work on a plaid bias skirt that I cut out but have not finished today. We are supposed to be getting 2 feet of snow again between today and tomorrow. So its perfect being snowed in to get things accomplished. I sister and I are still sad because some friends of ours will not be coming up like they were supposed to on sunday for the super bowl! But we will still have to enjoy ourselves without them. Also probably we won't be able to visit a new church that we wanted to visit Sunday either. But we will have to wait till next weekend.

have a great day and stay warm!

In Christ,
Rebecca

We will become whiter than snow....

When we are cleansed from our sins by Jesus Christ! WOW we will be whiter than snow when we are saved from our sins! that really hit me and I wanted to share that with you all! we are whiter than snow!

We received about 5 inches of snow and we are supposed to get more this coming weekend!

I am always in awe of the beauty and genius the Lord puts into His creation.

"Walk about Zion, go around her,

number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels,

that you may tell this generation that this is God, our God forever and ever;

He will guide us forever."

Psalm 48:11-14 " I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;

I will counsel you with my eye upon you." -Psalm 32:8

" Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;

cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice

to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause."Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refruse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." -Isaiah 1:16-20

May God bless you all! keep warm!

In Christ,

Rebecca