Todays outfit and what I'm up to

hey everyone!

I thought I would post my outfit for today, as I wear it often and its one outfit I have never posted about yet. I was inspired to post a picture of my outfit from yesterday as I was reading Jamies blog yesterday. I had trouble uploading my photos last night. So here they are now. And no I do not use the exercise ball for exercise, just for sitting at my computer or sometimes to stretch. :) I am not trying to comform to the law she is going by, but I thought it was funny I could pass the rules she is going by. I do not wear head coverings, but I wore a scarf today that could pass for one although that was not why I wore it. It was just pretty I thought.
                                            
 The shirt is from target a long time ago and I love the teal color. The skirt is from J.C. Penneys this past October. I love it and wear this one often! My sister and I were so suprised to find modest and beautiful skirts even at in this store! Its hard to find usually! So we each grabbed one.

Sort of a strange photo, but I wanted to edit out a lot of the other stuff in the photo. I thought it turned out sort of neat angle. :)

Have a blessed day and another post coming tomorrow about my weekend.

In Christ,

Rebecca

Thanksgiving is here and Christmas gift progress!

Hi everyone!
I know all of you are probably not blogging today or reading blogs, but its been a lazy morning for me besides getting some christmas gifts finished for friends. We have not even started baking or cooking our dinner, but the turkey is in the oven. Now to get to those pies, casseroles, and setting the table while listening to christmas music. I always look forward to thanksgiving I believe even more than christmas sometimes. Here is tutorial I used to do christmas gifts this morning with my tea cups I thrifted a while ago.

My sewing box, that a friend made for me last year. I love it! Its so handy to put all my needles, thread, and sizzors inside of!

The traditional tea cup pin cushion

 The gravy boat pin cushion, its not too big I don't believe. I love the way this photo turned out! And I don't do great pictures, our camera is awesome!

                                                                 The retro pin cushion

                                                            The whole clan all together

 What do I do to stay sane while I study for US History 1 clep exam I do my scarves while reading. I also started besides my civil war sontag above in lavendar a scarf for a friend out of this crazy yarn below. Its a lot prettier in real life of course! :) I also finished The Children of Cloverly, which is a great little story from the Lamplighter company. I would highly recommend it! all their stories are to inspire to be more and more as our Savior is! I was encouraged and loved reading it while knitting. I am in love with knitting now that I can actually do it thanks to God Almightly alone for helping me to get it! :)

I also read The Power and Freedom of Forgiveness last night by John MacArthur. I am still in awe of the Lord because He forgives us and died for us when we don't deserve anything! We are so sinful, yet He loves us even more than we could imagine! Have a happy day today and may you all realize and be in awe once again of God's gifts to us and especially the blessing of His Son who died to save us from our sins! God bless!

Rebecca

New skirt and how to wear civil war boots today

Hi everyone!

I thought I would post a new favorite outfit of mine since I did not get to post my outfits I wore during Week in feminine dress. Today I wore a favorite sweater of mine that my sister gave me a few years ago. A long sleeve purple shirt that was free. A necklace I borrow a lot from my mother. And a skirt I made recently with my new janome sewing machine and some denim from the walmart in West VA.

 

 I also wore some teal tights I got for only $1.00 on our recent trip to west VA. I love the color! They are loud, but fun to wear. The socks with lace are from my mother from last years christmas and they are from the victorian trading company. I had wanted them for a long time and I wear them weekly in these cold winter months.

 So I had how to wear civil war boots, well I never thought I would wear my robert land civil war boots without a civil war dress and all, but I believe they are cute and add a nice old fashioned flair. So I wore them with my lace socks and stockings and I thought they were cute. My sister thought I was crazy and my mom loved it. :)

So my whole outfit only cost me $11.00! :) That was for the tights and $10.00 or so for the denim fabric for my skirt. The boots were a gift from my parents for my birthday 2 years ago when we started living history, the socks were also a gift for christmas from my parents, and the shirt was free, and the sweater was also free. I also borrowed the necklace. So my whole outfit was pretty cheap. I love being thrifty.

have a wonderful rest of your Wednesday! I have already been singing and playing christmas music, studying the american revolution, french and indian war, and the great awakening for about 3 hours today. Thats the longest I have studied for a long time. I am going to go and read The Patriots History of the United States and The Power of Forgiveness by McArthur and enjoy the rest of the evening with my family.

Tea really helps when you are studying :)

In Christ,
Rebecca

Christmas, winter, and sewing

Hey everyone!

We we are back home to good old virginy safe and sound as of an hour ago. We found some wonderful antiques and vintage things in West VA and I wanted to share what I found with you all. Besides fabric and awesome aqua tights at walmart along with some comfy new black comfy pj pants, I found some lovely tea cups to use for gifts for christmas. I am going to make some things for my dear friends who sew out of these beauties. They cost me a grand total of only $6.00 for all 4 tea cups. Get this at one thrift store one of them was $1.00, one was 50 cents and one was 25 cents. Then at another thrift store another one was $4.00 and I could not pass it up as it was my friends personality all over! So it was money well spent and I have all the supplies to finish the craft/sewing project already. Can you guess what I am sewing up with these tea cups?! Well I will not tell as some of my friends may guess and then know what I am giving them. :)

 The two above are so different, but so beautiful! I love the big floral and the simple little floral.

 I love the antique style of the tea cup and gravy boat. I thought I could still use the gravy boat for this project as it was so beautiful and not too big at all.

 Last night I had the urge while listening to Josh Grobans christmas CD called Noel to cut some paper snow flakes. At my church I am planning to makes with some children from our church as well as children from Prison fellowship families who we are having a christmas party for in December. Its a great ministry and if you have not heard of prison fellowship!

 I thought it gave a wintry look to my room and made me more in the christmasy mood even though its not thanksgiving quite yet. I am content with it raining leaves all day instead of snow. :)

 I have been playing christmas music off and on for 2 weeks now and this past weekend it was so fun to sing christmas carols with a friend of mine. She took this picture above of me playing while we sang together.

 I had the inspiration from some friends this past weekend to sew ribbon onto my civil war corset as well and now it dawns some red ribbon to make it a little more fun. My dear sister Bethany Lynn made this corset for me. I love it and no they are not uncomfortable and they are not torture devices. They are much better than the modern undergarments of today I believe actually! So much more comfortable to wear and supportive. They are much warmer too for these cold months. I wear mine under a sweater all the time at home.

I used polyester ribbon and yes my fellow living historians and reenactors I was farby doing this, but I did not want to choke up the money for ribbons that were silk at the moment and I will be changing them out for accurate ones in the future. No I do not want to be farby, but since this was just fun for me and no one will see it at events I did it. I would never ever use anything polyester for anything else on my period clothing. I will never use things such as this on my dresses or other undergarments. This was just a fun thing that will probably never be seen and will be changed in a few months I predict. :)

Well have a lovely day and I will be posting again hopefully by the end of the weekend pictures of my every day outfits as well as about the reeactment we are doing on saturday.

God bless and In Christ,
Rebecca

Sewing projects, reading, crafting

Hi everyone! Its been a while since I have posted. But I am still here! :) Doesn't every blogger say that once in a while I am still alive.

Well I have been sewing and pondering christmas gifts as well as a wool coat for myself out of this pattern. I love the light blue one on the bottom left. That is the one I have been sewing up with my sister and a friends help with fitting and morfing the pattern into something I loved and fit me. I will be posting pictures as soon as I finish it. I am sewing it up out of some soft and warm charcoal grey wool with some vintage 1930's red floral as the lining I got in PA a few years back. Don't you love it when you can use fabrics out of your stash. I sure do! But it seems to never get smaller. :)

I have also been pondering this evening crafts as well as sewing projects to do for christmas gifts for my friends and family. I have found many cute and beautiful ideas for all of them! I loved these two sites, mmmcrafts blog  and sew mama sew holiday gift ideas. They both always have lots of inspiration for me for gifts!

Well I am off to read a little treasure I found at the thrift store a few years back and its called The Plymouth Adventure, its from the perspective of John Alden who married Priscilla on the Mayflower and also how William Bradford leads the seperatists and other english settlers to North America and they establish the Plymouth colony. Colonial history fascinates me and its been so much to read about it in depth for my american history 1 clep, which I am taking in december. I also loved reading more about it since we have been doing colonial living history now.

Tomorrow we are heading up to west VA to get some organic free range meat from a friend who has his own cattle and stop by the big thrift store in west VA and stop by some friends homes. I am excited as well as glad to do my knitting as well as study and read in the car on the way up.

Have a lovely evening! I also did finish the week in feminine dress with a bang. I wore my 1930's cloche hat on sunday and it was funny getting so many compliments from men and women in my church. Hats are not worn a lot anymore and they liked my vintage look. I have been wearing skirts and dresses as usual, but we had company from thursday till yesterday, so pictures did not get taken. Later in the week I hope to take some of my outfits for each day to make up for it Lord willing. Hopefully pictures of my finished coat and on saturday we have another civil war reenactment. I put some new trim on my civil war coat as well. So pictures of that coming soon.

I will leave you with these words.

" Why are afraid of being persecuted for being zealous for what is good? Even if you are persecuted for righteousness sake you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts regard the Lord as holy, always being ready to give a defense for the hope that is in you; yet do it with respect and gentleness, with a good conscience, so that when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it is good to suffer for doing good if it be Gods will, than for doing what is evil." - 1 Peter 3:13-17

I have been pondering these verses as I am challenged to share the hope that is in me with good words and actions.

In Christ,
Rebecca

WIFD Day 3

Hi everyone!

Today is the 3rd of week in feminine dress over at the Sense and Sensibility forum. I love Jennie Chancey's patterns and today I am wearing her edwardian apron, which I made fom her pattern 3 summers ago. Yes I do not buy new clothing for these weeks when I post pictures of my outfits. I have also had this blouse for two years from the thrift store. I love ice blue! Can you tell? I wore another ice blue top yesterday. Its my favorite color! :)

 I am also wearing a skirt made out of cotten flannel I made 2 years ago. I am always wearing this skirt all winter and fall, because its so nice and warm because its flannel.
                                              
 The pattern I used for the skirt is the folkwear 1910 skirt pattern, which I highly recommend. Folkwear pattern company has a website you can google it. They specialize in patterns that are of past eras of clothing. Another great site as well as Sense and Sensibility for patterns that are of historical clothing styles. I love edwardian can you tell? Thats my theme for today as well as my hair up in a bun as I have not washed it since saturday. :)

Bethany my sister the photographer thought you just had to see the back of my outfit. I guess its pretty to see all the layers and the gathers in my skirt. :) I also borrowed my necklace from my mother. :) She did not mind. I have been playing with children this morning ages 3 and 4 as well as a baby. My pastors wife came over to see some crafts my family is selling for the christmas season. It was fun playing with them. I also had to do some pretty dirty chores, hence the apron.

Have a lovely rest of your tuesday and I pray that you all are blessed by this blog post about feminine dress. You can be beautiful, modest, and still wear pretty cloths that are not expensive and be put together. ;) You don't have to do todays fashions,but I believe one should still be modern enough to relate to others who may not wear feminine styles.

In Christ,
Rebecca

WIFD Day 2

Hey everyone!

Here is my outfit for today. I wish I had gotten pictures outside. But I forgot to get a picture until now when I am tired and its so dark outside already. I finished a denim skirt with the same simplicity pattern I used for my other new black skirt. I really like the style and its a lot more modern and I love the knee length as I usually wear longer skirts. I had been wanting some shorter, but still modest options.

 The sweater I got for free, its a hand me down. I love it as its warm and bright and cheery.

 Closer up picture of the box pleat in the front on the skirt.

The light blue top I remember getting at walmart years ago. I wear it often and the t-shirt underneath is from kohls I believe. I don't remember prices. My black flats I got thrifted for $4.00.

Have a lovely evening and restful night!

In Christ,
Rebecca