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About the Blog: The Beauty of Life is a reference to a lecture given by William Morris in 1880. His golden rule: “Have nothing in your house which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” is a rule by which I aspire to live. I admire all aspects of the Arts and Crafts movement (both English and American) -the architecture, furniture and textiles, as well as the attitudes towards craftsmanship. This blog has been established primarily to take part in Sharonb’s 2008 embroidery design challenge. I will also post photos of other embroidery, quilting and crazy quilting projects I am working on.
About me: I live in Brisbane, Australia with my husband, three children, six chooks, a dog, and the wildlife. I enjoy quilting and embroidery and, of course, crazy quilting, because it combines the two. I would like to say I enjoy gardening, however it would be more true to say I like the idea of gardening, I love having a nice garden, I just don’t want to get my hands dirty. I liked cooking once upon a time (pre-kids), but now I have better things to do (stitching), and I was tired of dishing up gourmet extravaganzas to an unappreciative audience (kids).
Pingback by About « The Beauty of Life « The Beauty of Life — December 9, 2007 @ 3:52 am
Hi Paula,wishing you a late welcome to WordPress. I thought you had been around for a long time as your posts seem very professional. I shall backtrack and read your older posts over the next few days. I take forever between posts as I tend to post only when I have finished something, mostly because people seem to like photos with the blogs. I too love William Morris and the whole concept of Reverse Garbage.
Comment by Magik Quilter — December 17, 2007 @ 10:21 am
Oh Paula. I’m old enough to remember school milk !! The boys at our primary school used to have a competition to see how many warm bottles of milk they could drink before they were sick! The scheme in NSW lasted till the late 60’s I think. Then the government decided it was too wasteful and cost too much, they had to build little brick sheds to store the bottles in so they were out of the sun ! Imagine the state governments giving the kids anything free now, although Mr Rudd says he’s going to give kids laptops I’m sure he doesn’t mean GIVE, more lease them. Thanks for another great memory I almost missed!!
Hooroo,
Christine.
http://missmuffettwo.blogspot.com/
Comment by Christine — February 11, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
Hi, Paula,
I love your site, and the wisdom of William Morris. (I came here from Margaret’s site). I had heard the comment about what not to keep in your house, but I didn’t know where it came from — thanks for the info!
I also love your title, The Beauty of Life. I’m working on a project of my own that also celebrates the beauty of life. It’s a collection of Thank You Stories called I Never Got to Thank You. I’d love to read and include one of your stories in my collection, if you’d like to send one. You can read more about it on my post:
http://lovingherbeautiful.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-never-got-to-thank-you.html
Please feel free to pass my request on to anyone you think would be interested, also.
Blessings!
BILL
Comment by Bill Burns — March 8, 2008 @ 2:17 am
hello
I’m french… my name’s Domito
I saw your blog… it’s lovely
I propose you a textile ATC swap
are you OK
my blog
domchiffons.canalblog.com
Comment by DOMITO — March 18, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
Thanks Paula for your answer in stitchin fingers. I hae seen pearls like yours in stitch magazine; I shall try them again, ………….The ideas and desire are present, the time falls.
I shall answer you later.
Kind regards
from Anne
http://quilt007.free.fr
Comment by Anne — May 27, 2008 @ 5:39 pm