Okay everyone! It's that time again...I know it is a bit of a silly habit, but around our house, we like to quote movies. We try not to quote them excessively, but script-writers are witty people and when personal wit is lacking and there is a quote that absolutely, perfectly fits a situation.....they just..."Pop out!" to quote Miss Steele from Sense and Sensibility. ;) So yes, to make a long post short, welcome to the O.F.V.F.U.T. (Our Family View From Us Two) Movie Quote contest! :) I am debating what I ought to theme this quote contest....mayhap I ought to theme it Society: Blunders and Brilliancy...yes. I like that. So changing the name of this contest to Society: Blunders and Brilliancy Movie Quote Contest, we move on!
As always, your job is to leave a comment telling us what movie the quote is from, and, if possible, who said it. :) You get one point for each correct answer, and an extra point for telling us who said the quote. :) We'll tally up at the end and the winner will be announced! :) Without further ado, we begin:
1. "It's just this new small-talk: You do it so well!" "Well, if I did it properly, then what was you sniggering at?"
2. "Yes, the library is fine. I wish I read more....I prefer being out of doors....of course, I can read...and I'm not suggesting one can't read out of doors..."
3. "It's not.....so bad...." "Are you blind?! You look like a circus clown!"
4. "You must give us either one thing clever, or three things very dull indeed."
"Three things very dull indeed...well, that will just do for me."
"Oh, but there may be a difficulty. You must limit it to only to three at once."
5. "Dancing is the ornament of every polished society."
"And every unpolished society--every savage can dance."
6. *Gun shot* "Boring conversation anyway. Luke! We're gonna have company!"
7. "Oh hey! What are you doin' here? I mean, it is your house but...."
8. "Cynthia. If you must have the last word, please don't let it be a truism."
9. "You may, like us, admire her hair from a distance without taking the liberty of touching it."
10. "I can hardly believe my ears!"
"*We* can hardly believe your mouth!"
11. "More at home here, than in Vienna? In all your glittering salons, gossiping gaily with bores I detest, soaking myself in champagne...."
12. "No light propitious shone..."
"Edward, you have no passion. Read it like this: "No LIGHT propitious shone!"
There you go! Have fun guessing! ~Rachel and Sarah
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Historical Hair...the inspiration behind a new idea...
I thought that it would be a fun idea to do some hair-style tutorials on this blog, since I have had plenty of practice with 5 younger sisters! :) I love doing unusual and pretty hairstyles, and of course some of the best are historically inspired! :) For a long time I have been wanting to figure out some particular hairstyles from period movies, so I will be working on those. But I wanted to know which ones you girls would like me to figure out and do tutorials on. Here are the choices. You can vote on the sidebar for your favorites and I'll do my utmost best to figure them out! :)
Belle Gardiner's hairstyle for the ball (and this was the single picture I could find of it- I'm sorry!)
Anne's Shirley's classic Gibson-girl pompadour....
Ada Clare's (Bleak House) sweet hairstyle- so pretty for a young girl!
I really like this hairstyle of Harriet Smith's in the 2009 Emma. All her other hair-days are horrible, but this one is actually really cute! :)
I guess Barbara Spooner's hair (Amazing Grace) is slightly too ambitious at this point, isn't it? Not to mention I'd be hard-pressed to find a girl with enough hair to be the model! :)
Well, go ahead and vote! :) ~Rachel
Going On A Date ;)
Saturday night The Gentleman From Virginia took Sarah and I out to see "Tangled" (the new Rapunzel movie) at Cinema Cafe. Waiting till it came there is worth it, because it's only $3.75 to see it! :)
I really enjoyed the movie, and especially the music in it, even though we missed the first five or ten minutes. :) It's always fun to go on a "date" with him! :)
Afterward, since the movie theater was in the mall, we went into Macy's and tried on all the huge Sunday hats! :) Sarah looks great in the cute little caps and cloches and things like that, while I looked better in the wide, floppy brimmed hats :) It was a lot of fun and Daniel took pictures of us with his cell phone. It's funny to hear what people think of a guy taking girls out! :) We were at the gas station and I had a funny conversation with the guy in line behind me:
Me: at the register paying for candy
Man in line behind me: "If he's takin' you out, he's supposed to pay for everything!"
Me: "Oh, well he pays for a lot of stuff a lot of the time so I'm buying my own candy."
Man: smiles pityingly ;) "If he's takin' you out, he's supposed to pay for everything. Everything."
:D If he only knew the many debts I owe to my most obliging Gentleman From Virginia, he'd soon rest quietly on that subject of treating us to a movie! :D Anyway, that was our fun evening!
~Rachel
I really enjoyed the movie, and especially the music in it, even though we missed the first five or ten minutes. :) It's always fun to go on a "date" with him! :)
Afterward, since the movie theater was in the mall, we went into Macy's and tried on all the huge Sunday hats! :) Sarah looks great in the cute little caps and cloches and things like that, while I looked better in the wide, floppy brimmed hats :) It was a lot of fun and Daniel took pictures of us with his cell phone. It's funny to hear what people think of a guy taking girls out! :) We were at the gas station and I had a funny conversation with the guy in line behind me:
Me: at the register paying for candy
Man in line behind me: "If he's takin' you out, he's supposed to pay for everything!"
Me: "Oh, well he pays for a lot of stuff a lot of the time so I'm buying my own candy."
Man: smiles pityingly ;) "If he's takin' you out, he's supposed to pay for everything. Everything."
:D If he only knew the many debts I owe to my most obliging Gentleman From Virginia, he'd soon rest quietly on that subject of treating us to a movie! :D Anyway, that was our fun evening!
~Rachel
Winners announced!
Okay! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Marvelously Mixed-up Movie Quotes contest! :)
The Winner is....................
The King's Daughter with 8 out of 10 points!!!!
(we can hand deliver your prize on Tuesday! :)
Tied for 2nd place are: Abigail, Shaina and Leanna with 4 out of 10
3rd place: Stephanie with 3 out of 10
4th place goes to: Jo March with 2 out of 10
We did judge by how many fully correct quotes you got. (Making sure you named *every* movie in the quote)
So did you think this was fun? Should we do one again? Please let us know in a comment! :)
The real answers were:
1. Pride and Prejudice and the Fellowship of the Ring
2. Cinderella and the Sound of Music
3. the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Robin Hood
4. My Fair Lady and Bleak House
5. the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Sense and Sensibility, and the Sound of Music
6. Emma, Pride and Prejudice and the Sound of Music
7. Little Women and Amazing Grace
8. Our Mutual Friend, Eloise, and Amazing Grace
9. Anne of Green Gables, Bleak House, and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
10. Sense and Sensibility, the Dawn Treader, and Ratatouille
Some of these were pretty tricky, and you all did a great job! :)
-Sarah
Thanky Kindly One And All
I want to thank each and every person who has entered our Marvelously Mixed-Up Movie Quotes contest!!!! You all are doing amazingly well for how tricky this contest is! If anyone else wants to enter, you have until Friday to do so! We will choose the winner and post results over the weekend. Thanks again for your participation! I am so excited! :) ~Rachel
Marvelously Mixed-Up Movie Quotes
For some time I have been wanting to do a quiz. Not a normal quiz, but a quiz like I've never seen on any other blog. Not to say it has never been done, but I've never seen it. So here's the deal. Each quote below is a mix-up of two or three quotes from different well-known movies. You job is to identify the movies. Each quote also will have a picture beneath it from one of the two or three movies to help you with the identification. Just leave a comment with your answers, and the winner will win a set of note-cards handmade by Sarah and I! :) So please enter! And tell others about this quiz so we can see how many entries we get! :) All set? I'll start off easy! Here we go!
1. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that this is the farthest I've ever been from home."
2. "And these beads give it just the right touch, don't you think, ___?" "No I don't! I think your dress is the ugliest one I ever saw!"
3. "Wake up Dolly Daydream! As your lady-in-waiting, I'm waiting!"
4. "It's rather damp in town, I think I'll take me to Paris. I'm bored to death with this rain."
6. "A ball. What say you to a ball?" "Every savage can dance, and it's the Lendler- it's an Austrian folk-dance."
7. "What is that strange smell? It's like...burnt feathers. Take those handkerchiefs away from your noses!"
8. "I've been constantly avariciously scheming!" "What is that supposed to mean?" "Loosely translated it means...we cheat."
9. "Well he certainly didn't become Prime Minister on account of his looks." "Neither would you if you'd been shot thru' the `art. Hope he wasn't British Consul."
10. "Look! There's a piece of blue sky! Let us catch it!" "Why didn't you just say so before?" "Because I love you--'re advice!"
Okay! There you go! Good luck! ~Rachel and Sarah
1. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that this is the farthest I've ever been from home."
Hint:
2. "And these beads give it just the right touch, don't you think, ___?" "No I don't! I think your dress is the ugliest one I ever saw!"
Hint:
3. "Wake up Dolly Daydream! As your lady-in-waiting, I'm waiting!"
Hint:
4. "It's rather damp in town, I think I'll take me to Paris. I'm bored to death with this rain."
Hint:
5. "You look so cold. Come and sit with me." "What care I for a cold when there is such a man?" "You're face is all red!" "You're right. Help me get dressed?"
Hint:
6. "A ball. What say you to a ball?" "Every savage can dance, and it's the Lendler- it's an Austrian folk-dance."
Hint:
7. "What is that strange smell? It's like...burnt feathers. Take those handkerchiefs away from your noses!"
Hint:
8. "I've been constantly avariciously scheming!" "What is that supposed to mean?" "Loosely translated it means...we cheat."
Hint:
9. "Well he certainly didn't become Prime Minister on account of his looks." "Neither would you if you'd been shot thru' the `art. Hope he wasn't British Consul."
Hint:
10. "Look! There's a piece of blue sky! Let us catch it!" "Why didn't you just say so before?" "Because I love you--'re advice!"
Hint:
Okay! There you go! Good luck! ~Rachel and Sarah
The Child: America's Battle For The Next Generation Premier! :)
Listen up everybody who reads this post!!!! This Saturday, November 20, 2010, is the National Premier of "The Child: America's Battle For The Next Generation". This is the documentary that Watchman Cinema has made this past summer, and that Daniel went on the filming tour for. If you could find a showing near you, take your whole family, your friends, anybody, a watch it! parentalrights.org has a page of showings (around 350 of them nation-wide!) here.
(Not all the showings are on November 20, so if Saturday wouldn't work for you any how, that's perfectly fine! :) We are really trying to get people to see this documentary, so please, please try to get to a showing! :) Thanks so much! ~Rachel and Sarah! (Below are a trailer, and the promo! Please watch them!!!)
(Not all the showings are on November 20, so if Saturday wouldn't work for you any how, that's perfectly fine! :) We are really trying to get people to see this documentary, so please, please try to get to a showing! :) Thanks so much! ~Rachel and Sarah! (Below are a trailer, and the promo! Please watch them!!!)
More Costume and Hair Inspiration! :)
Recently, I've been inspired with recreating hairstyles and costumes from movies I love! (I mean, with the idea of recreating them...haven't really done it yet! :D) Some of the sites that have helped inspire me, are these:
Rapunzel's Resources: (Particularly her movie-styles. She looks at a movie, and recreates the hairstyles! The one I linked to is Esther Summerson's hairstyle in Bleak House :) It was based off of this hairstyle below :) (Yes, I know the photo's kind of dark! :)
Rapunzel's Resources: (Particularly her movie-styles. She looks at a movie, and recreates the hairstyles! The one I linked to is Esther Summerson's hairstyle in Bleak House :) It was based off of this hairstyle below :) (Yes, I know the photo's kind of dark! :)
Another blog I already spoke of was The Story of a Seamstress:This girl is so amazing with her reproduction clothing! I have loved browsing through her blog! :) So what costumes and hairstyles do I really, really, want to recreate? :) I'll tell you!
We all remember Mrs. Bank's "Suffragette" dress in Mary Poppins! I don't like the subject of the song, but this dress is just so fun! It always reminds me of a daffodil against a spring sky! :)
Another view of the same dress...the yellow would NOT work on me so close to my face, but this would be a super fun dress to make! :)
And I know this is a bad picture, but way in there, you can see the lovely yellow underskirt-my favorite part of this dress! :)
Another dress I'd love to make is the "afternoon dress" that causes Meg March so much embarrassment in Little Women! (1994) I could not find a picture of it online, but this is the dress that reminds Belle Gardiner of "forgetmenots" and is blue with little black stripes- very pretty! :)
Here is one of the many hairstyles I'd love to do! Bleak House did have some lovely ones! :)
Lady Dedlock's hairstyle is so elegant...I'm sure a lot of it is a wig, but I would love to try it!
Another view...
A closer view of the side....
Anyway! I have to go, but hope that was interesting! :) ~Rachel
We all remember Mrs. Bank's "Suffragette" dress in Mary Poppins! I don't like the subject of the song, but this dress is just so fun! It always reminds me of a daffodil against a spring sky! :)
Another view of the same dress...the yellow would NOT work on me so close to my face, but this would be a super fun dress to make! :)
And I know this is a bad picture, but way in there, you can see the lovely yellow underskirt-my favorite part of this dress! :)
Another dress I'd love to make is the "afternoon dress" that causes Meg March so much embarrassment in Little Women! (1994) I could not find a picture of it online, but this is the dress that reminds Belle Gardiner of "forgetmenots" and is blue with little black stripes- very pretty! :)
Here is one of the many hairstyles I'd love to do! Bleak House did have some lovely ones! :)
Lady Dedlock's hairstyle is so elegant...I'm sure a lot of it is a wig, but I would love to try it!
Another view...
A closer view of the side....
Anyway! I have to go, but hope that was interesting! :) ~Rachel
Fiesta de Octobre Blog Party Book and Movie Answers
When I saw this last Fiesta de Octobre contest on Jo's blog, I begged Sarah to let me enter it...literature is right down my alley, and,as anyone who knows me will tell you, I could talk the hind leg off a mule about what books I love, what movie adaptations I thought were good, what characters are my favorites....(smiles at me cousin Matthew :) So, anyhow, she was a model sister and quickly agreed to giving me posting rights for this! So without further ado....
{1} It's nearly impossible to pick a favorite book, so what are your top THREE favorite books ? (other than the Bible :D) Oh dear. Only 3?!?!?...To Have And To Hold, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and...and...well, it is an old favorite, but it has shaped my creativity so, Little Women! :)
{2} Who is your favorite heroine from literature? (if you need to list more than one, that's fine) Yay! No number restriction on this one!!! :D Anne Shirley, Polly Milton (An Old-Fashioned Girl), Esther Summerson (Bleak House), Molly Gibson (Wives and Daughters), Emma Woodhouse, Eleanor Dashwood, Meg and Jo March, and So So So many more! :D
{3} Who is your favorite hero from literature? (see above note) Oh boy. Matthew could recite the list for me, he's heard it so many times! :D Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel), Capt. Percy (To Have and To Hold), James Percy (The Inheritance), (Lotsa Percys! :P) Gilbert Blythe, Roger Hamley (Wives and Daughters), Mr. Thornton (North and South), Aslan (Narnia), and TONS more! (Each book I read, I like the hero better than them all! ;)
{4} Who is your favorite author? (see note above) Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Eleanor Estes, Jan Karon, etc.
{5} What is your favorite type of book to read? Classic story...some adventure, some old-fashioned, pure romance, lots of humor, unforgettable characters, etc.
{6} If you could be a character from literature for one day, who would you be? Why? Oh mercy. You had to make me choose?....Emma Woodhouse...what else can I say? Huge old-fashioned house, a British accent, lovely clothes, being beautiful yourself, loving family, Mr. Knightley to scold you... :D
{7} What type of reader would you call yourself? Are you an avid reader, passive reader, or even a non-reader?? AVID READER!!!!
{8} Do you like reading aloud? Yes! To listening group of people. Ignoring listeners get on my nerves!
{9} Do you like mystery stories? Yes! Well, Sherlock Holmes! He never ceases to amaze me! =)
{10}All of us have read a book at some point or another and disliked the way it ended or who married who, etc. What book(s) bother you like that, and what would you change about them? Well....As Jo said, I would rather Jo have married Laurie in Little Women...oh! and in Wives and Daughters, the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, died before she finished the book and it is right at the sweetest part so it is SO frustrating! :( But the movie finished it off in a cute, albeit...interesting way! :D
{11} Just like books, it's *very* hard to pick a favorite movie. What are you top THREE favorite movies? The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Amazing Grace, and....Little Women...but those are equal to many many more!
{12} When it comes to movie adaptions of books, are you a purist or do you not mind changes to the storyline? If the storyline of the movie compromises the book's message, or drastically changes the story, it definitely bothers me!
{13} What is your favorite book-to-movie adaption?...BBC Does a really good job with any book I've seen them adapt...Emma is definitely a good one...Sense and Sensibility...Little Women, Lord of the Rings trilogy (okay, so they changed it a bit! :) Pride and Prejudice...
{14} What is your favorite type of movie to watch? Any well done, adventurous, exciting, and loveable movie with a solid storyline. (I despise twoddle-ly ones! :P)
{15} Do you like to watch movies with the lights off or on? Off!
{16} DVD or VHS? DVD!
{17} When you watch a movie, would you rather watch it straight through or skip around to your favorite scenes? If I have seen it more than 10 times....skipping the more boring scenes
{18} Subtitles? Depends...in North and South, at first I couldn't understand the Northern England accent, so Subtitles definitely helped!
{19} Do you make comments and ask questions during a movie, or sit in complete silence? If I haven't seen the movie, I'm quiet, but if I'm showing it someone else, I talk! :D
{20} If you could be in any movie (whether it's already been made or not) which movie would it be? Who would you want to be and why? O cool! :) Well, if I could look the part....Marguerite Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel! She is beautiful and clever, it is an exciting movie, the setting is so classic, and it would be so much fun! Or any BBC movie if I could look right for the character!
Yay! That was a really fun quiz! Thanks Jo! :)
Yay! That was a really fun quiz! Thanks Jo! :)
Thar' She Blows! :)
Well, as we speak, Hurricane Earl makes it's way toward us. Oh boy! I love a good hurricane if it doesn't do any damage! Actually, I prefer Nor'easter, but oh well! I am not picky! I warn people in case we lose our power and I get to read Bleak House and write letters by candlelight, and convince Daniel to take a walk in the middle of it around Friday or so! :D Well, perhaps we wouldn't walk in the middle of the worst of it, but perhaps in the eye of it! :) I love powerful weather! It reminds me of the Lord's might, and His power over all He has made! So while a hurricane behaves itself, I welcome a cosy night or two! Now, when you begin talking hurricanes like Katrina, and others that leave considerable death and destruction in their wake, I waive my compliments of the magnificence of an ordinary hurricane! :)
Now, I would ask for prayer in a certain area- if the hurricane is bad enough and comes over the Outer Banks, our friends the Travers, with their 11 kids, (13 and down) will be staying in our home as a storm shelter. So we could use prayer that our power won't go out, because 24 people living off of one generator would be quite something! Not impossible, but not quite comfortable! either!:)
We went with the Walkers and some of the T. family to see Toy Story 3 today! It was very good, and my favorite of the trilogy. (I did not like 1 or 2 of that series! :) And I do admit, it made me cry. Because I thought up how sad they could make the ending and my own fancies brought the tears! :D Oh well. At least I haven't a heart of stone! ;)
So this was just a little post to let you know about the amazing show of God's power I hope to witness soonish, and about the rare movie-going trip we took as a family this afternoon :D
p.s. The picture is just some hurricane, not our's! :D
-Rachel
Answers Are Finally In! :)
Hey Guys! Here are the answers to the Period Drama Movie Quote Quiz Rachie did.
#1"She won't even allow me to reapply the blacking to her hair! There is a great grey streak going right down her centre part!" Miss Pole from Cranford
People who got it right: Abigail
#2 "She seems to expwess herself vewy fwankly, Clare!" -Lady Cumner from Wives and Daughters
People who got it right: Abigial
#3 "I made money overnight? How very clever of me!" - Ms. Margaret Hale from North and South
People who got this right: Abigail
#4 "Roger Riderhood. Sometimes known as "Rogue" Riderhood. But that's a friendly name used by thems that don't know me well."- Riderhood in Our Mutual Friend
Nobody got that right!
#5 "...I encourage him in that, too."- Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice
People who got it right: Jo March and Abigail
#6 "What care I for a cold, when there is such a man?!" -Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility
People who got it right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, and Leanna!:)
#7 "I abhor the notion of being over-trimmed!" -Mrs. Elton from Emma 2009 version
People who got it right: Abigail
#8 "She says that Colonel Wallace says, that Mr. Elliott says"--"That's enough!!" -Ann and the widow lady in Persuasion
People who got it right: NOBODY!
#9 "Do you think he could be a captive like Smee in Nicholas Nickleby?" - Jo in Little Women
People who got it right: Abigial, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna
#10 "People's ideals change sometimes." -Diana from Anne of Avonlea
People who got this right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna.:)
Okay! So the winner of this contest is:::::::::: ABIGAIL!!
Congratulations, and good job to everybody else, as well! :) Ya'll give yourselves a pat on the back! Thanks for entering.
-Sarah
#1"She won't even allow me to reapply the blacking to her hair! There is a great grey streak going right down her centre part!" Miss Pole from Cranford
People who got it right: Abigail
#2 "She seems to expwess herself vewy fwankly, Clare!" -Lady Cumner from Wives and Daughters
People who got it right: Abigial
#3 "I made money overnight? How very clever of me!" - Ms. Margaret Hale from North and South
People who got this right: Abigail
#4 "Roger Riderhood. Sometimes known as "Rogue" Riderhood. But that's a friendly name used by thems that don't know me well."- Riderhood in Our Mutual Friend
Nobody got that right!
#5 "...I encourage him in that, too."- Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice
People who got it right: Jo March and Abigail
#6 "What care I for a cold, when there is such a man?!" -Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility
People who got it right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, and Leanna!:)
#7 "I abhor the notion of being over-trimmed!" -Mrs. Elton from Emma 2009 version
People who got it right: Abigail
#8 "She says that Colonel Wallace says, that Mr. Elliott says"--"That's enough!!" -Ann and the widow lady in Persuasion
People who got it right: NOBODY!
#9 "Do you think he could be a captive like Smee in Nicholas Nickleby?" - Jo in Little Women
People who got it right: Abigial, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna
#10 "People's ideals change sometimes." -Diana from Anne of Avonlea
People who got this right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna.:)
Okay! So the winner of this contest is:::::::::: ABIGAIL!!
Congratulations, and good job to everybody else, as well! :) Ya'll give yourselves a pat on the back! Thanks for entering.
-Sarah
Period-Drama Movie Quote Quiz
We have been having a drastically busy few weeks, so do pardon our lack-of-posting here! Hopefully things will even out next week or so! :) We were rudely awakened this morning by all our terribly ear-piercing fire alarms going off, for no good reason. Hmph. Didn't much like that! :) And Dad had to scurry around for 1/2 an hour trying to shut them all off. He turned off the power, but they defaulted to battery, so he had to find the troublemaker, take its batteries out, and then it finally stopped! :) But any-who! I thought we'd do another movie-quote quiz, because this is something I can leave up for a bit, and let people comment on. In previous times, we have only had 3 or 4 people enter. So pretty please comment and guess! Even if you only know one, it will make us feel better! :D Hint: all these quotes are from period-dramas. And in that category, I'd include Little Women...even Anne of Green Gables. (Though I'm not promising I'll use quotes from there. Just that sort as well as others!) Here we go!
1.) "She won't even let me reapply the blacking to her hair! There is a great gray streak going right down her centre part!!!" :D
2.) "She seems to expwess herself vewy fwankly, Clare!"
3. ) "I made money overnight? How very clever of me!"
4.) "Roger Riderhood. Sometimes known as "Rogue" Riderhood. But that's a friendly name used only by thems that don't know me well."
5.) "....I encourage him in that too." ;)
6.) "What care I for a cold when there is such a man?"
7.) "I abhor the notion of being over-trimmed!" :D
8.) "She says that Col. Willis says that Mr. Elliott says--" "That's enough!"
9.) "Do you think he could be a captive like Smee in Nicholas Nickleby?" (By the way, I've read the mentioned book, and it is "smike" not "smee"! :[ )
10.) "People's ideals change sometimes...."
There you have it! Please enter if you have a single inkling of a single quote! :) If this works better than some I've done, then maybe we can have another one soon! :) -Rachel
An Infatuation With Costumes! :)
Hey guys! For a few weeks now, I've had an idea for a dress simmering in my brain. It was first inspired by a friend I hadn't seen for a long time, who looked so absolutely charming in her dress that I thought she belonged in some sort of painting. My brain started working...how to get a dress like that? Make it! Then, I watched BBC's Wives and Daughters. Oh my stars! The costumes Molly wears are so sweet and pretty! I really liked some of the bodices of some of her dresses, and the sleeves on her "berry-picking" gown. The only way to get a gown I dreamed up, seems to be to design it myself! So after reading Kendal Butler's post on the summer dress she designed, I figured it couldn't be too hard! With sewing, I tend to sort of make it up as a go along a bit anyway! :) So last night I sat down and drew a very basic idea of the dress bobbling around in my mind. I wanted to get a good image in my mind of Molly Gibson's dresses in Wives and Daughters, so I simply did a google search on "costumes from BBC Wives and Daughters" and came up with a great blessing! Namely, a blog called "The Dashwood Sisters", who had done an entire costume study on Wives and Daughters!!!!!:) :) :) I spent a bit of time poking around over there, and had to tear myself away after getting the necessary information! :) I could have spent all day looking at it, since when I watch any good old-fashioned movie, costumes are the area I scrutinize and moon over! ;) Here is a picture of Molly's Berrypicking dress! I basically, want to use the sleeves and over all idea of the bodice for mine! :)
Here is a really nice view of the sleeves- the main thing I wish to copy from her dress! :)
And here is a view of the dress as a whole! I really like the neckline too, but I was thinking I'd do the one that is rattling `round my brain, which i found out is called a "drawstring" neckline.
Here is the rough design I drew:
I am not sure, with the drawstring neckline, how the back would open up...any ideas? The Dashwood "study" suggested using Sense and Sensibility's "Romantic Era" pattern, and their "Ladies of Elegance" pattern has the drawstring neckline as one option....but I kind of want to avoid buying two patterns....tell me what you think! This is just a fun idea, I really, really like the dress! :( I hope I have enough money and wits about me to buy material, and somehow make it become a reality! What do you all think? Any tips on designing a dress and making a pattern for it? Should I just buy the "Romantic Era" pattern, and improvise the neckline? Help me! Oh! I didn't draw the sleeves quite how I want them! I want MOLLY's sleeves! :D -Rachel
Answers To The Movie Quiz
Okay! Here are the movie-quote quiz results!
First Place Goes To: The Most Honorable "Gentleman From Virginia" with 20 points!!! *Yay*
Second Place Goes To: Mistress Mary Quite Contrary (A.K.A Abigail! ;) With 14 points!
Third Place Goes To: Stephanie with 8 points! (And by the way, thanks for following! :)
Fourth Place Goes To: Nana with 7 points!
Fifth Place Goes To: Leia with 2 points!
Thanks everyone for entering! Below are the quotes and their answers!
1. "We could use a distress flag!" "Anyone who sees a ship wrecked on the rocks will assume it is in trouble!" (Answer: The Swiss Family Robinson- Ernst and his Father)
2. "Are you going to stay here and let a little boy show you up?" (Answer: Betty Muxworthy in Lorna Doone)
3. "I've come to get an Alfred David!" *whispers* "I think he means an affidavit- no, my friend doesn't do affidavits either." (Answer: Our Mutual Friend, Eugene Wrayburn and Roger Riderhood)
4. "Harry's great-grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's father went to Sandhurst.." "And so I, *snort-snort* went to Sandhurst!" (Answer: Miss Potter, Harry and his mother)
5. "Let's name the species, the species, the species, let's name the species that live in the sea!" (Answer: Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo)
6. "DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!" (Answer: Pollyanna, Reverend Ford)
7. "Is that all your hair?" (Anne of Avonlea, Mrs. Harris)
8. "Do you know the expression: `His name is Mud'?" "Of course" "But do you know where it came from?" "Does...anyone but you?" (Answer: National Treasure 2, Ben and Riley)
9. "Right then!...Where are we going?" (Answer: Pippin in The Fellowship O.T.R)
10. "Fried Chicken! Good. Cuz' I was gettin' awful sick of pan--" (Missy in Love Comes Softly)
11. "Oh...you two have all the luck- was he terribly romantic?" "Not in the slightest!" (Answer: Little Women, Amy and Jo)
12. "Really ___, it would be better to be without wits than to apply them as you do!" (Answer: Mr. Knightley in the 2009 Emma)
Great job people! Would you like us to do any more of these sometime? This was a pretty difficult one! :) -Rachel and Sarah
First Place Goes To: The Most Honorable "Gentleman From Virginia" with 20 points!!! *Yay*
Second Place Goes To: Mistress Mary Quite Contrary (A.K.A Abigail! ;) With 14 points!
Third Place Goes To: Stephanie with 8 points! (And by the way, thanks for following! :)
Fourth Place Goes To: Nana with 7 points!
Fifth Place Goes To: Leia with 2 points!
Thanks everyone for entering! Below are the quotes and their answers!
1. "We could use a distress flag!" "Anyone who sees a ship wrecked on the rocks will assume it is in trouble!" (Answer: The Swiss Family Robinson- Ernst and his Father)
2. "Are you going to stay here and let a little boy show you up?" (Answer: Betty Muxworthy in Lorna Doone)
3. "I've come to get an Alfred David!" *whispers* "I think he means an affidavit- no, my friend doesn't do affidavits either." (Answer: Our Mutual Friend, Eugene Wrayburn and Roger Riderhood)
4. "Harry's great-grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's father went to Sandhurst.." "And so I, *snort-snort* went to Sandhurst!" (Answer: Miss Potter, Harry and his mother)
5. "Let's name the species, the species, the species, let's name the species that live in the sea!" (Answer: Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo)
6. "DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!" (Answer: Pollyanna, Reverend Ford)
7. "Is that all your hair?" (Anne of Avonlea, Mrs. Harris)
8. "Do you know the expression: `His name is Mud'?" "Of course" "But do you know where it came from?" "Does...anyone but you?" (Answer: National Treasure 2, Ben and Riley)
9. "Right then!...Where are we going?" (Answer: Pippin in The Fellowship O.T.R)
10. "Fried Chicken! Good. Cuz' I was gettin' awful sick of pan--" (Missy in Love Comes Softly)
11. "Oh...you two have all the luck- was he terribly romantic?" "Not in the slightest!" (Answer: Little Women, Amy and Jo)
12. "Really ___, it would be better to be without wits than to apply them as you do!" (Answer: Mr. Knightley in the 2009 Emma)
Great job people! Would you like us to do any more of these sometime? This was a pretty difficult one! :) -Rachel and Sarah
Random Things, including dried frogs, and a cucumber named Alfred
I learned a lesson at lunch: Never be watching an educational video about caves with super good photography while eating. They were detailing a 100 meter-high mound of bat guano covered in cockroaches, and explaining the immense part this food chain plays, and I suddenly totally lost my appetite. The mound was absolutely swarming with cockroaches. I don't know what it is about me and crawly bugs. I love frogs, toads, snakes, and lizards, unlike most girls, but I squash every bug I see. On the same d.v.d. they were also showing glowworms threading out their little sticky threads.....Ew! I don't want to be a girl about it but...I am. But on the other side, today while folding laundry we found a dried up frog that must have run through the wash in someone's pocket, and I wasn't scared or disgusted by him....we all have our limits! :)But isn't God's creation wonderful? I mean, even the bugs, I must admit, play a huge part in creation, and we'd be entirely lost without them. I once read a little rhyme by Ogden Nash that said,
"The Lord in His goodness made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why."
But have you ever stopped to consider that a fly really helps decompose stuff? I don't know...I'm trying to look on the bright side of "bug-dom"! :) So some other things that are going on are that we made strawberry goat's milk icecream! Yum! It is super good! It should have been though! We used 10 egg yolks in it! Also, Gracie decided to "adopt" a cucumber, and named it Alfred. I haven't the foggiest idea where she got that name, but...any-who! That's what's been going on in our life recently! Oh! Tomorrow we are going to have a whole family of girls and their mom spend the night, and we are going to watch "Wives and Daughters"! I am soooooo excited! YAY! When Mama asked Dad he thought about it a moment and said, 'It's free, and it's fun- Let's do it!" :) If you haven't yet, pretty please enter our movie quote contest below! :) -Rachel
Spur-Of-The-Moment Movie Quotes Quiz
Hello! How are you all doing? I am doing well. We haven't been doing anything decidedly remarkable recently....except we went fishing for Father's Day, and went to a graduation on weekend! Mostly we've been out in our garden. I am sure you all are tired of hearing about that, so let's play a game... I'll do a movie quote quiz. I love these things, so I hope you do to! Please try to answer some of the quotes, even if you don't know them all! So all you have to do is recognize the quote, give me the movie it came from, and for extra points, tell me who said it! Okay! Have fun!
1. " `We could use a distress flag!' `Anyone who sees a ship wrecked upon the rocks would assume it was in trouble.' "
2. "Are you going to stay here and let a little boy show you up?"
3. " `I've come to get an Alfred David.' *whispers* `I believe he means an affidavit. No, my friend does not do affidavits either."
4. " `Harry's great-grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's father went to Sandhurst...' `And so I, *snort-snort* went to Sandhurst!' "
5. "Let's name the species, the species, the species, let's name the species that live in the sea!"
6. "DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!!!"
7. "Is that all your hair?"
8. " `Do you know the expression: His name is Mud?' `Of course.' `But do you know where it came from?' `...Does...anyone but you?' "
9. "Right then!....Where are we going?"
10. "Fried chicken! Good. Cuz' I was getting awful sick of pan--"
11. " `Oh...you two have all the luck. Was he terribly romantic?' `Not in the slightest!' "
12. "Really (name), it would be better to be without wits, than to apply them as you do!"
Okay! There you go! Have fun! -Rachel
1. " `We could use a distress flag!' `Anyone who sees a ship wrecked upon the rocks would assume it was in trouble.' "
2. "Are you going to stay here and let a little boy show you up?"
3. " `I've come to get an Alfred David.' *whispers* `I believe he means an affidavit. No, my friend does not do affidavits either."
4. " `Harry's great-grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's grandfather went to Sandhurst, Harry's father went to Sandhurst...' `And so I, *snort-snort* went to Sandhurst!' "
5. "Let's name the species, the species, the species, let's name the species that live in the sea!"
6. "DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!!!"
7. "Is that all your hair?"
8. " `Do you know the expression: His name is Mud?' `Of course.' `But do you know where it came from?' `...Does...anyone but you?' "
9. "Right then!....Where are we going?"
10. "Fried chicken! Good. Cuz' I was getting awful sick of pan--"
11. " `Oh...you two have all the luck. Was he terribly romantic?' `Not in the slightest!' "
12. "Really (name), it would be better to be without wits, than to apply them as you do!"
Okay! There you go! Have fun! -Rachel
Now It Has To Be Underland??? Creeps!
Okay. I may make some people mad here. But I have a big question, that has been stewing around in my mind for about a week: Wasn't the Disney Alice In Wonderland weird enough?
I am plagued by dozy, smoky, creepy catipillars and grinning cats that won't go away when I think of that movie. Also those very strange twins "tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum"
I met those creeps at Disneyland as an innocent 9 year old. They stole our hats. They ran around and wouldn't give it back. They demanded a hug from Sarah. They are crazy.
Then, wasn't that pinch-faced, flamingo-wielding queen of hearts angry enough in the cartoon version? For pity's sake! Now they make her a cross between a clown and a dwarf! And, nothing can displace the really strange fact that you are stuck in a stinkin' dream, that is creepier than any of your nightmares you've ever had. The confusing thing, is that you would willingly get stuck in someone else's nightmare for 2 hours! That you'd pay money to get scared out of your wits by real looking mad-hatters, and cats, and.... oh yeah! What is up with that white rabbit? During the whole movie I had an urgent desire to pick him up by his ugly ears and make him wait for whatever he was in a hurry for. He must have been rabid, because he had pink eyes! Anyway! That is my opinion of the whole "Alice In Wonderland" thing. And one last thing, why did the new version have to make Alice kill the "jabberwocky" from the poem? I can't even understand the words in the poem! How can anyone kill something that no one is sure what it is?
Creeps. -Rachel
I am plagued by dozy, smoky, creepy catipillars and grinning cats that won't go away when I think of that movie. Also those very strange twins "tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum"
I met those creeps at Disneyland as an innocent 9 year old. They stole our hats. They ran around and wouldn't give it back. They demanded a hug from Sarah. They are crazy.
Then, wasn't that pinch-faced, flamingo-wielding queen of hearts angry enough in the cartoon version? For pity's sake! Now they make her a cross between a clown and a dwarf! And, nothing can displace the really strange fact that you are stuck in a stinkin' dream, that is creepier than any of your nightmares you've ever had. The confusing thing, is that you would willingly get stuck in someone else's nightmare for 2 hours! That you'd pay money to get scared out of your wits by real looking mad-hatters, and cats, and.... oh yeah! What is up with that white rabbit? During the whole movie I had an urgent desire to pick him up by his ugly ears and make him wait for whatever he was in a hurry for. He must have been rabid, because he had pink eyes! Anyway! That is my opinion of the whole "Alice In Wonderland" thing. And one last thing, why did the new version have to make Alice kill the "jabberwocky" from the poem? I can't even understand the words in the poem! How can anyone kill something that no one is sure what it is?
Creeps. -Rachel
Flowering Quince and Emma
Daniel and I have finally gotten old enough to start "remembering" things that are now considered old. Last night, also on Youtube, we watched a Merry Melodies short film called "Farm Frolics" that we watched as super little kids. One of my earliest memories is being petrified by the weasel that sneaks up on the little chicks! It was alot of fun to watch something I "endured" as a two year old! :)
The Walkers are finally about to be able to move out here in a mobile home while they build their house! They hired someone to clear the old homesite of all the brush and old bushes and trees, which is forward motion indeed. But....I am feeling a bit melancholy. The reason? Well, normally I am not sentimental at all about animals, but... there were so many birds nesting in the brush, and many of them have figured in my Bramblewood Hedge series. I feel halfway as if I had murdered them! :( Silly I know, but the poor dears! I meant to rescue a really pretty bush I have admired for several years, but it was buried under some big cedar bushes and even Dad and the hired man couldn't retrieve it! But Mama, dear thing that she is, inspired by some truthfully Divine impulse, somehow got it in her head that the bush was a "flowering quince". Now, who in tarnation ever heard of a "flowering quince"? I hadn't! But lo and behold, she went online when we came back, and that lovely mysterious bush is a flowering quince! Yay! Mystery solved, and we can probably procure one for our enjoyment now that we know what it is! Thanks Mama! Well, Justin Wright generously left us his really nice volleyball net for the week, so I'm going to get off now and see if I can rustle up the others for a nice game! See ya'll later! :) -Rachel
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