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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! We enjoyed a nice, quiet Christmas here at home, which I am grateful for.
We try to focus on the real reason for celebrating Christmas, so our kids don't grow up thinking it's just about santa and getting presents. That's not to say that the Elf on the Shelf doesn't flit around our house each December, because Clyde most certainly does that!
It is now officially time for the annual documentation of Christmas at our house...
You may have noticed these 2 new small sectionals...I decided to sell our other couch and get these because the other furniture arrangement, although attractive, was not very family friendly. The velvet chairs I refurbished are beautiful but not extremely comfy and I was always paranoid somebody was going to damage them...not a very good situation in a family room! The chairs are still with me, just not in here at the moment. Still deciding what to do with them. I will eventually make upholstered ottomans to go in front of each sectional.
I'm loving how the gold tones really warm up the grey in this room. I went with a mostly monochromatic theme in here so the metallic tones can shine to their best advantage without looking overly blingy. If that's not already a word, it is now.
As you can see, my greenery of choice this year is the magnolia leaf. I love it.
I did discover, however, that of the 2 types of magnolias that I'm familiar with, the kind that doesn't have the brown undersides does not hold up as well for decorating. The first round was with the greener leaves, but they dried out super fast and I replaced them with the kind that has brown undersides.
How did I get my hands on so much magnolia? Well, at first I took some leaves from a big tree on the side of the highway (hope that's not illegal...they would have been trimmed by the road crew anyway) and then a few weeks later I happened to drive by a tree crew who was about to shove a bunch of magnolia branches through the shredder. They probably thought I was a little weird asking for all those branches, but into my van they went! Sweet.
So, as you can see, I have magnolia everywhere.
Except on this one. I bought the wooden plaque and the Merry&Bright letters at Michaels, then painted them and glued them together. Much faster and easier than painting all those letters on myself!
Wreaths, wreaths, and more wreaths...this one is made of magnolia leaf clusters that I put together the same way I made the evergreen wreath in the first wreath photo. Using floral wire and a wire wreath form, I took clusters of greenery and wired them, cluster by cluster, all the way around the wreath form. Not difficult to make, just a little time consuming.
I FINALLY have some family photos up in our family room! The weather here has been ridiculously warm this month and, not to complain or anything, it's beginning to feel a lot like spring instead of Christmas! Even the daffodil bulbs and cherry trees think so - they're already sprouting spring growth. Not good. Anyway, I decided to drag my family to the beach for a photo session a few weeks ago (they had to be dragged due to the picture taking, not because it's the beach, in case you were wondering) because we haven't taken any in 2 years and I needed something to put on our Christmas card. 80 degrees in December = crazy, but it sure made for more comfortable pictures! I did the ol' timer on a tripod routine, which yields reasonable results but nothing spectacular due to the focusing issue.
The white frames were originally plain white, like the small square one to the far left, but on the larger ones I added gold leaf to the corners of some and to the inside edges of others. I wanted the frames to all relate to eachother without being completely matchy matchy, so this was my solution.
On to the dining room...
Big surprise, more magnolia leaves! I love how they bring so much festive color and sculptural form to the table, without being overly pretentious. Added bonus - no brittle, dried out, messy fir needles to deal with.
This photo has funky color = a photoshopped image gone wrong. An expert at photo editing I am not. Lots of time to edit I have not. Weird color in my indoor photos I have plenty of.
I went crazy with the magnolia outside too, making a big swag of both fir and magnolia and also big garlands of it on the front porch rails.
As you can see, the garland is past its prime in this photo, but it's still braving the warm weather reasonably well.
I have less and less energy to do a big light show outside as the years progress, especially living in the country where there are no passersby to ever see the place. This is about as good as it gets for me these days!
We had a wonderful nativity event at our house with some of our friends, it was so much fun. The kids all really seemed to enjoy it.
Hazel has come to the realization that she doesn't want to be a wiseman (person) ever again, though - too much waiting around while everybody else gets to do their part, and she didn't get to come in until the very end. She has a tough life, I know.
Christmas Eve in shorts. At the beach. In Virginia, NOT the southern coast. Like I said, C*r*a*z*y*.
We even got to inspect several jellyfish that had washed ashore.
This pier is totally cool. I wonder how deeply those huge poles are buried in the sand, and whether or not they are rooted in cement, and how long they're expected to last before rotting/weathering away? Some of life's most pressing questions, I know.
Back to our Christmas card photo session: we only had 20 minutes of daylight left, so some of these were taken in less than ideal light conditions and then tweaked considerably in photoshop.
Awww, aren't they so cute?
And yes, Eliza is now (almost) as tall as me. She says she's officially as tall as I am, I say I've still got a half an inch on her. But not for long, I'm sure. Here's hoping you all have a wonderful New Year!
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! This is the part where I should say something eloquent and thought-provoking about the importance of remembering our blessings, but no such eloquence is presenting itself to my brain at the moment. Suffice it to say that I'm grateful for a holiday that has no other agenda (in theory, anyway!) other than to step back and be thankful for the many blessings and privileges we enjoy.
We will ignore, for a moment, the irony that mega-consumer Black Friday (now encroaching on Thursday evening, sadly enough) is directly after we're supposed to be content and grateful for what we have. :-)
I worked on a new project for Thanksgiving this year, inspired by the very cool chalkboard artwork that is circulating the web. I made a chalkboard with a permanent central message, but mine is made of plywood which I then coated with a clear chalkboard finish, rather than the traditional black chalkboard paint. The idea is to have the permanent message in the middle and then let everyone use chalk to write what they're thankful for in the blank spaces. I didn't finish the board until the day of Thanksgiving (in between working on the turkey and a bunch of sides and desserts, which I didn't manage to get a single picture of!) and so I couldn't have anyone write anything because the clear finish takes 3 days to dry before chalk is used on it.
The writing was done using a white permanent sharpie, which I had never used before. What a great tool! I had drawn the image out on paper first, then traced it onto a sheet of clear mylar so I could use my overhead projector to pencil the image onto the stained board. After filling it in with the white Sharpie, I sanded it back down a bit to give it a more chalkish look (if that wasn't a word before, it is now!) before coating the wood with the chalkboard finish. I painted some plain wood strips black, mitered the corners, and nailed them on the edges for a frame.
I bought one of those unfinished wooden plaques from a craft store and did the same chalkboard finish thing for my boxwood wreath. For this image, I did a direct image transfer by using a piece of paper rubbed heavily with chalk as the transfer agent (instead of real transfer paper) and traced over the lines with a ballpoint pen to make the lettering show up on the wood via the transferred chalk. Not sure if anyone has ever done that before, but it sure worked great on a dark surface!
My twin turkeys bid you a good day, and we all hope you had a warm and happy Thanksgiving full of family, friends, and thoughts of gratitude for the good things in your life!
I have to say, decorating for Halloween is only trumped by decorating for Christmas. There's just something about the strikingly graphic color contrasts and practically limitless crazy/icky/slightly macabre subject matter that makes Halloween decorations so very much fun. Blood and guts and violence, no. Moody and playfully creepy and unabashedly fun, absolutely.
Happy Halloween 2015 everybody!
I made a new wreath for the front door this year, using a simple vine wreath base spray painted black and a bit of leftover feather boa glued to the outside edge of the wreath. The orange balls used to be in one of my Halloween vases, but I decided it was time to repurpose them.
Same pillows as last year, they're getting a little faded! And you can see that I didn't wipe down the arms of the bench before photographing. Thank you, kitty, for all your muddy pawprints as you try to get someone's attention inside the house to be let back in!
You'll recognize this quilt from previous years...it continues to be my favorite quilted creation I've ever done.
There was a vacant spot on my back dining wall, so of course I had to paint a creepy branch for the occasion.
The black dresser I recently refinished is absolutely perfect for Halloween.
All of the pumpkins (except the store-bought Zorro Pumpkin) were inexpensive (and ugly) foam things from Walmart that I spray painted. They look much better now. My mustache collection is sported by the white pumpkins this year.
It's hard to see beneath the cloche, but this black pumpkin was whitewashed with a thin white glaze, most of which was then wiped off so that the white only remained in the cracks and crevices of the pumpkin. I'll see if I can get a better picture of that later.
Remember these ornaments? I cut the hanging ribbon off of them and then pinned them to this fabric-wrapped foam board (leftover packaging material from a console table I put together for a friend). The checkerboard fabric is a little loud, I may redo it later with fabric that is a bit smaller scale.
These cockroaches, according to my friends, are the scariest decorations in the house. The almost-real bugs made a few of them literally jump. :-)
Hazel and her new matching pet owl/pillow (made from the poncho scraps...I should do a poncho tutorial, it's super easy. Maybe next week...) wish you a fun and happy Halloween!
Oh dear, it seems I'm developing a habit of posting once or twice a year. Oops. I really have been working on the house, but not much is completely finished and blog-worthy.
I figured I'd better hurry and take pictures of what I've had up all summer before I take it down in preparation for Halloween!
I was really in the mood for blue this past year, so that's what everything is downstairs.
I made drapes with fabric from Premier Prints, and the rug was an awesome indoor/outdoor rug on clearance from Joss and Main that I bought this past spring.
The black dresser is a craigslist bargain that I painted black, carefully sanded along the edges, and waxed to a shine. The hardware is original to the piece, but it was really dark so I soaked them in vinegar and soapy water for hours before scrubbing them with a very stiff brush. Yes, my fingers and hands were raw afterward because I don't have sense enough to even own a pair of dishwashing rubber gloves, let alone wear them for tasks such as this.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out...good thing, because I have hours and hours invested in this piece! I bought the companion upright chest that goes with it (which is an absolutely gorgeous piece and the main reason I bought the set in the first place), but I'm not done with it yet. I'm going to paint it navy blue and it's headed for my studio upstairs.
I finally have window treatments for my main window in the living room! I ended up cutting the grommets off of a pair of velvet drapes from IKEA and reworked them to be attached to wooden loops. The 3 green paintings are from some warm-up exercises I did this past spring, when I took a break from working on the house and played in my studio for a few weeks. It was so much fun! I'm really eager to get back to painting again, but I can't really focus until the house is finished. A multi-tasker I am not.
I made some new pillows in honor of spring. Funny that I'm showing them to you for the first time in October.
I have to show you this adorable octopus couple. I found them on clearance at One King's Lane, and simply couldn't resist. They look particularly appropriate beneath the watery turbulence of the painting I created during my aforementioned painting playtime earlier this year.
Here's another painting I did during that time. This one was accepted into an International Exhibition organized every 3 years by my church, which is exciting. This year's theme is "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus". The title of the painting is "Martha's Chair", and it deals with the story in the Bible of Mary and Martha, and how Martha is always off doing good things but is neglecting the most important, which is to apply the Atonement of Christ in her life. Martha's chair is empty because she's busily doing good works while Jesus is waiting to bless her with the peace of His Word (symbolized by the red ribbon hovering above the chair).
Here's a detail of the painting. I'm going to Utah this month to attend the opening reception, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting with old BYU friends while there!
Here's a quilt I made for a departing friend this past year. It's made using mostly Amy Butler fabrics with a few others mixed in. I love the play of the blues and greens with an occasional punch of bright pink.
Hazel, the dramatic expert in the family, was acting out a scene from Frozen this past winter. Her costume is one I made for her a couple of years ago - I think she wore it for Halloween last year, actually.
The snow was covered with a thick crust from some slushy, frozen rain the previous night...a bummer for snowballs, but it sure made walking around in her fancy silver shoes easier. Because Elsa didn't wear boots, Mom...duh!
Hmmm...what else do I have in my photo file? Here's the velvet headboard I made for Eliza's room. Took me 3 days to make that beast...but I do love how it turned out. I won't mention the fact that, now that I've made Hazel a cool loft bed, Eliza doesn't want her fancy headboard and wants a loft bed instead. I told her tough luck. :-) When I finish Eliza's room (and Hazel's) I'll do a separate post on everything in it.
You may recognize this dress as one that Hazel wore years ago...but it's not the same one. She outgrew the old one, and when I passed it on to her younger cousin she was extremely distressed. She begged me to make her a new one, and since I still had the fabric I made it for her Easter dress.
Awwww....I can't believe she's so much older now!
Look what we got for Easter this past year!
Aren't they the cutest little things ever?
This one's named Squirrel because she had stripes on her back just like a squirrel...actually a chipmunk but Squirrel was cuter and easier to say.
Hyrum's holding Pi. Yes, he named that chick.
Of course, I had to make a chicken coop for our little brood.
The cage part is a separate unit that attaches to the coop. There are handles on the coop because I can slide wheels into the wood on the opposite side to turn it into a tractor when it needs to be moved (after detaching the cage, of course).
I cut a long, thin strip of tar paper (left over from the roof construction) and attached it above the egg collection box so the driving rain can't drip inside. I bought inexpensive single-pane glass and built window casings for the windows, and installed vents on either side so it doesn't get too stuffy.
The plywood floor is removable for ease of cleaning - it slides out where you can see the light shining through the crack at the far end of the coop.
Of course the coop door had to be red. I made the walkway by trimming off tree branches and using our nail gun to secure them to the wood plank. Our cute little chicks are all grown up now (not even a single surprise rooster!) and one of the hens is laying an egg nearly every day. Not sure why they all aren't laying eggs yet, hopefully soon! I thought I had a picture of them all grown up, but I guess not.
Here's Hazel modeling the dress I made for her baptism. I can't believe that girl is 8 years old! I curled her hair using hot rollers for the first time - Hazel was so nervous that she'd get burned and/or she wouldn't like her hair curly, but she was SO in love with it when we were done! The curls fell out in this endearing Virginia humidity after about 5 minutes because I didn't use sufficient/proper product on her hair (I have no idea what I'm doing, hair is not my thing) but we were able to capture a few photos before the curl disappeared.
My baby isn't a baby anymore!
Well, okay, maybe she's not totally grown up yet. :-)
I know I'm anything but impartial in this matter, but I do think she's pretty cute!
Here we all are on the day of Hazel's baptism. Can't believe how much the kids are growing. Eliza is an inch shy of me (I'm wearing heels in this photo) and look at Hyrum and Hazel! I suspect that, eventually, I'll be the shortest one in the family...which, at 5'10" is not an easy feat!
You can see a glimpse of some of the stonework I've been working on in our backyard. The heat of summer made working outside unbearable, so I haven't finished anything outside yet. Time to get back at it, now that the weather has FINALLY turned cool enough. So much to do, so little time. I'll do my best to finish all the kid's bedrooms and the bathrooms so I can get photos of everything...and so I can move on to other projects! I thought I'd be done with everything by now, but I should have known better. :-)
Wow. Two posts ago it was Christmas 2013, and here it is an entire year later. So much has happened, and through it all my kids just keep growing! Do you recognize that quilt? Yes, it's the one I pieced 3 years ago and still...have not...quilted. I've wanted to have the kids pose beneath this quilt since I started it 3 years ago, and pretty soon they're going to be all grown up - so here it is, even though it's not finished yet! My little munchkins look like perfect angels, don't they? I will say that none of them got any coal in their stockings, so that's good.
Welcome to our brand new home!
I didn't have the energy to go all crazy with lights outside this year, so it was pretty basic. Besides, I don't have the heart to make a bunch of nail holes on the porch roof faschia to string lights...yet...maybe next year I'll make more nail holes to light up the front of the house more.
In the previous post I described some of the, um, adventures we encountered during the building process. There are a host of stories still left untold, but at this point I'm just going to play "Show" and leave the "Tell" unspoken...
In previous years I've draped nearly every doorway with garland, but I felt like doing a cleaner, more simple look this year. Plus I didn't want to cover up the beautiful molding everywhere.
Here's a detail of the mantel. I had the carpenters use mitered crown molding laid flat on its back for the trim. I asked them to use squared-off wood for the inside and the outside of the crown, which hides the beveled edges of the crown seamlessly. The miters are perfect - they did a fantastic job. I installed the marble tile around the firebox. I love the texture and variegated tones of that marble!
Harvey the elf had a perfect seat for Christmas morning. I'm glad he figured out where he wanted to be this time - sometimes his apparent indecision would leave him paralyzed for a few days at a time. Silly little elf.
The kitchen valences are finally up! I didn't want to cover up the view to our backyard, but I needed my happy red color up there somewhere, so I made the valences as small as I could.
There was a small 8" deep space near the dishwasher, so I asked to have these diagonal slats installed to deal with piles. I admit it - I'm a piler, I've always been a piler, and I probably always will be. So this way at least my piles will be out of view. The problem is, out of sight, out of mind...and more than one parent permission slip or important school info paper has been lost in here. I guess I need to have a day of the week established to go through those piles weekly, but that would require more organization than I possess.
I love being able to hide the microwave and countertop appliances!
Vertical storage for trays and cookie sheets...
Here's my little knife drawer and chair for sitting and chopping stuff. I can't stay on my feet for a long time without a lot of pain in my legs (thank you, varicose veins) so this cutting station is great for me.
Hello, super convenient spice drawer right below the gas range!
More stuff out of sight - I love my pullout utensil storage. I bought the cannisters at Bed, Bath, and Beyond and had the cabinetmaker fit them into this area to the right of the stovetop.
This was the first quilt I made with triangles, long ago before Eliza was born. It's far from perfect, but I love the design and the snappy red and white color scheme. Unfortunately I bought inexpensive red fabric (before I understood the value of quality quilting fabric) and the reds bled all over the whites when it was washed. Sigh. So now it's my red and light pink quilt.
Here are the cubbies that I built. We have a very long and skinny space adjacent to the garage (behind the kitchen) that serves as the mudroom and laundry room. I've installed cabinets on the opposite side of this space (not done yet, maybe next month) and these cubbies are my attempt to keep the kids organized as they come home from school through the garage every day.
It's mostly made of MDF (the lower verticals are double thick because I glued 2 layers of MDF together) All of the MDF is faced with wood on the outer edges. The back of the cubbies is just the plaster wall, but there are cleats nailed/screwed into studs to support all the shelves and hooks.
It was less expensive for me to buy these ready-made hook strips from Home Depot (it was a special purchase item in a local store) than it was to buy hooks individually. I screwed sturdy pieces of wood into studs to serve as a reliable backer for the hook strips. I don't trust things screwed into sheetrock or plaster, even with anchors, when the kids are hanging their backpacks and stuff on them. Then I added some leftover trim I had hanging around to the bottom of the backer wood pieces.
These shoe boxes are a favorite thing of mine. I built them from leftover plywood and installed nice wheels on the bottom so they glide effortlessly. It's SO nice to have the shoe situation under control at last!!
Here you can see how I built the boxes: cleats for the box base were glued/nailed on first, leaving room in the corners for the wheels. The wheels are screwed into the box base. The cleats were placed 3/8" lower than the height of the wheels.
Uncle Jeff came to visit earlier this month. He is bacon.
Hazel continues her obsession with Frozen...Santa made good this year.
May your Christmas holiday be as warm and fuzzy as our kitty! And have a safe and happy New Year!
Oh, where to begin. I don't usually suffer from writer's block, but not blogging for an entire year can do just that. Should I explain my absence or just plunge in where I left off and try to fill you in from the present time going backwards? Perhaps I should leave my explanation(s) for another day and just jump in headfirst with our biggest news of the year: we've moved AGAIN, and this time it's into a custom-built home that I've spent most of my waking hours planning, designing, sourcing, and working on for the past year. Now before you get too impressed, I didn't draw up the architectural plans or frame the house or do the actual construction - I just told the experts what I wanted and tried not to get into too many squabbles about my vision vs. the outcome :-) You would probably rather see pictures than read this, so here you go...
Once upon a time, we were blessed with the means to build a house in a great area of Virginia with good schools, close to amenities but still in the country.
The wet winter weather tried to foil the foundation and the framer's efforts, but the workers prevailed.
I will definitely not be including the occupation of a framer on my top ten list of desired careers = back-breaking labor way up high on steep roofs in all kinds of windy weather with big heavy sheets of plywood that catch said wind and try to fling you off the roof. No, thank you.
It was super interesting to watch the process of the house going up. There is SO much involved beneath all the cosmetic stuff!
We had a great contractor who used to be a framer himself, so he made sure every detail was right and everything was above-and-beyond sturdy. He also worked on a lot of the extra details that I wanted inside without upcharging a fortune, which I was so grateful for. If there is anybody in southern VA needing a contractor, I can highly recommend our builder Greg Robertson.
I was so excited, after almost a year of planning, to see the interior of the house take shape. It's so different to see it in 3 dimensions vs. on paper in bird's eye floorplan views.
Speaking of views, check out the incredible vista from my new studio! I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have this huge space with this panoramic view to absorb while I'm busy creating.
You've probably heard that, no matter how much planning goes into a house, there are always things that are regretted once it's done. One of the things at the top of my list of Regrets That Are Totally My Fault are the windows in the back of the house. I have no idea why it didn't occur to me that, although I knew I wanted the look of colonial window panes at the front of the house, I didn't have to have all that distracting window pane stuff in the windows looking out into our huge backyard. I guess it's because the past several houses we've lived in have had those fake window panes everywhere, and I didn't even realize I could choose to do some that way and not others. Super huge DUH, I know. Sigh. I'm trying really hard not to kick myself too much for things that are too late, but I still find myself kicking hard on that one.
You may have noticed the similarities between our previous house in North Carolina and this one...that's because there were lots of things that I really liked about the exterior of that house and carried them to this one. The inside is significantly different though - there were some things about that other floor plan that really irked me.
The trim guy was fantastic. He did such a good job on all the very extensive trim that I had designed for the main floor. And I'm so glad I didn't have to mess with all that crown molding around the coffered ceiling myself!
This is one of the projects that I built - it's a plate rack so I can have my beloved rotating plate collection on the wall without putting a million nail holes in the walls all the time. It's not painted yet in this picture, in case you were wondering.
I designed the mantle, but the trim guys built it for me. Sweet. I had them adapt huge crown molding to lay flat and surround the firebox with mitered corners. I love how it turned out - not too traditional, not too modern. My job was to install the marble mosaic tile (pics of that coming later) around the gas firebox.
The stairs were meticulously built by the trim guy - they turned out beautifully. I had him use white oak for the treads instead of the typical red oak so the color would more closely match the hues of the planed hickory hardwood floor. There wasn't much red in the flooring, and I didn't want the stairs to be reddish. They were stained darker than the floor for more contrast.
I chose this floor for practical reasons (plus I love how it looks). There is so much variation in tone and texture that when (not if!) the floor gets damaged with dents and scratches I can easily wipe stain into the damaged area and it will blend right in. The glossy, gorgeously sleek Brazilian cherry type floors would not be compatible with our lifestyle...and I didn't want to be forever paranoid that the floor would be damaged.
Here's our master shower - or at least part of it! The tile guy was going to leave all the uneven edges of the mosaic stone empty and fill the gaps with loads of grout, but that was simply not an option for me so I spent several hours tapping spare stone into pieces with a hammer and then playing jigsaw puzzle to fill in all the blank spots so that when it was all grouted there wouldn't be large spots of grout on the edges.
Ah, the kitchen. I had hired a cabinetmaker independent of the one my builder uses for cost reasons, and although the woodworking was beautfully done, the finish on some of the cabinets was heartbreakingly disappointing. The big panels underneath the bar were stained so poorly with big splotches and brush marks that he agreed to redo the stain on that area of the cabinetry. This photo shows attempt #2, and you can see that they only sanded down the flat part of the panel and left the super dark stain in the curved parts. The stain they were using had a lacquer-based solvent in it which dried almost instantly, but since they were using brushes instead of spraying it on it was nearly impossible to get a good, even finish on such big panels. I really wish the panels were a lot darker to match the rest of the cabinetry, but I feared further errors and mess-ups if I made them redo it again so I just gave up on that one. I'll probably go back and redo it myself in a year or two. Bummer.
Every single white-painted door/drawer front had these globby, drippy messes because they were sprayed in super muggy conditions without air conditioning in a room without proper lighting. Some had lots of overspray too, and big drips across the front. What a disappointing disaster. He took all the doors off and "fixed" them, and although they're better than they were, they're still flawed up close.
Fortunately, nobody's going to be walking around inspecting my cabinets with a critical eye so I'm trying to just breathe deeply and let it go. From a distance they look fantastic!
Here's the front of the house before I spent an entire month digging over 400 holes for all my landscaping. I've learned that soil type makes a HUGE difference in how easy it is to plant things! In Carolina, all I had to do was dig into the rich, soft soil and plunk the plant down and then cover up the roots. Here, since the soil is pretty much solid concrete when dry (AKA solid clay) I had to soak the dirt, use a pickax in some places that had been run over with heavy machinery, and dig and dig and dig until I had a decent hole. Then I had to mix in organic matter to amend the soil, and only then could I plant my tree or shrub or plant. Yes, it took forever. Yes, I miss the Carolina soil. I have heard that mixing gypsum into solid clay soil does much to improve it, but since I'm not about to use a little rotiller on 3 acres, I'm going to wait until spring and hire somebody with farm equipment to work a bunch of gypsum into the ground. Until then, at least I have (almost) all my plants in the ground to survive the winter.
There is still MUCH to be done inside, especially upstairs, but I can show you some pictures of the areas that are mostly done. I love, love, love the granite I picked out (some special slabs of Alaska White) and the ceramic tile floor turned out really nicely.
It was obviously October when I took these! You can see the white two cabinets that lift vertically in this photo - they house the microwave (on top) and the toaster and blender (on bottom). I keep the bread in the drawer beneath the counter, so everything is right there for toast and making sandwiches. I love being able to hide all that stuff instead of having it on the counter in plain sight all the time.
I got to choose all the lighting in the house, and these pendants are definitely at the top of my Favorites list. The faceted crystal balls sparkle day and night - when the setting sun streams through them, the crystals scatter a million rainbows all over the room. I purchased much of the lighting at Overstock.com, and the rest was from Lowes and Home Depot. I was able to save a lot of money that way, as compared to going to a lighting shop that charges a minimum of $500 for a basic fixture.
I spent months choosing all the surfaces, lighting, flooring, cabinetry, appliances, bathrooms, trim, colors, etc. It was a constant push/pull between needing to stay within budget and wanting high quality, long-lasting things that wouldn't break/wear out/need replacing in a few years. Plus there was the aesthetic factor...of course I loved the appliances, lighting, and flooring that cost an arm and a leg and your first-born child (how about a Wolf stove for $10,000? Choke choke cough), but I'm really happy with how things turned out. I was able to get a lot of bang for the buck with the choices that I made on everything...without a Wolf stove!
I'm really happy with the backsplash - this tile was just what I had in my mind's eye. I didn't want to go with white subway tile (too popular and trendy, and I didn't want an all-white kitchen) and I have a personal pet peeve against glass tile so this stone tile was perfect for me. I love the herringbone pattern, but doing it all over would have been too busy. The amazing thing is that I found the pencil-shaped border tile at Lowes, and the rectangular tile at a local granite shop, and they just happened to match perfectly. It seriously looks like the same stone unless you look really closely. A very serendipitous find - I got lucky on that one!
More Halloween decorations...I should have Christmas photos up by the New Year. I'm still working on window treatments for most of the house.
Here you can see the mantel after I installed the small pieces of marble tile surrounding the firebox. Some are shiny, some are rough and organic which provides a very nice study of contrast in color, texture, and value. I'll try to get a better picture of the mantel that shows the tile better.
I will eventually install tall wainscoting in the dining room, but it's pretty low on my priority list. Maybe by next year I'll get that done.
Costume time!
There is still so much to show you but I either don't have pictures of it yet or the room's not finished yet. I still have to finish built-ins, wainscoting/crown molding/trim, and decorating in my studio, the frog (finished room over garage) and all the bedrooms. And the bathrooms and mud room. So yes, pretty much everything except the main living areas! Here's hoping that I can get a lot done in the next few weeks before New Years. Oh wait, it's December, the busiest month of the year...okay, maybe I should aim for February. Merry Christmas, everyone!
Happy New Year! Obviously, I have not made any resolutions regarding blogging more frequently. Oops.
Hard to believe Christmas has come and gone again so soon...
I wanted to really focus on the true reason for the season this year, so Santa has been relegated to the dining room hutch and the Christus statue was placed front and center on the mantel.
I'm quite amazed that it's not even considered polite to utter the phrase Merry Christmas or show any reference to the religious aspects of the holiday in public anymore. The pendulum has swung way too far, in my opinion.
So my kids will learn the real meaning behind Christmas here at home.
We hosted a neighborhood Christmas Nativity party, and the kids dressed up in costumes while Steve read passages from the Bible.
The costumes were made by a friend from Church and she has used them for years within her own family and among friends. Didn't she do a great job?
We all sang Christmas carols and everyone seemed to have a great time. I think this will be one of our annual traditions from now on!
We enjoyed a visit from Uncle John, who was on shore for awhile (he's a nuke engineer in a Navy sub).
Ah, the excitement and joy of Christmas morning! There's nothing like it.
Friends, I'd like you to meet Hazel's room. At least this is what it looked like earlier today, before I took one of her darling beds down...
...Once upon a time, long ago, I bought these two antique beds from someone on Craigslist. Hazel only needed one bed, but I just couldn't bear to split them up and they were ridiculously inexpensive. And so cute!
The second bed was stored away until we moved to this house last year...and this bedroom was big enough to set up both beds - hurray! I expected that the kids would sleep in here when visitors came, but no - they always wanted to sleep in the playroom above the garage. Then Hazel and her friends realized that the extra bed was consuming valuable playspace real estate, so she has been asking me for a long time to take it down.
I have resisted, in part because I love seeing the matching twin beds, in part because I don't have a place to store the bed in a climate controlled space here, and partly because I had never finished decorating Hazel's room (until now) and I really wanted to get some cute photos of everything with the two beds set up.
The main hold-up to finishing her room was the fact that I had a bunch of artwork (the monotype collages that my fabric line with Benartex featured) that I had never gotten around to framing. I really wanted to have them framed and on display in conjunction with all the fun pillows, stuffed animals, and quilts that I had made with my coordinating fabric.
I could never find affordable white frames, especially square ones, and I didn't feel like building a ton of them from scratch. I did end up making the large square ones above the beds (from brick molding that I cut a rabbet notch out of before building the frame...so the finished frame can accomodate glass and matting). The little ones were all black frames that I spray painted white.
Works for me!
The red birdie above is one of my favorites.
This pair of birdies is also on my Top list. The colors are better in real life. Hazel's soft pink walls impart a rosy glow to everything, which is actually quite lovely and a bit magical in person, but it does make for funky color in photos.
The pink tissue puffs suspended from the ceiling were ones that I made waaaaay back when for Hazel's Pinkety Pink birthday party (link in left sidebar). That was, in a word, a very PINK party.
I hand-stitched around every single circle in every single layer on this quilt...crazy crazy me. I learned an important lesson about layering fabrics on this one = don't do it. :-) The end result is a stiff quilt because of all the layers, and some are fused with interfacing on the back which made it even more stiff. Ah, well, live and learn eh?
Here are some of my favorite pillows from my fabric...such fun, such fun!
And here we have Hazel saying, "Okay Mom, now that you're done taking pictures, can you take the extra bed away?" Sigh. Now where on earth am I going to store that bed?
Oh - before I forget -
Believe it or not, I have been faithfully commenting after other people leave comments on my recent posts...but my own blog is blocking them out!
I have no idea why this is happening - once in awhile my comment will go through, but most of the time it simply disappears into thin air, never to be seen again. Is this happening to anyone else? It's very vexing, to say the least.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I had to change my comment settings to close old posts and moderate the new ones (I was getting MASSIVE amounts of spam all of the sudden - all of it extremely annoying, some of it downright nasty - so I had to shut down most of the comment boxes except for my most recent posts). But that wouldn't explain why a few of my comments went through and most did not.
In any case, I want my readers to know that I appreciate all of your kind comments and that I really have been trying to be better about communicating with you. Wendi, Edith, and Bev, you are particularly sweet in your consistent commenting, thanks so much!
From bees to hot cocoa to Jesus to microwaves to Duke basketball, our family has had a lot of things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving!
We made a long list (fuzzy slippers, democracy, colors, stickers, hot showers, kitty, mirrors, central heating, the Cycle of Life...) and I had the best of intentions to make a clever decoration that incorporated all of them.
I obviously didn't get that far, but at least we made a thoughtful list! We truly have been so blessed, it's overwhelming how fortunate we are when we really stop to think about it. Makes me realize how important it is to be grateful, and to remember our blessings in the midst of all that may be awry in the world. It's so easy to get discouraged when reading headlines or watching the news, but it's just as vital to recognize the good in the world as it is to stay aware of world and national affairs.
I'm grateful for Thanksgiving, the Holiday (quickly becoming eclipsed by commercial endeavers regarding Halloween and Christmas) of Gratitude to help us take a step back and be grateful for this nation, those who have sacrificed for freedom, and all the blessings that come from living here. Not to mention our families, friends, health, and all the intangibles, as well as physical luxuries.
We had a lovely Thanksgiving Day - lots of good times around the dinner table with our friends and my little brother (who is now much taller than I!) Most of our family lives on the west coast, so our holidays are usually filled with the company of fellow military families in the same situation. We had a great time and all 10 kids actually got along really well for the entire afternoon/evening, which was a huge blessing in itself! :-)
Here's Uncle John getting showered with attention from my kids - they love their uncle!
Okay, sneak peek of the firepit....ALMOST finished! Still need to scrub the top of the firepit with muriatic acid to remove the mortar haze, and put pea gravel in the bottom of the pit, and finish laying the stone path, and plant plants all around. When it's all done I'll do a special post just on this big puppy of a project. We haven't even used it yet because the mortar is still curing and it's actually been below freezing at night for nearly a week! Too cold for us, fire or no fire.
But, in the spirit of thanksgiving, at least the cold prevents a bunch of new weeds from cropping up in all that dirt, and we don't have to mow our huge field in the winter! Blessings all over the place.
October is over. Wow. What a crazy busy month it has been!
I hosted a neighborhood Halloween party for the kids, but the only fancy thing I made for the party this time was this platter of decorated marshmallows-on-a-stick. Actually they're paper straws...gotta stay accurate around this house because I have three precise, very literal children who insist on it. ("But mom, you said come to the kitchen for dinner, not the table!") ... or my favorite broken record response ("But you didn't TELL me to brush (and/or) floss - you only said to get ready for bed!")
I got the idea from a magazine, but I don't remember which one. It was either Country Living or Better Homes and Gardens. I had ripped out the photo to save in my file of ideas, but Hazel shredded it when she was mad at me about something. Sigh. No strong-willed personalities in this house. Not ever. Not even me.
Anyway, my critters are a little different than the magazine, but definitely the same concept. The white stuff is fondant, the orange stuff is melted Wilton candy. The mummies' eyes are mini M+Ms, the black is store-bought icing that comes in the tiny tubes (Not the gel! The gel is awful and never hardens). They didn't taste all that great because of the fondant, but they sure were cute!
The highlight of the kid's party was the Make-Your-Own-Monster activity. It was a big hit last year, and it's something I'm going to do from now on. Much easier than slaving away for 2 days making a table full of magazine-worthy treats, and the kids enjoyed it much more as well. Win/win all the way around!
Eliza's going to love me for posting this one. She inherited my habit of sticking out one's tongue when concentrating on something...it really does help! :-)
Hazel's kindergarten class had a field trip to the local pumpkin patch, which was a lot of fun for everyone.
Hmmmm....which one is THE perfect pumpkin?
The kids got to see how ice cream was made the old-fashioned way. It brought back memories of when I was a kid - when we had family parties, we would make homemade ice cream and would take turns sitting on a folded towel on top of the big hand-cranked bucket to turn the handle until our arms turned to jello. I loved the rock salt and using a hammer to smash the big frozen cartons (no store bought ice bags for us) of ice to put into the bucket.
This sign cracked me up! I love it. I wish I had bought it. But then everyone who visits would have found out our secret!
The day of the pumpkin patch field trip was an exciting one for Hazel, as it coincided with the day she got to bring home the classroom stuffed animal (Rosie the puppy) and journal about all the things they did together.
Ah, Despicable Us! Back in September my kids were talking about being Minions, and my friend Jaime and I were laughing about how fun it would be to dress up our 2 families as the Despicable Me crew. It ended up being much more work than first anticipated (of course!) but we had so much fun dressing up!
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I made all the overalls and yellow hats, and Steve's costume (minus the lab coat that Jaime ordered). Everything else was a collaborative effort. The kids got such a kick out of it, and even little Riley kept her headgear on long enough to snap some pictures before going trick or treating. Success!
Here is Steve modeling his couture Dr. Nefario costume: duck tape goggles, hand-painted fleece pants, and custom-cut yellow duck tape on the black gloves. Very very nice. :-)
On a little classier note, I had a Black & White party for grown-ups recently as well, which was admittedly more fun than making 5 pairs of Minion overalls. :-)
I just love to set up a fancy dinner table!
Inside the boxes are hand-piped black candy mustaches, but I forgot to get any pics. Oops. And I promise that this is the last mustache-themed party you will see me do. At least in the near future. I told you it was the year of the mustache for me! :-)
You may recognize the silver glass containers that I did for last Christmas. I used the mirror-finish spray paint and sprayed it to the inside of the glass, and added a rim of silver German glass glitter to some of them.
The painted pinecones were a bit of a flop - rather than spray painting them (which I should have done) I thought I'd simply dip them into the paint. Welllll, I discovered that when they got soaking wet with paint, they closed up! Argh. They used to be all big and full and gorgeous, and now they're tight and rather funny looking. I'll know better for next time.
Even the food was black and white - I made a salad (okay, I fudged on the green lettuce) with peeled cucumbers, sliced white mushrooms, black olives, and jicama. I hadn't had jicama in years, and now I wonder why - it's delightfully crunchy and almost sweet. Love it!
I also made clam chowder (yum yum) but failed to get a photo of that.
I made a trifle with homemade chocolate cake and brownies and real whipped cream. Nothing had calories that night, by the way. My guests brought black and white food too - it was so much fun!
Yes, that's really my teeth beneath that 'stache...I always knew I had big front teeth, but hello, Roger Rabbit!!
What's a party without party games? We all had so much fun. This one is a take-off on the Chubby Bunny version.
You can see that Steve decided that the one-by-one mini marshmallow rule was just not cutting it...
We played charades/pictionary, and the person could choose to act it out or draw it. This, believe it or not, is a swan pose. Actually he got confused and thought for a moment that a swan was a crane. Or Karate Kid. And we will never let him live it down.
This was one of our favorite drawings of the night. Yup.
The kids wanted to play pictionary the next morning, and this is Hazel's vampire. Isn't it awesome? I absolutely love it.
I really wanted to get a good shot of the hairpiece thingy that I made, but the mirror technique wasn't really working that well. Not enough light = blurry.
So here it is off of my head. It's just 3 yo-yo's made from soft velvet, with silver jewelry beads sewn in the middle.
The back is not so pretty, with all the hot glue holding the feathers (clipped from my black boa on the mantle) and barrette clips. You can also see the curved piece of black felt that the velvet flowers are glued to.
Alrighty then...next stop, Thanksgiving! I'm going to try really hard to get the ever elusive firepit done this month - it's getting to the point of ridiculousness that I'm still not finished with it yet. Besides, this is the perfect season for a roaring bonfire in the backyard. Wish me luck!
This is a big moment for me - the four vintage chairs that, 2 years ago, started out like this...
...and then sat like this for a year and a half...
...with 3 of them getting upholstery to this point...
...to be interrupted by the rotted back wall of the house plus everything that followed after...
...are finally, FINALLY completely finished. Gimp and all.
I can now take a full shot of my living room with all 4 chairs instead of trying to fake that I had 4 (because the last chair didn't even get upholstery until this week).
The final step was to make the gimp, which was tedious at best. But hey - why should that part be easy when everything else about these chairs has been challenging? Why break tradition, right?
The gimp is what covers all the staples that hold the upholstery in place around the edges, FYI.
I made the gimp by cutting 1.25" strips of velvet ( I wish I had cut them at 1" because the final width was too wide to nicely do inside angles). The velvet was folded into thirds as I fed it through the sewing machine, sewing it straight down the center. Sometimes the raw edge of the velvet stuck out too much, so on some of the strips I trimmed the raw edge away closer to the stitching. This way the raw edge was completely hidden when it was hot-glued onto the chair.
Fun, fun, fun. But now they are all done.
I'm SO glad these are finished at last. And if I ever get this kind of a bright idea again, please stop me. Somehow, some way. :-)
Since I love upholstery so much (not) I decided to redo the upholstery on my new dining chairs as well.
Actually what really happened is that I could not, for the life of me, find 4 sturdy dining chairs that I loved on Craigslist down here. This is not DC Craigslist territory. At all. There were chairs that I adored from various online sources, but they were all too expensive. Sorry, there's no way I'm paying $150+ for one dining chair. So I ended up buying these white chairs from Target clearance ($50 each) and redid the upholstery with velvet that I had purchased ages ago and never used.
This is what the fabric looked like when they arrived. Nice, but not in line with the decor in my house.
The trickiest part was popping out the top sections without damaging the wooden frame. Plus I had to make piping for the top oval, which is never fun for me because I don't have a machine that can handle the bulky piping and thick fabric without skipping stitches all over the place. But it's all done now, hurray hurray! Hot glue and a good heavy duty stapler are my best friends on these types of projects.
Our cat has since decided that, for whatever reason, these chair cushions make nice claw scratching objects. Grrrr. She is currently banned from the dining room, needless to say. Like a cat can be banned from anyplace, right?
In any case, I'm officially chaired out now. Until I make a slipcover for the armchair by the french door. But I'm not even going to think about that right now. Today I'm just going to revel in the satisfaction of completing a project that's been 2 years in the making. Definitely a red letter day.
It's October, time for the black and orange!
The new color scheme gave me the impetus necessary to finish this coffee table, which had been sitting in our garage for 1.5 years. It was an old vintage piece that had lost some of the veneer on the edges, so I patched it up and painted it white. Lots of coats of white. :-)
The drapes consist of grey tapestry panels purchased at Lowes, cut in half, and sewn into sections of IKEA drapes. Since the Lowes drapes were more narrow than the IKEA ones, I had to trim and re-stitch the sides, but at least I didn't have to do the tabs on top.
Hazel got a kick out of this, of course. She's going to be Witch Hazel for Halloween.
My mercury glass globes look dashing in their 'staches, no?
You've seen all this other stuff from previous years, just rearranged. I'm so excited to have a big beautiful mantel to rearrange it on!
'Tis the year of the mustache for me.
Go kitty, go...you get that rubber rat.
I made new orange drapes for the dining, since there are 4 panels needed in this house. The black and white ones were used in our last house. They're shorter than they should be cuz this house has 9 ft ceilings, but I managed to work around it in the photos. And you never would have known if I hadn't told you, right?
Okay, now it's time to start on all the Halloween costumes and get the parties planned and organized! Can't wait to show you the costumes...but I'll have to wait because I haven't even started them yet. Which means you'll have to wait too. :-)
This is the post where I document our trip to Utah and Idaho to visit friends and family...so if travelogues bore you don't bother to scroll down any further! :-)
Unlike the pioneers of 150 years ago, we did not have to go Westward Ho by wagon or handcart, which I was pretty grateful for. I really don't think I would have made a very good pioneer.
You've probably figured out by now that this is the Utah State Capitol building, which was absolutely huge and gorgeous with its neoclassical design and marble-clad interior. I'm not sure what the exterior is faced with, perhaps it's marble too? Does anybody know?
The scale of the building is immense and awe-inspiring - I just can't even begin to imagine the amount of time and effort it took to construct it.
The rotunda is graced with several lovely murals depicting scenes from Utah history.
Vast staircases were built in both wings flanking the rotunda. Just beautiful.
There were four bronze statues in the main rotunda area depicting topics of importance for the state and its people.
All of the murals were very beautiful, I loved seeing them.
These were in the Senate chamber, I think. The paintings brought back a lot of memories of when I was at BYU - the spontaneous trips down to Arches National Park and the glorious Wasatch Mountain range that we would drive and hike through amidst the fluttering golden leaves of the aspen groves.
There were several portraits on display at the capital, and I was excited to see this one by one of my favorite Utah artists, Brian Kirshisnik. His paintings just glow with vivid color, and the simple and graceful lines of his figures are unmistakably distinctive. I also appreciate his sense of humor - he doesn't take himself too seriously.
Of course we visited Temple Square, and it was especially beautiful with all the summer foliage in full splendor.
For those who may not know, this temple took 40 years to build, and the stories of its construction and the lives of the people who dedicated their time and talents (all of it was volunteer) to build it are simply amazing.
I love the reflection pool...
This statue was particularly touching to me knowing the incredible hardships the handcart pioneers went through. The male statue was modeled after a pioneer named John Rowe Moyle who, after pulling his handcart 2000 miles across the United States, was called to be a stonecutter for the temple...and he homesteaded 22 miles away from the temple site. And he didn't have a horse. So he walked to Salt Lake every Monday, worked until Friday on the temple, walked home Friday night and had Saturday to do all the farm chores and look after his family. Then he lost his leg, and - you guessed it - after it healed he carved a prosthetic leg for himself and started the grueling schedule once again. There's a short film about him, you can watch it HERE but I don't think that particular link shows the entire story...there's probably another one that shows the first part of it.
Like I said, I don't think I would have made a very good pioneer.
I have always loved this Christus statue (yes, Mormons are Christians, despite all the misconceptions that state otherwise) and I'm glad Hazel got to see it in person. We have a small replica of it at home, but the full size version is, well, indescribable. I think the original was created by a man in Denmark a long, long time ago, and the Church obtained permission to replicate it.
The old Assembly Hall on Temple Square...
...and some of the astoundingly beautiful landscaping on Temple Square. I loved these lush plantings that appeared to be floating on the side of the wall.
Here's Brigham Young, the prophet who led the saints West to escape persecution and death after Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob.
To dispel another common misperception, we do not worship Joseph Smith nor any other human being. We honor him as the man through whom Jesus Christ restored the fulness of the Gospel back on the earth in the latter days (hence the name of our church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...but reporters often omit the Jesus Christ part of the name...reinforcing the confusion about not being Christian). For more information on this topic, you can click HERE.
Hopefully I won't get any angry emails chewing me out for being religious, I'm not trying to shove anything down anyone's throat. I've been chewed out for being political before, we'll see if I'll get chewed out for this. I'm merely explaining the photos that I took on our trip - and I did issue a warning about this being a travelogue! It's still a free country, after all...I hope :-)
Here is the old Tabernacle, the historic site of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and where generations of people gathered to hear General Conference twice a year. It's now broadcast worldwide from a much bigger conference center on the other side of Temple Square. No pictures of that, our kids were very much done with playing tourist by then.
This incredible building used to be Hotel Utah, but is now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.
The interior is opulent and refined, and it's so amazing to think that people built and decorated it long before power tools and modern technology.
Not exactly the style I would want in my living room, but stunning and awe-inspiring nonetheless.
This is the view of Temple Square from the top of the JSMB. You can see the shiny domed roof of the old Tabernacle behind the temple and the new Conference Center is at the right of the temple.
So, there you have it folks! We had a wonderful time visiting friends and family - I got to reconnect with some college roomates, a good friend from my single days in Portland Oregon, and I already showed you pics of my visit with the talented Emilie Daly of Modern Yardage. We rented a car and drove to Idaho to visit Steve's family as well, which was great.
Getting back home was great too - traveling is fun and exciting, but it's always good to get back to Home Sweet Home. Especially when it takes a matter of hours on a plane as compared to months and months on a pioneer trail.
Well, it's about time isn't it?
I've been meaning to do this pattern/tutorial for 2 years now, and I finally sat down and spent half a day putting it together (yes, these things take a lot of time).
Now, when people email me requesting a pattern for it, I'll have something other than "sorry, haven't done that yet" to tell them. Yippee skippy for that.
I decided to list it on Etsy for $3 per download because I'm not generating any income right now and it will hopefully at least help pay for my monthly blog fee. You can purchase it at my Etsy store HERE so if you have a burning desire to spend lots of hours sewing, cutting, and trimming your way to a fabulously striking quilt (can you tell it's my favorite?) then please click on over!
ps. I'm almost done decorating for Halloween...so much fun with our new mantle. Still no firepit = sick kids all. week. long. Plus it's been in the mid-80's all week, so I didn't really feel the need to overexert myself in hot (okay, hot for October!) weather.


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Social class is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices but not with religiosity itself.
Learning Objective
Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination and religiosity
Key Points
- Social class is an indicator of religious affiliation, with upper class members concentrated in formal denominations and lower class members concentrated in informal denominations.
- Social class is not an indicator of religiosity; members of each social class practice their faiths with a range of intensities.
- Income, and therefore social class, is related to an individual's denomination. Religion is also strongly linked to level of education.
Religious Affiliation
The measure of which religious denomination a person identifies with or practices
An index of how strongly religious a person is
- Social class can predict which religious denomination a person is likely to belong to; members of the upper class are more likely than others to be Episcopalian or Jewish, while members of the working class are more likely to be Catholic, for example.
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Social class, measured by socioeconomic status, is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices. This affiliation has more to do with how religion is practiced rather than degree of religiosity. Members of lower classes tend to be affiliated with more fundamentalist religions and sect-like groups. Members of the middle class tend to belong to more formal churches. For example, American Presbyterians and Episcopalians (two highly formal Protestant denominations), tend to have above average socioeconomic statuses. Methodists and Lutherans (two moderately formal Protestant denominations) tend to have about average SES. Baptists and members of Protestant fundamentalist sects (which tend to be decentralized and informal) have below average SES. Variations in SES across denomination reveal a correlation between religious affiliation and social class.
Social class is not significantly correlated to religiosity, an index of how strongly religious a person is. Religiosity is measured by tracking frequency of church attendance, church group involvement, frequency of prayer, and other such markers of strength of religious practice. Members of each social class show a range of religiosity.
On the other hand, income, and therefore social class, is related to an individual's denomination. When one looks at average income by religion, there are clear differences. The highest-earning religion on average is Judaism, with an average income of $72,000 in 2000. This is dramatically higher than average; the next highest-earning denomination is Unitarianism at $56,000. Jehovah's Witness, Church of God, and Seventh Day Adventists are at the bottom of the income distribution, with $24,000, $26,000, and $31,000 respectively .
Religious Affiliation by Median Household Income (2000)
Household income, an indicator of social class, can also indicate what religious denomination a person is likely to embrace. America's top income bracket is more likely than other groups to be Jewish, while the lowest bracket is more likely to be Jehovah's Witnesses.
Religion is also linked with education. 72% of Unitarian and 67% of Hindu adherents are college graduates, while only 12% of Jehovah's Witness and 15% of Church of God members graduated from college.
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Key Term Reference
- Judaism
- Appears in these related concepts: Characteristics of Members of Different Religions, Social Correlates of Religion, and Types of Governments
- More
- Appears in these related concepts: The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict and Scarce Resources, Norms and Sanctions, and Introduction
- church
- Appears in these related concepts: Widespread Belief, The Christian Church, and Families and Theory
- class
- Appears in these related concepts: Integration Theory, Modality and levels of analysis, and Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture
- correlation
- Appears in these related concepts: Benefits of Globalization, Controlling for a Variable, and Descriptive and Correlational Statistics
- denomination
- Appears in these related concepts: Catholicism, Cult, and Affiliation
- group
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THE BRONX - A gas leak prompted residents to evacuate from two apartment buildings in Morris Heights on Saturday.
Authorities say the leak sprang from a sewer in the street and began seeping into the basement of 19-99 Morris Ave.
Con Edison crews and firefighters were called to the scene. After doing some excavation work, a crack was detected in a gas line.
Tenants say the air smelled of gas and they feared an explosion. "We don't want the same thing to happen to us as what happened in Harlem," said resident Noreen Gonzalez. "Everybody's afraid now around here, so I think that this should be checked all the time so it won't happen again."
Con Edison says it installed a temporary clamp over the pipeline. It will remain in place until a decision is made to repair the entire cracked piece.


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As I mentioned yesterday, I am in full swing Pumpkin mode! Last night I whipped together a little Creamy Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oatmeal using a little pumpkin pie filling and am just finishing it up right now. I love it! My secret ingredient is to use steel cut oats because it makes it a little chewier…and I like..you may not, in which case you can use just regular oats!
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It's got a train station !
Ennis is on the national rail network with a connection from Limerick having been in place since the 1980's (which only ran on thursdays) after a break of 20 years or so when County Clare became a county with no active railway lines !
Nowadays it is part of the newly opened Western rail link up to Athenry and Galway.
Do be warned however - fares are not cheap and the trains are slow and a bit ropey. The efficient bus service will do the run to Galway in about half the time it takes the clickity click train...if you can spare the time however its a tad more civilized.
Taxi from Shannon Airport to Ennis: Good Times
We flew into Shannon Airport and jumped into a cab. With me in the front seat where normally I would be driving and Palie in the back seat looking freaked out, tired and trying not to back-seat drive. We took off down the pretty road with funky turn-arounds and lots of sheeps and little school kids in plaid skirts and bobby socks. About 20 life threatening minutes later, we were smack dab at the door of our hotel.
Cost: $35.00 USD. He would take the tip. I still wonder if it was because I sacred him with my short outbursts of non sense.
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Both the train and bus station are located together in the same location about 1km south east of the town centre. For here there are hourly bus links to Galway, Limerick and most major cities. There are lso less frequent buses to the west of the county. Check out www.buseireann.ie for more up to date information.The are also twice daily trains to Dublin 3.5 hrs and a new frequent train service to Limerick €10 daily return. There is both a ticket office and information desk at the station. But no shop to get a coffee or snack so bring your own. It's only a short 5 minute walk to the town centre so there is no need for a taxi if you are on a budget
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Fire at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
The Student Union at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design suffered significant damage in a fire overnight. No one was in the building or injured in the fire, which is believed to have started about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Students at MIAD are on winter break until Jan. 14 and classes will not be affected. Upon initial review, the fire inspector believes the cause of the fire may have been electrical, according to MIAD spokeswoman Vivian Rothschild. »Read Full Blog Post
Alt-J's March 29 concert moved to Pabst Theater
Due to high demand, British alternative band Alt-J's March 29 Turner Hall Ballroom show has been bumped up to the larger Pabst Theater (seating capacity 1,399.)
'Memphis' finds its rhythm at the Marcus Center
The storyline in "Memphis," on stage at the Marcus Center through Sunday, goes like this.
A high school dropout named Huey Calhoun - white - stumbles downstairs into a seedy African-American club in 1950s Memphis. Huey has been drawn there by the voice of Felicia Farrell - an equally young singer. Huey falls hard, as he already had for rhythm and blues. »Read Full Article
Crystal Castles coming to Turner Hall May 6
Canadian electropop duo Crystal Castles—consisting of producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass—will headline Turner Hall Ballroom May 6, the venue announced Wednesday morning.
Blues legend B.B. King booked for Riverside Theater
87-year-old blues legend B.B. King is making his return trip to Milwaukee in May—and this time out, a staple of the local music scene, Paul Cebar, will be handling opening duties.
Aereo to offer local broadcast signals online in Wisconsin
Aereo, the antenna TV service that allows live streaming of broadcast signals on computers and portable devices, is coming to Wisconsin.
The company announced plans Monday, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, to introduce the service in 22 cities, including Madison, early this year. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
On Tap Today: Cohen, Elvis and Bowie
Good morning. If you didn't hear, we posted the news just a half hour ago. Leonard Cohen, 78, is going to play Milwaukee for the first time in 38 years this March. So your first order of the day, take note and put the day tickets go on sale on your calendar now.
Leonard Cohen will appear at Milwaukee Theatre in March
Leonard Cohen, one of the most poetic and seminal songwriters of his generation, will make a rare local appearance at the Milwaukee Theatre at 8 p.m. March 15. It will be his first concert here in 38 years.
Tickets, at $55 to $250 excluding service charges, go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 18 at the box office, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave., at select Walmart stores, (800) 745-3000 and ticketmaster.com. »Read Full Article(11)


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What's dirtier than a romance novel? A thinly veiled novel about the First Lady and all her juicy indiscretions. From a secret abortion, to vehicular manslaughter, to worshiping the Washington Monument in her husbands pants, this American Wife will remind you of a certain woman in the White House. This novel… READ MORE »


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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an organelle specialized for the folding and assembly of secretory and transmembrane proteins. ER homeostasis is often perturbed in tumor cells because of dramatic changes in the microenvironment of solid tumors, thereby leading to the activation of an adaptive mechanism named the unfolded protein response (UPR). The activation of the UPR sensor IRE1α has been described to play an important role in tumor progression. However, the molecular events associated with this phenotype remain poorly characterized. In the present study, we examined the effects of IRE1α signaling on the adaptation of glioma cells to their microenvironment. We show that the characteristics of U87 cell migration are modified under conditions where IRE1α activity is impaired (DN_IRE1). This is linked to increased stress fiber formation and enhanced RhoA activity. Gene expression profiling also revealed that loss of functional IRE1α signaling mostly resulted in the upregulation of genes encoding extracellular matrix proteins. Among these genes, Sparc, whose mRNA is a direct target of IRE1α endoribonuclease activity, was in part responsible for the phenotypic changes associated with IRE1α inactivation. Hence, our data demonstrate that IRE1α is a key regulator of SPARC expression in vitro in a glioma model. Our results also further support the crucial contribution of IRE1α to tumor growth, infiltration and invasion and extend the paradigm of secretome control in tumor microenvironment conditioning.
↵* Present address: Institut de Biologie de Lille, CNRS UMR8161/Universités Lille 1 et Lille 2/Institut Pasteur de Lille, 1, rue du Pr. Calmette, BP 447, 59021 Lille, France
This work was supported by the Avenir program of Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale; Institut national du cancer; Ligue Contre le Cancer to E.C.; the French Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer to O.P.; La Ligue contre le Cancer to N.D.; and the Cancéropôle Grand Sud-Ouest to C.G.
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Even at the height of 'women's liberation,' products aimed to female consumers were actually marketed to men.
Gender-neutral clothing is back in vogue, but the craze in many ways has mirrored broader social changes throughout the 20th century.
An upcoming Oculus Rift experience tracks a character's recovery following a sexual assault—aiming to enable empathy, even therapy, for survivors and outsiders alike.
Ten years ago, illustrator Mirko Ilic combined three visual cliches to create a fresh, enduring emblem for gay marriage.
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In an effort to assess Portlanders' actual enthusiasm for electric cars, Portland State University is conducting a survey about them—and they are dangling the possibility of winning prizes if you take part.
People filling out the survey—which seeks opinion about cars and foreign oil—are put into a raffle to win an all-electric weekend.
The winner gets a to drive a Nissan Leafâthe first completely electric carâcourtesy of Enterprise Rent-a-Car, during the weekend of March 2-4. The prize package also includes tickets to OMSI, the Portland Art Museum, and a Trail Blazers-Minnesota Timberwolves game; and a weekend stay at the Heathman Hotel and free passes on the MAX and Portland Streetcar.
In case you have nowhere to plug in your Leaf, donât worryâPSU will let you use their plug-in stations free.
George Beard, who put together the survey and gift package, says none of the companies are getting paid to provide the prizes. Rather, he says, most of them have sustainability departments that were excited to participate. Both the museum and the Blazers both recently installed electric car plug-in stations, Beard says.
He says the PSU Office of Research and Strategic Planning, of which he is a manager, has long been interested in proving electric cars work for people.
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Weill Cornell Newsroom > Awards & Honors
Awards and Honors Across Weill Cornell Medicine - Week of Dec. 11 - Dec. 18
Dr. Marc Goldstein, the Matthew P. Hardy, PhD Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Urology, and a professor of urology and of reproductive medicine, received the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Star Award during its annual meeting in October. The Star Award is given annually to recognize and thank members who have dedicated hours of time and service to shape the organization into the leading society for reproductive medicine. The society is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to advancing the science and practice of reproductive medicine.
Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and a professor of neuroscience, gave the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism's Presidential Lecture during its 17th annual meeting on June 28 in Vancouver, Canada. The society promotes research in cerebral blood flow, cerebral metabolism, and cerebral functions in physiological and pathophysiological states. Dr. Iadecola's lecture was titled "Bright and Dark Sides of Innate Immunity in Stroke and Dementia."
Dr. Erin Mills, senior clinical associate in cardiothoracic surgery, received a 2015 Distinguished Housestaff Award from the NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council. This annual award is presented to one member of the housestaff from each department for all-around excellence. Award recipients are selected by department chairs and residency program directors.
Dr. Sheida Tabaie, an instructor in anesthesiology, was named the Department of Anesthesiology's first Global Health Fellow. The fellowship is an intense one-year program providing residency-trained anesthesiologists an opportunity to become world leaders in global health. The department's Global Health Initiative is dedicated to creating an innovative and applied global health education, training, and translational research program, which culminates in ongoing work with local clinicians in developing nations.
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