Granny/Nanny Bloggers get technical / Dances with Daughters

Dear Babyboomers and others
R wrote - "NOGGING, nanas / nonnas blogging (cogging) I love that. I will add it to my log of COGS. You realize there is no end to this COGGING. We have created a mobius, a continuous strand that has no beginning or end but has a unique twist to it. Perhaps the women's movement was more successful in creating liberated sons than daughters. Perhaps that is why young women today will be more successful in their marriages, and perhaps they will not even know why.


Clara - Chogger - children - it's endless. We must send it to Blogger for some extra rights such as tuition. It now occurs to me that our kids/children need our past to help them with their future. "We give them the gift of our experience" - we need not only to continue COGGING but to do some KOGGING or CHOGGING too. I haven't ever heard of the word 'mobius' so need to look it up. I agree and had already written the word 'endless' before I read your word.

If you see a few changes in the blog, it is due to my lovely neighbour who looks and sounds just like Tom Cruise (so shall be named Tom), who is an IT expert. He is one of your so called liberated sons and spends quality time with his children - "even dances with daughters - 5 and 8 ". I was a single parent with children 4 and 6 onward, so missed out on such beautiful experiences.

Welcome to my journey as I photograph something I create everyday for a year... RRT


Thought you might enjoy seeing what you are missing. On my first attempt at Faux Forsythia my model fell over and my Hope Springs Necklace broke in a zillion pieces. There I was picking up beads midst rabbit and deer droppings. Back to the drawing board to restring the necklace. Next photo shoot was more successful.


Faux Forsythia...March 14th

In an effort to brighten a very bleak environment, I added silk forsythia to the bare branches. It just seemed the thing to do.

I wanted to work with the bright gold and as a result a happy mistake resulted with my off the shoulder "poncho". Having only two small cones of yarn to work with, I knit a long rectangle with no garment in mind. After a bit of draping and seaming I came up with a new twist to the ancient poncho. Fun!

Clara - Fun / functional / funky / featuring Babyboomers best feature - shoulders. Love the off side draping which helps to create a fabulous layered look. ps you did a great job putting together Hope Springs Necklace - It looks better than ever.

Cheers Clara

Technical stuff - all you need to do to set up a similar 'muvee' /video as per yesterday, is to first download a free Google program called Picassa. Once you have done that I will guide you through a few simple steps. One other tech point was which Tom suggested that I download Google Chrome as an alterative to Internet Explorer which I did and found that Blogger worked better even allowing me to cut and paste within the program which I hadn't been able to do previously. He suggested that I keep both going for a while until it becomes obvious which one works best.

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Successful Pram Moms Down Under

Dear Babyboomers
R wrote - "What goes around comes around" might be appropriate here. I see more and more young women who have chosen to be successful stay at home moms, stroller moms. Would that be pram moms down under? There are days that my store is filled to capacity with strollers, children and moms. Young women, coupon in hand, looking to economically outfit themselves for a soccer game or the PTA. I am always encouraged by this. My own daughter is definitely following this path as she prepares for her son's arrival. Yes, a boy! This will be a new venture indeed. I'm thinking along the lines of like grandmother, like grandson as I make room for a crib in my studio!

Clara - Wonderful news! Now you can become a nanny COGGER, a NOGGER!!! I am already a nonna of three with the count between G and myself being 12. My daughter also is looking forward to this path down the track if all goes well. I, too, find it encouraging to see all the proud mums pushing prams. Perhaps they will be more dare I say, 'successful' at marriage than our generation, without the history of the women's movement. I do ask myself how did this influence my expectations, and how did we expect the guys to catch up with us, given their conditioning.

I found a piece I wrote on Success (very subjective word)- will post it tomorrow. I did it!!!! First of many videos - I love them - they make me happy and I feel clever and successful.

Cheers Clara

Welcome to my journey as I photograph something I create everyday for a year... RRT

Clara's Cat
Hi, what's your name? I like your neckpiece.











Hope Springs Eternal...March 13th
This may not look very hopeful, but for me it is like the first daffodil of spring. My stone cat has only recently emerged from his four month hibernation under three feet of snow. I adorned him with a neckpiece of faux amber, glass and brass beads with a pendant made from a vintage button my mother gave me.



Lunch at Balmoral


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