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I finally got my hair cut today. My hair had gotten really long. I'll post pics of my new 'do soon. This is me a few days before the cut.
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The photo above shows two versions of the same braid. The only difference is that each has a different strand order. On the left, the strand order is ABBA (shown in the step-by-step instructions below). On the right the method is the same but the strand order is ABAB.
Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States
This Greek Revival style church was erected in 1844 to the designs of Staten Island builder James G. Burger and was enlarged in 1898 with a Colonial Revival Sunday School addition designed by architect Oscar S. Teale. The church's congregation is the oldest in Staten Island and its first church building was erected on this site in 1715. The present church is the congregation's third; it is the oldest church building on the North Shore and one of the oldest churches on Staten Island. The church's graveyard is the oldest non-private cemetery in Staten Island.
During the last thirty years there have been a few changes to the exterior of the church. The "new cemetery," which had become overgrown and inaccessible, was cleared of brush providing access to the rear part of the graveyard.
In the 1970s, the formerly thriving shopping area on Port Richmond Avenue began to decline due to the closing of the Bergen Point ferry and construction of several neighboring small shopping centers and the Staten Island Mall (1973). There have been changes to the demographics of the neighborhood and the congregation's membership has declined.
The congregation remains proud of its rich heritage and over the years has participated in historic walking tours of Staten Island and other events highlighting its history. In 2004 it sponsored the listing of the Reformed Church on Staten Island, its Sunday School Building, and cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places. Speaking on behalf of the congregation at the public hearing in regard to this designation, Consistory President Warren Mac Kenzie said that "our congregation intends to use this designation as a tool to educate our community to the importance of preserving that sense of place envisioned by generations of those who have gone this way before us."
Cemetery
The graveyard of the Reformed Church is the oldest non-private cemetery in Staten Island and incorporates a number of gravestones that have been ascribed to the workshops of noted New Jersey stone carvers.
The graveyard probably began as a private burying ground for the Corson family in the 1690s. When the first hexagonal church was built in 1715, or perhaps even before, since it was referred to in official documents as the "burying place" as early as 1705, the churchyard became the burial grounds for most families on the North Shore. As Royden Vosburgh wrote in his 1923 history of the cemetery, "there is little evidence available to determine its dimensions in the 1700s." A Revolutionary War map shows that the first church was located near the present-day intersection of Richmond Terrace and Port Richmond Avenue on what became the site of the Port Richmond National Bank Building. Vosburgh believed the oldest section of the burying place was probably just southwest of the church. The church yard was encroached on beginning in 1810 when the Rev. Van Pelt's Academy Building was constructed. It was sold in 1826 and in the 1870 the present building was erected on the site. In 1871, a triangular gore from the burying grounds, measuring 10 feet on Port Richmond Avenue and 30 feet at the rear, was sold to the owner of the Academy lot and has been partially developed. In addition, portions of the cemetery fronting on Port Richmond Avenue were also taken for street widenings in the 1860s and 20th century.
First Section
Presently, the first section of the cemetery, lying north of the church extends for approximately 120 feet along Port Richmond Avenue and is approximately 80 feet deep. There are 224 gravestones, arranged in 11 rows. It seems likely that the earliest grave markers were made of wood and have been lost. The earliest surviving gravestone with a legible inscription is that of Mary Van Pelt, daughter of John Van Pelt, who died in 1746 at age 15. This red sandstone gravestone is topped by a curved tympanum, carved in low relief with a winged grinning death's head with empty eye-sockets, thought to symbolize the soul's triumph over death. It is one of seven carved sandstone gravestones with tympanum tops dating between 1746 and 1760 in the Reformed Church graveyard that employ the same mortality motif. Art historian John Zielenski has suggested that at least five of these stones are attributable to the "Common Jersey Carver," an anonymous artisan, who worked extensively in the Northern New Jersey communities of Elizabeth and Woodbridge and whose work is characterized by its "well-proportioned mortality figures with rows of neat teeth."
In the period following the "Great Awakening," with its emphasis on personal redemption, the iconography of gravestones changed. One new option was the use of tulips to mark the graves of unmarried women and girls. The Reformed Church has three examples - the markers of Nelly Corsen, died 1767; Mary Mercereau, died 1766; and Mary Prall, died 1775. All three of these red sandstone markers have been attributed to carver Ebenezer Price (1728-88). The most prominent and artistically gifted of the stone cutters in the New York-New Jersey region, Price operated a large workshop in Elizabeth, New Jersey, from the 1750s onward. In addition to his tulip markers, Price was well known for his effigies of the soul, realistic, puffy- cheeked winged cherubs with deep-set eyes, oval braided hair, beautifully modeled features, and cleft chins. Price often carved a cloudlike "spirit image" above the cherubs. Five of the winged- cherub gravestones in the cemetery are signed Price works, the Abraham Kruse (1771), Doctor Ernest Linde (1771), James Duffee (1776), Johanna Housman (1771), and Fytie Mersereau (1770), gravestones. The Kruse and Linde grave markers also feature low-relief carvings of crossed bones, a memento mori Price used elsewhere, including on the Mary Read gravestone at Bound Brook. Three other gravestones - Joshua Mersereau (1769), Cornelia Corsen (1769), and Mary Mersereau (1770) - though unsigned, seem to be high enough in quality and similar enough in style to known works by Price to be attributed to him. Two other soul effigy gravestones in the first section - David Mersereau (1763) and Mary Mersereau (1763) - have been ascribed to William Grant, a New England carver who relocated to New Jersey by 1760. These have simpler carvings, with characteristic egg-shaped heads that narrow at the bottom, downturned mouths, and separated corkscrew curls. In addition to these artistically significant gravestones, several Colonial-era headstones are of note because they are inscribed in Dutch. These include the tombstones of Jannetie Veghte, died 1749/50, and Cornelius Corsen, Esq., the youngest son of Captain Cornelius Corsen, who died in 1755, at the age of 53.
In the Federalist period, the tympanums of tombstones began to take more elaborate forms and new iconographic elements were adopted, reflecting the growing interest in Neo- Classicism. One of the most popular forms was the urn, which has classical funerary associations. Urns appear on a number of gravestones including that of Elizabeth Corson (1821). Another form, the willow tree, which is both an ancient symbol of mourning and has biblical associations with the Tree of Life, was also extremely popular. Among the noteworthy examples is the tombstone of Captain John Daniels, Master of the Schooner Margaret Ann, who, together with his crew, died in a shipwreck on Middletown Beach in 1823. Another stone with both a finely carved urn and representation of a tree, commemorating Closha Corsen (1822), is signed by the New York City stone carvers P.D. and G. Braisted. By the 1820s, marble began to replace sandstone as the material of choice for gravestones, and predominated by the 1830s. Other notable grave markers from this period include the slab tombstone of Dr. Isaac Ledyard, Health Officer of the Port of New York, whose epitaph notes that he was one of the electors for New York State in the presidential election of 1800 and perished in 1803 of Yellow Fever.
Second Section
The second section of the cemetery was established in 1816 when Daniel D. Tompkins donated a strip of land measuring 32 feet by 110 feet immediately to the north of the second church to provide for a new entrance and entrance path to the steeple. The lot was almost immediately put into use as a burial grounds. In 1898, when the Sunday School addition was constructed, six graves were moved to accommodate foundation piers. Three other rows of graves remained in the crawl space beneath the wing, with their grave markers simply laid flat. The second section has also been reduced in size because of the periodic widenings of Port Richmond Avenue and by the sale of the southernmost portion of the lot in the early 20th century.
At present the second section contains 105 markers, including two sarcophagi, dating between 1816 and 1896. Most of the markers are marble and neo-Classical or Renaissance Revival in style; many are illegible because of weathering and many are now broken. Among the most notable is the marble obelisk and pedestal monument surmounted by an orb, the double- arch stone memorial commemorating Helen and William Jacques, and the paired marble headstones with incised representations of fabric (suggestive of shrouds) and tulips memorializing Mary Tyson (d. 1818) and Richard Tyson (d. 1841). In addition to the Tysons, Mersereaus, and Jacques, such leading families as the Sinclairs, Haughwouts, Crocherons, Housmans, and Posts have graves in this section of the cemetery.
Third Section
In 1833, the Consistory of the Reformed Church provided for future needs by purchasing an irregular lot with a frontage of about 33 feet on Port Richmond Avenue that extended westward for about 275 feet. At the beginning of the 20th century, the church sold the southernmost portion of its property fronting on Port Richmond Avenue combining portions of the Tompkins tract and the 1833 tract to create a lot that extended for 75 feet along Port
Richmond Avenue and was 100 feet deep. This left a narrow strip of land between the Sunday School wing and the stores that were being built on the new lot for access to the third section of cemetery, which was also known as the "new burying ground." In the 1870s additional land was acquired at the rear of the third section for private family plots. As burials and/or gravestones were relocated to accommodate new construction and street widenings, they were moved to this section of the cemetery.
Presently, the third section has "363 markers distributed among 20 rows and family plots" dating from 1834 to 1916. Most of the markers are marble or granite. The earliest stones dating from the 1830s through the 1850s are simple shaped stones, most having only inscriptions. A few have relief decorations featuring urns and Tree of Life motifs or Gothic arches and foliate decorations. There are also some notable mid-19th-century Renaissance Revival-inspired marble markers including the Anna Sharrett tombstone (1856) and the Louis Muir tombstone (1866). One mid-Victorian child's memorial to Lila Henrietta Hubbard (1852) features an upward-pointing hand carved in high relief. Later tombstones from the 1880s and 1890s, such as the paired tombstones of Patrick O'Rorke and Elizabeth Housman O'Rorke, or the Drake family cenotaph have elaborate sculptural forms. Among the notable individuals buried in this section of the cemetery is Judge Jacob Tysen (1773-1848), who had a long and distinguished public career, serving as a congressman (1823-25) and as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1822-1840). There are also family plots for the Van Name, Housman, Drake, Kohler, and Post families.
Cemetery
The cemetery is divided into three sections, two of which are visible from the street. First Section: The oldest section of the cemetery extends north from the church along Port Richmond Avenue. It is trapezoidal in shape, and extends for about 120 feet along the street, is approximately 85 feet deep, and is about 106 feet wide at the rear (west). A non-historic iron picket fence resting on a concrete foundation extends along the streetfront attaching to the north wall of the church behind a basement entrance. The northern boundary is defined by the rear elevations of a group of late-19th- and early-20th-century commercial buildings fronting on Richmond Terrace. To the west is a lumberyard, which is separated from the cemetery by a non- historic chain-link fence. The southern boundary is the north wall of the church and a non- historic concrete path which extends along the side and rear of the church. Just west of the fence, near the center of the burial grounds, there is a historic metal sign installed in 1932 by the New York State Education Department noting the historical significance of the cemetery as a "Burial Place of the Dutch Settlers of the North Shore Until 1866." A non-historic pre-fabricated garden shed is located near the western boundary of the cemetery.
There are 224 grave markers, arranged into 11 rows. They range in date from 1746 to 1882. Because the graves are arranged (at least to some degree) in family groups, mid-to-late- 19th-century stones are interspersed amidst historically and artistically significant markers from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The headstones dating from prior to 1800 are almost all red sandstone and exhibit a variety of rounded and curved tops and decoration typical of New Jersey carving traditions in the Colonial and Federal periods. There are a number of signed stones by the noted carver Ebenezer Price. Most of the headstones from the post-1820s period are marble and have forms and decoration typical of the neo-Classical period. Several stones have cursive initials, or feature representations of urns and willows. There are also a number of footstones and two Federal-era brownstone sarcophagi with flat marble tablet lids. The bottom-left corner of marble lid of the Ledyard sarcophagus has broken off.
Due to weathering and vandalism, a number of stones have been broken or become unseated. At present, several unseated stones and many fragments are propped against other stones. One tombstone and footstones are lying flat on the ground.
Second Section: This section of the burial grounds was put into use in 1816. In 1898, when the Sunday School addition was constructed, several graves were moved. Three rows of graves remained in the crawl space beneath the wing, with their grave markers simply laid flat. The second section was also reduced in size due to the periodic widenings of Port Richmond Avenue and through the sale of the southeast corner of the lot in the early twentieth century.
At present the second section of the cemetery is a rectangle measuring 75 feet by 53 feet. It is bounded on the east by the non-historic wrought-iron fence that extends along Port Richmond Avenue, on the south by the same fence and the north wall of the church, on the west by the Sunday School, and on the south by a non-historic chain link fence. A non-historic concrete path next to the south wall of the church leads to the entrance to the Sunday School wing. Another non-historic path extends in front of the Sunday School providing access to a now closed gallery entrance.
Currently there are 105 markers, including two sarcophagi, which are arranged more or less into eight rows. Dating between 1816 and 1869, most of the markers are marble. Many are illegible because of weathering. Over the years, due to weathering and vandalism, many markers have been broken and/or have become unseated. In some cases footstones have been inserted into the rows in place of missing headstones. Among the most notable markers is the marble obelisk and pedestal monument located in the second row at the north end of the cemetery which is topped by a wood finial.
Third Section: The third section of the cemetery was acquired in 1833. It originally extended to Port Richmond Avenue, but the front portion of the lot was sold in the early 20th century. In the 1870s, additional land was acquired from the owners of the house lots fronting Maple Street to create private family burial plots at the rear of the third section. This accounts for the odd shape of this portion of the cemetery. It comprises a rectangle of about 100 feet by 120 feet with a second rectangle of roughly 100 feet by 45 feet set at a 40-degree angle from the first rectangle. Access to this section of the cemetery is provided by a grassy passage between the Sunday School wing and the stores on Port Richmond Avenue that were erected on a portion of the former church lands. This portion of the cemetery is partially visible to passersby on Port Richmond Avenue. Glimpses are available from Richmond Terrace and Maple Street and the burial ground is, of course, highly visible from the surrounding buildings.
The third section is currently bounded on the west by chain-link fences, to the north by the buildings and chain-link fences of the neighboring lumberyard, to the south by a non-historic wood fence and the brick walls of a neighboring building, and on the east by the Sunday School, grass passage, and the commercial buildings on Port Richmond Avenue. A drainage ditch runs just behind the Port Richmond Avenue commercial building. It is a remnant of the brook that once ran behind the church property in the 18th century. The ditch empties into a pipe which extends under a slab of bluestone and then continues under the rear of the church.
Presently the third section has 363 markers distributed among 20 rows and family plots, dating from 1834 to 1916. Most of the markers are marble or granite. The earliest stones, dating from the 1830s through the 1850s, are simple shaped stones, most having only inscriptions. A few headstones have relief decorations featuring urns and Tree of Life motifs or Gothic arches and foliate decorations. There are also some notable mid-19th-century Renaissance Revival headstones and some impressive late Victorian headstones and monuments. Many stones have been broken or have become unseated. The family plots located at the rear of the third section are set off by fences with granite posts and iron rails and decorative gates. (Many of the gates have come off their hinges and are simply leaning against fences.)
- From the 2010 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
The horses' tails are braided and folded up to keep them from getting tangled in the mallets. For the same reason, their manes are shorn. The horses that I saw at this match were among the most relaxed I've ever seen.
These are hair designs by Katje Sabin, Chicago IL. Please contact mamagotcha at gee mail dot com if you are interested in hiring Katje to braid or teach.
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Just the other day my sister taught me how to braid hair. I wasn't a quick enough learner for her, sadly, so she had to do it herself.
Today is the birthday of a very close friend of mine (who refuses to be photographed). She has been involved with this project -- often choosing which of many images make it up here every day -- from the very beginning. She's also the one who gifted me the Pro subscription, for which I cannot thank her enough.
Internet, say happy birthday.
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Braids are one of my favorite ways to use up scraps! My fellow Live Piecefully Bee members sent me tons of fabric back, so I decided to make this block and put them to good use!
I created a tutorial that you can find here .
Disney Frozen Elsa’s braid Hairstyle --- It’s a classy, loose braid that is actually pretty easy to recreate in real life.
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So we just harvested some of the winter wheat we grew, and taught the kids how to do wheat braiding... this was one of my efforts.
For some reason my family stopped in a bakery before Christmas. We saw colored braided bread and got it out of curiosity. To our disappointment, the different colors didn't have different flavors;; it's just food coloring. Pretty good bread still.
We are doing two gift baskets along with our own this year, so we made one larger loaf made up of 5 woven ropes of dough, plus two braided loaves.