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My sister in the kitchen at our teens, just before we both moved out, so my sister is probably 16-17 and I would probably be 18 or so
Peace and Noise!
/ still Danny from the Holma-block!
July 29-feastday
Patroness of Butlers, Cooks, Dietitians, Domestic Servants, Homemakers, Hotel-keepers, Housewives, Innkeepers, Laundry Workers, Servers, Single Laywomen, & Travellers
A Prayer to St. Martha
O blessed St. Martha, your faith led Jesus to proclaim, “I am the resurrection and the life”; and faith let you see beyond his humanity when you cried out, “Lord I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” With firm hope you said, “I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him”, and Jesus called your brother Lazarus back from the dead. With pure love for Jesus you welcomed him into your home.
Friend and servant of our Saviour, I too am “troubled about many things”. Pray for me that I may grow in faith, hope and love, and that Jesus, who sat at your table, will hear me and grant me a place at the banquet of eternal life. Amen.
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In the days of tribalism men bought, traded or stole their wives and I was traded. Before I can take off my dress from another blind date I am forcing my eyes to close. But when they close all I see is a homemaker’s chief concern is to meet her family’s nutritional needs with foods they liked. I never burned a meal but I did forget to smile. He finally gave up and said you can do whatever you want. Just admit you don’t give a damn. I did try, but could not force myself to feel good. You actually have been disapproved of or rejected in spite of your efforts to improve the relationship with the other person. The words repeated as I tried to sleep on his mother’s mattress. It was a gift on our wedding day. I am too weak to heed the advice if you feel mad, pound a pillow. When I dream I think of love’s contractual liberation. Freedom is essentially freedom for self-realisation, and only self-realisation is essentially freedom. And what are you? A human being. And what follows? I should make mistakes. Right. Now sleep.
The above was written my Sarah, my model for this shoot. It's a sort of a borrowed piece because all the words come from the books pictured in the photo. These include a cookbook, a self-help book, and a religion book. :)
I really liked how this worked out, and a special thanks to my new roommate Armond for helping us out with this photo and holding Sarah's legs up. ^__^
good afternoon, madam. may I interest you in. . .
you selling something, mister?
indeed, an amazing, remarkable vacuum cleaner!
not sure we need one of those around here.
a necessity for every modern homemaker! and I can see you are one! nice combat boots, by the way. is this the, uh, door?
you can call it that.
well, you get a free demonstration!
mister, what I need is a front-end loader.
a front-end. . .
and a big wrecking ball too. that would be very handy around here. got any of them?
sorry, I'm all out.
too bad
.... If you remember the 1970s, then you also remember how influential and entertaining Mary Tyler Moore was on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' I know my family never missed an episode, Saturday nights on CBS .... Youtube Video .... Opening title to 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' .... youtu.be/Z1GC6yXZ4e4 .... Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' (1970–1977) in which she starred as Mary Richards, a thirty-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother. Her notable film work includes 1967's 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' and 1980's 'Ordinary People', in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress ....
Actress stars as Nia Portokalos on the CBS television sitcom "My Big Fat Greek Life." The series is about a woman and her over-the-top Greek family.
My Big Fat Greek Life is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from February 24 to April 13, 2003. The series is a continuation of the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by Sony Pictures Television and Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions for CBS. The two lead characters' names are changed, from Toula and Ian, to Nia and Thomas. Series star Nia Vardalos also oversaw the show as one of the co-executive producers, along with Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, who made a guest appearance in one episode as Nia's cousin.
Nia Vardalos - Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She starred in and wrote the romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and which went on to spawn a media franchise.
Early life - Vardalos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on September 24, 1962. She is the daughter of Greek-Canadian parents Doreen Christakos, a bookkeeper and homemaker, and Constantine "Gus" Vardalos, a land developer who was born in Kalavryta. She attended St. George School and Shaftesbury High School in Winnipeg and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto.
She gained fame with her movie about a woman's struggle to find love in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. First performed as a one-woman show of the same name, the film was a critical and commercial success. The film earned Vardalos an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. The sleeper hit quickly became one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time, and the number one romantic comedy of all time. Vardalos hosted Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2002.
Vardalos starred in and wrote My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which was released in March 2016. It earned over $60 million domestically from an $18 million budget.
In 2023, Vardalos reprised her role as Toula Portakalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 for which she served as director and screenwriter. That same year, she guest starred in the midseason finale of the first part of season three of the television series Chucky as Evelyn Elliot, a fellow death row inmate in Texas.
LINK to video - Nia Vardalos On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: INTERVIEW - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2kqPV4Fr4
Shopping at a unique vintage houseware and kitchenware store. I bought two aprons with matching dish towels and pot holders! I just loved this retro kitchen in pinks they had set up. If I had this kitchen at home I would spend so much time in it, aproned cooking, roasting, and baking all sorts of goodies as I am a good homemaker ! I also love wearing my cute pink & black polka dot mini skirt out and about !
My mother was the quintessential homemaker. She was frugal and efficient and knew the proper way to do everything. To save electricity, instead of using the dryer, she would hang up most of the clothes to dry on this clothes line outside our Paradise, California home. I can still remember playing around the house and walking over to see her hanging up sheets and pants from the line, and watching them billow in the wind, the smell of fresh laundry wafting through the air. She would have her hamper beside her and would always greet me cheerfully ("Whatcha doin, Toots?") as I came over to talk to her. I suspect these clothes pins have not been touched since her death in 2003. I should have taken one home with me. Next time I will.
The hairy sand wasp (Podalonia hirsuta hunt, sting and paralyze moth caterpillars, which are then deposited in a burrow along with an egg.
When the egg hatches, the wasp larvae has access to fresh food in form of the moth caterpillar.
But first you need to dig a burrow which is what this female is doing. Apologies for the motorcycle passing at the start of the clip, but I decided to keep the audio in as you can hear how she buzzes her wings when reaching in to dig, presumably for some extra leverage.
For a macro photo of her, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52668811663/
During the Witch hunt hysteria, hundreds of women were submitted to awful forms of torture and death. We think that's over but there are areas in the world that still practice this abysmal treatment . These are my sister , the distant relatives of survivors..we are strong, we are teachers, truckers, doctors and homemakers. We are Grandmothers, Mothers, teaching our daughters, sharing our craft.
Miss lemon blonde #5 is playing the glamorous homemaker today (How 50’s!) in the ‘New Dream House’ kitchen, one of my favourite areas of the house! I just got her light pink PAK full cotton skirt to go with the matching PAK body-blouse that was still on its hanger with the white purse still attached to it with its white string when I got it, so it had never been on a doll. I always wanted to create this outfit on a lemon blonde ponytail gal, as it was inspired by an old cover of Barbie Bazaar magazine, though instead of the white accessories that outfit had, I substituted the black wide belt that was also a PAK item, and some black open-toe mules. Everyone in the house loves her baking, so she has a delicious pie in the oven and is waiting for the others to show up for afternoon tea.
A sexy homemaker I'll never be as I'm tragically casual and blind to my own messes. Really, it's true!
For TRP's pick of I'm a fake.
April Fools!
(Note: I did not take this picture,I just found it)
Couple Kissing on Kitchen Counter --- Image by © Franco Vogt/Corbis
Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) pair - Penny Lake Preserve, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
When I first spotted this nest hole I thought both parents were feeding their young, but then after making this capture and looking at it on the rear screen of the camera I realized their eggs hadn't hatched yet. And yes, there was certainly feeding going on, but it seems it was the fem feeding the male (apparently keeping the eggs warm) while his lady got a chance to get out and about for a few hours.
As always, click on the species album on the right side of the screen if you want to see more pics of a particular species.
My wife got this gingerbread house kit and we enjoyed putting it together and coming up with ideas for where to put the decorations.
An old joke says, "I like my houses how I like my women: well-built and ginger."
I did not have to use the shift feature of the lens for this type of architectural photography. That seems to be more useful with slightly larger structures.
Nikkor 45mm PC-E f/2.8 tilt/shift prime @ f/5
A Tallahassee, Florida- based group, advocating an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq and returning all troops home hung more than 4,000 white origami cranes in the sculpture garden at the entrance to Railroad Square in downtown Tallahassee.
The debut of the installation was Friday, December 7th, 2007. It will remain up until the end of the year, weather permitting.
The “Cranes,” a universal sign of peace, represent the number of coalition soldiers who have died in the Iraq war. The installation also honors Julian McMackin Woodall, 21, a local Marine killed in Iraq in May, who loved to make the cranes as a child. Julian's mother Meredith McMackin has been involved with the sponsoring group since long before his death. He would have turned 22 Tues., Dec. 4, 2007, the day the exhibit started going up.
The installation is sponsored by the local group “Tallahasseeans Who Believe It’s Time to Come Home.” The group was responsible for the luminary memorial at Lake Ella in March that commemorated the 4th anniversary of the war. Since the luminary event, almost another 700 troops have died.
Su Ecenia , the group's founder, said, “Hundreds of people in our community participated in folding, stringing and hanging these cranes. We are unified in our desire to see this war end and for the safe return home of our troops.” '
The 4,000 cranes were made by hundreds of local people including members of spiritual communities, schools, a Girl Scout troop and private citizens.
If you'd like to get info so as to do this project in your community, contact me and I'll tell you how to get in touch with the organizer here. Su is a homemaker and former nurse who after she saw a documentary showing injured Iraqi children decided to do what she could to draw a quick end to the war. We'd love for this idea to be adopted by other cities.
The next project that Tallahasseeans Who Believe It's Time to Come Home plan will be in March, 2008, and will commemorate the war and light the way to peace by circling Lake Ella with more than 4,000 people who will serve as human luminaries by holding candles and having over their hearts the name of a fallen soldier. Contact me if you'd like to help organize this or participate in it.
feel so homely and a perfect homemaker in my pink cardi and blouse,long skirt and heels.I must look my best at all times looking after the home
I suspect that at one time, this could have been the neighborhood grocery store where homemakers came for most of their food and household needs. Now it’s a specialty store that offers tasty sandwiches, pastries, candy and the like, with several tables inside and out where you can enjoy your meal or snack. It’s a cozy place. I like it.
Third build in my homemaker series. A bit of a repeat with the honey tiles but they just went really well with the light yellow duplo tub. To bring in some new colours I choose to add some minty pastels. Really happy with the over all presentation and my favourite parts are the hanger, the shower curtains and the drain pipe below the sink.
Uniquely Alaskan: Modernity Meets the Last Frontier
At the turn of the century, "Klondike Fever" still reigned large in the public consciousness, which Valdezans responded to by displaying all manner of Alaskana. Homemakers brought the natural world indoors by layering furnishings with taxidermy, mineral specimens, furs, & antlers. Even as prospectors & their families worked to establish Valdez as a modern town, they embraced an adventuresome spirit & began to cultivate an Alaskan identity.
The romance of Alaska fit in well with the Victorian fascination of the Rustic, or Western, style. The natural forms & materials fit in well with the aesthetic of the burgeoning Arts & Crafts Movement, which also incorporated medieval & folk styles of decoration. Romanticizing of westward expansion coupled with the necessity of utility, as many Alaskans displayed furnishings of their own craftmanship alongside more ornamental, commercially made decor. Alaska Native crafts were also displayed in the home, regarded as an indigenous precursor to Arts & Crafts, as well as reflecting Victorian interests in collecting & ethnography.
Fred M. Kirby purchased the interest of C.S. Woolworth and persuaded his father to become his partner. The firm reorganized as F.M. and W. Kirby. The volume of business steadily increased. By 1912, the Kirbys operated 96 stores east of the Mississippi River. At that time, the business interests were merged with F.W. Woolworth Co. and Fred M. Kirby became the Vice President of that corporation.
Even as director of over twenty large corporations, Mr. Kirby still found time to take interest in civic improvement, humanitarian development, and philanthropic projects –one of these being the Angeline Elizabeth Kirby Memorial Health Center. The Health Center was built in memory of Fred M. Kirby’s mother, Angeline Elizabeth Kirby, whose inspirational life gave it its purpose. She was an ideal homemaker of remarkably strong character tempered with understanding and affection – “no case of suffering or distress came to her notice that did not receive consideration and practical help where possible.” This building was erected and dedicated with the earnest hope that it may be a benefit to and make life more enjoyable for all people.
Angeline Elizabeth Kirby Memorial Health Center is a non-profit public health institution that was dedicated in 1931.
The facility was built by Fred M. Kirby in memory of his mother, Angeline Elizabeth Kirby. Using the best materials and artistry, the building was designed as a monument to last for more than 300 years. 205
Copyright 1958, by the Singer Manufacturing Company (the sewing machine company). A scrap of paper left in the book indicates it was purchased at the Edith Farnsworth Book Shop in Colorado Springs, Colorado for a Christmas gift. The paper lists assorted "good reading for November, 1959".
The Providence Women’s Club, as was first named (later a.k.a. the Extension Homemaker’s Club) began informally when women of this once-rural community entered the Mecklenburg County Fair in 1934: the booths they sponsored, one for the community and one for the club, both won first prizes; with proceeds from their prizes, the club women began a building fund because club membership was growing quickly and most homes were too small to accommodate the participants, and they built this Community House
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Charlotte, NC – 2019DEC14 – Mensa Christmas Party:
We met at the Lower Providence Community House, a log cabin on Community House Road designated as a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Site, coming here for the first time, for food and fellowship, entertainment, a White Elephant gift exchange, programs, and Volunteer Recognition, including Joe, honored with a T-shirt.
Specially featured was the non-profit Khaira Initiative, providing a free after school care and tutoring alternative for elementary school students in economically disadvantaged areas; the founding Mensa member, a local teen, provided information on their services and collected school supplies and cash donations (yes, we gave money).
We enjoyed visiting with everybody, and had a great time.
Hope you enjoy the 12% of 50 captures I took here today!
My second attempt to paint JKPP member Tatyana, this time in acrylic, and as an astronaut on a distant planet [ don't ask, had to fill up rest of the canvas somehow :) ] .. . .. .. ... ......
Will work later on enhancing the background, some more . . . .. .. ...
From this original photo
acrylic on 7" x 14" stretched canvas.......
JKPP
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Jim Brown in 100 Rifles (Tom Gries, 1969).
Last Thursday, 18 May 2023, former American footballer and actor Jim Brown died at the age of 87. His wife shared this on Instagram on Friday. Brown appeared in more than 30 films such as The Dirty Dozen (1967), 100 Rifles (1969) with Raquel Welch and He Got Game (1998) and he became Hollywood's first black action hero.
James Nathaniel Brown was born in 1936 in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA. His parents were Swinton Brown, a professional boxer, and his wife, Theresa, a homemaker. Jim grew up in Manhasset, Long Island, New York from the age of eight. He attended Manhasset Secondary School in Manhasset, New York. Brown earned 13 letters playing football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and running track. It was at Manhasset High School that he became a football star and athletic legend and later, he was a great Lacrosse player for Syracuse University. Jim played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965 and is still considered one of the best running backs in the National Football League (NFL). Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last National Football League (NFL) title in 1964. A year later, he was named the NFL's most valuable player. Despite only playing nine seasons, he retired as the all-time NFL career rushing leader with 12,312 yards. The record stood for 19 years. He was selected nine times for the Pro Bowl, the NFL's All-Star game. Thanks to Brown, American football grew into one of the most popular televised sports in the United States in the 1960s. As such, the lightning-fast running back was one of the sport's first superstars. In 2002, he was named the best professional American footballer ever by The Sporting News. Brown was one of the few athletes to speak out on racial issues in the 1950s as the civil rights movement was growing. He became an activist for equal rights for African-Americans, organised rallies and also spoke out against the war in Vietnam. In 1966, he started the Negro Industrial Economic Union, later known as the Black Economic Union (BEU), an advocacy group for black entrepreneurs and in 1988, he established the Amer-I-Can Foundation, aimed at mentoring gang members in order to get them off the streets and into a new life. Brown was twice married and had five children. From 1959 to 1972, he was married to Sue Jones with whom he had married to Sue Jones. In 1997, he married Monique with whom he had two children.
Shortly before the end of his football career, Jim Brown became an actor. The ruggedly handsome African American first appeared on movie screens as a buffalo soldier in the Western Rio Conchos (Gordon Douglas, 1964). He then played a strong supporting role in the terrific WWII action film The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967). Brown played Robert Jefferson, one of 12 convicts sent to France during World War II to assassinate German officers meeting at a castle near Rennes in Brittany before the D-Day invasion. Other fast-paced films followed including Ice Station Zebra (John Sturges, 1968), 100 Rifles (Tom Gries, 1969) with Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds, and El Condor (John Guillermin, 1970). 100 Rifles (1969) was a sensation because it featured one of the first interracial love scenes in a film with Raquel Welch. Brown's popularity grew during the boom of Blaxploitation cinema in the early 1970s portraying tough no-nonsense characters in Slaughter (Jack Starrett, 1972) in which he did another sensational interracial love scene with Stella Stevens, Black Gunn (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1972) and Three the Hard Way (Gordon Parks Jr., 1974). His on-screen work in the latter part of the 1970s and 1980s was primarily centred around guest spots on popular TV shows such as CHiPs (1977) and Knight Rider (1982). However, Brown then resurfaced in better-quality films beginning with his role as a fiery assassin in The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987), an adaptation of a Stephen King novel. He parodied the blaxploitation genre along with many other African-American actors in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) and played an ex-heavyweight boxer in the Sci-Fi comedy Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996). Ironically he played an ex-football legend in the sports film Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone, 1999) with Al Pacino. His final film was Draft Day (Ivan Reitman, 2014) with Kevin Costner. Additionally, Jim Brown was a ringside commentator for the first six events of the Ultimate Fighting Championships from 1993 through to 1996. A bona fide legend in American sports and a successful actor, he continues to remain busy in front of the camera with recent appearances in various sports shows & TV productions.
"It is with deep sadness that I must share that my husband, Jim Brown, has passed away," Monique Brown wrote on Facebook. "He passed away peacefully in our home in L.A. To the world, he was an activist, actor and football star. To our family, he was a beloved and wonderful husband, father and grandfather. Our hearts are broken..."
Sources: Nu.nl. AD.nl, Wikipedia and IMDb.