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Some things do not make sense to a nine year old. The presence of a cannon in the courthouse yard was not one of them. None of us doubted the appropriateness of having a cannon handy to defend the most important government building of our limited world. We knew well that the paddy wagon sometimes transported criminals from the jail, one half of a block further south on Washington Ave., to their day of judgment in the courtrooms, on the second floor, directly above the marriage license department, in the old part of the courthouse. But we were not so naive as to believe that anyone needed military hardware to defend against mere criminals. Instead, we all just assumed that the cannon was part of the same grand defense strategy that had required all of us as third graders to duck under our desk and cover our heads when the air-raid siren went off every Monday at 1:00 PM sharp. And we heartily endorse the more sophisticated strategy of abandoning our class rooms completely for the far greater safety of the corridor, where we would kneel down on the floor with our heads up against the lockers and pray to the Blessed Mary. We fully approved when this improved strategy, was introduced midway through the fourth grade. We were grateful that the nuns were so farsighted as to see how more likely to survive nuclear annihilation we would be in the hallway rather than under our desk in the classroom where we might get cut by broken glass. We could readily see that the hallway was the nuclear high ground as it were, even before we factored in the added advantage of praying on ones knees compared to just crouching under the desks. Of course we would have endorsed any plan that brought even the slightest release from the classroom. To this day I am still not convinced that there weren't some of us who would have preferred the full thermo nuclear blast to returning to the blessings of a Catholic education at 1:05. From our perspective, it just made good sense to keep a cannon in the courthouse lawn.
What we could never figure out is, why a great nation like the United States of America, a nation so awesome that it has had single handedly defeated Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia and a host of other ner-do-wells in World War II, would ever need to resort to the embarrassment of assigning used cannons to defend one of the most important building in the county. It just did not seem reasonable, but the evidence was undeniable. We shinnied over and slid down the proof every afternoon. We were depending on some old king's cannon. We were positive of that much. One merely had to look at the crown and fancy lettering so artfully engraved in the base of that hulking bronze weapon to know that this was not a regular democratic cannon. It almost seemed un-American to rely on a weapon with so many curly-q's. And the letter were so fancy that even a fully certified member of the Palmer Method Good Penmanship Club could not decipher the monogram with any real degree of certainty. The need for a royal cannon just did not make sense to a fourth grader, but it was only one of a trinity of mysteries that surrounded this old cannon. That first puzzle was hardly fit to hold the coat of either of the two others, which unlike the mystery of King Charles III initials, remained unsolved well past the fifth grade. While we were curious about our need for used weaponry, that could not hold our curiosity nearly as well as the next mystery.
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I love this gorgeous doll and I am so sad the Monogram line is now retired... Gown is by Donnas Doll Designs. Jewelry set by me available here
MIDGET RACER
Monogram – PC1
1/20 Scale – 1956
Monogram Models started producing wooden model kits late in 1945. Injection molded plastic detail pieces were added to later kits. The first all plastic Monogram kit was this Midget Racer introduced in 1954. The packaging shown is from 1956.
I helped organize a club where a group of us cookie decorators make birthday cookies for each other. I made these for the ladies who had birthdays in March. I used little heart sprinkles to fashion the flowers.
Night Strike is one of my favorite Monogram dolls. I think she's absolutely gorgeous! She's wearing a Dressmaker Details dress and Reckless Erin's fur jacket.
New classic pearls jewelry set by me, available on etsy
Seen at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The coronet of an earl (with strawberry leaves) crowns the monogram and the gates date to c.1890.
Custom cookies designed for the loveliest couple! The details were inspired by a romantic proposal under a wisteria tree in Rome. How sweet!!
Model:
Deva (Eugenia Spring Forward on Monogram body)
Fashion credits:
bra and corset by me
leggings: Barbie Fashionistas
shoes from ebay
bracelets: Gretel Sweet Nothings
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Model:
Adam (Lukas Model Citizen)
Fashion credits:
gilet, blouse and shoes: Lukas Model Citizen
jeans by Krisma Fashions
Doll Peddlar was having a sale, so I picked one girl. And here she is. Illumination is lovely and I wish IT had not killed off the Monogram line.
blogged about at insidethefashiondollstudio.com/2011/09/22/she-is-passionate/
available at www.windycitydolls.com/frmonogram.htm
teachers' gifts. The tall one with the brown straw is for the teacher; the smaller one with the clear straw is for the teacher's assistant. The monogram repeats on the other side; I put white napkins in the cups just for the photos (they wouldn't photograph well otherwise).
Used brown vinyl (cup on left is from Copco, cup on right is from Old Navy). These can go in the dishwasher and the vinyl will not come off. Hooray for Silhouette machines!
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
A Catalunya, especialment en pobles i masies del centre i nord del país, és molt usual trobar llindes inscrites amb el nom del amo de la casa, així com l'any en que fou feta; a vegades també hi ha alguna inscripció religiosa.
Però crec que mai m'havia trobat quelcom així. Al poble d'Alpens hi ha aquesta llinda completament criptica, com si fos codificada amb una clau secreta... Alguna idea??? Apart del tipic monograma de Crist ("IHS"), jo hi llegeixo: A P V E E C M A A D
P O I C A O S N I S N E
B I D A".
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In Catalonia, specially in the center and north of the country is quite usual to find engraved lintels in old stone houses, mainly from the XVII-XVIII Centuries. They usually indicate the year it was built and the owner's name (religious inscriptions are also quite usual).
But I've never find this kind of criptic, probably coded, inscription. It's located in a window in an old house in Alpens, a village in central Catalonia.
It reads: "A P V E E C M A A D
P O I C A O S N I S N E
B I D A". There's the inscription IHS in the middle but that's very comon, it's the monogram of Christ.
Should I call Bletchley Park?
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for something in my stash and suddenly held a bag in my hands filled with my collection of vintage monograms from old linen towels. On the spur of the moment I decided to turn them into a quilt and just started cutting. I really love these tokens of olden days. Every block has a different monogram as centerpiece and I handstitched around each one to emphasize them.