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Rockstar Bag progress
Sara Lawson’s Rockstar Bag is taking longer than I Â had hoped. I’ve had several interruptions. Mostly the grands Trick-or-Treating last night. But totally worth it!
Here is what I have finished. It may not look like very much, but it is. I’m getting pretty good at sewing vinyl, if I do say so myself. I guess it’s like everything else–practice makes perfect. I’ve also set the rivets although it doesn’t show that in this picture.
Meanwhile, when I’m tired I take up my genealogy again. I am in possession of one very old tin-type of an ancestor. The back has the name Mary Everhart Blair and tell the relationship to my gggrandfather, Jesse Green Blair. I know her name isn’t correct. The baby is supposed to be Emma, but if it’s Mary Seagraves (not Everhart) the baby can’t be Emma. It may be Cora, the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Jane Culp Blair. I wish I knew.
Are you Mary or Elizabeth? Emma (Lettie) or Cora?
Pirates, plants and pretties
I spent Sunday with the littles at the Tennessee Pirate Fest. What fun! The boys didn’t want to dress up, but the girl and I got our pirate on. There were funny skits, shows, two treasure hunts, wonderful artisans, dancing, stocks and lots of pirates. The food was good too.
Little Girl Grand was really stoked to get her first “gold doubloon.” After being in the stocks, it was quite a treat. I think her favorite was the dancing. It probably helped that she had a cute young partner.
We left with wooden swords and a sunburn for Nana (me). That’s what happens when you’re such a fair “maiden.”
If you saw the picture of the Virginia Creeper at Locally Grown Gallery in Oak Ridge TN, the berries were gone a week later. Some critter had picked it clean. Must be tasty little things. It may have been that mockingbird that serenades us there.
I prepped  several items to sew last night and got another Necessary Wallet finished today. I looked at lots of pictures on Google last night to see how other people finished theirs and came away with a different flap style and rivets on the sides. I’m quite happy with it. 
