Strawberries and a Recipe!

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO BEVERLY'S PINK SATURDAY BLOGGERS!!!!  I am pretty much a newcomer to this, but have enjoyed meeting some of you over the past couple months.  I am blogging today about strawberries!  Always a favorite growing up, I remember going picking with my mom up in Washington, crouching down to find those juicy treasures under the leaves.  She made--and still makes THE BEST strawberry jam!  I am sharing the little pink and red strawberry bubble rompers that I have recently made, along with my mom's strawberry cookbook, From the Strawberry Patch and a recipe by her grandma, my babushka who I blogged about in my last post.

6 - 12 month size in front of my strawberry plants!

 

3 vintage pearl buttons down the back

This is the Newborn to 5 months size

My mom published this in the early 80's and it is no longer in print, but sometimes you can find it on ebay...by Sharon Kay Alexander...she put a favorite recipe of each person in our family, but my  favorite now, that I thought some of you would like is my great grandma's  strawberry shortcake recipe!!!  It's written the way she cooked...a handful of this, a pinch of that, so my mom "translated" it

Aren't her pages adorable?!!  You should be able to click on these and then save to your computer if you would like.  And here is a picture of yours truly with my great grandparents in front of their farm house!

notice her pink geraniums in the screen porch window...I  always remember those!

Thank you so much for coming by!

Here is Beverly's link so you can visit more people, too!

           http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Late for Pink Saturday

I am very late today!  The past few weeks I've been to doctors and they are slowly figuring out why I have been in so much pain!  Looks like low Vitamin D is a major culprit, along with a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder!
  I feel old!  like my Babushka, my Czech great-grandma who called me her little babushka.  "Matroyshka" (Russian) is the common word used these days, but they are really the same.
  My babushka was an extraordinary woman living on a South Dakota farm and raising many children, including my mom.  She got through so many incredibly hard times with Prayer, and hard work.  I had the joy of her in our  lives until I was 12.  and her humble life as gardener, seamstress, quilter, major pray-er, and super loving woman, inspire me every day.  I am SO grateful for getting to know this woman!
   I finished my first Babushka dress, and am enjoying this embroidery.  Here is the other side of this reversible dress

and a hat that woud be cute with it...or a headband with this flower

Happy Pink Saturday to anyone coming by late like me!   Here is the link to Beverly's blog so you can get the list of other pink bloggers

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/