Sharing is a good thing.

Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about sharing with one another. Sharing is a great thing to do, because by sharing in  the long run it can benefit you and also make you feel good inside. For example, I am into genealogy ,have been for a long time and I have been sharing a lot of genealogy information on my genealogy webside acadian-roots.com  , It makes me feel good to know that because of me, someone has found some information that they have been searching for . I also shared a lot if stories on my other blog acadianroots.blogspot.com , that makes me feel good inside. What Mom has told me, it is nice to share with others, be it my family or friends or even strangers . I don't mean sharing gossip, just little stories . If you were in a poor country and only had a chocolate bar and this little girl or boy would come up to you and sit there, think about how they would feel for part of your bar? And then think about how good you would feel. ( I would probably give them the whole bar). Sharing links with one another is also a good thing to do, by doing so you help others and they in return help you. We have a genealogy site on Facebook called Trails of our Ancestors and I have said that the more we share our urls or sources the more chance others can find what they are looking for. Which brings me to my zazzle store http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*    If my store is not mentioned anywhere or advertised or shared , how am I going to have someone see it?  Pretty hard to do, and this goes for other zazzle store owners. I have added some of their stores on my blog page, I will be changing  the stores off and on to new ones, so if you have lots of time to do some window online shopping, check their stores and check mine.  I wish all the other zazzle stores the best of luck  . I shall close by adding a calendar I made yesterday of Prince Edward Island which can be found in my calendar folder at my zazzle.com/allicor site. Have a great day, to my zazzle friends I hope you will share my store on your blogs too.  Have a great day. Remember to Share!

Importance of Calendars

 

We take so many things for granted these days but did you ever stop to think of little things? For instance what comes to mind with you hear the word Calendar? Have you ever read anything about them?

Calendars have been around for a very long time, for sure they were around during the time of the Romans.

What is the good of a calendar? Well first of all calendars are used to keep track of the days and weeks. They are used to keep notes of doctors appointments, anniversary dates ,or another other important day.

The calendar is used worldwide. Doctors use them, hospitals, dentists, anyone who needs to make appointments with others use them. Brides to be use them, to make sure that she has everything ready for that day. There are all kinds of calendars to choose from, from animals, to people to places and more.

They make great Christmas gifts because everyone needs a calendar. You can create a calendar with your family photos ,one for each month. You can make a calendar of your pets . What can you do with used calendars ? Well you can cut the pictures out and put them in a frame, you can use them for scrap booking. You can donate them to schools , I am sure the teachers would put them to good use and you can also donate them to nursing homes. You can use them to teach the children their numbers from one to thirty one.

Or you can do like my Mom did, she saved them from year to year. When we thought she was going to go into a nursing home, she started giving away her personal things, and she gave me a calendar of hers ,it was quite old and on each month she had written little notes, like doctors appointment, birthdays, when she bought her car, when she needed an oil change, when my Dad was admitted to the hospital. When a certain person died. It was like a story to me, and like a diary to her. I have saved this calendar and hope someday my grandchildren will appreciate reading it. Mom had all sorts of calendars, some small, some big, some with one page ,some with a page for each month. She loves little children calendars and also cat calendars so for a while we would give her either a cat calendar or children calendar for Christmas. She looked forward to those calendars. I remember two years in a row, I had a calendar made of my grandchildren and I gave them to her. She treasured them and gave them back to me to give to my grandchildren. Mom had a calendar save from the years we were born, and that was a long time ago. I don’t believe calendars will ever fade away, they are needed and they are certainly wanted. I have been creation my new calendars for 2012 ,and I would like to share them with you. If you want to see more go to my store at

http://www.zazzle.com/allicor* click on calendars and enjoy and remember it is not to early to order them so they will arrive in time for Christmas.

 

 

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About anything and about nothing

I am sitting here wondering what I could blog about, since this blog is called Allicor's Boutique I will talk about my boutique to start. I have so many blogs going I find it hard to talk about different things on different ones. First of all I would like to invite you to follow this blog and also follow my other blogs on the sidebar. And as you know I have a store that I am very pleased with. I never thought I could do anything of the sort but now I can be outside, in a mall in a store even in the hospital and I get an idea and poof I create something. I will add my latest products and you can find them and others at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*    And also I would like to advertise some other zazzle stores, check theirs out too, you can find them on the right sidebar,there are some very talented people out there. Do you need school clothing,shoes ,binders ? Check mine out and check the other stores. What about Halloween decorations, invitations? Or start shopping for Christmas. We have mugs, steins,ornaments,iPod cases,iPhone cases,mousepads,tee shirts,hats, greeting cards, even shoes so instead of going shopping around the holidays why not get a head start now. So I will close for now and say please enjoy my products I am showing you and do stop by another time.

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A very precious walk with a grandfather and grandson perhaps?

Acadian Traditions

I am reading a book called “It happened in New Brunswick” by David Goss and I would like to share a story in it that I am sure will bring back memories to many of you. You don’t have to be English or French, I am sure some of these things will be things you and your family once did. Mister Goss was interviewing a lady from Moncton named Lorraine Leger who grew up in Saint Paul New Brunswick. Here is her story:

The main thing for Acadians at Christmas she said was the midnight mass. It was the only time they would go out by horse and buggy at night. It was a few miles for most of the people. When they were arriving at the church it was really special. It was lit up and it was the only time of the year that they could enjoy an evening ceremony. Besides the lightings there were decorations the Creche (manger), with trees and more. They didn’t have any at home at the beginning of the 20^th century. Everybody would go see the Manger before leaving the church. The music and the singing also, they had been practicing for a long time. After the mass there were greetings in front of the church not like today when people run to their cars. They were talking and laughing and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. They sang hymns ,some songs came from France. They had two masses a high mass where they did part of it in Latin and the low mass. Among her fondest memories were the special bells on the sleighs on these occasions. They would even decorate the horses she said. They had special bells that they never used other times because it reminded them of Christmas. Some had red ribbons and the horses were part of Christmastime then. She continued to say that after the mass a Reveillon was not always done everywhere because many folks were tired and just went home to bed. Sometimes they only got home around three in the morning after the mass was over. Today they hold their masses at nine am or seven pm. Mister Goss asked Lorraine about Santa and Christmas trees. Not before the thirties said Lorraine these were coming in from outside, sometimes young girls went to work in the city or in the USA and they would come home and tell their parents about it ,and it started like that, very simple homemade decorations made from the foil of a pound of tea. They used it to make garland and they decorated with popcorn. If they received cards they put those in the tree. As for the gifts under the tree, first it was the Christmas stocking for the children it was hung behind the stove. In the morning there was a rush to see what was inside the stocking. It was always the same thing; an orange, an apple, a few nuts ,some candies and if they were rich enough a barley toy and ribbon candy. At that time there were no other gifts. Later on in the thirties maybe there were simple gifts, a school box, a whistle, maybe a pair of mittens that the grandmother had knitted. I remember my first gift said Lorraine, we had no tree back then and my brother was working in Moncton and he brought us each a gift, it was the first gifts to enter the house. My gift was a brush and a comb for my doll. A few years later we started talking about Santa Claus, they told us you could write a letter to Santa and maybe he would bring you something. The first thing I asked for was a Teddy Bear and I got one, the following year I was a bit older and I asked for a sled and I got one. It was under the tree. Lorraine said: My father was a bus driver it was a passenger bus and we gave him our letter to Santa. He probably threw them away but the gifts came. He must have read the letters we thought he would be bringing them to Moncton. For us Santa Claus wasn`t in Saint Paul but in Moncton which to us was a big city. Some places called him Santa, some called him Pere Noel and some were told that it was baby Jesus bringing the gifts. Lorraine contined to say that when she was little skating was very rare and the sleds were handmade. Lorraine said the kitchen was the place for story telling, any night ,any time and sometimes it was an uncle telling stories ,sometimes people passing through like peddlars or shoemakers and all the children listened. Some were very good story tellers Lorraine said. When they heard certain ones were coming they would all make it a point to be there to listen. There were stories about fairies, princes,giants, some good some bad,then there were legends usually about things that happened and they could not figure out why. Some stories had the devil in them and the Acadians were terrified of the devil. She told this story about a sorcerer named Old Dollar who had come from elsewhere probably France, he was so bad the legend said they he had signed the souls of nine of his children to the devil, that was how he got all his powers . He could do anything even put a spell on a person who didn`t believe in his powers. His daughter was even a victim ,she told everyone a secret about him ``that he was carrying a frog in his cap. He could change into any animal and when the team would go by he would trip them and everyone would fall off the sled. The teams crossed the ice in the winter and in the spring they crossed the bridge which was longer and Old Dollar kept passing on the ice which was melting and they say as soon as he arrived by horse and buggy the ice would be turned to water. He was the only one that would risk that. He could also become a ball of fire or a will o the wisp. He was running around scaring people right on their doorstep. The priest tried to convert him but it was no use. The saying was that he was poisoned with a poutine rappee. It is said that he was not buried in sacred grounds but buried in a field instead. I hope you have enjoyed this blog . I liked reading the story and sharing it with you.

Now changing the subject, soon school will be starting and Halloween will be close behind if you are looking for school clothing  or shoes and Halloween things please visit my store at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*  I am adding a few products I made lately  .

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Long time no see

Hello everyone, well I know I have been neglecting you but I had a good reason, I just finished moving into another place. What a job it was,lifting boxes can take its toll on a person, I wondered why I was walking stooped over . grin. Now I know. I had pains where I didn't even know I had parts.haha. Anyway I wanted to just chit chat today. I am back to creating for my store , I will add a few items shortly but I wanted to point something out to you. On the right side you will see "Other zazzle stores" I have added some stores  from my fans so be sure to peak into their stores. I am hoping to change the stores after a certain lenght of time to other stores so that you will have more places to look and maybe shop. So right now it is past midnight  and I am going to close by saying goodnight, bonsoir, toodle loo and all that jazz. Enjoy my products ,you can find them at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*

School Time will soon be here

Yes school time is fast approaching and that means there are a lot of parents and grandparents out there hurrying to prepare the children. First of all there are the school supplies, books,binders,pencils,markers,erasers,dictionaries,etc. I remember shopping for my son ,back then it wasn't like it is today. We did not need kleenex, special shoes for gym, and all the different scribblers. Then I did some shopping later on for my grandchildren. Wow, what a difference that was. They needed everything and the prices were expensive,so I waited and watched the sales, or flyers and as soon as something they needed came on sale, off to the store I would go. I am wondering today if I saved or not, because everytime I went to the store it cost me gas money. grin.I don't know how parents with big families do it,although thanks to the grandparents who do help out with the shopping list.

Now that is not all, the kids need money, money for their dances, their proms, their activities. Then there are clothes to buy for school. I remember when I was little and on the first day of school, Mom had a new outfit for me, usually she made it but I am sure sometimes she bought me outfits. She shared with me that when she was little ,her family lived in the country and my grandmother would order from the Eaton's catalogs and Mom and her siblings always had a new outfit for the first day of school. How many of you remember our bookbags ? They were much different than the backpacks they have today. And not as fancy either.  How many of your ladies remember going to school in the winter time with the snow over our knees and we had to wear skipants under our dress, and arriving at school had to remove them? Or having our parents tie a scarf around our nose and mouth to keep us warm while walking to school? Ah those were the days, we used to fall in the snow on our way to school, throw snowballs at one another and get to school all full of that white snow. Great memories. So getting back to shopping, I have created a lot of different designs for children shoes, I will share some with you, but I have many more in my shoe folder for you to look at, also I have children's tee shirts, and hoodies in my children folder  at http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*   ,If you have students going to high school check out my hats and tee shirts too. I thank you for stopping by and hope to see you soon, enjoy my store, here are a few pairs of shoes I want to share with you.

 

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