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Post by M~ on Apr 30, 2016 1:32:49 GMT
So I bought a GORGEOUS white bed cover and shams (lightly quilted) in white, but it came without a bed skirt. Which, on a tangential rant, WHAT IS UP WITH THE NEW STYLES OF BEDDING??? Sigh.
I have been looking for decent bed skirts in white and well, my jaw drops at the fugliness of what's out there, generally. The bed skirts that I like-and I'm just looking for a simple, tailored, white bed skirt-are almost as expensive as the coverlet and shams.
Tonight I wish I could sew. My grandmother was a tailor, she knew how to make her own patterns and her claim to fame was that she never had to adjust (take in or out) any piece of clothing that she ever made. She made phenomenal wedding dresses and taught countless of women how to sew. She tried to teach me MANY times and I just didn't get it.
I'm not a crafty person by any means. I suck at crafts-that's why I generously pay people who are awesome crafters.
Sigh.
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Post by TankTop on Apr 30, 2016 2:13:29 GMT
I wish I had a sense of direction as in knowing I am facing south and such.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 30, 2016 2:46:47 GMT
I wish I had better web design skills. It takes me ten hours to do something that should take fifteen minutes.  |
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Post by lancermom on Apr 30, 2016 2:53:58 GMT
If patience is a skill I wish I had that. I get frustrated very easy.
And attention to detail. I skim and always think good enough.
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Post by Mary_K on Apr 30, 2016 2:55:40 GMT
Speak another language, play an instrument and turn invisible.
Mary K
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 30, 2016 3:10:41 GMT
Sewing is on my list too.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Apr 30, 2016 3:28:30 GMT
I can sew and have an awesome sense of direction. Unfortunately I can't carry a tune in a bucket and I have 2 left feet. I wish I could sing and dance.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 3:35:34 GMT
I wish I could sew, sing, and play guitar.
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Post by justkat on Apr 30, 2016 4:27:24 GMT
I wish I could play the piano like my grandmother. I took lessons for years and have very basic skills. My grandmother? That woman could hear a song once and then play it flawlessly as though she were a classically trained concert pianist.She couldn't read a lick of music, couldn't tell you anything about notes or tempo or....But hear it once and play it like she wrote it.
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Post by moodyblue on Apr 30, 2016 4:41:45 GMT
I wish I could sing.
I have many cousins who can sing, and they have kids who can sing. But nope, I can't sing worth a darn and neither can my brother and sister. Those genes just totally missed us.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 5:06:04 GMT
I wish I could swim and tread water.
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Post by Anita on Apr 30, 2016 5:13:55 GMT
I wish I could speak Spanish. I've taken classes. It just doesn't compute.
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Post by finaledition on Apr 30, 2016 5:14:38 GMT
The first thing that came to mind was sing as well. I love to sing along to music and I don't think dogs holler, but I'd love for people to think I had a nice voice.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Apr 30, 2016 5:16:12 GMT
I wish I knew how to cook on a grill.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 5:22:58 GMT
I really wish I could sing.
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Post by luvnlifelady on Apr 30, 2016 5:28:44 GMT
I wish I could draw. Even my stick figures look pathetic.
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Post by TXMary on Apr 30, 2016 5:34:32 GMT
My first thought was sing too. I was watching Stars-Blues tonight and our anthem singer- Celena Rae- does an amazing job. I told my DH then if I could have any skill it would be singing.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Apr 30, 2016 5:35:16 GMT
I wish I could do math and sciences. I do. I don't at all.
Languages? Good
Music? Good
Cooking? Above average
Cannot add two numbers together.
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Post by gar on Apr 30, 2016 6:46:26 GMT
I would love to be multilingual.
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 30, 2016 7:24:54 GMT
I would love to be multilingual. Me too!  |
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Post by gar on Apr 30, 2016 7:36:19 GMT
I would love to be multilingual. Me too! French conversation classes are on my bucket list, to improve on my schoolgirl skills. Do you have any plans? |
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 30, 2016 8:05:21 GMT
Me too! French conversation classes are on my bucket list, to improve on my schoolgirl skills. Do you have any plans? I would love to be able to speak Russian well enough to read the text that accompanies photographs of earth on a particular web site - just to find out where they have been taken - so am now looking for a basic 'Teach Yourself Russian' short course. And, like you, French conversation classes are on the list as I really do need to brush up and improve on school language skills. |
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Post by gar on Apr 30, 2016 8:24:06 GMT
French conversation classes are on my bucket list, to improve on my schoolgirl skills. Do you have any plans? I would love to be able to speak Russian well enough to read the text that accompanies photographs of earth on a particular web site - just to find out where they have been taken - so am now looking for a basic 'Teach Yourself Russian' short course. And, like you, French conversation classes are on the list as I really do need to brush up and improve on school language skills. That's a great idea - and lovely that you have a specific reason for wanting to learn it. After French I would probably choose to learn Portuguese....we holiday there a lot and would love to buy a holiday home there. Dh has fantasies of retiring there but I don't know....it would be good to be able to speak some more of the language though  |
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 30, 2016 9:10:31 GMT
I would love to be able to speak Russian well enough to read the text that accompanies photographs of earth on a particular web site - just to find out where they have been taken - so am now looking for a basic 'Teach Yourself Russian' short course. And, like you, French conversation classes are on the list as I really do need to brush up and improve on school language skills. That's a great idea - and lovely that you have a specific reason for wanting to learn it. After French I would probably choose to learn Portuguese....we holiday there a lot and would love to buy a holiday home there. Dh has fantasies of retiring there but I don't know....it would be good to be able to speak some more of the language though Funny you should mention that, from time to time the subject of buying a holiday home in Portugal or France comes up.......and it was mentioned again yesterday because the weather is so miserable here!  Portugal would be my preference if that became reality as I love the Country and the climate. And that would definitely mean adding Portugese to the list of languages to be more fluent in. If you bought a holiday home there you could semi retire to Portugal - spend the Winters out there and the Summers here. Even though they get a lot of rain in Winter, at least it's warm rain! |
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Post by gar on Apr 30, 2016 9:14:12 GMT
That's a great idea - and lovely that you have a specific reason for wanting to learn it. After French I would probably choose to learn Portuguese....we holiday there a lot and would love to buy a holiday home there. Dh has fantasies of retiring there but I don't know....it would be good to be able to speak some more of the language though Funny you should mention that, from time to time the subject of buying a holiday home in Portugal or France comes up.......and it was mentioned again yesterday because the weather is so miserable here! Portugal would be my preference if that became reality as I love the Country and the climate. And that would definitely mean adding Portugese to the list of languages to be more fluent in. If you bought a holiday home there you could semi retire to Portugal - spend the Winters out there and the Summers here. Even though they get a lot of rain in Winter, at least it's warm rain! That would be ideal.....splitting the year between there and here. We should have bought a place when we started going there with Dh's parents 30 odd years ago, we've been spoiled in the past staying in some amazing villas and we would have been able to afford one of them by now! Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it! |
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Post by terri on Apr 30, 2016 9:17:05 GMT
Sewing for sure! I wish I were better at languages. I can learn words and phrases but have never got to a conversational level. I also wish I could swim. I've taken classes but I can't get over having water in my face. I also wish I knew how to reupholster. My grandfather did it for a living and I would have loved to learn from him.
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Post by mollycoddle on Apr 30, 2016 10:34:27 GMT
I wish that I could draw. Sigh.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Apr 30, 2016 10:38:39 GMT
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Post by BarbaraUK on Apr 30, 2016 10:45:01 GMT
Funny you should mention that, from time to time the subject of buying a holiday home in Portugal or France comes up.......and it was mentioned again yesterday because the weather is so miserable here! Portugal would be my preference if that became reality as I love the Country and the climate. And that would definitely mean adding Portugese to the list of languages to be more fluent in. If you bought a holiday home there you could semi retire to Portugal - spend the Winters out there and the Summers here. Even though they get a lot of rain in Winter, at least it's warm rain! That would be ideal.....splitting the year between there and here. We should have bought a place when we started going there with Dh's parents 30 odd years ago, we've been spoiled in the past staying in some amazing villas and we would have been able to afford one of them by now! Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it! Absolutely, hindsight is a wonderful thing I agree! If we had bought when we first talked about it, property prices in Portugal were much lower than they are now and we would not have spent the cost of a top of the range holiday villa on holidays there. Ah well, that's exactly the problem with hindsight isn't it!! |
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Post by gar on Apr 30, 2016 10:50:23 GMT
That would be ideal.....splitting the year between there and here. We should have bought a place when we started going there with Dh's parents 30 odd years ago, we've been spoiled in the past staying in some amazing villas and we would have been able to afford one of them by now! Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it! Absolutely, hindsight is a wonderful thing I agree! If we had bought when we first talked about it, property prices in Portugal were much lower than they are now and we would not have spent the cost of a top of the range holiday villa on holidays there. Ah well, that's exactly the problem with hindsight isn't it!! Indeed |
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