Answers to Questions from Anna Pyatskowit

1. Field trip! Ask someone close-by for two words to describe you. Dramatic and helpful

2. Thinking of Bible characters, who are you most like? Well, I guess I’m a little like Ruth and a little like Zipporah. lol

3. Your favorite song? “Be Still My Soul”…among others!

4. If there were no calorie-counting involved, what dessert would you run into the kitchen and make? Hmm….that’s a hard one… probably a lemon meringue pie. I love it!

5. What's something you've always dreamed of being? I’ve always dreamed of being a housewife.

6. What's something you've laughed about today? Something my brother said.
7. You're shopping at the mall. You've found a super-cute shirt that looks absolutely radiant with your complexion. You've also found a to-die-for pair of shoes - but you don't have enough money for both. Which would you pick? Probably the shirt.

8. When you're feeling blue, what cheers you up? Talking to a friend who sympathizes with me.

9. What's something wonderful that's about to happen in your life? Lol.. I’m about to take another trip to Ohio. Idk!

10. How would you encourage someone who is reading your blog? You have three sentences. Ready...Set...Go! Keep pressing onward and don’t look back at what you were.

11. What's one thing on your summer bucket list: Create new outfits so I don’t wear the exact same ones this year at BYC.

I nominate.... Serenity at Beautiful Girlhood

Anna at The Daughter of the King
Abigail at Prairie Princess
Zoe at The Little Girl
Katie at Legacy of a Writer

The rules for those of you who would like to participate....

Fill out the list questions ((below)), then nominate ((up to)) eleven people. Be sure to post the link to your blog post in the comments! Have fun!

The questions...

1. If you could go back in time, to which era(s) would you go?
2. What is your favorite composer?
3. If you had a million dollars, name 1 thing you would do with it.(Besides paying tithes, of course.)
4. You've just won a ticket to any place in the U.S.! Where would you go?
5. Name 5 people you admire.
6. What instrument(s) do you play? What instrument(s) would you like to learn?
7. If you could learn 2 languages, what would they be?
8. Name 3 sermons of Brother Branham that you have found especially helpful this year.
9. What are your favorite things to do iiiiin summmeeeer! :D
10. Give us your favorite combination in coffee (or smoothie, if you don't like coffee).

Giveaway- NuMe's Curl Jam set in black

There's a giveaway at Legacy of a Writer! Enter to win a  NuMe's Curl Jam set in black!

Here's Katie's link!
http://katie-mccurdy.blogspot.com/2014/03/hairstyling-with-nume-curls.html

From Arizona Territorial Cookbook- Weight Loss

This was too funny not to share!

How to Reduce One's Weight

"A woman weighing 200 pounds called on a physician for advice. He gave her the following instructions:
1. For breakfast eat a piece of beef or mutton as large as your hand, with a slice of white bread twice as large. For dinner the same amount of meat, or if preferred, fish or poultry, with the same amount of farinaceous or vegetable food in the form of bread or potato. For supper nothing.
2. Drink only when greatly annoyed with thirst; than a mouthful of lemonade without sugar.
3. Take three times a week some form of bath in which there shall be immense perspiration. The Turkish bath is best. You must work, either in walking or some other way, several hours a day.
4. You must rise early in the morning and retire late at night. Much sleep fattens people.
5. The terrible corset you have on, which compresses the center of the body, making you look a good deal fatter than you really are, must be taken off, and you must have a corset which any dressmaker can fit to you-- a corset for the lower part of the abdomen-- which will raise this great mass and support you.

She followed the advice for six months, and trained herself down to 152 pounds."
~From the Scrapbook of Nellie von Gerichten Smith

Fat All My Life, and How I Got Rid of It

"First captivating plumpness begins to steal upon a woman in her twenties. Plumpness is followed by- oh, horrors!- fatness and shortness of breath, and heart flutters. Then, alas, comes the chin that is double and the comical lumbering waddle of the overfat. Fine sarcasm to tell such a  woman to exercise. Why not counsel flying? She is as able to do the one as the other. It's another keen cut to suggest dieting. When ladies are just so fat they haven't an ounce of will power or energy to spare for extras- just living is hard enough work for them.
What then? Are these unfortunates condemned to be fat for life? No, believe it or not; a simple home recipe easy to get at a drug store will take that fat off and keep it off. Listen!

1/2 ounce of Marmola
1/2 ounce of Fluid Extract Cascara Aromatic
3 1/2 ounces Syrup Simplex
mixed at home and taken in teaspoonful doses after meals and at bedtime will take off sa much as a pound a day in some cases. Get the Marmola in the sealed packages- you are sure it is fresh that way- take the mixture a month, and you'll see. The fat seems to drop off and leave nice, smooth, firm flesh, while the health and complexion improve wonderfully."
~From an untitled advertisement, circa 1880s in the Journal of Nellie von Gerichten Smith