xoxo

Hugs and kisses or "xoxo" is a term used for expressing affection or good friendship at the end of a written letter, email or SMS text message. The common custom of placing X's on envelopes, notes and at the bottom of letters to mean kisses dates back to the Medieval Ages, when a cross was drawn on documents or letters to mean sincerity and honesty. A kiss was then placed upon the cross, by the signer, as a display of their sworn oath. It was also used in early Christian history as much of a display of the same. Since most of the common people were unable to read or write, the 'X' was placed on documents, and a kiss placed upon it as a show of their sincerity, gradually, as it was used so often, the cross was hurriedly drawn and often resembled an 'X'.

The 'O' is of North American descent, no one really seems to know how it was started. It has been said that when arriving to the US, Jewish immigrants would use an 'O' on documents, not using the sign of the cross, and shop keepers would often use an 'O' when signing documents, in place of an 'X'. Perhaps now it is used as the 'O' being rounded represents arms encircling another, as in an embrace.

The use of 'X' to signify a kiss dates back to as early as 1765.

One unambiguous example where x is used to represent "kiss" comes from a tragic event in 1905. A seaman aboard the doomed SS Kaliyuga managed to write this final message, where one x is used for each of the family members mentioned:

"Dear Father: Good-bye. I have a bank book in the Cleveland Society of Savings. Good-bye mother, dear sister and brother. xxxx A kiss for all."

This note was found on the body of oiler Charles Beaugrand which washed ashore several days after his ship sank during a late October storm on Lake Huron.

And NOW YOU KNOW! Good grief I have some fun with Wikipedia.

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where these two 24" squares of "awwwwww" are on their way to "the mercantile" in Hillsboro Antique Mall... how cool would they be for engagement photos? I'm gonna look and see what the three x's mean that are on the old moonshine bottles (not that I know about things like "moonshine" (whistles innocently))... I'll be back. hee-hee

who who who...

Harvard Grad students created a rotating mechanical tongue and concluded 3,127 licks.

Whoooooooo thinks spray paint is almost as magical as duct tape?

I doooooooo.....

Last night - around midnight - I heard an owl talking somewhere in my 'hood. I tried - REALLY HARD - to talk back to it, but each time I did I broke out in to side-splitting giggles. Apparently my Dr. Dolittle skillz are in need of Dr'n....

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I paint all kinds of critters... sometimes on accident - sometimes on purpose. What have you painted lately?

spoiled rotten.

The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?

The red.neck Step-Daddy spoils me rotten...

Forrest!

I say (after eye-ballin' "the Mama's" wooden box): "I want a box"!

The next day? I have a box!

J.R.R. Tolkien

Do you know how much fun I'm going to have switching things out in my box?! I might even put it up on cinder-blocks...



comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I figure the red.neck Step-Daddy built me a box for my dining table so I wouldn't go shopping at his house and purchasing "the Mama's" box using my five-finger discount... he likes to keep the peace 'round his neck-o'the-woods...

Memorial Day

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron

Have a wonderful day...

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." ~  Norman Schwarzkopf

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide...


P.S. Just in case you were wondering... hee-hee... the winner of Annie Selke's/Pine Cone Hill giveaway is Michelle who said: "I LOVE IT! It's too cha cha for words!"


Thank You to EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of you who played along - I loved reading your stories about eyelet!!!!! Congratulations to Michelle!!!

make it!

Mama Debinator and I were talking a few weeks ago - running ideas back and forth between each other like 2 squirrels on a phone line... ideas concerning bed-skirts...

She screeched to a halt at one point and said: "table runner!" Sew... I made an eyelet table runner! Out of a bed skirt!

It's easy: rip the skirt portion off of the body...
(something about that sentence doesn't really sound right...)

press it flat. Then place the eyelet - face to face - and stitch it up! I used just one side of the bed-skirt because I always keep my dining table at it's smallest... but for a longer runner just use both sides of the bed-skirt.

Press the middle seam flat, then flip the whole thing over and stitch some small eyelet trim right down the middle.

Hem the ends and... Voila'!

You have one bed-skirt table runner. Isn't Mama Debinator brilliant? Bed skirts are all kinds of fun - I use them for... well... all kinds of things OTHER than making my bed.

Oh... hey! If you serve breakfast and you're using this table runner under your fine china - would it be "breakfast in bed"?!

This is a simple - fresh - SUMMERY table runner - kind of like Annie's/Pine Cone Hill's eyelet duvet cover, pillow shams and napkins that you still have a chance to win! Go HERE on my blog to sign up - and hurry 'cause all of the eyelet fun ends tomorrow at 8am!

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where you should hear Mama Debinator and I on the phone... she's a Trash Talker with squirrel moments, THEN she gets ME climbing trees and runnin' around like I'm a squirrel! 37 subjects in less than 4 minutes..
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eye'd wear...

this dress:

and eye'd like to say eye'd wear the eyelet dress with these boots (after a spray tan... or a magic marker... i wonder if krylon paint will work?):

but chances are eye'd wear it with THESE boots:

and then eye'd sparkle me with some leathery fun:

and add a happy daisy ('cause that's how i do things):

and eye'd top it alllllllll off with this glamorous piece of plastic and sparkles:

where would eye wear this you ask? *snicker*

To come see you and remind you to sign up for my giveaway HERE because you can't have enough eyelet and you SURE can't have enough Annie Selke/Pine Cone Hill eyelet!!! Deadline is Friday morning!

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where eye really think eye need those sunglasses... they could be part of my "super red.neck" disgeyes....