So wonderful that you got to spend time with your sister. And I love the recipe card idea., I have a recipe book of my Mom’s. It would make a great memory journal for my boys. 🤔💙
Sandi, I hope you try it! Karen and I remembered so many fun old stories connected to these recipe cards. Thanks for watching, and I'm sure your sons would love having whatever you "cook up!"
Brian, we both send hugs to you! We had a super week together. I am so happy to be seeing more of you lately. I missed you during your hiatus, but you have been coming out with some stupendous projects!
Hi Anne! What a sweet and lovely recipe journal! It´s a great treasure with affective food memories! Nice to meet Karen and see you having fun together! I can imagine your mom´s delicious food! TFS!🩷🩷🩷🩷🌹🌹🌹🌹
Ive been thinking about doing more of this. I did make one for my neice with the family favorites from both sides of her family. Amazing how so much of the vintage handwriting looks like many of mine. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. I laughed out oad with the jello mold cut outs. O my. My father would write notes of whose favorite it was and make them when we would visit.😊
Hi Anne: You finished up this project so nicely. I knew you’d make the most of these family recipe cards. The stories are heartwarming to me. Many of your viewers will have similar cards from their family archives. The cover is terrific! My Oregon trip to visit you was wonderful. Love, Karen ✂️🥮❤️
What a marvellous idea Ann. That will be my next project to myself. My mother wasn’t in to cooking and writing recipes but I have so many handwritten recipes from my dear grandmother. Thanks for sharing another great idea. You are a great inspiration Ann. ❤
Hello Karen.👋👋 Thank you for bringing the family recipe cards. Ephemera yeah right 🤣🤣 This was a wonderful way to forward on the family recipes. Yes that is my Q. My Mom taught me cursive before I learned in school. Her writing was so beautiful. She was taught by the infamous nuns and their rulers at her time. Thank you for this video. Blessings 🤗🎃
Thanks, it's such a joy to carry on traditions in our journals, isn't it? And that Q - our mother was VERY particular about that, but I always just print my capital Qs now!
So amazing that their handwriting and even writing instruments were one and the same! I've always felt like we were like sisters, anyway! Thinking of you, will talk soon!
Thank you for sharing this project. In my family, I am the keeper of the archives - in fact, one reason I've been attracted to the idea of making junk journals is precisely this, to find ways to organize, showcase and write some background about at least some things. Your project is dear to my heart - thank you both for sharing this! PS Ooooo!! I wrote this comment too soon! You KNOW I had to rewind and get a better look at that music (especially once you said it was Beethoven!) - that bit is from the last page of the first movement of the Eroica symphony! Now this video is REALLY giving me the warm fuzzies. 🥰 Second edit: Ooo - I may have to copy down that cornbread recipe from 4H... including your mother's corrections!
You're so sweet, Judy. Of course I think of you every time I put a piece of music into a project now. And yes, Karen and I both chuckled over that 4-H recipe. Mother was never shy about correcting things when they needed improvement! It is such fun to see her thinking at work. She's been gone since early 2001 but we always feel so close to her - she was quite a gal and beloved by so many!
This was a fun video! Several years ago my grandma took recipes from my great grandmother’s recipe box and copied them and put them together in a bound book for family members. It is one of my favorite things to look at. I love looking at my great grandmother’s handwriting and the notes she made. It’s interesting to me that she had recipes from other people (even my mom’s cookie recipe) because I always thought of her as the quintessential cook. I love the pages from the address book where your mom journaled about her dinners. What a neat keepsake! And I learned my Q’s like that when I learned cursive!
Stephanie, what a family treasure you have! Karen, as our family historian, has done so much of that, too - scanning and copying and sharing for our siblings and even our cousins and friends from our hometown. Thanks so much for joining Karen and me on this fun little jaunt!
Very sweet anne. I do have re ipes of my mothers and grandmothers. One in particular always gets me laughing😅it is for thanksgiving stuffing and calls for butter the size of a goose egg😂😂😂😊❤
Oh, Suzy - what a charming memory - "the size of a goose egg" - OK, um, sure, very precise! Don't you love it that our dear mothers and grandmothers knew exactly how much that meant!
This is so nostalgic. My SIL has a card file like your mom's log of when she had special occasions and holiday parties. Oh, my heart. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Ladies~ I'm so enjoying the conversation between you and your sister. I'm the sole survivor of my immediate family and miss them terribly, so it's good to hear the love between the two of you. Now to my reason for commenting. When one of my many, many aunts on my moms' (Donna) side (Carol) was ill, she found herself with too many hours to fill, so she pick through their moms' (Lena) recipes and selected all of the ones she knew were well-liked and typed an entire loose leaf (8x10) recipe book for a few selected loved ones (I was lucky to receive one, we have a huge family). The name she chose for it was "Nothing Special", which was what Grandma Lena always said to anyone she invited in for dinner. Oh, don't worry, we're having nothing special. I use it frequently, and have added a few of my own gluten-free selections. Thanks for generating some marvelous memories for me.
Mandy, my sister and were both so touched by your comment. Thank you so much for sharing with us. What a treasure you have in your aunt's record-keeping - and certainly very special. Here's to Grandma Lena, Aunt Carol, and the memories they created!
What a JOY to meet your lovely sister! ❤ Your recipe memory journal is absolutely lovely. Going through your mom's recipe cards was so fun! Seeing your Four H cornbread recipe was extremely sweet. Your journal and the Frankenstein Papers is beautiful. May I ask? Is the cover fabric or paper? The pattern reminded me of a kitchen apron my grandmothers would wear all day as they worked in the kitchen. Many thanks! I drank in every moment of your video! ❤🍽☕️🧁😃
Great eye you have, my friend - that cover is absolutely fabric, and it would be the quintessential mid-century apron! So glad you could join my sister and me for this fun project! Had you been here, too, you would have fit in so perfectly!
Maravillosa idea para felicitar en las fiestas navideñas es como decimos en mi tierra "DISTINTO", (diferente). Gracias por compartir y regalar momentos de alegrías.
What a pleasure it just was sitting with you while I was having a cup of coffee, and going down memory lane! I’m thinking we must be of similar age! Although I grew up in northern New Jersey. My mom was a stay at home mom and was a chemist in her prior life! She enjoyed cooking for her large family! Actually in college she was studying home economics, but loved when she had to take chemistry courses and switched her major! I have so many of her recipes and I’m currently putting together a journal for my sister for Christmas. You have really sparked a new idea with these recipes! I am going to include some of them in the journal gift and tuck them into some of your fancy pockets! Thank you for your video, the inspiration and visit with your sister!
Oh, Patricia, how happy it makes me to read your message! Thank you so much for sharing your background with me! Your description made me think of a series we recently watched, "Lessons in Chemistry," about a 1950s-era woman whose career trajectory seems the reverse of your mother's - a young chemist becomes a famous TV cook! I've forgotten which of the streaming platforms it's on. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate you.
@ I read the book and loved it! My mom graduated in 1948! I’ve already started pulling out some recipes! Reading them does evoke so many wonderful memories! 😊
I also call my parents Mother and Daddy. 😊 Love the look of crafting with the old recipes!!
Joanie, thanks so much! I just don't think my sister and I could refer to our parents any other way - you know the feeling!
So wonderful that you got to spend time with your sister. And I love the recipe card idea., I have a recipe book of my Mom’s. It would make a great memory journal for my boys. 🤔💙
Sandi, I hope you try it! Karen and I remembered so many fun old stories connected to these recipe cards. Thanks for watching, and I'm sure your sons would love having whatever you "cook up!"
Lovely family craft time full of rich memories....thanks for stopping by Karen, nice to meet you....TFS ANNE....❤B
Brian, we both send hugs to you! We had a super week together. I am so happy to be seeing more of you lately. I missed you during your hiatus, but you have been coming out with some stupendous projects!
Hi Anne! What a sweet and lovely recipe journal! It´s a great treasure with affective food memories! Nice to meet Karen and see you having fun together! I can imagine your mom´s delicious food! TFS!🩷🩷🩷🩷🌹🌹🌹🌹
Dearest Marcia, I'm so glad you could join my sister and me for our fun project!
Ive been thinking about doing more of this. I did make one for my neice with the family favorites from both sides of her family. Amazing how so much of the vintage handwriting looks like many of mine. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. I laughed out oad with the jello mold cut outs. O my. My father would write notes of whose favorite it was and make them when we would visit.😊
Ellen, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Personal handwriting is just so, so special, and infuses so much life and spirit into a project.
Hi Anne: You finished up this project so nicely. I knew you’d make the most of these family recipe cards. The stories are heartwarming to me. Many of your viewers will have similar cards from their family archives. The cover is terrific! My Oregon trip to visit you was wonderful. Love, Karen ✂️🥮❤️
Love my dear sister so much!! Thanks for all the lovely treasures you brought me - and YOU are the greatest treasure of all!
What a marvellous idea Ann. That will be my next project to myself. My mother wasn’t in to cooking and writing recipes but I have so many handwritten recipes from my dear grandmother. Thanks for sharing another great idea. You are a great inspiration Ann. ❤
Nina, it makes me so happy to read this - thank you! I hope you get a great deal of heartwarming joy when you do this project for yourself.
Hello Karen.👋👋
Thank you for bringing the family recipe cards. Ephemera yeah right 🤣🤣
This was a wonderful way to forward on the family recipes.
Yes that is my Q. My Mom taught me cursive before I learned in school. Her writing was so beautiful. She was taught by the infamous nuns and their rulers at her time.
Thank you for this video. Blessings 🤗🎃
Thanks, it's such a joy to carry on traditions in our journals, isn't it? And that Q - our mother was VERY particular about that, but I always just print my capital Qs now!
LOL, yep, the cursive 2 "Q"! The nuns would have it no other way! Hugs, Anne, MK 🤗❤️🤗
I know, right? Where in the world did that even come from? It seems to make no sense! But we get a chuckle out of it! Thanks so much, MK!
This is a great idea! I love that you kept the cards whole and still useable. Nice to meet Karen as well!
Thanks, Cynthia! Yes, there are some we could cut up and collage with, but we wanted to keep most of them whole. Thanks so much for joining us!
Hi Karen! Oh my gosh! My mother’s recipes were written on index cards too. Her handwriting is so like your mother’s and she also used a fountain pen!
So amazing that their handwriting and even writing instruments were one and the same! I've always felt like we were like sisters, anyway! Thinking of you, will talk soon!
Thank you for sharing this project. In my family, I am the keeper of the archives - in fact, one reason I've been attracted to the idea of making junk journals is precisely this, to find ways to organize, showcase and write some background about at least some things. Your project is dear to my heart - thank you both for sharing this!
PS Ooooo!! I wrote this comment too soon! You KNOW I had to rewind and get a better look at that music (especially once you said it was Beethoven!) - that bit is from the last page of the first movement of the Eroica symphony! Now this video is REALLY giving me the warm fuzzies. 🥰
Second edit: Ooo - I may have to copy down that cornbread recipe from 4H... including your mother's corrections!
You're so sweet, Judy. Of course I think of you every time I put a piece of music into a project now. And yes, Karen and I both chuckled over that 4-H recipe. Mother was never shy about correcting things when they needed improvement! It is such fun to see her thinking at work. She's been gone since early 2001 but we always feel so close to her - she was quite a gal and beloved by so many!
Good morning, Anne and Karen. Nice to meet you, Karen. Nice tags. Love the recipes. I still use them. Have a wonderful day , you two. ❤❤❤
So glad you joined us on this little sisterly crafting adventure, Christine! Thanks so much!
This was a fun video! Several years ago my grandma took recipes from my great grandmother’s recipe box and copied them and put them together in a bound book for family members. It is one of my favorite things to look at. I love looking at my great grandmother’s handwriting and the notes she made. It’s interesting to me that she had recipes from other people (even my mom’s cookie recipe) because I always thought of her as the quintessential cook. I love the pages from the address book where your mom journaled about her dinners. What a neat keepsake! And I learned my Q’s like that when I learned cursive!
Stephanie, what a family treasure you have! Karen, as our family historian, has done so much of that, too - scanning and copying and sharing for our siblings and even our cousins and friends from our hometown. Thanks so much for joining Karen and me on this fun little jaunt!
Very sweet anne. I do have re ipes of my mothers and grandmothers. One in particular always gets me laughing😅it is for thanksgiving stuffing and calls for butter the size of a goose egg😂😂😂😊❤
Oh, Suzy - what a charming memory - "the size of a goose egg" - OK, um, sure, very precise! Don't you love it that our dear mothers and grandmothers knew exactly how much that meant!
What a lovely idea! It's so nice that your sister is sitting alongside you too! Hope you enjoyed your crafting session Karen 😊 ❤
Thanks so much, Yvonne! Yes, Karen and I had just a wonderful week together. I'm still smiling about it! Thanks for watching!
This is so nostalgic. My SIL has a card file like your mom's log of when she had special occasions and holiday parties. Oh, my heart. Thanks for sharing.
It really does feel like we're stepping back in time, doesn't it? Thanks for sharing, Nadyne.
Hi Ladies~ I'm so enjoying the conversation between you and your sister. I'm the sole survivor of my immediate family and miss them terribly, so it's good to hear the love between the two of you. Now to my reason for commenting. When one of my many, many aunts on my moms' (Donna) side (Carol) was ill, she found herself with too many hours to fill, so she pick through their moms' (Lena) recipes and selected all of the ones she knew were well-liked and typed an entire loose leaf (8x10) recipe book for a few selected loved ones (I was lucky to receive one, we have a huge family). The name she chose for it was "Nothing Special", which was what Grandma Lena always said to anyone she invited in for dinner. Oh, don't worry, we're having nothing special. I use it frequently, and have added a few of my own gluten-free selections. Thanks for generating some marvelous memories for me.
How wonderful to have your grandmother’s recipes recorded and shared. Love the title “Nothing Special” which makes you all smile.
Mandy, my sister and were both so touched by your comment. Thank you so much for sharing with us. What a treasure you have in your aunt's record-keeping - and certainly very special. Here's to Grandma Lena, Aunt Carol, and the memories they created!
What a JOY to meet your lovely sister! ❤
Your recipe memory journal is absolutely lovely. Going through your mom's recipe cards was so fun! Seeing your Four H cornbread recipe was extremely sweet.
Your journal and the Frankenstein Papers is beautiful. May I ask? Is the cover fabric or paper? The pattern reminded me of a kitchen apron my grandmothers would wear all day as they worked in the kitchen.
Many thanks! I drank in every moment of your video! ❤🍽☕️🧁😃
Great eye you have, my friend - that cover is absolutely fabric, and it would be the quintessential mid-century apron! So glad you could join my sister and me for this fun project! Had you been here, too, you would have fit in so perfectly!
I have some of my mom’s recipes and cook books! I was thinking of making a recipe themed junk journal and this gave me some inspiration!
So glad, Angela! I know yours will turn out to be a treasure!
Howdy Anne👋 What an awesome idea!❤
Thanks, Mary Beth! Karen and I had so much fun pulling this together, and we are both excited that you joined us along the way!
Maravillosa idea para felicitar en las fiestas navideñas es como decimos en mi tierra "DISTINTO", (diferente).
Gracias por compartir y regalar momentos de alegrías.
Trini, muchas gracias y me alegra mucho que te hayas unido a nosotros en este divertido proyecto familiar. ¡Definitivamente fue DISTINTO! :-)
Your sisters voice sounds like yours glad you two are having fun also i like your ideas 😊
Thanks, Sharon - lots of people say we sound alike, and we definitely look alike, too!
What a pleasure it just was sitting with you while I was having a cup of coffee, and going down memory lane! I’m thinking we must be of similar age! Although I grew up in northern New Jersey. My mom was a stay at home mom and was a chemist in her prior life! She enjoyed cooking for her large family! Actually in college she was studying home economics, but loved when she had to take chemistry courses and switched her major! I have so many of her recipes and I’m currently putting together a journal for my sister for Christmas. You have really sparked a new idea with these recipes! I am going to include some of them in the journal gift and tuck them into some of your fancy pockets! Thank you for your video, the inspiration and visit with your sister!
Oh, Patricia, how happy it makes me to read your message! Thank you so much for sharing your background with me! Your description made me think of a series we recently watched, "Lessons in Chemistry," about a 1950s-era woman whose career trajectory seems the reverse of your mother's - a young chemist becomes a famous TV cook! I've forgotten which of the streaming platforms it's on. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate you.
@ I read the book and loved it! My mom graduated in 1948! I’ve already started pulling out some recipes! Reading them does evoke so many wonderful memories! 😊
Anne, i would love to have a recipe from your Mother for my recipe book. Please. 🫣
Christine, you're so sweet - I'm afraid I'm not mailing any of them out, but I love that you were interested in them! ❤️❤️❤️