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by evajungermann 01 Nov 2009 ( edited Nov 04'09 18:55 )
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which assures you of your eternal friendship.

Or another short saying, word of wisdom, bible quote, best whish...
This was done in your prettiest handwriting (in "ancient" times it was a school subject, and yes, I had "schönschreiben" ;-) ) and if you had to sign the book of your VERY best friend, you maybe glued your favourite "lackbild" in.
I looked this up- did not find an english word for that.
Here you have an impression.
http://romantikitsch.blogspot.com/2009/08/lackbilder-poetry-album-pictures.html

My idea is: are you interested in having a cuties poetry album?

Those who are able to create an embroidery text file can post it to designs by cuties, others tell me the poem and I could do this.
It will turn out better than my goofy first attempt, I promise.

With those textfiles we could do a friendship quilt, everyone for her own, combined with our favourite heirloom/vintage/valentine designs.
What do you think?

Comments (10)
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by edithfarminer 01 Nov 2009
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Well Eva, we had the same in Holland, found mine after my father died. My mother wrote such a beautiful poem, such precious memory. I am not gifted that way. but interested to see what other cuties think about it.
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by shirlener88 01 Nov 2009
Perhaps you could share the poem that your Mother wrote?
by edithfarminer 04 Nov 2009
It is in Dutch Shirlener
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by cathiejones 01 Nov 2009
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In France we did something similar in school. All the girls had a friendship penbook. Some girls were writting poem, some glued some picture of their favorite singer and other thing. The book was passed from girl to girl and everybody was writting a message to the other one.

If you give me a few days, I'll embroid a cuties'poem and take a photo of it to post to the project !

Ashame we are so far from each other because it would be fantastic to all embroid a poem with nice deco and one of us sew it together to make a quilt.

You had a great idea!
Cathie
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by shirlener88 01 Nov 2009
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Can you give us an example?
by Cutie #8325825 01 Nov 2009
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How wonderful it sounds to have those treasure memories! I can't speak for all of the USA only for myself, and here we did have a yearbook signing and we still do. Unfortunately we would only write things like "stay sweet", "call me this summer", or "have a fun summer." I maybe would've saved all of those books had they had more cherished things written in them. TY for this insight into your life.
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by ken174 01 Nov 2009
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Wow Eva! Very creative! Sounds fun....san*
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by ansalu 01 Nov 2009
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Liebe Eva,

eine wunderbare Idee! Meine Tochter hat leider heute diese Bücher mit diesem Abfragetext; Lieblingsfarbe-Lieblingsband-Lieblingstier... langweilig.
Ich kann zwar nicht digitalisieren, ahbe aber noch meine Poeseialben und mein Versleinbuch vom guten alten Schneiderverlag (ach; Hanni&Nanni :o).

I have still my old books; today my daughter has these books where you just put in: favorite color, band, pet... soooo boring because every girl looks what the others have writen before ;o)
greetings, ansalu
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by evajungermann 02 Nov 2009
Those modern friendship books with ready made formulas (not much room for individual interests... so poor) could be fun to read too. A classmate (age 7) wrote into our book
Favorite actor: Goofy.
I love this.
by ansalu 02 Nov 2009
wow, in Annas book there are always: horses or footballclub (the boys ;-) or sometimes the name of a special boy :o)
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by evajungermann 02 Nov 2009
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Thanks for your encouraging answers!
I hope for many participants! FUN.
This is a first example how it could turn out.
I did it with a built in font of PE Designer, today I will try another font with the Futura. Maybe will look better.
The heart is an applique shape.
The poem was very popular to use, says "In all - 4 corners - my love- is in" or better "I put my love to all 4 corners".
I think for this project it would be nice to have poems in the "original" native languages- for the special character of our forum, connecting the world in friendship. I like this idea.
Greetings!
Eva
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by ansalu 02 Nov 2009
Hej,
will look for my old book but have to seek. I have changed my room so that Felix has the bigger one and now I didn't find anything :o( Waht a mess...
greetings, ansalu
by beutelhexe 04 Nov 2009
This Embroider is great. How can I made this? Can you say it?
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by captiveillusions 04 Nov 2009
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I think that is an AMAZING idea! Count me in!
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by gramsbear 04 Nov 2009
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Count me in!!! Of course, like several others, I can only do 4X4 designs. But I will start working on mine. ** Judy!!!
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by beutelhexe 04 Nov 2009
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It's a super Idea. I found 2 poem in my old friendbook.
-I dream my dreams until my dreams comes true. I also hope for you. and
-If you asked me: "What is more important to you, your life or do I?" Would I were to say: "My life!" And you'd go without knowing that you are my life.

I hope, that is right in english