It is exciting and rewarding to create. The creative sense, dormant within many of us, when once awakened may lead us in many directions: to painting, poetry, music, design, sculpture, or to more practical arts related to homemaking, such as cooking and sewing.
The making of lovely lingerie can be a delightful new experience. Here creativity has few bounds. The new lingerie fabrics are gossamer soft and smooth, gentle to the touch, and pretty to look at. Surprisingly, they are easy to work with. The fabrics can be found in almost every color in the rainbow as well as in many appealing prints. Combining two colors or a print and a plain fabric can be very effective. Elastics, laces, and ribbons are available in many yardage shops.
Just a side note: It appears this old Ensign article used to come with photos that were since deleted:
[photos] Barbara Brown Watson, model
Ah, the good old days.
I'm beginning to think more and more that something really screwed up Mormonism in the 80's and 90's. Some prophets might have freaked out and got all Victorian on us or something.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Correlation happened. It's what takes everything good or interesting about Mormonism and turns it into a gray cube of stale oatmeal.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Bob Loblaw wrote:Correlation happened. It's what takes everything good or interesting about Mormonism and turns it into a gray cube of stale oatmeal.
Wasn't it H.B. Lee who started the All-Church Coordinating Council in 1960? I always thought Correlation started before the 70's. Maybe it didn't really get moving until the late 70's?
Are you sure it wasn't something from the outside? Maybe changes in how sexuality is portrayed in the media? Maybe the advent of the Internet?
I'm wondering if something freaked the prophets out and made them shut down the creative Relief Society sewing classes.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:Wasn't it H.B. Lee who started the All-Church Coordinating Council in 1960? I always thought Correlation started before the 70's. Maybe it didn't really get moving until the late 70's?
Are you sure it wasn't something from the outside? Maybe changes in how sexuality is portrayed in the media? Maybe the advent of the Internet?
I'm wondering if something freaked the prophets out and made them shut down the creative Relief Society sewing classes.
Correlation as we know it started in 1971, but it was just the beginning of the process of the blandification of Mormonism.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Bob Loblaw wrote:Correlation as we know it started in 1971, but it was just the beginning of the process of the blandification of Mormonism.
Are you suggesting that correlation inhibits the use of imagination?
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:Are you suggesting that correlation inhibits the use of imagination?
Perish the thought.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Why would Relief Society teach something that can be purchased at the new mall? (assuming Victoria's Secret is at the new mall).
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
harmony wrote:Why would Relief Society teach something that can be purchased at the new mall? (assuming Victoria's Secret is at the new mall).
If there is a Victoria's Secret in the new mall, would someone in SLC please drop by and photograph VS's version of Temple Garments. I'd love to see those.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Another very unpleasant change (in the relief society, at least) came about five years ago. A directive went out that Relief Society's non-Sunday meetings had to be spiritual. What had been a night to be social with other LDS ladies, learn various home-making type things, and (most importantly) do charity work became just another BORING lecture-meeting.
Natsunekko wrote:Another very unpleasant change (in the relief society, at least) came about five years ago. A directive went out that Relief Society's non-Sunday meetings had to be spiritual. What had been a night to be social with other LDS ladies, learn various home-making type things, and (most importantly) do charity work became just another BORING lecture-meeting.
Hi Natsunekko!
Yeah, that is a big loss indeed. I'm sorry to hear of it.
I would like to propose that charity work at the Relief Society meetings could be *just as* important as social meetings where you make stuff. For, how can we help others if we are not happy with our own lives? If creating things provides us with a feeling of fulfillment, why not emphasize that even more than charity? Then, you will be fulfilled and ready to help other people later on.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)