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Thanksgiving in the United States
Done for the Journaling Challenge #7 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-challenge-7-journaling.38585/
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress. President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience ... fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation". From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November.
Harvest festival observed by the Pilgrims at Plymouth
The Plymouth settlers, known as Pilgrims, had settled in a land abandoned when all but one of the Patuxet Indians died in a disease outbreak. After a harsh winter killed half of the Plymouth settlers, the last surviving Patuxet, Tisquantum, more commonly known by the diminutive variant Squanto (who had learned English and avoided the plague as a slave in Europe), came in at the request of Samoset, the first Native American to encounter the Pilgrims. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn and served as an interpreter for them until he too succumbed to the disease a year later. The Wampanoag leader Massasoit also gave food to the colonists during the first winter when supplies brought from England were insufficient. Massasoit had hoped to establish an alliance between the Wampanoag, themselves greatly weakened by the same plague that extirpated the Patuxet, and the better-armed English in their long-running rivalry with a Narragansett tribe that had largely been spared from the epidemic; the tribe reasoned that, given that the Pilgrims had brought women and children, they had not arrived to wage war against them.
The Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth for three days after their first harvest in 1621. The exact time is unknown, but James Baker, the Plimoth Plantation vice president of research, stated in 1996, "The event occurred between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621, with the most likely time being around Michaelmas (Sept. 29), the traditional time." Seventeenth-century accounts do not identify this as a Thanksgiving observance, rather it followed the harvest. It included 50 people who were on the Mayflower (all who remained of the 100 who had landed) and 90 Native Americans. The feast was cooked by the four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World (Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna White), along with young daughters and male and female servants. According to accounts by Wampanoag descendants, the harvest was originally set up for the Pilgrims alone; the surviving natives, hearing celebratory gunfire and fearing war, arrived to see the feast and were warmly welcomed to join the celebration, contributing their own foods to the meal. William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation wrote: “They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they can be used (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl, there was a great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck a meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to the proportion. Which made many afterward write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.”
Journaling reads: Thanksgiving is a special time for me as our family near and far gather for a time of reflection and prayer before our meal to thank the Lord for His many blessings that He granted to each of us throughout another year. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV) - “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I try to remember to be thankful everyday for at least one thing, no matter how my day went. Today, after reading some of the history of the first Thanksgiving Day, I’m thankful I was not one of those 4 women having to fix all that food for that many people for 3 days during that first Thanksgiving!
Credits list:
Autumn Harvest by Lynne Anzelc
Autumn Harvest WordArt by Lynne Anzelc
Wild West AddOn by Lynne Anzelc
Thanksgiving Overlays by After Midnight Designs
Thanksgiving No 1 by Anna Aspnes
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Favorite Hobby
Done for Week One AJ challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-art-journal-challenge-gratitude-week-one.38635/
Journaling reads: My favorite hobby is knitting. I taught myself to knit in my teen years, using those “Teach Yourself How to Knit” books before the age of YouTube videos. I’m thankful for the videos now, however, when I want to learn about a technique I have not heard of or tried before. Like any craft, there is always room for improvement and learning better ways of doing things.
Sometimes I find a project I just have to try, which was the case with this sweater. I rarely take on a project like this, especially if I don’t have the right yarn. But, I had lots of this yarn that I wanted to do something with. The pattern called for bulky yarn and the yarn I wanted to use was the normal worsted weight. Researching the internet said if I doubled the yarn I had it should work. So I began. I did not “waste time” knitting a swatch to check the gauge. That was my first mistake. However, after knitting the recommended rows for checking the gauge, it was OK.
The sweater pattern was easy and I finished it quickly! I liked the chunky, loose fit. It was perfect to wear over my pajamas to keep my casted arm warm. However, I had not yet washed it. When I did wash it, the sweater stretched and is humongous now! Not sure what happened! But I can still use it as a wearable blanket! As the artist, Bob Ross, would have said, “It’s just a happy mistake!” I’m ok with that! 11/15/23
Credits list:
Artsy Layered Template No. 214 by Anna Aspnes
In My Sewing Box Kit by NLD Designs
Home Comforts Page Kit by Daydream Designs
Home Comforts WordArt by Daydream Designs
Home Comforts Stamp Brushes by Daydream Designs
Home Comforts Ombre Papers by Daydream Designs
Home Comforts Clusters by Daydream Designs
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Favorite Part About Nature
Done for Week 2 AJ challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/november-art-journal-challenge-gratitude-week-two.38671/
Journaling reads: I’m very thankful to live in North Carolina where I can enjoy the change of the seasons. I especially love that our winters are not too drastically cold or nasty! Fall is my favorite!
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Credits list:
Floral Grunge (nine) by Joyful Heart Designs
winter grunge (one) by Joyful Heart Designs
Springy (patterned) by Joyful Heart Designs
Summer of Love by Joyful Heart Designs
Color Crush 70 (Fall) by Joyful Heart Designs
Winter WordBursts WordART No 1 by Anna Aspnes
Spring WordART No 1 by Anna Aspnes
Summer WordART No 2 by Anna Aspnes
Fall WordMix No 1 by Anna Aspnes
Winter Walk Clusters and WA by Palvinka Designs
Spring Mood Clusters by Palvinka Designs
Summer Days Clusters by Palvinka Designs
Hello Fall Clusters by Palvinka Designs
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Three every day objects you are grateful for
Done for Week 3 AJ challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/art-journaling-challenge-november-week-3.38674/
Journaling reads: Three of the things i use and enjoy every day include:
Bible
coffee
computer
My day begins by brewing 20 oz. of coffee while emptying the dishwasher. When the coffee is brewed, I flavor it with French vanilla creamer and cool it just a bit with 5 ice cubes. Then I take it to my recliner where I open my laptop to clean up my email and chat with the girls at OScraps. During the day I may work on the laptop creating scrapbook pages or writing blog posts or doing CT work for OScraps. Later in the day Mark and I read our Bibles and watch a video about the chapters we read. These are the favorite parts of my everyday activities! 11/18/23
Credits list:
Floral Grunge (nine) by Joyful Heart Designs
EnRoute No 1 by Anna Aspnes
ArtPlay Palette Gentle Morning by Anna Aspnes
Modern Family by Maya de Groot
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Photo is mine
