I received this note & wanted to share it & my response with all of you

Hello Pearl,

I’ve just spent a delightful time on your blog and enjoying your creativity. I was so delighted to run across your reference to the “old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle”, it brought back memories of my grandmother reading to my sister and I so many years ago. I went looking for the rest of the story for I could remember no more than her living in the vinegar bottle and want to tell the story to my new granbaby and I found it on the web. Don’t peek for I like your memory as it is, but if curiosity gets the better….enjoy!

Thanks for the memory and your beautiful blog.

Susan

My Response:

Susan,

Thank you for taking the time to stop by!
When I wrote this article, I decided to write it… and only then look it up to see how my memory compared. I think I might have a more “colorful & creative” imagination than the actual original author, as I tend to romanticize everything & find joy in even the smallest little places

Pearl

These blogs have SO much inspiration… they just feel good!

I am so glad I found this site! I bookmarked long ago from somewhere — I wish I could remember from where.

Is it alright if I like to you from my blog?

All these amazing places you have found to share are all pretty in their own way.

Thank you for filling my day with all kinds of creative inspiration.

I absolutely loved every vignette under glass. You ladies have proved it doesn’t take alot of “stuff” to create beauty under glass!

Kitty

Well let me tell you…when I was little, we had not much money so no books in our house to read, but let me tell you at 67 I still recall the old women in a vinegar bottle. That story has been with me all my life. If I feel as though I have not enough of something, I think about the old women and how she was never satisfied never liked anything until she came back to the beginning of her life. The fairy knew what she was up to! I nearly fell of my chair when I read what you had put. What a coincidence. I just felt I wanted you to know, that I too remember the story so well from start to finish. And I have not seen or heard of it since I was 5!

Regards,
IRENE

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Dear Irene ~

So good to meet you! It sounds like we have a lot in common… including our name! I’m Pearl Irene, named after my great grandmother Pearl.

It’s funny how I remember the story as being so “romantic”, because as I said in
my post, I didn’t remember anything past the first bit… and how wonderful it would be to live in a little cottage in the woods

Now I do live in a “not as little” cottage in the woods right near a river, stone walls, mossy covered trails through the forest, and very soon to be covered with cottage gardens… for which I am forever grateful to God

Keep in touch & it was wonderful to hear from you!

Pearl