Yes, it’s the 86th Annual Dowager Duchess Day. If I looked and acted a lot younger than my age, I’d brag, too. Here’s wishing the multi-talented Dowager Duchess a happy birthday and another artful year painting, knitting, and creating beauty wherever she goes.
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| KNITTING FOR MY FATHER IN 1949. I INHERITED THE SWEATER IN 1969 AND WORE IT ANOTHER 20 YEARS. |
Who would have thought, as the Dowager Duchess sang and painted “Marrakesh” in 1969 (the same year I inherited the above-pictured sweater), that her son and son-in-law would one day be living just across the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco.
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| “MARRAKESH” — OIL PAINTING BY THE DOWAGER DUCHESS. |
Happy birthday Mom/Mim/DD from your three sons!
Congratulations, Your Grace. Hope you have many more years with your two plus one sons.
Peter:
The DD is grateful!
Happiest of Birthday wishes to your beautiful mother!
Kristi:
Thanks! She reads all comments and has enjoyed the attention!
Many birthday wishes for your mother. What a lovely lady she is.
Sharon:
Thanks directly from the "lovely."
Happy DD Day!
Cheers to many more!
To celebrate, I may knit me a painting, or paint someone knitting.
Bob:
Maybe we should paint ourselves sweaters.
OH! A fellow knitter! Now I REALLY like your Mom, Mitch (not that I didn't before, just more).
Happy Birthday to a very talented and valued mother……a national treasure!
Jim:
She hasn't knitted a sweater for Jerry or me since the late '80s. We like dark and solid… and our "arms are too long"!
Happy Birthday, DD! It's always fun to learn more about you– I'd love to see more of your artwork, and, Mitch, a photo of the knitted sweater in question above??
Happy Day!
Judeet:
I'm sure I have a photo of me wearing that sweater in the 70s. I'll look for it. And I've got lots of photos of her artwork (sculptures, too). To come in the future.
Happy, happy day to you, DD!
Michelle:
She passes on her gratitude.
Happy Birthday, DD! I love your artwork, and you did very well in raising your wonderful sons. Wishing you many more years of painting, knitting, and having fun.
Jo:
Thanks! She paints all the time. Now almost exclusively water colors. Knitting for babies only!
Happy Birthday to the one and only Dowager Duchess – may your day be filled with cake, laughter, family and friends.
Nubian:
I don't think she did any cake. She apparently inhaled 6 servings of ice cream two days before. She went to the gym on her birthday (and the day before)!
Best wishes to the Dowager Duchess on her special day. I love that song and haven't heard it in a while so thanks for sharing.
Stephen:
Thanks from the Duchess (although apparently she prefers Dowager Countess!)… What harmonies!
What a beautiful woman! Happy Birthday dear DD, may your day be filled with happiness. "All aboard…"
Elaine:
She's going to get a swelled head!
What a talented woman your mother is! I can see why you are so very proud of her.
Ms. Sparrow:
Yep, so many talents. Her knitting was exceptional. Oddly, you might have thought the sweaters were machine-made because the stitching was so perfectly even. Her needlework is the same.
Happy Birthday to Dowager Duchess…..love the sweater and painting!!
Ron:
Oh, how I wish I still had that sweater. I outgrew it in the '80s!
And belated congrats a tu madre tambien del sur de Inglaterra.
Raybeard:
Ella dice "gracias"!
Hope she has the wonderful day she deserves!
Knatolee:
It was great. She went to the gym and I think celebrated Wednesday with friends – painting class and then out for a meal.
anyone who creates beauty wherever she goes is A-OK in my book!
Spo:
And to top things off, the Duchess worked out at the gym (resistance machines, and stationery bike) four times last week!