Thank you to the Elegant Connoisseurs for bringing us The Chic Assignment check-in: All the King’s Morsels - Kristen King www.allthekingsmorsels.com American Blossom Linens - Janet Wischnia americanblossomlinens.com Awesome Possum Powers - Shannon Beers amzn.to/398gGx0 Azalia Spa Goods - Aimee Flor azaliaspagoods.com Cynthia Rehbein Create Your Own Lookbook amzn.to/2Wyxg6w Inspired by Nikki th-cam.com/channels/4B3gpZ8SuwneAlP8TuEb6A.html Julie Kolman - My Confident Closet www.juliekolman.cabionline.com Katy Rose, Artist: www.KatyRoseCollection.com Not-So Desperate Housewives thenotsodesperatehousewives.com Oh Wondrous Grace Magazine www.ohwondrousgrace.com Something to Cherish- Cherish Flieder somethingtocherish.com Katherine Rae, Christine Bolla, Caroline Haydu, Denise Gende, Jet Rowley-Herron, Heather Barrera, Jenny Candelaria, Linda Eklof, Marie Caudill, Maria Conder, Mercedes Gilligan I would love to know how your Chic Assignment is going this month. Please let us know. Love, Jennifer
I loved your artist’s profile! 🖼 My grandmother, Rosina Bergère Brown, lived in Santa Fe, NM until her passing in 1972. She loved playing canasta with her neighbor and dear friend, Georgia O’Keefe! My grandmother’s signature outfit was a floral dress with Levi denim jacket (with the collar popped up) and plastic snap-together pearls! Functional yet so chic! 😉❤️ Thank you for a great Chic Assignment this month! 💐
Thank you for the immense effort you put into the Chic Assignment. It is a highlight of the month. The opportunity to learn new things and try new projects together with other women is very inspiring and encouraging.
I enjoy this deeper look into artists and composers and the challenges you give us. Each day I use my best dishes and things although some of those pampering products I was gifted are making their way out of the bathroom drawers. I thoroughly enjoyed making those tarts yesterday and plan to each Sunday for the week to come and our teatime. Thank you for sharing our businesses as always and your endless inspiration 🌹
Thank you for showing O'Keeffe's non-flower paintings. I'd never seen "New York Street with Moon," and absolutely love it. It just pulled me in. I can't get enough of it.
I’m not a big fan of O’Keefe but I loved learning about her and I enjoyed this check in. I also just subscribed to Oh Wondrous Grace magazine. Thanks for bringing like minded women together!
What a natural beauty Georgia O'Keefe was? Looking at her artwork, I can see her impact because I'm reminded of so, so many inexpensive imitations found in many box stores these days. What an influence she's had!
Jennifer, thank you for inspiring me with Appalachian Spring! Today I chose your video to share with my siblings as we've been doing a daily act of song sharing while sheltering in place during the pandemic. They all agreed this was the perfect music to start off the week! This is not the first time I've paid your wisdom forward to enrich the lives of others!
Thank you for this episode! There is also the folk song/hymn Lord of the Dance, which is to the same tune as Appalachian Spring. Written in 1963 it was popular in churches and school concerts when I was growing up.
Made my first cheesecake. Much easier than I thought and it barely lasted! Excited to listen to Appalachian Spring again now knowing that a dance went with it. Thank you for making this quarantine feel a bit more full.
Thank you for your videos. While I enjoy Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring, I love Fanfare for the Common Man. I will play it over and over while cleaning up the kitchen.
You have a really beautiful voice. I think this is my favorite video you’ve made thus far, I like the educational factor and art history lesson intertwined with beautiful aesthetics. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I enjoyed hearing about this artist. As always, a wonderful video. Thank you, Jennifer! I have ordered two of your books from Amazon, and I look forward with great anticipation to reading them.
Thank you for always encouraging us to not fall in the frumpy rut especially during these times. I've really enjoyed the artists you've recommended. Lunches have been my biggest challenge having three young men over the age of 16 so I've been using my leftovers to make a variety of pizza. I've also made potpies, bread, and homemade pasta.
Georgia O'Keeffe has been my favorite artist since I was small. I always had her calendars and I have a large coffee table book with spectacular samples of her art.
I have had to bake birthday cakes from scratch, which I have never done. I’m a box cake girl! To save on milk, I tried condensed milk cakes. They came out pretty well (they are dense and moist) and I think I am going to only make cakes from scratch from now on!
I remember singing 'The Lord of the dance' to the copeland/Shaker tune., at Sunday school. Always liked the tune and these words. Didn't discover the Shaker words until much later on a visit to New England. ( I live in England) . Hmm , not sure that I like O'keefes paintings but can't deny the talent. She seems a little obsessed with a particular shape. Been baking bread here, although limited by the lack of flour and yeast in the shops.
Thank you so much for this nicely presented biography of GoK. I enjoyed it very much! My favourite paintings of hers is one which is called Abstraction. It is mainly in blue colors and that is my favourite color. I had a poster of that for several years on my wall. I love the chic assignment so much and save all of these videos. I still think your idea to do a book about this topic would be wonderful. Maybe one day... have a great rest of your week! P.S. I'm looking forward to the 'live' on Friday!!! Hopefully I'll be able to join.
Good morning! For making something from scratch, I am planning on making pasta from scratch this week. I love Georgia O'Keefe, I found a poppy print while stationed in Italy, that in a way, reminds me of her work. I am listening to Appalacian Spring while I work on my math homework (empty nester returned to collage). I have actually enjoyed pulling my nice clothes from the closet, ironing them, wearing them, doing my hair and make-up daily. It really does make a difference. Thank you for that reminder and thank you for making these videos. Have a wonderful day.
I remember listening to Appalachian Spring when I was a teenager (when we had vinyl records!), late at night. It is so beautiful. I love Aaron Copeland, such a great American composer.
Thank you for the observation about how a relationship is likely to end when it begins with indiscretion. This was an interesting biography of Georgia O'Keefe.
Love the idea, “Use your best”. I truly believe in that. Why keep your good things for someone else to use when you are gone. Love and enjoy your best.
I always loved O’Keeffe from youth, but my appreciation was greatly renewed after seeing her retrospective at the Tate Modern a few years ago. You might really enjoy the book “Georgia O’Keeffe Living Modern” by Wanda M. Corn. She was a highly skilled seamstress, and this book focuses not just on her art but her dedication to simplicity, naturalness and organic forms through her sartorial choices and her interior environments and how she consistently applied her aesthetic across all facets of life. It’s such an engrossing coffee table book! I was really pleased to see her wearing a long tunic over a longer skirt on page 58 that resembles my long sleeve Black Crane Cocoon dress, which has been a perennial favorite in my ten-item wardrobe for the last five years! There are a few pages that cover the color white and her village smocks and cream colored silk dresses that were sewn with fastidious attention to detail. I might say that Georgia O’Keeffe is my number one favorite style icon! It’s hard for me to choose a favorite painting; that changes depending on my mood, so right now I would say “Manhattan”.
I made bread and corn tortillas from scratch :) it was tempting to just go to the store but instead the kids and I did it together and they loved taco night even more. Thank you for this challenge!
Hi Jennifer!! I am so glad I found your channel. You have made this quarantine enjoyable and relaxing. I have been watching your videos and feel my inner poised self wants to come out and finally shine! I have always liked classical music, the arts etc. I love all of your topics and discussions and recommendations. I want to let you know I have signed up for your "Carry Yourself With Poised course and I am so excited to start!! Also, for my check-in, I have listened Aaron Copeland's song and I love it! It is so beautiful! I looked up more of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, I want to say I learned about her during an art class during undergrad. For Chic assignment #3 I made homemade Flour tortillas!! They came out wonderful and its been something I've wanted to achieve and I did! (With the help of a family member who showed me :) ! For # 4, I am still working on :) ! Thanks again Jennifer!!
Being interested in Shakers, AND Copland, Appalachian Spring has long been a favorite of mine. Over time, other parts of the work have grown on me even more, though, especially the broad, sweeping music the Pioneer Woman dances to (Molto Moderato) and the quiet, meditative Menno Mosso just before the Simple Gifts theme. Thanks for featuring.
Thank you so much ! Appalachian Spring has accompanied me thru this month every day in such a delightful way ..... On the other hand, I tried to make your wonderful looking sourdough bread and it was a disaster LOL :( need to give it another try haha. Anyway, been trying new recipes and been having fun. I love cooking and I've always cooked everything from scratch so just got to try that bread again !!!
I've made bread from scratch several times since the lockdown. I have a print of her Black hollyhock and blue larkspur from a visit to the museum in Santa Fe.
Shout out to Sun Prairie! I lived there for a couple of years☺️. I’m not sure if you are still checking your comments on this video, but I wondered if you have read any of Colette’s books? I just finished “My Mother’s House & Sido” and loved the vivid imagery of French country life.
I don't know if this constitutes making from scratch but I made orange juice lol🤭 Appalachian Spring reminds me of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers one of my all time favorite movies. I wasn't familiar with this piece. Georgia O'Keefe Hibiscus with Plumeria 1939. I'm not sure why I'm drawn to this painting. Perhaps its my love of pink which is my favorite color. Its beautiful to me. Its lovely. I'm searching for a print of it. I would to own it. 💕
I was eagerly awaiting this check in, Jennifer, and you did not disappoint! When I first listened to the Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring, I had to turn it off shortly after the beginning. The volume and marching feeling of a portion of it was to much for me. I decided to try again after listening to your check in. I let it play the entire length of the piece and I enjoyed it, after all! That one portion still has to be endured, but the remainder is worth it. I have read your books and listened to you some time now, but I missed that you had played in the orchestra. What instrument did you play? I know you play the piano. You have so many talents. :) This month, I was pleased to come across an article featuring Georgia O'Keeffe in my Spring 2005 issue of "La Claire Magazine," so I knew a bit of her life's story before I listened to your reading. I enjoyed learning even more from you today. Her painting style is not my favorite, but I found about five of her paintings that I liked tolerably! :) I came to appreciate her skull paintings, though they seemed strange at first! Your Chic Assignments are useful for an enlarged musical and art exposure and appreciation. :) This month I made a delicious salmon quiche from scratch and some flakey biscuits, among other things. I enjoy setting a pretty table and this month I used my mother's beautiful China for lunch one day. Elegance at home~I like it. :) Thank you for all the work you put into doing these Chic Assignments, Jennifer. I like learning about the various Elegant Connoisseurs; many thanks to them for sponsoring this check in.
Just finished your course! Thank you for making it so affordable for everyone. I hope more people find out about it and enroll. Its life changing and costs less than a cup of coffee. Truly enjoyed it and thank you for putting so much effort into it!
I also played Appalachian Spring in my high school orchestra! Love that piece, we played quite a few pieces by Copeland. I also love O'Keefe's art, truly unique and beautiful.
Thank you for 2 of your suggestions: I took off the lids of the yogurt jars while making the yogurt and the batch cooked faster; I took out 2 nice cloth placements since everyday should be a special occasion.
We used to sing a hymn in the daily chapel service at our Lutheran high school with the same melody as the hymn you sang. It was called Lord of the dance I think. It was popular with the students and that melody would get stuck in our heads. The words in song were a little odd though and i remember my Mum saying not to sing it because she didnt like the words.
Haha! I do the same to my kids, “Shhhhhh, kids listen-it’s Mama’s favorite part!”😆 So a few new things I’ve tried making from scratch recently were: traditional Cesar dressing, also mayonnaise (which I don’t use ever but I was craving an egg salad sandwich and I didn’t have any, so I made it.😆) I also made ice cream for my kids this month (without a machine) and it was pretty good. All these things are woefully indulgent I must say and not in my everyday repertoire of home cooking. 🤣 I can’t wait to see what next month’s Chic assignment brings. Let beauty reign. ❤️
Appalachian Spring has been a favorite of mine since I first heard it as a freshman in college when I took a music class. I'll always be grateful to that professor. Thank you for another wonderful video ❤️. I am looking forward to playing this piece for my girls today.
I enjoyed your singing. You sound like an Alto voice. What a nice time hearing the creative collaborations and biographies. I have not taken enough time in life to explore it. It was a delightful start to my day! May God bless you and your family.
I finally made my first soda bread over the weekend! Because we didn’t have yeast in the house, let alone any fresh bread, I decided why not make soda bread! It is surprisingly easy, but something hilarious happened! We never, ever buy buttermilk, so I usually make buttermilk with lemon juice. I thought I had just thawed up my own-squeezed lemon juice, so unknowingly, I placed newly-thawed chicken broth to make what would be “buttermilk.” I kneaded the dough and placed it into the oven. I finally realized my mistake when I was preparing my morning Irish breakfast tea 🇮🇪. I noticed a minuscule piece of chicken in the liquid, so I was that close to placing a teaspoon of chicken broth in my tea. Yuck! At least my bread had a happy ending! It was delicious right out the oven! No, I couldn’t taste the chicken broth, and I think using dried cranberries helped.
So, like many, I've been doing a lot of baking. I've made bread using Jennifer's recipe from her video, a chocolate cinnamon swirl bread from the April issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine, and homemade tiramisu, also a Martha Stewart recipe. I've learned to make homemade guacamole. My family has really enjoyed what I've made, and I have enjoyed learning new techniques, saving money, and ensuring quality ingredients in my family's food.
1. At one point in the song, it went from very low volume to LOUD. Haha! I like it. 2. The painting of the pink skyscraper with the three flowers painted around it speaks to me. 3. I made banana bread Enjoyed the assignment 😊
I have a print on canvas of "Pattern of Leaves" on the shelf over my workspace. Many times I have heard, "Oooh, I like that!". I've been listening to WSKG classical on my way to and from work, as well. Thank you for these assignments! I look forward to them each month.
You’ve added beauty to our days indeed with this content! Dreaming of hearing the South Bend symphony or Chicago symphony under the stars this summer; we enjoy doing this almost each year as a family and I dearly want to make another memory of this fun for our violin playing children. I am looking up some of your top tier ladies on my laptop right now and am excited to see their content, too. Thanks again, Julie 🌷
I thought that was you singing in the other video, you do have a nice voice! O'Keefe is amazing. I've been making bread too and I am so proud of myself it's not as hard as I thought. Thanks Jennifer
When I first listened to Appalachian Spring, I didn’t like it. But I continued to listen and it grew on me. I thought that was a hymn in the middle - thank you for clarifying. I’ve never been a fan of Georgia O’keefe. She was a talented artist, it’s just not my style. But it was fun to learn about her.
What instrument did you play in the orchestra? I played French horn in school and loved it. Unfortunately, I rented my horn from the school, and after I graduated I didn’t have a horn to play anymore. My husband and I have been doing more with our sourdough, and we successfully made a Hokkaido sourdough sandwich bread that is so light and fluffy! There were many flat, disappointing loaves before we finally accomplished it. The recipe takes three days from start to finish. I thought you would like this quote from my Great Aunt Edna. I have a book she and her twin wrote in the 1980s about their memories growing up. She is 108 years old and still lives in a independent apartment at a senior center! She is amazing, very agile and with a great memory. Her eyesight isn’t good but she gets around well. Anyway, this quote was in the book she wrote and it made me chuckle. She was talking about when they would go camping and her mama would make lots of bread to go along with them. “A two-burner stove did the cooking for 12-15 people and I wonder how Mama ever managed for we were bottomless pits when we camped out. The first thing Mama did was make up a pot of strong coffee. Then she could drink cups of this to fortify herself as she stirred up the rest of the meal. I remember eating many slices of bread and preserves. It was a good filler-upper. Mama had this quirk about home-baked bread. It was her staff of life and she believed any woman who bought bread for her family was a lazy sinner. A big supply of bread always went along but we did stoop to store-bought bread before we returned home.”
Thank you for exploring the world of Georgia O’Keefe! As a school teacher, I teach my class every year about her and we paint her poppies! I bake sourdough bread regularly, and encourage everyone interested to check out Full Proof baking channel. Her instructions are fabulous!
I made a carrot cake for Easter Sunday (as well as other things)... unfortunately I’m not a talented baker and though it was edible, even yummy, it did not turn out at all like I was aiming for. Later tonight though I will make lemon “brownies”... I’m excited for that! That magazine looks lovely... I turn thirty next week; am I middle aged now...? 😉😄
I love these monthly assignments. I'm learning so much about the arts. Would love to introduce my young children to these lessons. Do you have a children's art book you would recommend? Looking for ones that talk about different artists. We love listening to the new peices every month! Thanks again:)
It's interesting... where I live we pronounce it Appa-LAY-shun. That is how I have always heard the mountain region pronounced as well, Appa-LAY-sha. I am always interested in how things are pronounced in different parts of the US. (I am in Michigan.) 💙 I loved listening to this uplifting piece. We used to sing a song at church called Lord of the Dance to the Shaker hymn tune.
Interesting. Here in the South, we say Appalachian the same way Jennifer Scott says it. But it’s killing me to hear her say Copeland instead of Copland. I even looked up the pronunciation to see if I’ve been wrong all these years! 😂😂❤️ And Jennifer, I love your singing!!❤️
Kristyn Lorraine Hall , she is pronouncing it correctly. Back in the 1960s during LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” the news reporters used the mispronunciation you grew up hearing. I cringe when I hear it pronounced that way, but television is a powerful influencer! I grew up there, and during that timeframe.
O'keeffe paintings are disturbing. They are not images I want in my consciousness. I studied art history for years and O'keeffe is one pushed on us by academics as great art. While she may have broken boundaries and she may have great skill, the feelings her paintings convey are disturbing. I often quote to myself a line from a poem by Longfellow (The Day Is Done), "Read to me some poem, some simple and heartfelt lay, that shall sooth this restful feeling, and banish the thoughts of day, not from the grand old masters, not from the bards sublime, whose distant footsteps echo through the corridors of time. Read from some humbler poet, whose song gushed from his heart, as showers from the clouds of summer, or tears from the eyelids start. For such songs have power to quiet the distant pulse of care, that comes like the benediction that follows after prayer... I chose what images and words I take in based on this poem. Humble, quiet. O'keeffe doesn't fit this for me. I sense darkness and anger and ridgedness. Also, the horns and covering one eye symbolism I am tired of seeing in art and media. Signs of darkness, turning away from God.
Thank you to the Elegant Connoisseurs for bringing us The Chic Assignment check-in:
All the King’s Morsels - Kristen King www.allthekingsmorsels.com
American Blossom Linens - Janet Wischnia americanblossomlinens.com
Awesome Possum Powers - Shannon Beers amzn.to/398gGx0
Azalia Spa Goods - Aimee Flor azaliaspagoods.com
Cynthia Rehbein Create Your Own Lookbook amzn.to/2Wyxg6w
Inspired by Nikki th-cam.com/channels/4B3gpZ8SuwneAlP8TuEb6A.html
Julie Kolman - My Confident Closet www.juliekolman.cabionline.com
Katy Rose, Artist: www.KatyRoseCollection.com
Not-So Desperate Housewives thenotsodesperatehousewives.com
Oh Wondrous Grace Magazine www.ohwondrousgrace.com
Something to Cherish- Cherish Flieder somethingtocherish.com
Katherine Rae, Christine Bolla, Caroline Haydu, Denise Gende, Jet Rowley-Herron, Heather Barrera, Jenny Candelaria, Linda Eklof, Marie Caudill, Maria Conder, Mercedes Gilligan
I would love to know how your Chic Assignment is going this month. Please let us know.
Love,
Jennifer
I loved your artist’s profile! 🖼 My grandmother, Rosina Bergère Brown, lived in Santa Fe, NM until her passing in 1972. She loved playing canasta with her neighbor and dear friend, Georgia O’Keefe! My grandmother’s signature outfit was a floral dress with Levi denim jacket (with the collar popped up) and plastic snap-together pearls! Functional yet so chic! 😉❤️ Thank you for a great Chic Assignment this month! 💐
Brooke Kingston how fun they were friends! Thanks for sharing this tidbit. Julie 🌷
Thank you for the immense effort you put into the Chic Assignment. It is a highlight of the month. The opportunity to learn new things and try new projects together with other women is very inspiring and encouraging.
I enjoy this deeper look into artists and composers and the challenges you give us. Each day I use my best dishes and things although some of those pampering products I was gifted are making their way out of the bathroom drawers. I thoroughly enjoyed making those tarts yesterday and plan to each Sunday for the week to come and our teatime. Thank you for sharing our businesses as always and your endless inspiration 🌹
Thank you for showing O'Keeffe's non-flower paintings. I'd never seen "New York Street with Moon," and absolutely love it. It just pulled me in. I can't get enough of it.
I’m not a big fan of O’Keefe but I loved learning about her and I enjoyed this check in. I also just subscribed to Oh Wondrous Grace magazine. Thanks for bringing like minded women together!
Thanks for the classy content 🌸🌿🌼
What a natural beauty Georgia O'Keefe was? Looking at her artwork, I can see her impact because I'm reminded of so, so many inexpensive imitations found in many box stores these days. What an influence she's had!
Jennifer, thank you for inspiring me with Appalachian Spring! Today I chose your video to share with my siblings as we've been doing a daily act of song sharing while sheltering in place during the pandemic. They all agreed this was the perfect music to start off the week! This is not the first time I've paid your wisdom forward to enrich the lives of others!
Thank you, Laureen!
Thank you for this episode! There is also the folk song/hymn Lord of the Dance, which is to the same tune as Appalachian Spring. Written in 1963 it was popular in churches and school concerts when I was growing up.
Made my first cheesecake. Much easier than I thought and it barely lasted! Excited to listen to Appalachian Spring again now knowing that a dance went with it. Thank you for making this quarantine feel a bit more full.
Thank you for your videos. While I enjoy Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring, I love Fanfare for the Common Man. I will play it over and over while cleaning up the kitchen.
You have a really beautiful voice. I think this is my favorite video you’ve made thus far, I like the educational factor and art history lesson intertwined with beautiful aesthetics. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I enjoyed hearing about this artist. As always, a wonderful video. Thank you, Jennifer! I have ordered two of your books from Amazon, and I look forward with great anticipation to reading them.
Thank you, Donna! ❤️
Thank you for always encouraging us to not fall in the frumpy rut especially during these times. I've really enjoyed the artists you've recommended.
Lunches have been my biggest challenge having three young men over the age of 16 so I've been using my leftovers to make a variety of pizza. I've also made potpies, bread, and homemade pasta.
Georgia O'Keeffe has been my favorite artist since I was small. I always had her calendars and I have a large coffee table book with spectacular samples of her art.
I have had to bake birthday cakes from scratch, which I have never done. I’m a box cake girl! To save on milk, I tried condensed milk cakes. They came out pretty well (they are dense and moist) and I think I am going to only make cakes from scratch from now on!
I remember singing 'The Lord of the dance' to the copeland/Shaker tune., at Sunday school. Always liked the tune and these words. Didn't discover the Shaker words until much later on a visit to New England. ( I live in England) . Hmm , not sure that I like O'keefes paintings but can't deny the talent. She seems a little obsessed with a particular shape.
Been baking bread here, although limited by the lack of flour and yeast in the shops.
Thank you for doing this work of encouraging us to surround yourselves with beauty and live our lives with gusto. ❤️
Thank you so much for this nicely presented biography of GoK. I enjoyed it very much! My favourite paintings of hers is one which is called Abstraction. It is mainly in blue colors and that is my favourite color. I had a poster of that for several years on my wall.
I love the chic assignment so much and save all of these videos. I still think your idea to do a book about this topic would be wonderful. Maybe one day... have a great rest of your week!
P.S. I'm looking forward to the 'live' on Friday!!! Hopefully I'll be able to join.
Good morning! For making something from scratch, I am planning on making pasta from scratch this week. I love Georgia O'Keefe, I found a poppy print while stationed in Italy, that in a way, reminds me of her work. I am listening to Appalacian Spring while I work on my math homework (empty nester returned to collage). I have actually enjoyed pulling my nice clothes from the closet, ironing them, wearing them, doing my hair and make-up daily. It really does make a difference. Thank you for that reminder and thank you for making these videos. Have a wonderful day.
Love this channel
I always smile when I see you’ve uploaded a new video💕💕ps: I think you sing lovely
I made braided Eater bread. 🥖It was the first time I ever made bread and I really enjoyed it!
I remember listening to Appalachian Spring when I was a teenager (when we had vinyl records!), late at night. It is so beautiful. I love Aaron Copeland, such a great American composer.
I made cookies from scratch for the first time! It was a great experience.
Thank you for the observation about how a relationship is likely to end when it begins with indiscretion. This was an interesting biography of Georgia O'Keefe.
Love the idea, “Use your best”. I truly believe in that. Why keep your good things for someone else to use when you are gone. Love and enjoy your best.
I always loved O’Keeffe from youth, but my appreciation was greatly renewed after seeing her retrospective at the Tate Modern a few years ago. You might really enjoy the book “Georgia O’Keeffe Living Modern” by Wanda M. Corn. She was a highly skilled seamstress, and this book focuses not just on her art but her dedication to simplicity, naturalness and organic forms through her sartorial choices and her interior environments and how she consistently applied her aesthetic across all facets of life. It’s such an engrossing coffee table book! I was really pleased to see her wearing a long tunic over a longer skirt on page 58 that resembles my long sleeve Black Crane Cocoon dress, which has been a perennial favorite in my ten-item wardrobe for the last five years! There are a few pages that cover the color white and her village smocks and cream colored silk dresses that were sewn with fastidious attention to detail. I might say that Georgia O’Keeffe is my number one favorite style icon! It’s hard for me to choose a favorite painting; that changes depending on my mood, so right now I would say “Manhattan”.
I made bread and corn tortillas from scratch :) it was tempting to just go to the store but instead the kids and I did it together and they loved taco night even more. Thank you for this challenge!
Oh tortillas from scratch sound amazing!
Hi Jennifer!! I am so glad I found your channel. You have made this quarantine enjoyable and relaxing. I have been watching your videos and feel my inner poised self wants to come out and finally shine! I have always liked classical music, the arts etc. I love all of your topics and discussions and recommendations. I want to let you know I have signed up for your "Carry Yourself With Poised course and I am so excited to start!! Also, for my check-in, I have listened Aaron Copeland's song and I love it! It is so beautiful! I looked up more of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, I want to say I learned about her during an art class during undergrad. For Chic assignment #3 I made homemade Flour tortillas!! They came out wonderful and its been something I've wanted to achieve and I did! (With the help of a family member who showed me :) ! For # 4, I am still working on :) ! Thanks again Jennifer!!
Thank you so much!
Being interested in Shakers, AND Copland, Appalachian Spring has long been a favorite of mine. Over time, other parts of the work have grown on me even more, though, especially the broad, sweeping music the Pioneer Woman dances to (Molto Moderato) and the quiet, meditative Menno Mosso just before the Simple Gifts theme. Thanks for featuring.
Thank you so much ! Appalachian Spring has accompanied me thru this month every day in such a delightful way ..... On the other hand, I tried to make your wonderful looking sourdough bread and it was a disaster LOL :( need to give it another try haha. Anyway, been trying new recipes and been having fun. I love cooking and I've always cooked everything from scratch so just got to try that bread again !!!
Simple gifts: I sang that lovely song several times in chorus.
So funny to see this video today. I've been thinking of Georgia O'keeffe constantly. I am so inspired by her work.
A lovely video of Jennifer to start a good day ☺️
I've made bread from scratch several times since the lockdown. I have a print of her Black hollyhock and blue larkspur from a visit to the museum in Santa Fe.
Shout out to Sun Prairie! I lived there for a couple of years☺️. I’m not sure if you are still checking your comments on this video, but I wondered if you have read any of Colette’s books? I just finished “My Mother’s House & Sido” and loved the vivid imagery of French country life.
I don't know if this constitutes making from scratch but I made orange juice lol🤭 Appalachian Spring reminds me of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers one of my all time favorite movies. I wasn't familiar with this piece. Georgia O'Keefe Hibiscus with Plumeria 1939. I'm not sure why I'm drawn to this painting. Perhaps its my love of pink which is my favorite color. Its beautiful to me. Its lovely. I'm searching for a print of it. I would to own it. 💕
I'm so sad April is almost over. Thank you for giving us an assignment. (Says the teacher and student in me.)
I was eagerly awaiting this check in, Jennifer, and you did not disappoint! When I first listened to the Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring, I had to turn it off shortly after the beginning. The volume and marching feeling of a portion of it was to much for me. I decided to try again after listening to your check in. I let it play the entire length of the piece and I enjoyed it, after all! That one portion still has to be endured, but the remainder is worth it. I have read your books and listened to you some time now, but I missed that you had played in the orchestra. What instrument did you play? I know you play the piano. You have so many talents. :)
This month, I was pleased to come across an article featuring Georgia O'Keeffe in my Spring 2005 issue of "La Claire Magazine," so I knew a bit of her life's story before I listened to your reading. I enjoyed learning even more from you today. Her painting style is not my favorite, but I found about five of her paintings that I liked tolerably! :) I came to appreciate her skull paintings, though they seemed strange at first! Your Chic Assignments are useful for an enlarged musical and art exposure and appreciation. :)
This month I made a delicious salmon quiche from scratch and some flakey biscuits, among other things. I enjoy setting a pretty table and this month I used my mother's beautiful China for lunch one day. Elegance at home~I like it. :)
Thank you for all the work you put into doing these Chic Assignments, Jennifer. I like learning about the various Elegant Connoisseurs; many thanks to them for sponsoring this check in.
Just finished your course! Thank you for making it so affordable for everyone. I hope more people find out about it and enroll. Its life changing and costs less than a cup of coffee. Truly enjoyed it and thank you for putting so much effort into it!
Ah, thank you very much! That's wonderful.
I also played Appalachian Spring in my high school orchestra! Love that piece, we played quite a few pieces by Copeland. I also love O'Keefe's art, truly unique and beautiful.
Thank you for 2 of your suggestions: I took off the lids of the yogurt jars while making the yogurt and the batch cooked faster; I took out 2 nice cloth placements since everyday should be a special occasion.
We used to sing a hymn in the daily chapel service at our Lutheran high school with the same melody as the hymn you sang. It was called Lord of the dance I think. It was popular with the students and that melody would get stuck in our heads. The words in song were a little odd though and i remember my Mum saying not to sing it because she didnt like the words.
Haha! I do the same to my kids, “Shhhhhh, kids listen-it’s Mama’s favorite part!”😆 So a few new things I’ve tried making from scratch recently were: traditional Cesar dressing, also mayonnaise (which I don’t use ever but I was craving an egg salad sandwich and I didn’t have any, so I made it.😆) I also made ice cream for my kids this month (without a machine) and it was pretty good. All these things are woefully indulgent I must say and not in my everyday repertoire of home cooking. 🤣 I can’t wait to see what next month’s Chic assignment brings. Let beauty reign. ❤️
Kristin Becks homemade mayo is wonderful and I find it so easy! (I use an immersion blender). Homemade Caesar sounds delicious!
You always bring some new light to my education. Thanks for an interesting video.
Loved this video❤️ Must admit I don’t know that much about art or artists, but maybe I should learn! By the way, you do have a lovely singing voice😊
Appalachian Spring has been a favorite of mine since I first heard it as a freshman in college when I took a music class. I'll always be grateful to that professor. Thank you for another wonderful video ❤️. I am looking forward to playing this piece for my girls today.
I enjoyed your singing. You sound like an Alto voice. What a nice time hearing the creative collaborations and biographies. I have not taken enough time in life to explore it. It was a delightful start to my day! May God bless you and your family.
I finally made my first soda bread over the weekend! Because we didn’t have yeast in the house, let alone any fresh bread, I decided why not make soda bread! It is surprisingly easy, but something hilarious happened! We never, ever buy buttermilk, so I usually make buttermilk with lemon juice. I thought I had just thawed up my own-squeezed lemon juice, so unknowingly, I placed newly-thawed chicken broth to make what would be “buttermilk.” I kneaded the dough and placed it into the oven. I finally realized my mistake when I was preparing my morning Irish breakfast tea 🇮🇪. I noticed a minuscule piece of chicken in the liquid, so I was that close to placing a teaspoon of chicken broth in my tea. Yuck! At least my bread had a happy ending! It was delicious right out the oven! No, I couldn’t taste the chicken broth, and I think using dried cranberries helped.
So, like many, I've been doing a lot of baking. I've made bread using Jennifer's recipe from her video, a chocolate cinnamon swirl bread from the April issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine, and homemade tiramisu, also a Martha Stewart recipe. I've learned to make homemade guacamole. My family has really enjoyed what I've made, and I have enjoyed learning new techniques, saving money, and ensuring quality ingredients in my family's food.
1. At one point in the song, it went from very low volume to LOUD. Haha! I like it.
2. The painting of the pink skyscraper with the three flowers painted around it speaks to me.
3. I made banana bread
Enjoyed the assignment 😊
I have a print on canvas of "Pattern of Leaves" on the shelf over my workspace. Many times I have heard, "Oooh, I like that!". I've been listening to WSKG classical on my way to and from work, as well. Thank you for these assignments! I look forward to them each month.
You’ve added beauty to our days indeed with this content! Dreaming of hearing the South Bend symphony or Chicago symphony under the stars this summer; we enjoy doing this almost each year as a family and I dearly want to make another memory of this fun for our violin playing children. I am looking up some of your top tier ladies on my laptop right now and am excited to see their content, too. Thanks again, Julie 🌷
I thought that was you singing in the other video, you do have a nice voice! O'Keefe is amazing. I've been making bread too and I am so proud of myself it's not as hard as I thought. Thanks Jennifer
When I first listened to Appalachian Spring, I didn’t like it. But I continued to listen and it grew on me. I thought that was a hymn in the middle - thank you for clarifying. I’ve never been a fan of Georgia O’keefe. She was a talented artist, it’s just not my style. But it was fun to learn about her.
What instrument did you play in the orchestra? I played French horn in school and loved it. Unfortunately, I rented my horn from the school, and after I graduated I didn’t have a horn to play anymore. My husband and I have been doing more with our sourdough, and we successfully made a Hokkaido sourdough sandwich bread that is so light and fluffy! There were many flat, disappointing loaves before we finally accomplished it. The recipe takes three days from start to finish. I thought you would like this quote from my Great Aunt Edna. I have a book she and her twin wrote in the 1980s about their memories growing up. She is 108 years old and still lives in a independent apartment at a senior center! She is amazing, very agile and with a great memory. Her eyesight isn’t good but she gets around well. Anyway, this quote was in the book she wrote and it made me chuckle. She was talking about when they would go camping and her mama would make lots of bread to go along with them. “A two-burner stove did the cooking for 12-15 people and I wonder how Mama ever managed for we were bottomless pits when we camped out. The first thing Mama did was make up a pot of strong coffee. Then she could drink cups of this to fortify herself as she stirred up the rest of the meal. I remember eating many slices of bread and preserves. It was a good filler-upper. Mama had this quirk about home-baked bread. It was her staff of life and she believed any woman who bought bread for her family was a lazy sinner. A big supply of bread always went along but we did stoop to store-bought bread before we returned home.”
We visited the O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe in 2010.
I think it's important to be able to appreciate great music and art. It's
Be safe and be blessed.
White Rose with Larkspur No. 2 is my favorite O'Keefe painting.
What a beatiful video 💞
What instrument did you play in the orchestra? I played viola. 🥰
Thank you for exploring the world of Georgia O’Keefe! As a school teacher, I teach my class every year about her and we paint her poppies! I bake sourdough bread regularly, and encourage everyone interested to check out Full Proof baking channel. Her instructions are fabulous!
I made a carrot cake for Easter Sunday (as well as other things)... unfortunately I’m not a talented baker and though it was edible, even yummy, it did not turn out at all like I was aiming for. Later tonight though I will make lemon “brownies”... I’m excited for that! That magazine looks lovely... I turn thirty next week; am I middle aged now...? 😉😄
I love these monthly assignments. I'm learning so much about the arts. Would love to introduce my young children to these lessons. Do you have a children's art book you would recommend? Looking for ones that talk about different artists. We love listening to the new peices every month! Thanks again:)
Thank you! We like the art study portfolios from Simply Charlotte Mason...
I made my first batch of yogurt and Amish Friendship bread today ♥️🍞🍯
How did it turn out?
@@TheDailyConnoisseur both of them turned out AMAZING! I think my kids were amazed I could make yogurt!!
OMG, she was born about 1 1/2 hrs away from me! I don't think I knew that. I knew the name & the poppy picture but never studied her.
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This quarantine (and furlough) is making it really hard to be elegant at home. Anyone else?
It's interesting... where I live we pronounce it Appa-LAY-shun. That is how I have always heard the mountain region pronounced as well, Appa-LAY-sha. I am always interested in how things are pronounced in different parts of the US. (I am in Michigan.) 💙 I loved listening to this uplifting piece. We used to sing a song at church called Lord of the Dance to the Shaker hymn tune.
Interesting. Here in the South, we say Appalachian the same way Jennifer Scott says it. But it’s killing me to hear her say Copeland instead of Copland. I even looked up the pronunciation to see if I’ve been wrong all these years! 😂😂❤️
And Jennifer, I love your singing!!❤️
That's how the people in Appalachia pronounce it. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me :)
Kristyn Lorraine Hall , she is pronouncing it correctly. Back in the 1960s during LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” the news reporters used the mispronunciation you grew up hearing. I cringe when I hear it pronounced that way, but television is a powerful influencer! I grew up there, and during that timeframe.
My family from eastern Tennessee pronounce it the way Jennifer did, so I do too. Appa-LATCHA.
O'keeffe paintings are disturbing. They are not images I want in my consciousness. I studied art history for years and O'keeffe is one pushed on us by academics as great art. While she may have broken boundaries and she may have great skill, the feelings her paintings convey are disturbing. I often quote to myself a line from a poem by Longfellow (The Day Is Done), "Read to me some poem, some simple and heartfelt lay, that shall sooth this restful feeling, and banish the thoughts of day, not from the grand old masters, not from the bards sublime, whose distant footsteps echo through the corridors of time. Read from some humbler poet, whose song gushed from his heart, as showers from the clouds of summer, or tears from the eyelids start. For such songs have power to quiet the distant pulse of care, that comes like the benediction that follows after prayer... I chose what images and words I take in based on this poem. Humble, quiet. O'keeffe doesn't fit this for me. I sense darkness and anger and ridgedness. Also, the horns and covering one eye symbolism I am tired of seeing in art and media. Signs of darkness, turning away from God.
Could you do a chic assignment about Thomas Kinkaide? He’s my favorite artist! I love all of his paintings.