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JCP Originals Cards I am a passionate crafter - this page will keep you updated on what I'm up to. Also an Independent Stampin' Up Representative.

Handmade greeting cards for all occasions including birthday, thanks yous, graduation, anniversary and more. Cards can be customized including special large orders such as wedding invitations.

10/20/2025

Not sure if any of my friends will see this, but I go on vacation and come back and what the hay happened to Facebook? I don’t get a single one of my friends posts. How do I change that?

10/17/2025

Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money.
The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million.

10/16/2025

In 1837, Donald Walker published *Exercise for Ladies*, a book that cautioned women against horseback riding—not because of safety concerns or lack of skill, but because it supposedly deformed the lower part of the body. This wasn’t an isolated opinion. It reflected a broader cultural anxiety about women’s physicality, autonomy, and visibility. Exercise, in the eyes of many Victorian thinkers, was not just unfeminine—it was dangerous. It threatened to disrupt the delicate, ornamental ideal of womanhood that had been carefully constructed to serve patriarchal norms.

Throughout the Victorian era, women were discouraged from engaging in any form of exertion that might build muscle, encourage sweat, or suggest strength. Even walking briskly was suspect. The ideal female body was passive, fragile, and contained. To move with power or purpose was to risk being labeled vulgar, mannish, or morally suspect. The fear wasn’t just about physical deformation—it was about social disruption. A woman who rode horses, climbed hills, or played sports was a woman who might also challenge her domestic role, her sexual decorum, or her intellectual subservience.

Medical authorities chimed in, warning that exercise could damage reproductive organs or provoke hysteria. Corsets were tightened, limbs were covered, and girls were taught to sit still. Meanwhile, men were encouraged to run, box, fence, and ride—activities that built stamina, confidence, and independence. The double standard was stark. Women’s bodies were to be admired, not used. Their energy was to be suppressed, not expressed.

And yet, women resisted. They walked, they rode, they danced, they swam. They formed cycling clubs and hiking groups. They defied the warnings and discovered joy, strength, and freedom in movement. Every step taken, every muscle stretched, was an act of quiet rebellion. The legacy of Walker’s book is not just its absurdity—it’s the reminder of how long and hard women have had to fight for the simple right to move freely in their own bodies.

10/09/2025

When France literally shipped 800 women across the Atlantic to save a colony! The incredible true story of the "Daughters of the King" will blow your mind. These brave women changed the course of North American history in ways you never imagined.

10/08/2025

They were just girls when cholera swept through Texas in 1872. Lila and Jane laid their parents in the ground themselves, standing over the mounds of earth knowing no one was left but them. Hunger followed fast, but the sisters learned faster — setting traps, dressing game, selling hides to keep the cold and starvation at bay.
But survival drew darker hunters. One winter night, bandits came to take their furs and leave the girls with nothing. Jane steadied her rifle, Lila raised her hatchet, and together they fought like cornered wolves. By dawn, the fire still smoldered in their cabin, the snow outside stained red. The sisters had won.
By spring, they weren’t starving orphans anymore. Horses filled the corral, pelts stacked high, and a name carried further than their hides ever could. In saloons and outlaw camps alike, men whispered of the Hollow Rock Sisters — two young women who refused to die quiet, carving their legend into the frontier with blood and grit.

~Old Photo Club

05/22/2025

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