The mystery photo game is drawing to a close this round. Thank you all for playing and for guessing and for making the game so much fun. Oh, and thank some of you for being wrong. That’s my competitive spirit coming out. LOL.
I did find some good mysteries this time. Some of you guessed right now and again, but I tricked a lot of you on several of the pictures. The one I thought would be easiest for you turned out to be the one nobody got. The mouse wheel. Some of you said that you missed that one because you never use the mouse anymore but use the mouse pad. I like the mouse in my hand myself. I have a hard enough time making that little arrow behave without wondering which way to swipe my finger on one of those little square gizmos.
I wasn’t sure how many people I might be able to trick on Sunday’s photo. And I do know that some of you might be like those with the mouse wheel. You may not have much familiarity with the object of the mystery photo. Some of the guesses were glass vases, lead crystal candy dish, brooches, hair clip, Christmas tree decorations, and chandelier. Jennifer guessed a globe for a light thingy. She got the thingy part right, but not the rest of it. Marji guessed an upholstery tack. Sandy came up with a string of guesses – hat, tiara, hair clip or crystal coaster. I liked Sandi’s guess of the inside setting of a ring. Angela said a candle holder and Mary Lou sent in a guess of baby blanket piece. Kathleen said thread, lace and fringe. But I think Pat might win the best imagination this time when she said it was an old typewriter key striking the ribbon. You guys come up with the best guesses.
Then six of you guessed thimble. Paula, Carolyn, Brenda, Amy, Nyla and Evelyn. I think we have found the seamstresses in our group because they were right. It is a thimble that I’m modeling in the picture. My aunt was a wonderful seamstress. She made her first dress when she was nine. And she always used a thimble.
We found this antique child’s thimble when we went through Mom’s things after she died. The little thimble has been well used. It’s bent and no longer perfectly round.
I wonder if it was my aunt’s. She helped us learn to sew and when the kids were little, I made clothes for myself and for them. But I never learned to wear a thimble. Perhaps if I’d done quilting like my aunt, I would have figured out the advantages of a thimble to push the needle through the fabric without poking your finger. I did use a thimble back when I used to patch blue jeans, but I rarely left it on my finger. Just grabbed it when I was sewing the thicker spots of denim.
Now I rarely sew anything. How about you? Do you sew and use a thimble? Did you ever see your mother or granny using a thimble? I’ve heard some say that a well-placed thump on the head with a thimble had a way of making some kids straighten up and act right.
The mystery picture up top is the last mystery photo in this mystery photo game. I’ll play the game again in a few months, but Sunday I’ll be drawing for the winners. Some of you have guessed on every photo and I so appreciate that. I appreciate all of you who looked at the mystery photos and let those bits of pictures take your imagination into sometimes interesting directions. Remember, you must be eighteen to enter the giveaway, and the deadline for guesses is midnight EST June 11, 2016. A guess, right or wrong, gets your name in my drawing hat, and each guess on a new mystery photo gets you an additional entry. Those “I’m stumped” comments get your name in the drawing too. I’ll pick three winners who will get their choices of one of my books.
As always, thanks for reading.
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First guess is a part of a flower; possibly sunflower.
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I love sunflowers, Sandy. I might have taken a picture of one and then made it mysterious. I might have. I might not have. Come back Sunday to see the rest of the photo and find out who won the books. Might be your lucky day.
I think it looks like part of the bloom from a poplar(tulip) tree, maybe!
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Those poplar tree blooms are different looking, Connie. Could be. Could not be.
At first glance I thought French fries!!! Lol! Then I thought about the veggie strips that are like chips but healthier than chips ?????
I thought of the stamens (?) in a flower but you have already used a flower so it can’t be that??? So I give up!!! 😉
Comments on a thimble – both my granny & mother sewed using thimbles. ( They use to make ALL my dresses for school/church which I didn’t appreciate at the young ages of 6,7, 8, 9, 10 – shame on me!) But sewing was not my forte; however I dabbled in it. I could not get the hang of using a thimble except to go through heavy fabric much like you shared. Thanks for letting me share!
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Fun guesses, Betsy. You’re all going to be surprised if it does turn out to be french fries, aren’t you? 🙂 I wouldn’t mind having some nice salty french fries right now, but healthy they’re not.
My aunt made all our school clothes when I was young and I didn’t mind at all. She always made really cute dresses and she would let us go with her to the fabric store to pick out material sometimes. That was hard to do when I was little because I couldn’t imagine what the dress would look like when the material was all wound up around a cardboard holder. I’m sure my mother and my aunt guided my decisions. I had one favorite dress when I was five or six that my aunt reworked at least three times so I could keep wearing it as I grew bigger. It ended up a sundress. Just thinking about that dress makes me remember how much my aunt loved me and my sisters.
Possibly yellow peppers … or … bean pods?
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Yellow peppers or bean pods. Good guesses, Doris. And we do have a garden. So could be your answer is right. Or could be you’re way off. Sunday will tell!
This looks like some kind of oil in a net . This one is a stinker as it could be so many things but i think maybe oil or honey and it is in a net that covers. Thank you for these mysteries as they keep you guessing and it has been great fun! Ann, have fun getting ready for the next mystery photos!
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Thanks so much for playing my mystery photo game, Peggy. Oil or honey in a net. And interesting guess and who knows? You may have figured it out or maybe not. For sure, I’ll be looking at everything with an eye toward mystery for a while. What about this or that, I’ll think. Would I be able to trick some eyes with a bit of the picture?
SUNFLOWERS BEFORE THE SUN!
ALSO, THIS PHOTO MAY BE RELATED TO THE PICTURES ON THE SIDES
(LIKE WALLPAPER) WHEAT?
FRENCH FRIES ARE TOO OBVIOUS!
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But perhaps I decided to be obvious, Pat. You can never tell about me. But I like your guess of sunflowers before the sun. And the wheat idea was great too. I didn’t say they were right, just great guesses. Thanks for playing my mystery photo game.
First thought was French fries…..then, clothes pins, but, I know they are not the correct answers.
Maybe part of a flower?
A design on a carpet or piece of cloth?
Well Ann, you have stumped me again…..I’ll just have to wait until Sunday to see the whole picture 🤓
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I’ve been much better at stumping some of you this game than last time, Marji. I think posting all those things that you all guessed easy as pie has made me look with a more mysterious eye. 🙂 Thanks for playing my mystery photo game. I may post the photo I thought none of you could possibly get on Sunday just to show you what it is. This isn’t it.
first thought french fries….then as some one else mentioned…those old type clothes pins we used to use……hmmmm….still looks like French fries laying either on a plates that has some type leaves for a pattern or a place mat that has leaves…..puzzle for sure….this is a good one!…..Beautiful day today, enjoy!
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You gave those french fries some thought anyway, Joyce. Could be you’re thinking straight. Could be a little zigzaggy. Then there are those clothespins. It is a beautiful day to enjoy. Thank you.
Perhaps this guess is because I haven’t yet had my breakfast, but I swear those look like French fries. I absolutely know I am incorrect, but my stomach says it must be so.
(And, a thimble for the last pic. Clever writer, Ann, and a clever photographer!)
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They do look like french fries, breakfast or not, Kristy. And who knows? I might have decided to be tricky and done something obvious, knowing most of you would think I wouldn’t be that obvious! 🙂
Enjoyed your e-mail devotional this morning, as always. If most people are like me, the weeks spin by so quickly that they think it hasn’t been two weeks yet. Does that make sense?
They look like old clothes pins,the kind without springs on them.
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Nice guess, Evelyn. Not saying it’s right or wrong, but I like the guess. 🙂 Did you know that Shakers were credited with coming up with clothespins or at least improving on their design. I did a post once on clothespins. https://www.annhgabhart.com/2016/01/24/another-washday-mystery-photo/ Very interesting when I checked out some of the history of clothespins on line. Thanks for playing my mystery photo game.
This one has me stumped. It looks like a flower of some sort. My initial thought was a shoestring potato plant, but being an Idaho girl, I do know how potatoes grow, and it’s not in shoestring form. That however, is my best guess. 😉
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I like that, Amy. A shoestring potato plant. That would save a lot of digging, peeling and dicing, wouldn’t it? Reminds me of the April Fool’s joke I read about where some government agency pretended to be trying to get people to grow spaghetti trees. A best guess gets your name right in my drawing hat. Thanks so much for playing. The game’s no fun if nobody guesses.
This one is hurting my head and eyes so early in the morning! They look like french fries but no, too small. Then I thought dandelions but no because they look like hangy things and dandelions are clumped together. I’m really stumped on this one. My eyes won’t help even though they stared at the picture for hours and wouldn’t help me figure out what it is.
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Aww, I don’t want to hurt your head and eyes, Karen. But it’s fun that you’re giving the mystery photo a good look to figure it out. I like your thought process on coming up with ideas and then deciding no, that can’t be it. Don’t worry. Stumped is a good guess to get your name pitched in my drawing hat. Hope you’ve had fun guessing. Now go look at something green. They say that color rests your eyes. 🙂
Churros waiting to be fried & sprinkles with cinnamon & sugar.
Love the mystery pictures , it makes everyone’s eyes try to works with their brains.
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And here’s another guess. You’re giving my brain a work-out too, Betty.
I think they are wax beans in the pods. Hand dipped candles hanging to dry. Cheese being made in hanging cheese clothes. Maybe even some German sausage in kasen
The mystery pictures are fun!!!!!!
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Hi, Betty. So glad you think my mystery photos are fun. I usually do the game every time I have a new book release and sometimes again sometime during the year. Other times I try to come up with other fun games to give away books here on my blog. Did a caption game once and a name the seed once. I keep trying to think up something new and fun, but I think most of you like the mystery photos best. You’ve made some good guesses. I like how you came up with four different things. Gave my imagination a work-out seeing your guesses. Thanks for playing.
flower pistils
Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
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Short and to the point this time, Kathleen. Thanks for playing my game, but is it really pistils? Hmm.
It looks like the center of a lily but there are too many hangey down things (whatever they are called) that make a mess and leave pollen droppings. Another fun round of pictures and you are getting trickier.
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Tricky Ann, that’s me, Linda. 🙂 Or at least that’s who I’m trying to be with these mystery photos. Lily centers is a great guess. Not saying it’s right, but it’s a good guess. We shall see on Sunday. And find out who wins the books too.
This one is harder than I thought. Part of a flowering plant, but which part? Just part of the fun of guessing!
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Glad you’ve had fun guessing my mystery photos, Paula. And I try to make them harder than you all think. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes mysteries are hard to come up with.
They look like French fries to me.
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You’re right, Linda. They do look like french fries, but are they? That is the question.
This has got to be some sort of plant or vegetable matter! It looks like the darker brown things are seeds???
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Could be, Margaret. It’s a mystery for sure. Well, at least I’m trying to make it be a mystery. Some of you are pretty good at figuring out mysteries, so we shall see who is right and who is not on Sunday.
My first thought is that it is a photo of potato sticks. But, I don’t think that is correct. haha! I will keep thinking. 🙂
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Sometimes first thoughts are good, Melissa. Sometimes not. Thanks for your guess. Got your name in my drawing hat.