Elna

Facing the site of the present town there was an island called Elna, and on it was built the ancient town of Gessoriac, which was connected with the mainland by a bridge.

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

There are more details of her life that make her interesting and as one friend stated, those facts have made it so that "Elna had to write a memoir."

Shira Hirschman Weiss: Mormon, Single And (Sort Of) Ready To Mingle Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

In her 2009 best-selling memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance Penguin Group, Elna talks candidly and humorously about faith, family, losing 80 pounds, waking up beautiful and searching for Mr. Right -- at every wrong turn.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: Mormon, Single And (Sort Of) Ready To Mingle Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

There are more details of her life that make her interesting and as one friend stated, those facts have made it so that "Elna had to write a memoir."

Shira Hirschman Weiss: Mormon, Single And (Sort Of) Ready To Mingle Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

In her 2009 best-selling memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance Penguin Group, Elna talks candidly and humorously about faith, family, losing 80 pounds, waking up beautiful and searching for Mr. Right -- at every wrong turn.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: Mormon, Single And (Sort Of) Ready To Mingle Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

One of these, the spare, is invisible under "stuff", the other, an old Elna, has a free square foot of space around it provided by half of the metal carrying box that converts its free arm into a flat bed.

Sewing room declutter katelnorth 2007

Cooking, cleaning, laundry, sewing -- although she learned that from my mom, sitting eagerly at her knee while Grandma worked at her Elna sewing machine, starting at about age four.

Jane Ganahl: Of Death and Recipes 2008

Then one day, I was cruising craigslist for no apparent reason and saw the words "Elna sewing machine"... imagine my surprise because I wasn't even looking for a sewing machine at that point.

How to Choose a Sewing Machine - A Dress A Day 2008

So I learned to sew from my Mom who has an Elna from the 1970s.

How to Choose a Sewing Machine - A Dress A Day 2008

No sitting at my side while I taught her the fine art of crocheting, no whipping up cocktail dresses on the Elna, and for sure no cooking lessons.

Jane Ganahl: Of Death and Recipes 2008