My Yellow Farmhouse

Hello Saturday

Wow the summer just seems to be zipping by doesn't it?  Took forever to get here and now were closing in on the end of July.  Hmmmmmm how come winter in this neck of the woods doesn't go that fast, LOL.  Sharon don't pay any attention to that last comment.  No trip to the lake this weekend, son#1 and DIL are having their annual and last get together at the lake.  For several years we've let the boys have a weekend during the summer to have friends out and enjoy the lake without us being around.  Lots of fun memories for them have come from those weekends (and I don't want to know about them, LOL, but the neighbors have shared a few happenings with us - lordy).  Next weekend is my annual weekend at the lake with the peeps which has become known as Kamp Karen - get it - Kamp with a K instead of a C. Ok sorry about that.  Then the official move out will start.  The extra garage gets sheet rocked starting on Monday which makes it closer for moving stuff in.  My nephew and his sweet fiance will be stopping by today for a little overnight visit and we are looking forward to that.  Otherwise all quiet on the western front.

Thursday the woolies hung out at the farmhouse for our monthly get together and as always it was a day full of laughs and actual working with wool.  I've decided that we need a monthly group project to work on and I put myself in charge of that.  Small enough that it can be completed during our time together each month.  Nothing like making my opinion known and being in charge, LOL.  Will see how it goes - right Denise, no pressure :).  This probably won't start for a few months - so there is a reprieve for a little bit.  I have a small wool flower wallhanging that I think will be perfect.  There wasn't any disagreeing (at least not in front of me) maybe there to scared to say no - naaaaa not in this group, there's no shyness of speaking up , LOL.   Several great projects were shared and of course little silver was there to capture it all. 

So all the woolies talked smart in the beginning of the spring about making yoyo's and attaching them to flip flops for our summer get togethers.  We saw this in a book and everyone LOVED it - well only one got it  done

In the book it showed the yoyo's on the type of flip flops that go between your tootsies and then the yoyo's are attached with thread over that rubber type v thingy that sits on top of your foot and goes between your toes.  Why can't I think of the technical word for that, LOL.  Anyway JM has a thing about things between her toes - so she found these and whipped up the yoyo's and got it done. Can I hear a Woo Hoo for her.

Jean brought this cute window frame that she made using wool as the background for her flowers

and she also brought this cute punchneedle project

2 of the woolies completed there yarn punching projects - I think this one is getting framed

this one is getting made into a purse

Here is the picture of the little Jo's club project that I deleted.  She brought it so that I could take another picture and share it with you all  - I'm not making the quilt just the center part - I was hoping to tuck this one away before she noticed it was gone - didn't work :)

she also brought a Lori Smith quilt that she framed - I told her that it would look great here at the farmhouse -  she took it home, LOL

I made lunch for us - because you've got to feed these girls so they can stay on the creative path or they become very easily distracted - well who am I kidding  we all do that anyway, we just like to eat, LOL

lunch was a wild rice chicken salad, yum yum yum if I do say so myself , well I think I just did, sun dried tomato bread, fruit, vegies and ice tea - dessert was Brownie Delight which I shared the recipe a few posts back.  Gotta have my chocolate and cream cheese ya know.  Here's the recipe for the chicken salad.  It's a recipe that I follow, but not really with the measurements given - I always add more of everything - so is that really following a recipe, LOL

Wild Rice Chicken Salad

• 1 cup uncooked wild rice
• 2-3 cups diced cooked chicked
• 1 1/2 tsp seasoned salt
• 1 can sliced water chestnuts
• 1 1/2 cups halved red grapes
• 1 cup slivered almonds or cashews I use cashews)
• 1/2 cup miracle whip and 1/2 cup mayonnaise

cook rice according to package directions and cool.  I cook mine in the oven instead of on the stove top and always have perfect results. To bake the rice, put 1 cup of rice in baking dish with 3 cups of salted water.  Bake in 350 oven for 1 to 1 1/2 half hours or until tender.  Mine usually takes the longer amount of time.  Sometimes you have excess water you need to drain off.  You can make several batches at once and freeze the rest.
So back to the recipe - in a large mixing bowl stir together, the rice, chicken, grapes, water chestnuts and salt.  Mix your dressings together and then add to the bowl with everything else.  Mix gently and then chill for a few hours.  Just before serving add your nut of choice.  Here's a pic before the dressing was added

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and will see you on Monday.  It just started raining here - might make for a quiet time at the lake - naaaaaa I don't think rain will slow them down, LOL

Until Next Time

Happy Wednesday

Hope your week has been going nicely so far.  I've been trying to tic things off of my list and it seems to be working.  Spent a good part of the morning in the cave getting things organized for the website.  So since I worked so hard, LOL I decided to give myself a break and do a quick post and have a cup of coffee.  The weather has been hot and we had a storm come through this morning with another promised this later this afternoon - which means some great humid weather - yuck.

Ok I thought I would show you a few things I got in the mail the last couple of weeks - I bought these from Deb's etsy shop - but first look how cute they came packaged and take the time to visit her blog - she's a joy to visit with

love these for my new kitchen

she offers  the pattern free on her blog if your interested.  I'm working on one - slow but sure, LOL

Kari bought this for me from a outdoor art fest she went to last weekend (ok so it didn't arrive in the mail, LOL) - she knows this is my very favorite quote - one I try to remember on a daily basis

I bought this set off of ebay and it's in my 1/2 bath on the main floor - love that little cream pitcher

Last night I was invited out to an impromptu dinner with my friend Lib and Lori.  Poor Mr. Farmhouse had to eat leftovers, sorry hubs - (don't feel to bad, he has his outing tonight playing golf).  Anyway we went to a great little place that has a great spot for eating outside.  I wanted to take a picture of the area we were sitting at, but it was really full of people and I didn't feel right about dragging little silver out and snapping away -  but take my word for it - it's a charming place. So we had a nice glass of a little something to start our dinner

2 of us had these yummy turkey reubens - sliced turkey with thousand island dressing and cole slaw instead of saurkraut, on marble rye with a dipping sauce made out of raspberries,cranberries and horseradish - YUMMO - one of my faves

Afterwards we took a quick drive over to see Lori's darling cottage on the lake that they are redoing.  Next time I'll take some pics for you.

Soooo the shingles and siding have been picked out for the house and garage.  Thought I would share it with you

The  main color of the house/garage will be the dark red, the peaks and gables will be the tan color called woodstock brown and the trim and windows will be in white.  The garage will be done first and I'm anxious to see how it all looks together.  Hope I was right in my choices.

Here's a couple more shots of the lake - this porch we added on about 5 years ago and if we aren't outside enjoying the deck or the lake this is where you will find us and Ms Cami who has the perfect perch for watching all the squirrls, chipmunks and birds that taunt her on a daily basis





love these lamps - which is part of my collection of Rowe pottery

Most of the painted furniture in the cottage is from the same couple I've boughten from for years and years. There is a lot of it at home as well.  They are thinking of retiring from it and I'm hoping they wait awhile longer - how selfish is that, LOL

these 2 pieces are in our bedroom but before that they were  in Mr. Farmhouses garage when he was growing up and used for tools and whatever.  I claimed them years ago and painted them a country blue.  When they made there way to the cottage I had them painted this beautiful shade of red and they are a favorite


I found this great big chunky yellow rocker last summer for really really cheap and had to bring it home, but it never did get it painted - so that will happen when it's moved into the new house.  Like I told you before our room and bathroom now has noooooo personality - it's BORING - but right now that's how it is

Another couple of favorites

Another piece of painted furniture

 

We bought this cottage about 13 years ago and during that time we have taken out the nice gold shag carpet (yes I know that shag is in again, but not in my house, LOL - I grew up with that) and replaced all the flooring in the whole place, total repainted every room, gutted both bathrooms and removed the beautiful powder blue and white embossed tile that was  in our bathroom with the scary steam type shower - I refused to use it or clean it, LOL, added the porch and painted the kitchen cupboards (all the painting was done by my sweet friend Lib) a delicious shade of burgundy and replaced all of the appliances.  I usually have a few things sitting on the counters along with a Rowe pottery lamp that matches my canister set, but those things have been tucked away - so I guess you;ll have to use your imagination, LOL



Next time I'll share the big family room and eating area

Tomorrow is the monthly get together of the woolies and I'm going to host it and serve lunch.  So I'd better get going and get the chicken cooked for the wild rice chicken salad.  Kari is baking the brownies for me for the Brownie Delight dessert I blogged about a few posts back.  Why is she baking the brownies you ask - well I'm so glad you asked -  because the oven is on the blink again.  Yes that 1st pricey part  I guess wasn't the answer.  I'm sure it won't be a cheap - it never is.

Until Next Time

Hey It's Monday and I'm Here

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  We had a nice one.  Very low key and relaxing.  Friday night and Saturday the wind was wicked and blowing so hard.  Sure wasn't floating weather.  Thought I would share a couple of pics that I took this weekend of the inside.  Keep in mind it's a cottage in the process of being packed up.  There is some furniture missing that has already been sold, a cabinet that came off the wall in the family room also sold and quilts that just never made it out there this year.  I take all the bedding home at the end of the season and this year I didn't bring any of it back - why bother when our time out there this year has been slim.  Here's one of  my favorite cabinets

someone is looking out the door

This cupboard is going to be repainted and I think it will be in the new master bath instead of a linen closet

One of the peeps is buying this cupboard and repainting it and putting quilts in it

This is the little and I mean little extra bedroom

love this little cabinet

this little bench is in the same room and I bought it from winterberryprims on ebay

also in the same room this cute chair

made this quilt a few years ago - I think it's a Whimsicals pattern

this I think was a Joined at the Hip pattern - love the frame but when I picked it up at the framers they had added glass which I didn't want.  I should have had them remove it but I didn't.  But I think I might do it when I bring it home.  You can't tell from the picture, but if I took it straight on the flash bounced off

This is the main bathroom - we have one off of our bedroom as well but the decorating is totally gone from that room and it's boring, nothing but the same sink and mirror as this one and yellow paint on the walls,  so I'll just share this one which was very hard to get a good picture of.  The wallpaper is all about fish and fishing lures in my favorite shades of burgundy, cream and blue

This hangs in the bathroom

I'll share more later this week of other rooms.

I have a few things made up that I was going to put on my website when it was up and running.  But because these things are mostly summery and my site won't be up until the end of the month I decided I would sell them on etsy.  Well I spent waaaaaaaay to much time this morning trying to get them to except my picture.  No matter what I did it still wouldn't upload.  Sooo out of frustration I went back to my ebay account and listed them there.  If your interested and this link doesn't work - my ebay name is bittersweethome.

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one out of sync these days.  Maybe it's the days of summer which should be relaxing but we tend to be out and about more because of the nicer weather, I don't know.  But it's good to know I'm not the only one rowing that boat.  I'm working on my list, my website and trying to catch up with all of you and my emails, so I'm working in the right direction, and that's always a good thing :)

Until Next Time

What do ya mean it's Saturday already

and how come this week has gone by so fast.  I sure didn't intend to be gone this long but I wanted to check in before we head to the cottage.  We've had a few pretty nasty storms go through and that has kept me off the computer a few times.  Today the sun is shining but we are under a high wind alert - no boating today but it will make for good suntanning on the beach and cooler weather for packing up that has started at the cottage.

Sooo what's' been happening at the farmhouse this week.  Well I received a sweet package from Anne of Bunny Hill Designs in the mail and you know how I love my mail :).  She was looking for some people to volunteer to send Julia from Germany some of our extra magazines so that Julia could build up a stash like Anne or like a lot of us.  So I took that challenge.  Anne was sweet enough to send all of us that took this challenge one of her new patterns and a great charm pack of fabric

Being a magazine junkie myself I was more than happy to pass on my joy of magazine obsession and I would have volunteered for this anyway without  expecting anything in return , but to have a sweet treat in the mailbox from Anne was just icing on the cake.  Thank you Anne - the pattern is adorable, I'm a big snowman fan and I LOVE the fabric.

Thursday was the monthly meeting of my Little Jo's club.  I've yet to start any of the projects - but I knew that would happen when I signed up.  This is the time of year that not much sewing ever seems to happen.  The teacher of this club is one of the woolies who has mucho knowledge about quilting and a wonderful eye for fabric and color and she was also the old owner of our LQS - I always always learn something from her - so I go for the tips. Soooo I took a picture of her finished project and a few other quilts.  Where are they you ask, I DON'T KNOW.  I've never done this before - but before loading my pictures onto the computer I deleted the extra ones that I didn't want and somehow (because I can't blame anyone else) I deleted the pictures of the quilts  -grrrrrr I was so ticked at myself and really thankful that they weren't really special pictures - well not that the picture of her quilt isn't special - right JM.    Here's my center panel that will be made into a pillow for the porch instead of adding borders for the quilt and I'm almost done - woo hoo for me. The fabric flowers I did applique using the starch method, which is new to me but I think it's one I will use a lot, the center blue part is a wonderful overdyed wool

While in the town for Little Jo's we always have to have lunch at our favorite sandwich shop.  I always order the Nutty Bird - sliced turkey, sprouts, sunflower seeds and a healthy schmear of CREAM CHEESE - anyone shocked here - I don't think so.  Anyway I took a couple of more pics of this nice little place.  The owner has a real knack of using things for different purposes - this was in the bathroom which is always decorated so cute for every season - who'd of thought of using an old sink this way

close up

our view from where we sat - OK maybe not the best picture but take my word this place is adorable


One of  my favorites is how they have the tables decorated - what a great way to use yo yo's

A few weeks ago Mr. Farmhouse was gone for a a fishing trip and so I took that time to host a few of the peeps for a casual Saturday of hanging out, sewing and one even had a quick cat nap on the deck (do you think it was the company, LOL).  Anyway they are always sooooo good to me and presented this sweet little set for Liberty Cottage/House

aren't those little nesting star bowls just the cutest and the little flag basket was something added to the collection - you just gotta LOVE those peeps - it will be perfect for the new house.Thanks peeps you guys are the best.

Do you ever find yourself out of sync.  That's the way I'm feeling right now.  The things I enjoy, that help to make me sane (is that possible) have gone by the wayside the last few months.  I mean how long has it been since I shared a hip slapping dessert for you sweet bloggies.  Sewing of any kind has really taken a back seat and there hasn't been much tweaking around the house either.  Although I have to admit I'm really waiting for the fall decorating (yes I know it's waaaaay to early to talk about fall since summer has really just arrived) but it's my very favorite time of the year besides my all time favorite for decorating.  Since it didn't happen last fall because of that tour I'm really itching to drag it all out.  Ok so I digress here like I have a tendency to do.  I am also finding it hard to get around and visit everyone here in blogland.  With the weather so nice computer time has also taken a back seat - which helps my backseat (aka butt), LOL - but that sure makes it hard to keep up with everyone.  I'm sure I'm not alone on that one.  So starting on Monday a new schedule is going to be made and like my friend Lib does I'm going to schedule things that I enjoy and make them happen.  I mean don't you people need some kind of dessert with cream cheese or chocolate in it for your summer, LOL and something sewing related would be nice also.  A happy momma makes a happy home which in turn makes a happy  Mr. Farmhouse, LOL

Until Next Time - which I promise won't be so far part - I really do :)   By the way I'm scared to death to do spell check on this post in case the sucker freezes up again - so pardon the errors

Happy Monday

I hope everyone had a great long holiday weekend and for those not celebrating the 4th I hope your weekend was wonderful as well.

We started our weekend on Thursday with the arrival at the lake of the married ones.  We had a great evening of cocktails and dinner together and the night was perfect for us to sit around a bonfire and talk.  Son #2 got there on Friday and we enjoyed a nice quiet 4th with fireworks around the lake.  Saturday found us all on the golf course and it was HOT and crowded.  That's my sweet DIL standing under the shade of the tree trying to cool off.  If there hadn't been a breeze it would have been to hot to be out there.

Saturday night we had a little family stop by

She got out of the water to watch and once they went under the dock and came out the other side she hopped back in and off they went out into the lake.  They actually stopped by on Thursday night as well.  We also saw a Loon with a baby on the their back, but to far out on the lake for a picture.

The new garage is coming along - this is what we found last weekend when we stopped out there

then when we went out last Wednesday to drop off things for the weekend  this is what we found - this is 3 days work

Yesterday was a day of just chilling on the beach and enjoying the hot sun.  In our neck of the woods we really had a perfect holiday weekend, although it was hot there was no complaining.  Even the dogs went home tired.  Ms Cami was so exhausted she came home and crashed last night and didn't even eat her dinner, I think she thought it was to much work.  She's been sleeping all day today trying to catch up.  Dakota, the marrieds ones dog, loves to fetch her dummy toy from the lake and would do that all day long if you let her.  She loves to run down the dock take a flying jump in after it and bring it back to do it again.  She left yesterday with little slits for eyes and I'm sure she was asleep before they hit the tar road. 

We took a picture to honor this special weekend - our last one together in this cottage

Until Next Time

Holy Moly Bloggies

Thank you all for taking the time to answer my poll - there were some very sweet comments in there that sure made me smile.  My goal for this website is to have it up and running at least partly by the 15th of July.  I will keep you all posted on the progress I make and give you the link when it's ready.  There's a lot to do and I'm trying hard not to think about the big picture and taking little snippets at a time to work on.

So I forgot to ask Mr. Farmhouse to pick a number this morning and had to call him at work to do his part of the giveaway.  He asked how many had left comments and then picked a random number which is 60 and that number belongs to Kindra.  Again thanks to everyone who left a comment your support and input means so much to me.

So I don't think a post is complete without a picture or two so I want to share some goodies I got in the mail from Wendy.  We exchange packages in the mail once in awhile and it's so exciting when I see a box or envelope in the mail that has her return address on it.

That cute little pincushion she made - yikes those strips are tiny, a sweet little zipper purse that's in my purse right now, a couple of patterns, a spool of pearl cotton, a Canadian penny and the perfect little sheep with a "Got Wool" sign hanging on it.  Thank you sweet Wendy you know me very well - hope you enjoy your goodie box when it arrives.

I stopped by at a friends house the other day and just had to take a picture of her garage - how cute is this

she had these little ones grazing around the pasture with all of the cows - I think their names are Jenny and Cash

there was also Willard the pig - but that picture really didn't turn out.  She has a picture postcard type of farm setting and it's always a treat to stop by.

So I'm taking a little bloggy break to head to the lake for a long holiday weekend with the whole family - YAHOO.  It will be our last time all together at the cottage before it's taken down in August.  Lots of memories have been made there over the last 13 years with family and friends.  So this is a bit of a bittersweet weekend for us.  But there will be lots of new memories to come that we will make in our new home.   I will see you back here on Monday

            HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH OF JULY

AAAAACK

This new typepad is driving me crazy.  It wouldn't let me post pictures earlier, so I waited and now it froze up with spell check and I had to cancel the whole dam post and start all over.  Soooooo I'm making this 3rd time the charm - keeping it short and not spell checking. 

OK here's the deal that I need your help with - hope I can explain it as well as I did 2 times before - aaaaack don't get me started again, LOL.  This is regarding my website.  If you see a pattern you like and there's a kit for it and the kit snaps your socks are you more likely to buy the kit or work from your stash.  I know that a fat quarter of wool can be on the spendy side and sometimes you only need a little bit of wool for a project.  I know that not everyone has access to a variety of wool - so sometimes stashes are limited.  It's taken me several years to build up my little stash (OK peeps and woolies - no talking here).  Also for those of you who want to build a stash - would bundles of 8x8  inch squares in a variety of coordinating colors "snap your socks" rather than investing in fat quarters.  I guess I'm just trying to get a feel what works best for you when your out shopping for wool and patterns.  I would appreciate any input you care to share and I sure hope I'm making sense here after trying to do this post a few times I might be skipping what I'm trying to say.  Sooooo if you leave a comment by Tuesday night July 1st I will have Mr. Farmhouse pick a number for this little giveaway - after all I need to show my appreciation to you bloggies for taking the time to help a girl out

I will be carrying these little braided runners in my store in a variety of colors as well as wool penny rugs for those who don't want to make their own.  This runner measures 8x28 and this one comes in the colors of browns,blacks,tans,golds and a little bit of red and green.   But wait there's more (just like those infomercials that always have a little more to offer you before you place your order) I'm also going to include one of my favorite candles, McCall brand in the scent of Campfire Marshmallow.  So leave a comment by tomorrow night the 1st and Mr Farmhouse will pick a number the morning of the 2nd.  I know this is quick but I want to get this in the mail to you by Thursday before I head to the lake for the holiday weekend.  So forgive the errors because I'm just not going near spell check again and I will share the rest of this post another day because I just can't retype the whole thing again.

Until Next Time

Thank You

for all of those sweet words of encouragement about my new website.  It's something I've been toying with for sometime and it so wonderful to have support from my bloggies out there.  Thank you :)Check back tomorrow I've got a favor to ask of you all.

So I have been gone for a few days on an annual fishing vaca with Mr. Farmhouse and some friends.  Mr. Farmhouse heads up a few days early with Mr. C for a couple of days of intense fishing at Lake of the Woods.  This lake is in Minnesota and Canada.  Then Kari and I head up and join them for a couple of days of more relaxed fishing and pampering.  The guys always do all of the cooking and cleaning up and really treat us like queens.  How can we not enjoy that.  The weather was amazing with hardly a breeze (which would have been nice) and lots of sun.  If you not familiar with this lake - it's HUGE.  We stay in the United States side and then travel by boat up into Ontario Canada for fishing everyday.  You can go miles and miles and not even see a boat.  Mr. C is very familiar with the area having gone up for many years.  Honestly it all looks the same and with his trusty map we never get lost.  Thanks Mr. C for your awesome boating and navigating skills.    So here's a few shots to give you an idea of this side of paradise which you truly can't get from a picture - but here's a try

The only way to get to the lodge that we stay at is by boat - so they picked us up and had a nice refreshing cocktail waiting for us

Every year Kari and I surprise the boys with something that we've dreamed up during the year.  Last fall on our way to quilt market in Houston we stopped at a gas station in Texas and bought the cowboy hats and the bobber earrings we are wearing are leftover from last summers get up.  There was more to this years outfit, but what happens in fish camp stays in fish camp and no it wasn't naughty - but it was funny.

Our lodging every year

We always eat lunch once during out stay at this other resort up in Ontario - always yummy

our view while enjoying our lunch

while fishing we could see something way ahead of us moving in the water, so we pulled in our lines and took a quick trip over to see what it was

yes folks it was a bear.  We've seen them before along the lake shore but never swimming from one side of the lake to another.  He wasn't a cub, but not full size either.  He just kept swimming trying to get away from us (I wasn't that close I used the zoom on my camera) and headed up into the woods
 
Here's a little shack being built

and the boat house that goes with it

it's a drive through boathouse - nice

Keep in mind that there aren't any roads in most of the area.  So everything has to come by boat or barge.  A lot of building projects probably like this one haul there wood over in the winter when the lake is iced over and trucks can haul it instead of a barge.  Then it sits until spring when the building can start.  Boy you'd better be good at calculating what you need.  When we got to Young's Bay where the guys picked us up, there was a big truck there unloading a load of windows for someone to pick up and haul to another destination.  It's a whole different way of life.  Not sure it's for me, but it's a great place to visit.

one of my favorite areas - called Tranquil Channel

came across a couple of these - which you can rent up there.  We've talked about trying this sometime

My view when I wasn't fishing and just enjoying the sun and a book



Our view when we had shore lunch

beauty of all kinds is everywhere you look

The last night of every trip it's a tradition that we head out in the boat after a great dinner prepared by our handsome chefs

to enjoy a cup of coffee with a shot of Baileys, have some chuckles over the events of the last few days and enjoy a beautiful sunset

Thanks guys for another wonderful trip.  It gets better every year

Until Next Time

OK

so technically it's still Monday in my neck of the woods although the clock is quickly moving towards midnight and Tuesday.  But I kept my word and here I am.  I made a quick trip to St. Cloud today with Kari so that she could pick up something and I wanted to go to Grubers Quilt Shop to look for some neutral fabrics for a project.  Fun day - thanks Kari

To everyone who has purchased something from me - with the exception of 2 people who's addresses I'm waiting for - everything else is boxed up and will be shipped out tomorrow.  I will email you with your shipping.  Thank you so much for your patience :)

Last post I told you about heading to the lake place of one of the woolies for our monthly woolie get together.  It was a picture perfect day to be lakeside enjoying friendship, laughter, food and of course wool.  She made us a terrific lunch which I though was worthy of a picture

Here's a few shots from the day




she has a cute little guest cottage out back

of course the beds have handmade quilts
 

cute cottage next door

few projects that were worked on - a few of the woolies where working on yarn punch projects




look at this little treasure

what a pretty view we had all day long

Thanks JM for a wonderful day

Soooo now on to my new venture.  It's no secret of my love of wool to anyone who reads this blog or to those who know me.  I had decided before I went to quilt market in Portland to start up a website that would offer wool, patterns and kits for selected patterns and also a small amount of seasonal accents for the home which isn't related to wool but I just can't give up that part of my retail past yet, LOL.  I've received just about all of my stash that I ordered at market and I hope to be up and running by the middle of July.  My website is under construction and still needs some tweaking before I give you the link.  I will be offering a really cute block of the month program for a small wall hanging and that's what I needed the neutral fabrics that I was shopping for today.  I will also be offering some handmades at times on this site.  I'm excited about giving this a try and seeing what happens.  Some of the peeps and woolies have offered to help me make up some samples for kits and believe me I'm taking them up on it LOL so I can get started.   So that's the direction I'm heading and will see where it goes.  Like Rosanna  Rosanna Danna used to say  "It's always something".

Until Next Time

Now Where Was I

Oh ya about to head on over to Country Threads. Sorry for the break in action - typepad was not cooperating with me the other night and out of frustration I shut the computer off and walked away and haven't tried a post since.  So let's head on down the road
 
Can I say that this shop is amazing and so much eye candy that it's almost overwhelming.  We spent several hours there walking around, then walking around again, resting a bit and walking around again LOL to make sure we saw everything - and I think we did.  So I will post several pictures here for you to see.  It really was hard to get good pictures because this place is so full and no matter where I stood to try and take a picture there was lots of stuff all around and lots of time it was in the way, LOL - so I did my best.  Oh ya another frustration with this new typepad format for me is that I can't figure out why now when you click on the pictures to enlarge them within the post they get HUGE instead of just bigger for you to see the details.  So anyone out there with a typepad blog if you can tell me what I'm doing wrong in the picture area please let me know - I'm using the custom part of the picture posting and it's still not working-grrrrrrrrr.  Ok enough of that let's stroll through Country Threads - WARNING - heavy picture post :)   EDIT - I think I might have fixed the problem so you can enlarge the pictures - finger crossed

 
 
 
 
 
 

Lot's of punchneedle and they are so creative in how they use the finished patterns - this was just a small corner of what they had
 


Here are the store samples of a few of the patterns I bought for Liberty Cottage




I picked up a few other misc. patterns to add to my already full pattern stash

A few of the peeps heading out with their treasures

Goodbye Country Threads - we had a BLAST

We did stop at one more quilt shop on the way home - it was a nice shop but nothing that really "snapped our socks". 

So 1 month away is the annual Kamp Karen at the lake and this will be our last one in the cabin.  Next year the peeps will have air conditioning and everyone will have a bed to sleep on as Liberty Cottage will change into our permanent home.  Last Wednesday was the monthly get together of the woolies and it was held at the lake place of one of the woolies.  Talk about a picture perfect day for being lakeside.  I took lots of pictures which I will share next time.  I also want to share my new venture with you but this post is long enough.  I PROMISE to return tomorrow - really I do and share both with you.

Until Next Time