The Thankful Tree

I am working on this right now for 2012. Saw this online and they were going to call it the "Blessing Branches". Every Christmas day before any presents are opened revisit all the specific blessings you've hung on the tree throughout the year and praise God for His many gifts. Truly the best gifts of all! They used card stock (recycled of course). This is such a good thing.

Weather rock

Our local weather person reported that today would be sunny with a high of 79. Hmmm I'm missing the sunny part. This is not a good thing because I started the oven early, the gas oven since I assumed it was going to be too warm to fire up the wood cook stove. LaVern likes me to wash clothes, vacumn or bake early and then the batteries will have all day to fully charge again. I have a gas stove BUT it has an electronic ignite and that drains electricity. We were really surprised at how much it uses, ALOT. We are watching for an old style gas stove (one I will light with a match) and will replace this new one with that. Anyway, no sun and the meter is ticking down! The positive side is LaVern will have Cinnamon Scones and Range cookies for his lunch the rest of the week!! In the mean time, I am going to put up a weather rock.

Four rugs finished!

Hard to see in the picture but the little round circles are quillies (I think that is what they call them!). They are little rolled circles of wool strips, the two orange ones are antique paisleys.


Small mat, design by my friend, Betsy. That's my foot at the bottom of the photo! lol

You have some new wool and can't wait to wash it to felt it. Things get busy at home and you forgot to check the wool in the washer. Oops........it felted WAY too much and is very thick. What to do? Either cut it in small strips (I am a wide strip hooker) or use it for the binding which I love doing.

Okay, this is an eagle. He is just primitive. When I designed the rug I wanted something to depict the 13 colonies, hence the 13 stars. Then since we were a new country I made the eagle new or young. Young eagles do not have the white on them hence the dark eagle! This is a wide strip rug.

Lastly a penny runner. These look great on a primitive table. Mine is there right now with a primitive rabbit keeping watch over the eggs! More rugs in the works and some needing finished so I best get moving. I am actually upstairs spring cleaning the grandchildren's bedroom as school will be out before I know it and then busy, busy summer! Take joy.

Imperfection

I am sitting upstairs in my wool room looking at a piece of background and hoping a simple design comes to mind. What did come to my mind is that I need to "draw outside the lines". I look at my grandchildren's drawings and think, simple. How difficult can that be? hmm It must be tougher than I thought because right now I seem to be "drawing a blank".