New Find

The weather has been beautiful the last few days,

 no rain and cooler.

 Pog and I have been working outside,

cleaning up flower beds, trimming trees and clearing brush.

A feeling of Autumn is in the air. 

I love this time of year!

Cool nights, the sound of the crickets and

 the squirrels busy gathering 

for what may turn out to be a long snowy winter. 

I don't mind but since Pog has to go to work, he does. 

Besides working outside in the yard, 

I have put 26 quarts of oven roasted tomato sauce in the freezer,

 made 4 pints of blackberry jam, made 4 runs of pesto and

 next week I will put corn in the freezer.

It is a lot of work but will be so good this winter! 

Oven roasted tomato sauce.

 Sorry I don't have anything from the studio to show you. 

I haven't worked on much, other than to finish up some UFO's 

and I have started piecing a new quilt. 

I'll show that next time since I could not get the pic's to load.

I can show you my latest find. 

While visiting The Collectors Antique Mall in Asheboro, NC, 

I noticed this crock sitting on the floor.

 The dasher and lid are much older and had been married to this salt glazed churn.

There are no markings on the churn (other than the 2) and it is not antique 

nor does not appear to be factory made. 

It has all the characteristics of being hand made.

The price was 32 dollars. 

It came home with me along with 

an old large key and little gray enamel berry pail!

For now it has joined my other crocks sitting under the hutch.

What do you think? 

Did I get a good deal? 

He is a sweetie!

I am dog sitting my grand doggie Jack for the rest of the week!

He and Sadie don't get along very well 

so we are staying quiet and working in the studio between walks.

Hope you are having a good week so far. 

Louise

Back to the Looms

I have been away from weaving for a while now 

and need to get back to the looms.

 

 

I sold my last cabin rug so it is time to restock,

 before the next studio tour.

Sadie is sleeping in a pool of sunlight by the door.

She is not much help, 

can't throw a shuttle 

but she is a whole lot of company

 and I love her so!

Wishing all of you a 

pampered, spoiled cat kinda day!

Louise and Sadie

Sweet Lips

Ooh and what sweet strawberry lips she has!

 She also has butterfly wings, 

strawberries on her slippers 

and she has picked the velvetiest strawberry in the patch!

 

 

Butterfly wings !!

Slippers with little strawberries.

A vintage glass button.

Here she is hanging on the studio entrance door.

I had so much fun making the wings.

Miss Strawberry Sweet Lips is made with my hand dyed wool, 

lots and lots of hand stitching,

 and a whole lot of love.

Last Day of July?

Okay, where did July go?

I can't believe it is almost August. Time is flying by.

It has been the rainiest, gloomiest, foggiest time here in the NC mountains,

 I can remember since moving here in the late 70's.

We have had so much rain!

The last couple of days have felt more like fall with temps in the 50's at night.

Pog and I did a marathon day of yard work yesterday before rain came back today.

It is like living in a jungle because of so much moisture. 

The yard has been mowed twice a week when it is not wet and the weeds grow overnight. 

There is just no way to keep up right now.  

We are still cleaning up storm damage from June.

All the work we did yesterday, weed eating and cutting up trees

 has made for sore backs and legs!

I think we are getting too old for that type of work. 

Maybe it is time we started thinking about moving out of the woods!

We have had a couple of visitors to our woods.

The deer is welcome, even if she is eating my hosta's 

but this guy is very unwelcome.

Here he is checking out an empty bird box on the tree in our back yard.

We are rethinking getting another big outside dog now, 

especially if he or she keeps coming back!

I've had to take a break so I can clean house for company coming this weekend, so I will leave you with one more hint of the new door greeter I am working on.

Oh! Almost forgot to show you this great bag of wool remnants, 

I got from http://www.heavens-to-betsy.com/

I love getting remnants like this for my dolls and stitching!

This is very nice wool and on sale right now.

 

I'll be back next week with pics of the finished door greeter.

Wishing you a great weekend!