Around our home

Hi, Just thought I'd show you a few of my favorite things around our home. It's been a fun morning today. I went to a rug hooking class at Woolen Memories. I'll show you what I worked on when I get a little more done. Classes help to keep the creative juices going.

The first picture is our home. We built it about 6 years ago. Still have things to finish but I think thats because I keep changing things. I'll be glad when spring comes and the garden wakes up!

The rest of the pictures are some of my things that I have collected over the years. I've been going to the Brimfield flea market for 25 years. I worked for the Dr. in Brimfield and I started wandering around the fields on my lunch break. I was hooked! We've gone at least once a year since then, sometimes to all three. One year we drove up the back roads of Brimfield to avoid the traffic jam and I stopped at a tag sale. I found this pewter teapot there for $15! Best find I've ever made at a tag sale. 

This is a butter churn from an auction in Vermont.

Need to build a fire. It's looking gray and chilly out.

This is a rug that I hooked of our home. It's hanging in the front hall along with one that is a Polly Minick pattern.

Hope you have a great week-end and thanks for stopping by.  Jan

Finishing projects

Hi! I'm back after quite some time. I didn't get to go to Maine as planned. Health issues kept us home. Working on solving some of those problems. I've been finishing up some of my projects which is a good way to stay warm and watch it snow outside. We only got a couple of inches today. We've been pretty lucky so far this year. No big storms yet. Yet I said. Hope I'm not jinxing us! I was looking forward to a class with Sandy at Woolen Memories today but she had to postpone class til next Sat. since the flu came to her house. She is adding coils of wool to hooked rugs and it looks like it will be fun. Check it out at www.woolenmemories.net. Lucky me, I live just across town from her. It's fun to stop by her shop and drool over all the wool and patterns. I'm including a picture of a cross stitch piece from Pineberry Lane. It's almost done. Just need to find the right fabric to make it into a pinkeep.

Well I guess I'll get back to my stitching. Thanks for stopping by. Jan

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year! Time to take down all the Christmas decorations and get the house back to normal. My resolution for this year is to finish all those projects that I have started. Some of them are getting pretty old. Right now I'm working on a sampler that I started several years ago. It is from Old Sturbridge Village. Just need to finish the border. I want to age it but I'm a little afraid to do that because it must have hundreds of stitches that I would hate to ruin. I'm going to include a few pictures of my pewter,flo blue and

iron stone that is in my dining room. I'm ready to change them out for some Quimper that I collect.

The soup tureen belonged to my great grandmother and my great Aunt. My great grandmother was a lover of auctions and we are lucky to have inherited a lot of her belongings. She saved a lot of her treasures in old wooden barrels that were not opened for many years. It was so exciting to be able to unpack those barrels. She loved crocks with cobalt decorations on them. I have one of those and I love it. Well I guess I'd better get back to stitching. Hoping to go to Maine this week. We love to go to the Wells area. Nice to see the ocean when the crowds are not there. I collect sea glass and its easier to find in the winter. We spent most of last summer there and I have quite a bit of glass but you can never have too much! See you again soon. Jan