Friday, December 23, 2016

The Prince of Peace is Coming ~

Welcome dear needlefolk friends!

I've got some fantastic news to share!
Remember our wounded feathered friend...

I followed up with the Humane Society on Monday
and found out that he's doing really well!

He's eating and flying in his cage!
They took complete x~rays and found 
no broken bones or wings.

He is being transported to a Falcon
rehab facility in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin
until he is fully recovered and ready
to be released back on our farm!

It was a bitterly cold day when my 
husband found him, and they think that
perhaps the cold had depleted his 
energy and ability to fly...now he's
flying just fine.

The specialist in Prairie will be 
able to help him recover...yay!

I'll post updates as we learn more!

🎄🎄🎄

Our oldest son Nathan & family came
home early this year for Christmas and
have now left this past Wednesday.

Our grandchildren had fun playing in the snow...

A wee snowman created by wee kids...
Rachel & Caleb Black!

Rachel is 5 and Caleb is only 2!

🎄🎄🎄

Thursday we decided we needed 
a drive in the country to clear our heads...

Drive by photos taken by none other than my
traveling photographer son Sam!

Such sweet curious faces!


Very politely,
 this gently little gal let Sam take her photo! 


The day was still & chilly, 
but yet sunny and so lovely!


Gentle streams running through 
the country farm land!


Signs of a recent snowfall on the hillsides!


Even a couple country churches!


There is something so soothing 
about country churches! 

🎄🎄🎄

Now today, Friday, we are in the 
middle of yet another snow storm...

My short walk from the farmhouse
to my Studio shows the extra
large snowflakes!


Expecting 4" before it's over!


Bundling up is a must in my neck of the woods,
just to walk out our long driveway to get the mail,
and to feed my little feather friends who
are always eagerly awaiting my arrival!


It's getting onto supper time as I finish up 
this blog and my husband is just outside the
Studio plowing my parking lot and 
shoveling my walkway for me!


The front display window of the 
Farm Shop Studio was very simply this
year...the candles illuminating the angels is
so pretty when nightfall comes! 

I purchased these two angel statues  
25 years ago, they stand about 22" high
...so beautiful in person!

I'll have to take a close up of them on a nice
sunny day so you can also enjoy their
 heavenly reflections!

🎄🎄🎄

Farm Shop 
will be closed this Saturday
in Celebration of Christmas Eve...

We will re~open 
on Saturday, December 31st.

🎄🎄🎄

Weekend Soul Food...

For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be 
upon his shoulder: 
and his name shall be called

Wonderful,
Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6...KJV

🎄🎄🎄

Tidings of great joy from all of us 
here at Scattered Seed Samplers
to each & every one of you!

Christmas Blessings to All,
Lovingly, Tammy


Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Club Updates...

Welcome dear needlefolk friends!

Just a quick update to let all 
Schoolgirl Samplar Club members
know that the"Harvest of Plenty"
kits shipped out in today's mail...YAY!


&~&~&

I'm working on 
Little Sparrow Pinkeep Clubs
year end kit for 2016!

Before December is over 
I'll be sharing the new club
schedule for 2017!

♦♦♦

May goodness fill your soul
this Christmas Season!

Kindly, Tammy





Friday, December 16, 2016

A Winter's Day ~

Welcome dear needlefolk friends!

We are in the middle of a big snow storm...
expecting 10" before it's over!

It's safe to say we'll be
enjoying a White Christmas! 


"Olde Man Winter" may be showing
his face today, but that's just part of being
born and raised in Wisconsin!


Yesterday we could hear a flock of 
Swans flying over our farm...


Sounded like they were saying; 
WE'RE OUTTA HERE!

Hope they find a nice warm state to
land in real soon!

❆~❆~❆

After running errands this morning 
 I found my husband and son waiting for
me in my studio with a very
unusual surprise...


A wounded Kestrel!


This fellow swooped into my husbands shop.

Wounded, my husband picked him up and 
carried him outside for a few photos.


Kestrel's are North America's smallest falcon,
the American Kestrel packs a predator's fierce
intensity into its small body.


They brought him over to my Studio 
because I just happen to have 
a big old brass bird cage!


Kestrel's are one of the most colorful 
of all raptors.  


The male's slate~blue head and wings
contrast elegantly with his rusty~red back and tail.


Check out those talons!
Kestrel's love hunting for insects and other
small prey in open territory, perching on
wires or poles, or hover facing into the 
wind, flapping and adjusting their long 
tails to stay in place.


We're still not sure how he's hurt?


So, he patiently rested while my 
husband made some phone calls.

We ended up taking him to our local
humane society, which has an excellent care
facility for wounded birds.

They said we can check back on his
progress in a week and when he has
fully recovered they want to release him
 back on our farm.

The staff really liked the old brass bird cage!

❆~❆~❆

Schoolgirl Samplar Club Update...


The back ordered WDW Thread has
FINALLY arrived!

I'll be working all weekend on getting 
kits packaged up, with an expected ship date
of Tuesday, December 20th.

I sincerely apologize for the 
very unexpected delay...thank you 
for your patience!!

❆~❆~❆

I'm still working on last minute
Christmas decorating...


After things settle down,
I'll post some farmhouse pics!

❆~❆~❆

Farm Shop will be open on Saturday...

If you're out braving the weather,
please stop in to warm up...I'd LOVE 
to meet YOU!

Our Farm Shop is located at ~
W4253 County Road B
West Salem, Wisconsin 54669
(608) 799~4418

If Saturday's don't fit into your schedule,
please call to make arrangements for 
a weekday!

❆~❆~❆

Weekend Soul Food...

Behold the fowls of the air:
for they sow not, neither do they reap,
nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are ye not much better than they?

Matthew 6:26...KJV

❆~❆~❆

Enjoy a wonderful weekend...stay warm & safe!

Farmhouse Blessings,
Tammy


Friday, December 9, 2016

Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas ~

Welcome dear needlefolk friends!

A few short days ago we received news 
that our oldest son and his family are coming
home for Christmas EARLY...this coming Monday!

Soooo, I've been preoccupied with 
endless cleaning and decorating...


But, not without the help from my husband, 
and son Sam, we work well together 
with a team effort spirit!


Sam, even completely re~painted our 
small downstairs bathroom...looks so nice!

❆ ⛄ ❆

It's been bitterly cold here in Wisconsin
the last few days...Brrrr!

My husband gifted me with two large sacks
of birdseed...yay, now I can bundle up to
go out and feed the birds!


Quite and peaceful morning here on the farm!


Our fence post crow (decoy) is waiting & watching
for more snow to arrive...we're expecting
5"~7" inches Saturday night!


This weekend I must get our Christmas Tree
put up and decorated...do you have yours up yet?

Holidays are so exhausting,
but I'm looking forward to January...

Yes indeed...
 January is my month to relax,
unwind and regroup!

❆ ⛄ ❆

Farm Shop will be open on Saturday...

If you're in the area,
please stop by...I'd LOVE to meet YOU!

Our Farm Shop is located at ~
W4253 County Road B
West Salem, Wisconsin  54669
(608) 799~4418

If Saturday's don't fit into your schedule,
please call to make arrangements for 
a weekday!

❆ ⛄ ❆

Weekend Soul Food...

Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1.:18...KJV

❆ ⛄ ❆

Wishing you a holly, jolly Christmas!
Kindly, Tammy



Friday, December 2, 2016

Early Workbasket ~ "Code of Instructions for Ladies 1827"

Welcome dear needlefolk friends!

Can you believe Christmas is just around 
the corner...will you be ready?

💮~💮~💮

For today's Early Workbasket feature I would
 like to share with you some interesting
 history from the 19th century...


During the 19th century women in America
had never lacked instruction on how to behave,
this material greatly increased, spurred by the growing
literacy rate among women, an increase in their 
leisure time, and the invention of lower~cost 
printing machinery.

Spiritual sustenance became available to women 
of all economic levels via newspapers, manner books,
and magazines.  

The pioneer magazine in ladies' how~to literature,
The Lady's Book, started in 1830 by Louis A. Godey
and soon known as Godey's Lady's Book.

Even daily newspapers served as advisers
 to women.  On November 28, 1827, a 
"Code of Instructions for Ladies" in the
Baltimore American & Commercial Daily Advertiser
summarized society's expectations of its women...


1.  Let every wife be persuaded that there are two ways
   of governing a family; the first is by the expression
of that will which belongs to force; the second by 
the power of mildness.  One is the power of the 
husband; the wife should never employ any other
arms than gentleness...


2.  Avoid contradicting your husband...


3.  Occupy yourself only with your household affairs...


4.  Never take upon yourself to be  censor of your
husband's morals...


5.  Command his attention by being always 
attentive to him...


6.  All men are vain, never wound this vanity...A wife
 may have more sense than her husband, but
she should never seem to know it...


7.  When a man gives wrong counsel, never
make him feel that he has done so...


8.  When a husband is out of temper, 
behave obligingly to him...


9.  Choose well your female friends;
have but few...


10.  Cherish neatness without luxury,
and pleasure without excess;
dress with taste, and 
particularly with modesty...


11.  Never be curious to pry into your
 husband's concerns...


12.  Seem always to obtain information from him,
especially before company, though you 
may pass yourself for a simpleton.  Never
forget that a wife owes all her importance to 
that of her husband. Leave him entirely master
of his actions, to go and come whenever he
thinks fit.

💮~💮~💮

Wow, what a list of rules to live by,
times have certainly changed...don't you think!

A woman had always been considered a jewel
in her husband's crown...do you think that is still
true in today's society?

💮~💮~💮

Schoolgirl Samplar Club Update...


Unfortunately, one of the Weeks Dye Works threads
is on back order, as soon as it arrives I'll be able
to provide you with a ship date!

I'm so very sorry for the unexpected delay!

💮~💮~💮

Farm Shop will be open on Saturday...


If you're in the area,
please stop by...I'd LOVE to meet YOU!

Our Farm Shop is located at ~
W4253 County Road B
West Salem, Wisconsin 54669
(608) 799~4418

If Saturday's don't fit into your schedule,
please call to make arrangements for
a weekday!

💮~💮~💮

Weekend Soul Food...

Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,
so that he shall have no need of spoil.

She will do him good and not evil all 
the days of her life.

Proverbs 31:10~12...KJV

💮~💮~💮

Hope you enjoyed today's 
Early Workbasket!

Enjoy a wonderful weekend,
Tammy