~ Summer Posting Schedule ~

Good Monday morning to everyone :)

I'm finding that there are just not enough hours in the 

day to get all the many things done.... needed to get 

Scattered Seed Samplers up & running smoothly.

I still have several hurdles to jump over in my new adventure! 

So after giving this much thought, I feel it necessary

to find more time to focus on getting my designing

going, and I've decided to have a ~

Summer Posting Schedule 

I will post every MONDAY & FRIDAY.

By the end of summer hopefully I'll be more settled in with

everything, and I'll be able to ADD BACK more posting

days at that time....I really love posting and will do

my best to make Mondays & Friday special!

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Today,  I'd like to share a couple of my husband's 

Folkart Crows....

~ Farm Folk Crows ~

My Irishman's specialty is carving original decoys, but I love Folkart....so he

spoils me with fun "one of a kind" treasures like these!

He carves everything by hand, including the cool pipe...then paints & antiques them.

  We both love antiques and recycle old things from the farm to use 

as the bases.

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Can you guess what's in this "Life Is Good" bag?

I bought this large canvas "Life Is Good" tote bag last year while

visiting our oldest son & family in Alexandria, Virginia at the 

Life is Good store in Old Town Alexandria....and it is

my favorite "Shipping" bag.

These are my weekend orders from Ebay & Etsy.

I go to our little post office in West Salem five days a week

with orders...and this bag works 

perfectly!

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I had gone into the basement looking for this....

Small sponges....I'm planning an experiment tonight with a new 

method for possibly antiquing "Spring Meadow" to be 

released at the end of the month.

It's a new discovery I found at Michael's yesterday and 

I'll let you know the results on Friday's visit.

I finally found my sponges, but they ended up being upstairs.

What I did find in the basement was this....

A very old hand whisk brush.....the handle is wrapped tightly with

wire and has a silver end cap.  The funny thing is I don't know

where it came from and don't remember every seeing it 

before....it must have belonged to the original

owners of the farmhouse!

What an unexpected fine...I'll have to add it to my little 

collection of brooms & brushes.

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Do you know what this is.....?

This is fresh cut "Sweet Grass".

I will continue to keep cutting it every couple days....until I 

can't get anymore!

Here I've wrapped it into little bundles....ready to start the 

drying process.

I will have to go back to the basement to get my old drying rack....until I 

bring it up this old yard stick will do the job.

Wait until you see what I create with this Sweet Grass...I think

you'll probably like it....if I get a good harvest I will

sell the bundles in my Etsy shop....stay tuned!

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Update on Spring Meadow Sampler....stitching is finished,

frame is all picked out...hope to frame on Tuesday.

My framing has always been in the basement of the farmhouse,

but while sorting through frames yesterday I decided this

too needed to be better organized in my Studio.

So I've starting moving my frame stash up from

the basement & out to the Studio....

Here I'm using an old wicker plant stand to organize some of the medium 

size frames.

This was Samuel's antique wicker baby bassinet, he's 21 now and this

was an antique when I bought it....so it really getting old now.

There is no way I can ever part with it....so it will help 

to organize the larger frames.

On Friday I'll share more pictures of this finished project, as

I'm still trying to organize the smaller frames in the

old yarn cubby holes.....and gathering all my 

framing tools and such.

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Next, I'd like to share one of my favorite old sewing boxes....

This is a wonderful box with an inlayed carved lion.

Original velvet covered pincushion on top.

The little drawer has an ivory nob, and the drawer is dove tailed. 

The best part is that when you pull the drawer all the 

way out, and look way down inside, the 

maker had signed his name and it's

dated 1852!

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I must wrap this up for today and I'm looking forward to 

visiting with you again on FRIDAY.

Please find SERENITY in your day, and in all

that you do, and wherever life takes you.

~ SOUL FOOD FOR THE WEEK ~

The fruits of the Spirit are; Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,

Faithfulness, Gentleness & Self Control.....Galatians 5:22

I just love that last one ~ self control ~ it's what binds them all TOGETHER!!!

~ Blessings to ALL....Kindly, Tammy ~