Miss Matilda...coming soon!

Welcome friends and neighbors to the start of 

a brand new week!

How are the temperatures in your hometown?

All day Friday, Saturday and Sunday it was

absolutely beastly hot here in my area!

We decided to go to Gold Rush on Friday

before everything got all picked over!

I'm so glad we did or I might not have been so blessed 

to find such wonderful sewing treasures to 

add to my ever growing collections...

It's possible to find scissors, thimbles and tomato pinkeeps

individually...but scarce as hens teeth to find

a complete unused set in the original box!

I think me heart missed a few beats when I saw this lovely

original box stamped Sterling Silver on the lid...

On the bottom is the hand written provenance stating

to whom this set was gifted and dated...I'm still

in awe!

The little tomato is in mint condition...no holes or leakage!

The scissors are still sharp!

I love the wonderful old patina on all three pieces...should 

 I polish them or not?

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This was my best ever Gold Rush for finding

these hard to find Sterling Silver pinkeeps and emeries...

Isn't this the sweetest little apple cutting board?

It worked great to display all my goodies on!

Starting on the left side ~

~ small tomato pinkeep

~ acorn emery with Sterling Silver cap

~ Sterling Silver acorn thimble holder w/pinkeep tip

~ green Stanhope childs thimble holder

right side ~

~ small tan heart emery/Sterling cap

~ large taupe heart emery/Sterling cap

~ mini tomato waxer/Sterling cap...rare!

bottom ~

~ Sterling Silver fish needle case

I love, love, love them all...especially the fish needle case!

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I also love to collect bee related sewing tools... 

Check out this sweet turned wood "Bee Skep" 

thread holder with a cutter on top!

Unscrews to refill with a spool of thread, then fed through

the little hole. 

Even has a built in thread cutter on top!

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My last treasure is for my old sheep collection...

Lovely cast iron sheep...front side.

...back side.

Well, I'm all antiqued out until the spring

Gold Rush!

I love to sit and stitch surrounded by all my 

 collections...they fill me with peace and contentment!

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I would like to share this last photo with you because

it is such a wonderful early shaker piece...

What a great early basket...I could only afford to take

a picture of this piece!

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~ Studio News ~

I'm happy to share with you a sneak peek of a 

Halloween sampler I've been working on...

Coming soon..."Miss Matilda"

Model is being stitched with overdyed threads on 

Weeks Dye Works ~ Confederate Grey.

I'm really having fun working on Matilda, 

and hope to have her released very soon to my distributors!

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Look at who watches me close up the Studio at night...

These little "Tree Toad" guys love to hang around the Studio yard lights!

With suction cup toes for intricate climbing missions and 
such big eyes...they are truly unique little critters!

This fellow is content hanging out on my bird house roof,

directly under one of the night lights.

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~ Weekly Soul Food ~

choose you this day whom ye will serve:

...but as for me and my house, 

we will serve the Lord.

~ Joshua 24:12...KJV ~

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Enjoy a great week my friends, until Friday...take care!

My first sighting of "Goldenrod"...a sure sign

  that Autumn is just around the corner!