SO MUCH TO OFFER AT OUR SHOW!!!

Time is growing short till the Oct. 5th show.

I have been working non stop making more merchandise.

This week it was hand drawn gift tags and leaf/fruit wreaths among other things.

Our face pumpkins called

'The Rejects'

were so much fun to make - I made over a dozen a few weeks ago
and then last week a few more, plus some plain ones.

The ones that don't sell at the show will be posted here and on my
business FB page so if you want one speak fast

when they are posted because they will go fast.

Just a few of the finished products

I will be taking orders for these gift tags as of now.
Email me if you want to order.

Click on the sheep on the right side of page.

They will be available after our Oct. 5th show.

The 8 Snowmen/Christmas are 8/$16 plus shipping

The Willow Tree and Pineapple are $2 each plus shipping.

These are my designs that I draw freehand and paint.
No rubber stamps used!!!

There is soooo  much more than what I'm showing here!!!
Oh and don't forget all our wonderful
Gourd Garlands!


If you live close enough to attend our show here's the information.
It's not your 'granny's craft show with
crocheted doilies, dish cloths, jewelry...none of that!!!

FRIENDSHIP!

Helen Keller wrote: 

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

How very true is this....friendship is so valuable and I enjoy the friendship we have here in blogland...

I don't post as often as I would like and I don't get to visit your blogs like I want to but know

that I think of all of you often - I miss the chats back and forth.

I would love to designate one hour a week to doing a post if I can get my work schedule like I want it.

I have been working every day from about 8 am to 5 pm on products for our October show. One would think making things every day one would be caught up...nope....some items take a process. It isn't just stitching something and calling it done. Many of my products have stages.

Last month (wow...it has been OVER a month now) since my last post I've made several

other products for the show besides the Gingerbreads and Pumpkins.

The most time consuming are my sheep and rabbits - oh I'm loving how they are turning out.

My sheep have real sheeps wool that I attached - I just need to add the legs and paint on their eyes.

They started out with just coffee dyed batting as their bodies but I didn't like them

so searching in my stash I found wool roving I have had for years and they look much better.

I made 4 mama's and 4 babies - because of the time consuming steps I won't be making more.

And these fellas were fun too - I had a problem with their ears standing up but finally got smart and added tons of Mod Podge to the aging liquid and walla!  We used cinnamon sticks for the legs.

Look at those fluffy little tails! 

Another project I loved doing were the SUGAR CONES

I had a hard time finding the right size vessel to form them until we were grocery shopping

and I saw these perfect 8 oz. plastic tumblers - they turned out great

after some trial and error in the ratio of water to sugars

Took a couple days for them to dry so when they were I sanded off the dried white sugars and softened the edges and tied them up with aged cheesecloth

Just a few things I've made - I need lots of small lamp and candle mats - people like to buy smaller  and less costly items sometimes so I like to make several of them

  

The Gingerbreads are going to be ornaments, the snowman heads

are for runners and pillows and the cats and sheep will be for runners.

I found this set of mache stacking boxes at a rummage sale last month - they were from 'Lang' and had some really primitive sheep scenes on them but I bought them to cover them in fabric.  They are really small - the largest is 4" tall and the smallest 2". They weren't easy to work with being so small.

On Monday we went to Madison to the wholesale show and we found just a few 'handmade' items.....I can't make EVERYTHING for our show, especially things like these. My talents aren't that creative or maybe I just haven't given myself the chance, regardless, we bought a few items for the show.

This particular one is a bag that hangs on a door or a knob.

We do have a few more items that will arrive in July 

sometime that will be in the Christmas line.

Well I guess I have bored you enough today - but being it is storming out I thought this would be a

good day to sit and relax and share some things with you.

The 4th is coming fast and it feels like we hardly had a summer.

The last 2 days were soooo hot here and very humid but those kind of days are rare this season - 

if it isn't cold then it's storming.

I'm not a Summer person so the cool days are fine with me...

Be safe with your 4th activities

Karen

TIME FLY'S!

Oh and does it ever....seems like only a year or so that Ms. Miranda was born and yesterday she went for her first day of Kindergarten.

They go to a Catholic school and I love that they wear uniforms...

love those little plaid skirts!

Our hearts melted when we saw this picture Darren and MaryAnn posted on FB...

look at that cheeky smile on her!!!!

Brother Aidan was there for her the whole time - very protective of that little girl.

The title Time Fly's is so appropriate for that part of my post and also for this part....

it is only 3-1/2 weeks until the Ohio show...it crept up so fast!

I have been working day and into early evening on merchandise.

I'm making a large assortment of items and different price points so it will appeal to everyone so that means lots of productivity.

I think I am finally drawing to an end except for the gourd and naturals garlands that we will make the week before the show as there just isn't any space left to store them.

Here's a peek at some of the items so far.

Thanks to a good friend Debra Gould, we are kept in dried Okra for some small garlands.... more is coming to me this week so I can make more of these..

This picture is hard to see but they are Shelly Bean hangings and Pumpkin garlands.

I need to restring the garlands as they are on white thread and looks silly - work ahead for me to do this as there are 9 of them, but the tan jute will look much better.

Here's information again on the show

The show is during Heritage Days Festival so a lot is happening around the farm

We will be in this barn on the back wall...come look for us!

Here's a partial list of vendors

RICK & STACEY McCLURE~Tattered-n-Torn Prims

handmade Wooden Wares & Cloth Handmades 

KAREN & DOUG MARTINSEN~KM Primitives

Primitive Handmades & Small Antiques

JULIE THORNTON~Crude Black Ewe

Antiques & Hooked Wares

CAROLYN THORNTON~Black Cat Primitives

Antiques & Primitives 

RON JONES~ Antiques 

KAREN BOWES~Brown Barn Door

Antiques & Collectibles 

ANITA HOOVER~Blue Barrel Antiques

JUDY LILLO~ Old Glory

Painted Wares & Antiques 

SANDRA MELERSKI~Farmhouse Mouse

Beautiful Handmades 

JACKIE MELERSKI~Gilmore Rudley

Handmade Wares 

KENT & JACKIE OSBORN

Antiques & Primitives 

CHERYL FREDERICK & IIA BANKS~ Junk & Disorderly

Vintage & Re-purposed Wares 

DAPHNE ROSS ~Just Enough Antiques

Antiques & Barn Finds 

ELLEN PERRY & GWEN WEBSTER

Antiques & Vintage Jewelry 

BOB & DIANA KEMMER

Antiques & Primitive Handmades 

BONNIE ELLIS

Antiques & Primitive Smalls

SANDY RISNER~ The Painted Chair

Antiques & Painted Wares 

LAURA WILLACKER

Vintage Wares 

ED & KATHY BRANDLE~Antiques At The Old Brick Church

STEPHANIE FOLEY~Rachel's Ladder

Prim-Farm Inspired & Rusy Antiques 

CINDI HURTT & ELAINE HATFIELD~Folk Art Stone

Handmade Jewelry & Primitive Handmades 

CAROL~Primitive Heart & Hand

Antiques & Primitive Handmades 

BITS & BOB 

MORE COMING SOON!

Thanks for visiting today!

Karen