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!!!

FESTIVE TIMES ARE COMING!

The wonderful festive family times are almost here...Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So many things to reflect on at Thanksgiving...so many things to be thankful for.

Christmas...opening gifts and celebrating. But we all need to remember during those fun moments the real reason we can celebrate...our one huge gift of all.

I have finally caught up on orders for my penny rugs and can now

give my full attention to things around here.

This one was very hard to part with...it is 19-1/2" x 51-1/2"

I mailed it this weekend so hope she loves it as much as I do.

This one will get shipped to IL today!

Last week we got new carpeting for our family room, stairway and upper hall.

We disliked the carpet we had installed 4 years ago and could not wait to replace it...

now the room looks like it should - Warm and cozy.

Here's the room with the old carpet...it's a beige but shows a very pink tone with red.

Even after vacuuming it always looked dirty where you would walk and it wasn't dirty.

Very frustrating.

The next project here is stripping the wall paper in the den, painting and then stenciling.

We can't make up our mind though if we want to carry the family room paint color into the den or do it a light color. So I painted several poster boards and will do a mock stencil to see how it looks on that paint color.

Thes are kind of blurry but these are the designs I'll be using.

This is the divider

This one will be all around the top (below the crown molding)

These will be down the wall (between the divider)

I want to thank all my wonderful customers who purchased all my left over merchandise from the show....it is now all gone!!!

Except for the gourd garlands...we have a few left that I put ON SALE.

If interested check them out here - sale goes through the 15th:

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/

I'm anxious and ready to get going on Christmas decorating but that will start the day after Thanksgiving....how about you, when do you start your Christmas decorating?

Blessings to you all and thank you for visiting!

Karen

A bit of show and tell

Things are finally going to get back to normal around here -
I got the pins removed from my finger!

 Amazing how not being able to use the full capacity of ones hand
really makes so many things difficult, if not impossible.

But on to better things.

A couple weeks ago I decided to make a traditional early style penny rug for us...
after all these years we do not have one.

I love all the colors in this one and they will be stitched on a wool army blanket.

I laid the pennies in the order I wanted, then had to mark on the backs of each one the number in the spot they would go back on after I stitched the two pennies together.

I am really anxious to start stitching because the colors take on a deeper tone with the stitching - and those few bright gray ones will tone down considerably when stitched.

Last Friday we took a very long day trip to Arcola, IL to some Primitive Antique shows.

Everything in all 4 shows was so beautiful but sooo expensive.

The show we went mainly for was Homesteaders On The Prairie...a wonderful and affordable show plus we always see familiar faces there.

Among the ones we saw was Carolyn Thornton from Black Cat Primitives

 - she is always so upbeat and smiling!

Saw this sweet pillow she made and I thought it would look good on the guest bed -

tie it in with the old quilt at the bottom of the bed

Also found a long paddle I think a long tall snowman punch needle would look nice on. 

It isn't old but I loved the shape.

This homespun wool I thought would make a very neat looking sheep on a hooked piece

At one of the shows we saw 3 very nice Penny Rugs.

Would of loved the one on the wall but the price was too out of line.

I love the outline stitching on this one.

Cool Red/White/blue one

A couple weeks ago we went up to Fox & Fork where I consign at

and they had a whole tub of graters and such - love the little hand scrub board.

Going to mount punch needle on these at some point.

I imagine with the new year that started many of you made a resolution to eat healthy.

We did but haven't been too good at following it like we should but now and then

we do and last night I made a delicious stir fry and it's probably

one of the easiest and healthiest dishes you could eat.

Do you find you make enough to feed a whole table of people?

Seems no matter what I make after all these years of just the two of us

I can't seem to cut back on the ingredients and make a ton of it.

Tonight we go over to UW Whitewater for granddaughter Emily's band concert.

We haven't seen her in several weeks and we'll also celebrate her 19th birthday.

We are so proud of Em - she received another scholarship last week and also got a job for the summer at the Kenosha, WI museum for Public History which is her major.

I'll close now - as again I never know when to stop writing 😊

Blessings to you all and thanks for stopping by

Karen

SO IT'S FINALLY HERE!

2017 that is!

A new year...new ideas...new goals!

I plan on getting some much needed painting done in the house this winter - the wood trim is badly in need of it.  Two winters ago when we redid our bedroom I planned on doing it all but ran out of steam and then last winter I was recouping from my back surgery and I really don't like to paint in the summer...so bring it on this winter!!!

But....to say a bit about Christmas....the only Christmas party we had was our annual 'cousins' get-together on the 20th.

Always a good fun time and this year my brother/SIL and step brother/wife got to join us....some cousins couldn't make it.

Christmas Eve afternoon our wonderful neighbors the Aldrich's made their annual cookie visit bringing again a wonderful tray of the best homemade cookies ever.

The dad and the girls do the baking every year....mom, not so much.

They were all dressed in Packer garb because there was a Christmas Eve Packer game.

I didn't get a picture of the cookies this year - 

but you can see part of the tray on the counter.

One daughter was missing (5 in all) because she was in PA for Christmas with the in-laws.

Zayne couldn't be here for the full time on Christmas day so we had our granddaughter Alex and him here the day after Christmas so he could open his gifts.

This winter I'm hoping I can get to work on some of my hooked rug projects that I have in the process and a couple I want to start.

Been working on this one for 3 years now - and one I hope to finish....it's really large so I guess that's the reason I can't seem to finish it (that's what I'm telling myself anyway lol).

I haven't even started on this one - when I see a neat pattern I just can't resist buying it

(along with all the wool of course!)

And this beauty...a beautiful early style Penny rug!

So that brings me to New Years Eve....we stayed home as usual and had our 'usual' dinner.

Doug had his (4 lbs.) crab legs and a T-Bone steak.

I had the tenderloin portion of his steak and some deep fried shrimp....and never saw the stroke of midnight....don't remember the last time we did...

we never stayed up when we were younger either.

Over on my selling site I put some Holly mats on sale

They are what is all that's left from the items I take to consign at the shops.

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/prim-needs.html

You can find this sweet snowman punch needle as well

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/finished-punch-needle_30.html

So that brings me up to date!

I want to say to any one who has tried to leave a comment and can't - I am sorry - 

I don't know how to change it.  I've gone into the setting and just can't seem to 

find any thing different than before.

I know blogger has changed a lot of its inner workings and that has caused us problems. 

So if you really, really want to comment just send me an email...

you can find the link on the right side column.

Thanks so much for all your wonderful comments and faithful following over the past year(s) - I hope to continue blogging but we'll see.

Blessings and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone

Karen