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

Ohio Shows

A little late getting this posted but I'm here now!

The last couple weeks have been so much fun!

We took a drive to Ohio to go to the Gathered Treasures show,
Earlier Times show and Simple Goods show.
Such wonderful primitive and antique shows ever!!!

We had all day on Friday before the Earlier Times show started (it opened at 4:00)
The drive to Curry's was so beautiful!

At Ginny Curry's antiques I found these adorable orange cups we're going to put on our kitchen tree and fill them with whole cloves - along with strung cranberries.

I bought 4 the first time and then after thinking about them a lot
we drove back and bought 6 more.

I know I could make them but they were $2 each and just the work to make them
it seemed a no brainer to buy them, so I got 6 more!

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We left there and went to Miller House Antiques and the only things we found there were some candles and a wonderful pine tree scented candle - I only burn it for a couple hours

each day so it won't be gone by holiday time.

The candles are a primitive blue - and hand dipped.

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We had time in between the shops to have something to eat so we stopped at Max & Erma's and across from us was a lady with a little girl...she looked over and then a bit later asked me if I was Karen...when I said yes she was shocked! lol  She said she reads my blog all the time and was so happy to meet me - we talked back and forth a bit and before they left we got a picture.

This is Crystal with her granddaughter Ava

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We got to the Earlier Times show to stand in line around 3:00 - stood for an hour.

Saw Teresa Miller there and had a nice visit with her.

Aren't we silly people to stand in line for these things! ☺

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The next day we were in line early for the

GATHERED TREASURES show

Again...about an hour in line....

A lady came up to me in line and asked if I was Karen, and did I have a blog...

All during the show I saw so many FB and Blog friends.

Me and Sandy

These are the other ladies I met during the show

This lovely lady is Carolyn Thornton

who put the Gathered Treasures show on

Me and Charleen Perry

On Friday when we were at Ginny Curry's she was the first to come up to me and ask if I was Karen....

and we saw her at all 3 shows and had such a nice talk.

With Alice Fraizer

She has some awesome rug hooking patterns and wool, so of course I had to buy wool!!!

 http://folkartprimitives-alice.com/

With Beth Pulsipher

https://www.rubylane.com/shop/redmoonantiques

With Julie Butler

http://plumruncreek.blogspot.com/

With Teresa Miller

Teresa has 2 blogs plus her Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/shop/teresasprimtreasures

With Earlene Landis

With Janet McClure

With Diane Ward

There's a little story here - several years ago I posted on my blog how to make 'Pantry Cakes', well Diane made them and emailed me with a picture of how hers turned out...we chatted and talked about our home in Country Sampler and she asked how one went about that, I told her to send me photos of her home

and I then sent them to Country Sampler and they put her home in as well!!!

It was such a surprise when she came up to me at the show and introduced herself...

I was so happy to finally meet her.

I also met a lady I didn't get a photo of because I didn't have my camera

and Doug was on the other side of the building relaxing by this time!!!

So I want to give a big hello to

Michele Mellert Howman

I hope you don't mind that I'm using your FB photo!

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We finally got over to the Simple Goods show before we left for home,

Found a couple things there

This candle box is our favorite piece from Simple Goods

We're going to switch out the glass front for an old screen

Hope to find a nice spot to hang it in the den

A few photos from Simple Goods.

It was so busy with shoppers we didn't get but these 3 

And the rest of the things we bought - not much

And NO, this ginger boy isn't going to ride the reindeer!!!

I just couldn't get a good picture of it 😊

And another bonnet to add to the collection

I hope you enjoyed our road and shopping trip to Ohio!

See you next week when I'll post about our couple days up at my brothers place up north.

Karen