"Some" Final Finishing ~

Good Tuesday Morning Friends & Folk ~

a wonderfully chilly (57*) start to our day here at the farm…

...I swear I can feel a little bit of Autumn on the breeze :)

I am enjoying a brisk, steaming cup of my favorite tea on the porch ~ 

{Peter always makes my tea for me int the mornings…such a nice thing to do}

Speaking of Peter,

he has been busy in his workshop ~ 

...creating new things from the trees which are harvested & milled right here at home.

Anything I come up with, I know Pete can make for me….

we make a good team ~

here are a couple of frames that I painted yesterday:

these will house two of my soon-to-be-released cross stitch designs ~

comb-painted using bittersweet over chocolate colored paint ~

moss over soot colored paint

since I work primarily with textiles, it is always fun for me to do paint wood ~

I love the process of choosing the colors and the distressing of my finishes….

big & little

we've also come up with a unique finish (below)

 for one of my (soon-to-be-released) punch needle designs,

WHICH {witch?} we cannot take full credit for ~

my dear bff Joan has been pestering asking me to do this for a while now,

and I just can't take it anymore kindly obliged ~

here is a tease:

oh just wait till you see…… ;)

I'll be working on more 'finishes' today ~

will share them here in a day or two for you.

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Every evening, right around 7:00 ~

we are visited by this little girl….

a yearling doe.

She comes to the backyard feeder which is just outside my kitchen window.

...she has thee sweetest face and always listens to me talk to her while I'm washing the supper dishes.

….and here are our two lovable, affable donkey-folk ~

Daisy & Pinocchio

they are very much friends with the resident deer population, 

occasionally sharing their paddock with the one or two deer 

that decide that the grass inside the fence is sweeter than that outside the fence ~

i love their soft muzzles and chin-whiskers!!

This morning,

Peter has taken the Three Amigos (a.k.a. the kittens)

to be spayed & neutered.

I couldn't go because I cry when I leave them

 (yeah, I know…don't go there.)

They will be home tomorrow morning again ~ sore & mad-as-hell at us I'm sure ~

but spaying & neutering is really the best thing to do, even though I could have 100 more kittens.

Kittens are like potato chips ya know ~ you just can't have one.

Have a beautiful day my friends ~

* Blessed be * 

Lori