Happy April!

Wishing you all a very happy April first!

{no foolin' & rabbit rabbit rabbit}

:)

what a beautiful morning here today ~

sunshine-y sleepy faces greeted us outside….

Pinocchio & Daisy sang us a hearty 

Good Morning!

Billy {a.k.a. Williamsburg Blue} 

was shaking the slumber from his tail-feathers…

and the Guinea hens were running about chasing sleepy bugs around ~

I can't believe it's April already...

almost Easter Sunday, even ~

Spring is happily being welcomed here!

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Peter brought me a 'gift' this morning….

two tiny chicks

nestled in his big gentle hands :)

hello little ones!

...Welcome to the beautiful world!!

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Yesterday

I had the pleasure of spending the day with not two, 

but three wonderful women ~

Joan, Felicia & I headed north up to Maryland

to the 

Beaver Creek Antique Market

in Hagerstown, MD

we met up with needlework designer

Kathy Barrick

and enjoyed a great lunch together…

the 4 of us did a lot of laughing and eating!

I brought home LOTS of plunder from the market

and will share with you my finds in another post-to-come…

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Here is another cross stitch finish that I'll be bringing along to release at the

PSS Retreat Merchant Mall later this month.

{THIS month???? YAY!!!}

I'm calling this ~

'Samplermaker's Hornbook'

I wanted to design a wooden hornbook 

...that showed my love for handwork & folk art ~

so I combined the heart & hand motif and came up with this…

and then I stitched a tiny alphabet and numerals 

~ stitched on my hand dyed 40ct Old Farmhouse Linen {1 over 2}

and only 2 colors of DMC floss:

645 & 3033

then I made a sweet little stuffed heart pincushion

from some older blue calico that I had in my workbasket ~

I wanted this to look like it would have been hung in an old farmhouse years ago

perhaps to use as a guide for the farmwife to mark her precious linens.

I love how it turned out & hope you like it too.

...the stained wooden hornbooks & paper patterns for the tiny simple marking sampler

will be offered at the PSS Merchant Mall 

~THEN~

 they will be added to our Etsy shop 

for those that can't attend the retreat/merchant mall :)

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Now I need to head outside to dye up a slew of linen ~

I will be taking advantage of the sunshine today for sure!

Have a beautiful day my Friends ~

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori