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Hello Friends & Folk!

Hoping you are all not melted into your stitching chairs?

hot hot hot

but it is Summer ~ after all. 

I am playing catch-up on all of the emails/convos/messages I received while away ~

so please have patience with me while I root through them all. 

~ I'll do my best to answer every single one!

Joan & I headed up north to PA, 

then up to CT and back again to PA before heading home again yesterday.

{we literally shopped our way up and back!}

of the many {many} shops we visited in Pennsylvania,

one of our VERY favorites was

Grant Street Woolworks

{https://www.facebook.com/GrantStreetWoolworks/}

 where we drooled on all of the lovelies Linda has in her quaint shop!

I needed more wool {really?} for upcoming projects

and found that GSW carries beautiful wools that' I've not seen before ~

like these:

 

and these: 

 

when Joan & I first opened the door to GSW ~ 

there were a few gals already busily looking through line patterns on the shops' large worktable ~

{Hi girls!}

but to my surprise ~ my sweet friend Kathy Makers

 of Primitive Homespuns Wool & Needleworks was there!!!! 

{Hi Kathy!}

Kathy sent me this photo below, 

of me holding Linda's tiniest-puppy-in-the-world!

we all thought it was a beanie-baby when her son brought it over to show us, but then it blinked!

{good grief I look like I want to take a bite out of that puppy!}

and btw, my t-shirt reads: Keep Calm and Eat Whoopie Pies not puppies, ha!

Joan & I also shopped at various needlework & quilting shops on our travels 

and these just sorta kinda jumped into my shopping buggy.

yum!

while visiting Connecticut, 

Joan & I and my sister and brother in law visited the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford.

I love garden toads and play with them every evening on our patio ~ 

~ so when I spotted this old heavy rusty iron toad, I had to have him....

of course he was the very first purchase I made, 

so dummy me lugged him around in the 90 + degree heat and hot sun for the rest of the day ~ 

 🐸

 

while I was away, Peter held down the farm ~

tending to our beloved animal friends and gardens...

and he even opened the shop for a special customer last Saturday!

{Thank you muchly Cindy & Hubby!!}

and here are a few garden snaps ~

fried green tomatoes on the menu for this evening...

 

overgrown with sweet annie ~

 

peppers and sausage? hmmmm....

 

our banana trees are getting big 

~ with all of this tropical-feeling heat & humidity!

 

and so are our puppies!!

yep, this is Big Black on the left, 

and little Black Dahlia on the right...

 

we call them 

Big & Dolly and they are quite the terrible-twosome....

in every good-puppy way of course ;)

 

I'm happy to be home again ~

miss my family in CT but love where I am planted.

 

 I'll be processing all orders tomorrow and Saturday and will begin shipping the new 

Little Stitches Handwork Club member's kits next week ~

and I'll share the finished July/Aug/Sept 2017 project tomorrw!

Keep cool everyone ~ don't let this heat make you grumpy.

eat ice cream, go for a swim, stitch in the shade 

& drink plenty of fresh lemonade with chocolate mint!

and don't forget to keep cool clean fresh water filled

 for your outdoor friends in this heat too please ~

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori