~ Early Morning Farmhouse ~

I love waking earlier than Peter...going downstairs to a quiet kitchen

 {read: before Peaches, our parrot hears me and begins yelling "Morning! Morning!"} 

I quietly get the tea kettle from the woodstove, 

pour myself a piping cup and head back upstairs to my sewing room

to peruse my favorite blogs, FB and of course, Pinterest...

I love the way the morning light slants into our old wavy glass windows...

casting beautiful plays of shadow and sunlight onto my cozy stitching nest ~

this room is where all of my dreaming, creating and designing begins 

so I fill it with inspiration pieces that speak to my vintage/primitive and needlework-loving heart.

pretty things, old things,

 odd things that no one else may want 

but that I find beautiful in the simplicity or wear in and of them ~

tattered lace, yellowed and stiff with age

mingles with beloved jewels made by dear fiends and some by myself as well.

small pieces of memories that keep my mind full of inspiration for future things to create...

  

I can easily get lost in here {and do!} for hours...

rummaging through my piles of fabrics, wools and linens ~

re-discovering threads in dark corners and half-finished projects that were meant to be perhaps a new design that somehow found it's way into a drawer, only to be brought back out in the light and reimagined now ~ to finally be resurrected.

As the sunlight strengthens and shines brighter, 

I hear my husband stirring in the bedroom and know that another busy day is ahead for us both...

there will be many cups of tea and coffee to fuel us, there will be much discussing and planning

and then our workday begins.

He, creating with his beloved wood ~

Me, plying those needles & thread in some way or another....

~ here are the most recent things to come from my punch needle:

'Santa Deer' and 'Peace Dove'

patterns coming soon, both paper & PDF

 

and of course I have another in my hoop ~

'Christmas Heart & Holly'

 

Our daughter Hannah will be coming home today ~

we will shop this eve for our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow...

it's always so good when she comes home.

♥

Wishing for you a beautiful day filled with quiet times and creativity to fill your heart ~

Blessings from the Farm 

~ Lori