~ A Giveaway ~

Hello Friends And Folk!

And a very happy Wednesday evening to you all ~

In celebration of my recent successful eye surgery, 

{{ because I can now enjoy rug hooking again without the wool dust bothering my eyes  }}

AND 

because today is #givingtuesday...

I am giving away this sweet little {well, not so little - 6" x 6" } hooked ornament that I made...

~ I’m calling it the Little Blue Farmhouse ~

 Hooked with scraps of blue wools, brown wool, cream, gold and dirty moss and mustard wools

using 1/4” wide wool strips {otherwise known as a #8 cut} and hooked through silky natural linen.

I hooked it in my usual wonky-way...high and low loops, crooked lines and different directions 

~  it looks like it was an old portion of a hooked rug that someone may have tried to save...

I added a charcoal and soot checkered wool to cover the back, and then added a hand-twisted rusty wire hanger for you to place on your tree, peg rack or cupboard doorknob...

here it is with just the tree lights on:

SO ~
 to be able to enter your chance to win my little blue farmhouse hooked wool ornie ~
... kindly leave a message here on this blog post only...
and tell me all about your favorite Christmas memory!
~ if you'd like to you can share this post with your friends too :)

on Monday December 3rd at around 6:00 p.m. I will use Random.com
to pick a corresponding number-to-name from the comments left...
*****please include your name too so I can contact you!

Best of luck to you all, and I hope you enjoy my giveaway!

Blessings from the Farm 

~ Lori

~ CLOSED AGAIN ~

 Hello friends and folk!

and Happy November to you all ~

just a very short post to say that our Farm Shop & Studio will once again be 

CLOSED this coming Saturday November 3rd

~ due to my recent eye surgery...

we were scheduled to hold our Tea & Embroidery Class 

teacher Nancy Bauer and myself teaching,

but

Dr's orders say it is best not to, so we will be rescheduling the class.

 We also will be cancelling this months'

First Monday Needle Night on the 5th.

 thanks all, for your understanding ~ and continued well-wishes :)

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori

~ Jeepers Creepers ~

 Yes yes....

I have a new eye ~

what? 

say you....

~ I say, indeed.

I have had quite the surgery to repair my damaged left eye ~

first was the removal of a deep cataract {or 'thick', so I am told...}

second was to repair the mishap-en eye {left} from a 'football' shape

to more of a socially-acceptable and visually-correct 'round' shape...

all-this being done manually {with hands of Doctor} 

after incising crescent shaped incisions on wither side of my iris, 

to reform said eyeball.

 third-ly...

was to implant a tiny plastic lens, behind my cornea ~

that will {hopefully} enable me to see far-away - 

~ without the need of an external double-ocular device {glasses}.

I am sore, yes.

I am swollen, yes.

can I see? um, yep...for the most-part.

is my outcome of my procedures a normal outcome for everyone?

NO

and...no.

everyone who has eye surgery is different in their procedure and healing....

do not let my posting here stop you from having your procedures done ~

we are different, we are individual and we will be fine!

much affection to you all ~

Blessings from the Farm ~ Lori

~ Pulling Wool ~

 Yes, 

I am hooking.

I could not put it off another moment!

After weeks of doing my embroidery ~ 

and glancing occasionally over at my basket{s} overflowing with my luscious wools....

I could resist no longer....so I am being very careful not to get any wool dust near my eyes,

 as I will be heading to surgery 1st thing Monday morning for the right eye, 

and again on the 24th for the left eye...

∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞

I asked the members of my 

Out of Hand Rug Hookers group {Facebook} 

to share their Autumn/Halloween rugs and WOW! did they ever!

if you are not a member, and would like to join us ~ CLICK HERE ~ to request to join

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Here are a few rugs that I 'borrowed' from Pinterest that I absolutely love:

this one is my Spinning Witch and pattern is available at www.Spruceridgestudios.com 

designed and hooked magnificently by April DeConick ~ ...I adore this so much.

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If you have sent me a PM or Email and I haven't gotten back to you,

I'm not ignoring you ~ just happily busy getting ready for the show & hook in here on the 15th!

I will do my very best to reply, and thank you for your kind patience in the meanwhile :)

Blessed be,

Lori