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
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
