~ Rainy Days ~

it is raining buckets!

cats! dogs! chickens and sheep!

even a few donkeys too ~

{oh and puppies! ours are 1 year old today}

 Happy Birthday
 ~ Big, Dolly, June, Grizzly, Bruno & Nico!

I love the rain,

but you already know that...

I'll put on the tea kettle 

and nestle in to my chair and hook more on this rug ~

 I like this wool for the border, below:

we need a new patio umbrella...

I want a yellow & white striped one!

~ everything is green-ing but sloshy.

oh cannot wait for my lilacs to bloom!

 enjoy your day my sweet friends ~

no matter the weather.

⚘✿⚘

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori

~ Home ~

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

~ Last Day of June ~

 Hello Friends & Folk ~

∱irst I'd like to wish my sweet  Mom

 a very HAPPY 87th Birthday!

... 87 trips around the sun!

{Love you Mom, more that all the stars in the sky, more than all the grains of sand on all the beaches and more than all the little blue flowers on the wallpaper}

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So I'm working on a few little embroideries for tomorrow's 

July 1st edition of Early Work Mercantile 

{www.earlworkmercantile.net} 

this one has a basket of black eyed susans ~ 

~ this style of stitching, as I refer to it as 'humble stitching',  is my favorite...

and adding varied embroidery stitches with freehand cross stitching makes it unique.

I should have checked for cat hair!

 my inspiration for these embroideries is coming from my gardens of course...

I love our wild queen ann's lace

~ it's like growing snowflakes in the summertime!

me thinks i will replicate this in another embroidery....

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 And I really have to get new puppy photos for you...

we have two puppies left, our Big Black {or Mr. Big as I call him}

and a sweet little girl that we are calling Dolly {short for Black Dahlia} who was named by Chris ;)

In the meanwhile...

here is momma Pepper, 'auntie' Roxy and Peter doing what they do best...

unless she's chasing deer throughout our woods,

Pepper is never far from 'her man' Peter...

she loves to stand like this...

when she can find him standing still for once!

ha!!

Well I am off to stitch...

what are you all working on?

Share your embroidery/stitching with me on my FB Group:

'Humble Work' Hand Embroidery Group

~ click HERE to join or share your needlework ~ 

Blessings from the Farm 

~ Lori

~ Farm Shop is Open Today ~

 Farm Shop is Open Today May 20th ~

10:00 - 4:00

come on out for a visit, bring your needlework {any type!} in progress

and come create with me for a relaxing day on the farm ~

{p.s. we have puppies!}

;)

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori

~ Three Weeks Old Today ~

Good Morning

~ Friends & Folk ~

what a beautiful sunshine-y day here at the farm....

our roses this year are drop dead gorgeous 

and I will have to take more pics of them for you soon!

All is well at our homeplace.

the barnyard has quieted down to a murmur

~ now that the puppies have arrived

and everything is peaceful.

 

while I was at the PSS Retreat & Merchant Mall this past weekend, 

Peter and Chris cared for our gardens... 

and we will be heading out to the local nursery 

~ for our vegetable, flower and herb plants today!

 

and,

Speaking of 'nursery'...

you asked for puppy photos ~ 

:)

here is the sweet momma ~ "Pepper" 

as skinny and full of milk as she could be!

we have adjusted her caloric intake so she can gain her much-needed weight,

 ... as well as nourish those fat babies of hers.

and here they are...

all 6 piglets out in the sun for the first time!

 

their eyes have begun to open, 

so we don't want to damage their vision with the bright sun for too long, 

... just long enough to clean their bed and freshen their bedding ~

 

can you smell them?

lol

 

4 little boys, 2 little girls ~

one brown is a boy, one brown is a girl!

 

Pepper is a doting mother,

and Peter is a doting...well ~

he's just a mess.

I really can't tell who loves the puppies more.

just look at those tiny-hineys!

 

and Miss Roxy is thee best 'auntie' there is...

always letting us know if the babies are crying too much.

 

and it's feeding time at the farm!

 {like every two hours!}

poor Pepper...

"MA! I'm HUNGRY!!!!"

 today marks their 3 week birthday!

happy birthday little ones...

we love you lots.

❤♥❤

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori