A Change in Direction...

I'm kinda burned out with weaving right now.  

So I'm busy trying to refurbish the old doll house
I inherited. My Dad built it maybe early 50s
and it is a replica of the little development house
 we lived in when I was born.

My own ticky tacky house!

My older sister's boys played with it
rather roughly so I have my

work cut out for me.

Plus it was in my barn for probably 20 years...

It was filthy so I washed it in the shower...

scraped wallpaper...

Tried to wash the magic marker off the
window and door trim...

Everything so grubby...

I can almost remember where the furniture was...

And my sister Maureen and I slept
upstairs on the right.  Me under the far back
window and Maureen under the side window.
The boys, Paul and Kevin slept on the
other side.

Next step...BIN on every single surface!
And I'm already drooling over all the
miniature furniture on Ebay...

Hope you all are enjoying the season.
Thank you for your kind comments...I am still
processing my Mom's death.  I still think of things
to tell her.  I still reach for the phone to tell her
something.  She died on Gary's and my 25th
Anniversary.  I was asleep in her house while
one of my sisters stayed up with her.  It's hard
to say goodbye.

xo

September...

Well...it's been quite a month.  I have a show/sale next weekend so

mostly I've been weaving and organizing

and tagging and pricing, etc. all month.

 Scarf detail...

 Towels on the loom...

 Another scarf detail...

And we made butter

 Made 32 pounds of applesauce to freeze

Gary is building a deck for storing wood for heat

And I went to see my sweet Mom in NH.  My sister

Faith and her husband were there, too.

The second night I was there sleeping my Mom

wandered out to her screened-in porch and

got locked out of the house.  Luckily

there is a phone out there and she called

the operator who called the police.

Next thing I know there is a cop banging on

the door.  Sooooo...needless to say we now have

an awake night nurse staying with her every night.

But the next weekend she ended up in the hospital

with a blood sugar over 600.  Oh my god.

It really is a wonder that she is alive.

I think she is getting discharged today and

will have people checking in during the

day and making sure she eats properly.

It is so hard to be 6 hours away from her.

Isn't she totally adorable? 

Oh yeah...my horse. 

I'm going to see if we can

find her another home. 

Karen,
(http://thisoldhousetoo.blogspot.com/)
you were so right...

I see Miss Ellie more as

a hunter/jumper and she has way more

energy than I need.  I have put out the word

with my horse ladies and we'll see.

Meanwhile, I'm not telling my trainer because

he thinks I am giving up.  And for

a while I believed that but now I realize

that this should be fun and I am

not wanting to go out to the barn

anymore.  sigh.  But I still need him

to work with her so I'm keeping quiet.

So an eventful month and I haven't had

much time to even check in with my blog.

Hope you all are enjoying the weekend!

xo

August Weaving...Stained Glass Series

As soon as the weather started to change I got some energy back.  I don't do well in that hot, sticky weather at all.  On top of that the sisters have been fussing and feuding over how to care for my 92 year old mother.  Should she go to assisted living?  Should we get someone to live with her?  Cut back on her medication, etc...and to add to the mix, there are only two sisters who are making decisions and the rest of us at times become frustrated that we are not being heard.  However, my Mom, when she was more aware, put these sisters in charge so that is the way of it right now...

Meanwhile I am weaving up a storm getting ready for Christmas and cold weather.  Still struggling over some very difficult towels which I have not photographed yet...I will wait until they are done.  But the chenille scarves totally delight me.  Wonderful to work with.  Soft to the hand.  And I have a weaver friend who is coming over to work for me for a while so I can get caught up.  (Thank you, Katie!)  I love making my warps and she loves to weave them off.  Though I weave also, I just can't keep up with my ideas, and I need to get ahead with my inventory.

Warps...

 Blues...

 Pinks

 Beginning a multi-colored warp

Weaving...

The farrier is coming today for the horses...will try to remember to take some photographs!  And the trainer is coming tonight for Miss Ellie...we worked her last night and she was wonderful.  So progress on many fronts!

xo