Christmas In July At The Olde Country Cupboard

Sandy of The Olde Country Cupboard will be having her Christmas in July starting July 1st. See the sidebar for two examples of her wonderful patterns. She and her daughter Samantha, who has her own
blog and selling site, will be offering new e-patterns, oldies, tips and freebies, but you must be
a member to take advantage of some of her specials. So be sure to sign up to their blogs. Here is a
link:The Olde Country CupboardSee you there!
Warm Regards,
Susan

Late Saturday Nite & Another Rainy Sunday

Hi,everyone...I haven't been feeling well for the last 5 days. I'm sorry I haven't blogged before now. We're up very late (or very early depending on your perspective of time) watching Gunsmoke on Netflix. Did you know that show was on for twenty years?We're watching Season Eleven right now. I'm pretty sure we are addicted to this show. I watched this when I was a young girl. We didn't have a whole lot of shows back then to choose from and only in black and white (Ashley cringes when she hears me say that). I finally put some pictures on here. There were going to be more from the yard and family but they seem to be hiding somewhere right now. The blog is starting to look a little cluttered to me, I liked it when I first started and I'm not sure now. I'll play around with arrangements later when I feel better.
I need to get busy this upcoming week. Mr.Glen Oaks' mom Iris is coming to town for July 4th. After she
visits, my sister and her husband will be joining us later in mid-July. Then, Iris returns in August
to bring back Juan's son for a visit before school starts in New York at the end of the month. I don't expect to be able to take time to be in the workroom beyond this week, so this is it. And, I still don't feel well. This virus just lingers, and now it's making it's rotten way through the rest of the house.
We have to be careful of Mom because she's 85 and though she's a tough nut, she still doesn't need to be sick if we can help it. And with company coming, well you know how that goes. I'll just have to see how I feel day to day. Ashley is dropping by tonight. I hope she brings the Granddogs.
Warm Regards,
Susan

Redware pottery and slipware by Rick Hamelin of Pied Potter Hamelin

If you have an interest in American Redware or Slipware, please visit Rick Hamelin's website.
He also has upcoming program events throughout
Massachusetts. Click below:
Redware pottery and slipware by Rick Hamelin of Pied Potter Hamelin

New Offerings

Goodmorning...
On my right sidebar is a pic of a new e-pattern offering from one of my very favorite designers and crafter, Sandy from The Olde Country Cupboard. She creates delightful, whimsical dolls and I have
many of her e-patterns and her FREE e-patterns which you can find if you scroll down to almost the
bottom of her blog. Her patterns come with full color picture and very thorough, easy-to-follow
instructions. You can click on the image in the sidebar of the Prim Angel MakeDo to go to her
blog and see her pattern offerings.
I finallyhave the pictures I wanted of Ashley,her husband and "the Dogs". Bear with me while
I figure out how to get them on the blog and arranged to fit in the sidebars.
I'm going to work on this now. We're settled in the living room and watching movies on Netflix. If
you don't have Netflix, Get It!because it is the best deal I have ever discovered. There are
at least 100,000 movies, documentaries and TV shows that you can stream instantly to your television or computers. I don't even want cable anymore. So I'm blogging and Mr. Glen Oaks is perusing his wood-working catalogs. We have huge oak trees and there are a few that have to come down before a good storm takes them down on our little house. So he's excited about taking the trees down and keeping the wood to use for his furniture and small accessories. Ok, this movie looks really good so I'll be back later this morning...Warm Regards,Susan

Stormy Friday

Goodmorning!
It's about to pour buckets here in Western Mass. That's a frequent occurrence here in June. I found some great "old" patterns in my stash last night. Dolls, bears you name it, I have it. Some go back to 1993
when I was doing home parties with my friend Vanessa. She painted folk art primitive style and I did
dried flower wreaths and arrangements and dolls, snowmen, angels, santas. Do you remember the vacuum cleaner covers? I was laughing at some of the things that were "hot" in the eighties and nineties. I
remember candlewicking was popular. I did pillows and a marriage sampler. I have a floorcloth that I did in a class. Wow, the classes I went to. Tinpunching, basket weaving, pierced lampshades, painting and I can't remember anything else right now but I know there was more. Surprising to me was that I really didn't start making bears right away. I was a little intimidated I guess. I have the ones that I bought from 1989-on. I took a really cute bear into the birthing room I had when I has having Ashley. He was my "focal point" from Lamaze classes. It worked, too. Having her was really a breeze and I remember the midwife asking me "see you next year" and I told her "I'll be here". Unfortunately, I couldn't have any more children. But I could have birthed lots more babies! Anyway, I digress...
I said in an earlier post that I was uploading pictures to the blog. I haven't found the cord I need
and the memory chip is missing from the camera, otherwise I could just pop the clip in my laptop. I'm going to take pictures of some of the old bears, too. I have quite a few vintage composition Patsy dolls but they are all undressed except for one. I have some vintage baby clothes that I hope will fit at least 1 or 2 dolls. The dresses are the common white batiste type with exquisite sewing details. I'm really getting into the hand sewn needlework techniques. Google eBooks has tons of old needlework books that are all in the public domain. I love reading these books. They range in date from the late 1700's to the 1920's. After that, you take a chance that they are still copyrighted. I see lots of ideas and things to make. The instructions are very limited. They were written at a time when ladies knew how to sew and it is assumed that you know what to do. The terminology is sometimes
unknown in today's time. So I use Wikipedia and most of the time I find the word.
I've been concentrating on learning HTML and code so that I can do additions to my blog myself. I like it so much that I'm going to school online to learn web design.
Well, this is quite enough for today I think. I'll feed the birds and change their water, pick more peony blossoms (they have exploded on this plant) before it really rains. If I come across any good
items from other blogs, I'll post them here as I usually do when I think you might like them.
Warm Regards,
Susan