One curtain down(or up?) and a billion to go. I had a plan to make a simple curtain. You would think that would be simple. My plan didn’t go as planned. I started by tea staining pima batiste and it took me 2 tries to get it right. It went downhill from there. Screwy bobbins, crooked […]
Category: windy ridge
This is Edna. I won her for $30 at Woody’s auction. She is wonderful for so many reasons, but mostly because she coordinates perfectly with Windy Ridge. When describing her to Destiny I said excitedly, “she has a cream background with beige spots” stopping just short of saying she was trimmed with exquisite lace. I may just trim […]
Sunday was a beautiful day for another triple blessing. A houseful of guests, hymns of old, newborn babies & hot soup. This photo cracks me up, the babies look like 3 little old ladies visiting. Hazel sitting pretty with daddy while mama makes the soup With pastor John Grandma Sue may have lost her […]
It all started with this antique christening gown from England. The plan was to tea stain it and embellish it with vintage lace. While balancing my newborn in the crook of my left arm I got out the lipton tea bags and filled the copper sink with the instant hot water. Do NOT leave the […]
Hazel Jean 3 weeks Just as I suspected, time is flying by. My sweet Hazel is already on her 4th week in this big wide world & the memory of carrying her around inside me is already fading. Why is that? I cherished my last weeks of pregnancy. I would stand in front of the mirror and […]
On Loren & Dillan’s last night here the whole family including the guests worked together to build a crab chowder. Even little Violet tried to help. Get the recipe here. PS- We won’t mention that the guests flew 3000 miles to get skunked by the ocean.
