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the garden gate friday august 10 2012 the graue mill last fall while visiting my husband s native chicago we took a little detour on our trip to our hotel from o hare my husband was raised in the suburbs in downers grove to be exact and has fond memories of the graue mill which is located in the neighboring town of oak brook knowing that a sampler by the same name and in the mill s collection was on my to stitch bucket list he was all to happy to show me this lovely old mill graue mill oak brook illinois he said the old girl looks a lot better than he remembered apparently there has been some restoration and while the sampler bearing her name was not on display it was fun to look around old mills are pretty interesting places even if they don t have a sampler squirreled away somewhere graue mill oak brook illinois last month i stitched the graue mill sampler reproduced by threads through time isn t she lovely stitched on the heels of ann rayner i was happy not to have to work a single alphabet miss rayner stitched six on hers mercy the graue mill sampler by threads through time stitched on 40 count lakeside linen using needlepoint inc silk and planet earth fibers silk now the fun of choosing the next project as the temperature is going to soar to 115 today i think it sounds like the perfect indoor activity autumn cannot come soon enough thanks for stopping by posted by joy at 12 30 pm 5 comments labels samplers wednesday july 04 2012 eternal vigilance liberty sampler by of female worth may life liberty and the pursuit of happiness be yours this independence day and forevermore happy fourth of july everyone posted by joy at 12 00 am 0 comments labels samplers monday july 02 2012 hey boo i ve been a blogger recluse lately the boo radley of the blogosphere so to speak forgive me but i am in a to kill a mockingbird state of mind my little book club decided to read tkam in june even though all of us had read it at least once before coincidentally a local community theater was staging a production of the play last month we all decided to go and along with a delicious supper before we enjoyed a perfect summer evening it was community theater at its best and the hey boo scene remains my favorite both in the book and the play moving forward or i should say looking back here is a sampling of the last three months lots of time spent with family and friends springtime garden with little barbarians at the gate and in the garden and with the girls there s something so homey about making jam enjoying the fruits of our labor rearranging one corner of my life ann rayner by threads through time 40 ct lakeside linen vintage buttercream mostly needlepoint inc silk and spending some stolen moments with my needle and thread see you again soon posted by joy at 7 12 am 2 comments labels books garden samplers wednesday march 28 2012 mr mason revisited look at this mason jars have been re released in the 1 5 pint size i know some may not find this as exciting as i do but i know i am not alone in my adoration of this humble vessel i use my masons for my everyday drinking glasses and water with lemon is my constant companion this is the perfect size for so many things you know when a pint is too small and a quart is too big i found mine at ace hardware the come 9 to a box also another great find was the travel mug adaptor as i have been known to take my non lidded mason with me when i am scooting about town in miss daisy i no longer buy bottled water for home use and i cannot stand to drink water out of a stainless steel bottle the solution meet the cuppow especially designed for mason nerds like me this also works if you are drinking coffee from your jar but a cozy of some sort would be needed to keep your hands from being burned i have seen many of them on etsy as for mr mason s coaster it is my latest finish harriet hazlin 1869 by the sampler house eileen bennett don t you just love simple marking samplers miss harriet was stitched on an older piece of 40 count lakeside linen vintage navy bean using gumnut silk that s it for today from the garden gate i hope you are all having a lovely week posted by joy at 9 14 am 2 comments labels mason jars samplers friday march 16 2012 of little lambs and fairy eggs even though ann and her man are still disembodied i am done counting the sheep on miss rayner thank heaven because those little lambs over one were rather tedious on the very tightly woven 40 count linen i am using but i do love the way they look don t you sigh i love this sampler i am s l o w l y working my way through my sampler bucket list and if this one doesn t send me to a rheumatologist for my arm hand issues i don t know what will ann rayner by threads through time mostly npi silk on 40 count vintage lakeside linen now for the farm report part of this post one recent afternoon i went to gather the eggs and as they are wont to do three of my girls had used the same nesting box however this time abigail had produced a teeny tiny egg that was so sweet but certainly a fluke of nature this happens from time to time with the egg laying process upon researching i learned that these little eggs are sometimes referred to as fairy eggs to give a some perspective the b 52 s pretty blue egg and abby s regular egg are the size of an extra large i would say so you can see just how small abby the chicken fairy s egg is i haven t opened it yet to see what is inside but i m guessing it is yoke less the fairy egg last week i also gave the coop a really good cleaning as i have such a small flock and i clean up the coop on a daily basis every two weeks is a good schedule for this however i added something a little extra this time nesting box blend from treats for chickens which contains all kinds of fragrant herbs and flowers not only is it aromatherapy for the hens but it helps to ward off any bugs and parasites that can invade the coop the girls really seemed to like it nesting box blend so that s the news this week from the garden gate where the gardeners are strong the hens good looking and the eggs are mostly above average happy weekend everyone pssst abby does your nest smell funny posted by joy at 3 04 pm 2 comments labels chickens samplers monday march 05 2012 when life gives you lemons it is a very good thing lemon paradise honestly i think lemons have gotten a bad rap replace the word lemons with liver and onions and now we re talking a bad situation nothing good can come of that but lemons i use lemons for about a thousand different things for which there is no substitute and ingesting lemons in one form or another is not the only use for them i just read instructions somewhere online for using lemon waste the squeezed out halves and tap water for making an enzyme cleaner anyway the reason i am defending lemons is that my tree is now loaded with them and my week will be spent juicing and zesting as much as my freezer will hold so february was quite the full month the winter garden provided us with tons of good stuff but none of it preserved i spent quite a bit of time researching and then trying about 500 ways to use broccoli as i do not care for it in frozen form also our heirloom lettuces were a great success and we have more than enough for us the neighbors and the girls not necessarily in that order the last couple of weeks of the month were spent planning and then planting our spring garden and pruning our deciduous fruit trees which are all blooming it is glorious blossoming apricot tree but it was not all work we took time to stop and smell the roses too february is the month when most of my husband s side of the family come to visit it really is the most beautiful month in our desert in my opinion having family come to visit forces us to remember to slow down and enjoy it with them so with everything in bloom right now i am thinking spring cleaning and getting back to basics i am trying to figure out where i can incorporate a clothes line into my back yard i love clothes lines but i don t want it to look like i just wandered down from the hills more research needs to be done on this this week i am also going to make my own laundry soap which just makes my little frugal laundry lovin heart go pitty pat the thoughts of spring cleaning were what led me to discover the lemony enzyme thing lancaster laundry day as for stitching i have started ann rayner but i have been struggling with a nasty episode of tennis elbow so i have been trying to not over do next time i hope to have a progress photo that won t bore everyone to tears but in keeping with my back to basics theme i will instead post a little finish from last year carriage house samplings hornbook sampler basic at its very best carriage house samplings hornbook sampler i will leave you with a photo of the girls in their new playpen which is an old wheelbarrow filled with compost once my arm heals i am going to paint it a different shade of green that is if i can keep them out i may have to do it under the cloak of darkness when they are all snoozy in their roost to avoid a real mess or in my new parlance one of those liver and onions moments and a chicken in every wheelbarrow happy week everyone posted by joy at 5 08 pm 3 comments labels chickens garden housekeeping samplers tuesday january 24 2012 war and peaceable kingdom recently i joined a book club which was kind of a difficult decision for me i am very jealous of my reading time as it is limited at this point in my life and i don t want to mess around reading something in which i have no interest the first two selections i enjoyed and would have read anyway however january s selection unbroken a world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption by laura hillenbrand was another story altogether i dreaded reading this book i knew several people who had read it and reported that while it was a very good read it was a difficult one due to the subject matter i was advised not to read it before bedtime ack i read up to a certain point and then put it down thinking i would just have to wimp out and beg off this month s discussion however by the time the brutal part arrived i found myself not being able to put the book down even taking it to bed with me to finish it is an incredible story and while i rarely recommend books on my blog this is one that i highly endorse so far my book club is three for three and my decision to join has been reinforced peaceable kingdom by edward hicks ca 1834 national gallery of art in the public domain so that s the war part of this post the peaceable kingdom refers to one of my favorite motifs in american art as portrayed no less than 61 times by edward hicks one of my favorite artists the symbols in hicks works refer to the prophecy in isaiah 11 6 which reads the wolf shall also dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them birds beasts rejoice by bittersweet house for christmas of olde 2001 how happy i am when i can find the peaceable kingdom expressed in needlework i stitched a sweet little sampler this week with this very theme i will probably finish it as an ornament rather than framing it using vonna s tutorial the fact that i stitched birds beasts rejoice the same week i read unbroken was pure coincidence but it was a very appropriate bookend to a story about the horrors of war as for the news from the coop de grace it is a mixed bag i have been waging my own little war against red mites which in spite of my preventive measures have invaded on the wings of the wild birds i will spare you any photos dolley has started to molt with a vengeance which means the end of her egg production for awhile but abigail has resumed giving us her gorgeous brown eggs let all the birds and beasts rejoice over that one until next time have a happy peaceful week everyone posted by joy at 12 23 pm 3 comments labels books ornaments samplers 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