This & That @ An Art Find

  Hi Everyone,

     Today I was finally able to get out the weed killer and start killing off grass. It had gotten pretty high on the one side and front of the house. We have really had allot of rain here. I sprayed a gallon of it, made lunch was going to go out with another gallon, but I was pretty tired from the first dose and the winds are a little too strong right now. Rain coming in again tomorrow, with the next no rain day on Sunday so hoping I can get back to it then.

   When I was working in my craft room I uncovered two favorite items that I didn't know where they had gotten to. A gnome embroidery piece that my Mom did for me, to go with my gnome plates, and an art piece that I truly love. They both needed to have hangers put on the backs. I will really enjoy seeing these pieces up on the walls. That is my to do thing right now-finish little things that have been waiting on me.

I had the perfect spot for this one too, there was space to the left where the gnome plates were hung across this wall.

I was really happy to find this piece again. I dyed the fabric in the back, and a friend of mine years ago in blogland-and have lost touch with over the years-did a limited edition of this screen painting or block print not sure now. I always loved this and goes so well with one of my hand dyes. It needed a hanger for the back as well.

 So when I walk into this room which is off the kitchen, I will view this piece I have two windows in this room and those curtains must go-they came with the house. I need to go through my fabrics and see if I have something. Yes I have pretty much taken over two rooms in the house for crafts etc.

  Both of these pieces are in the room with my ranch oak desk with desk top computer and printer, weaving loom along with some weaving supplies and my spinning wheels. To the left of above photo is the wall of gnomes. The loom has been threaded and ready to weave a different pattern of towels. I will probably get to these on upcoming very hot summer days.

  Since the weekend we began seeing this beautiful oriole. He has been really difficult to get a good photo of, I finally was able to today. I do have oriole feeders but here in Missouri they usually stop for a little bit and then migrate on. The hummingbird feeder seems to work ok. These first two photos were fun as he was sitting behind the nectar tube

  I was able to capture these photos this afternoon

  I did get brave late yesterday and cut around that hooked piece my Mom had made into a picture to hang. She put some sort of board inside-that over time broke in pieces, had backed it with corduroy and screwed in a wire hanger. This has to be over 50 years now since she gave it to me.  I cut just past the stitching line of the front and back, to protect the hand rug hooking, and got brave and washed it in a special wool soap.

Back in the 50's when my Mom hooked this most used a quality burlap to hook on. This was so dirty it just needed to be gently hand washed.

It has been lying flat on a table on top of towels-as the towels get wet-I change to a dry towel-so far looking good

   Not sure how I will proceed with this piece  This is the rug hooking style my Mom made-incredible work.

  I have also been adding more items to my Etsy shop, hand knit sweaters and two reclaimed blouses that I natural dyed with annatto

  Here is one of them

Happy Mid Week everyone

T Stands for Out of Boxes & On to the Walls--Long

   Happy T Stands for Tuesday Everyone,

      On Tuesdays we link up over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog and share a post with a drink related photo. You are most welcome to join-the link up is in my side bar.

    Larry decided it was time to get some of our pieces up on the walls. Our Wisconsin friend Rob does such a nice job of this-but I keep forgetting to ask him when they visit. Larry said no let's just do it. We have a friend that helps us out on projects and Larry pays him. Larry's health has never gotten back to where he should be after his last heart operation-a valve replacement in September '20  He tires so quickly now.

  After my Yellowstone trip in 2017 I bought a couple of Trent Sizemore's photos and had them framed. I still follow him today on different Yellowstone photography groups. He lives outside of the park and now has an Etsy shop too, and posts gorgeous photos especially on the Facebook group Yellowstone Photographers-I have always loved his work.

  We had also purchased a painting-depicting the fur trade era, before we retired to Missouri, and a couple pieces from a Native American artist as well. I also wanted to get my art picture made with hand dyed fabrics, wool, silk and cotton appliques with needle felted textures back up on the wall too.

  I had trouble with the flash-these are the best ones I could get for now

These two went together so well with the matching blues. These really are straight on the wall-I was working around the glare and flash I put the eagle back up here too.  The two small gifted paintings fitted nicely along the right side of the wall of windows-near our  "bar" Hoosier Cabinet.

The two below are prints from the Native American artist's artwork-frames are so expensive that I picked up these two heavy wooden frames from a resale shop. This first one I had to take a name plate off-and will cover that space eventually with turkey feathers and beads

   This first one shows the Native American tribes I believe these were done with pen and inks and watercolors. These are prints

Many of you have seen this piece already that I did awhile back. My Wisconsin friends bought the frame for me for a Christmas Present one year. I really should do another one of these-I really enjoyed this    sorry for the flash

  Our friend also put up four curtain rods-two long ones and two for regular windows. Now to make the one set of curtains that will go in front of our clothes closet, and the other three will go in my computer room-two regular windows-and one to go across the sliding doors for privacy when our friends stay over nite here. I am still hunting to buy those curtains.

  So we got allot accomplished on Sunday. Saturday Larry hung up my weaving warping board so it is no longer sitting on the floor. 

    I have a corner in this computer/weaving room full of boxes yet.  I will be going through those soon to see what we want to put up on the walls. There are allot of different plates-so I may need to order some plate hangers.  This winter is getting things like this accomplished.

    When we moved here I was not ready to downsize at all-so I brought things over to the Lake House that I should have left to sell-I am ready to do that now. (I really wanted a bigger house-haha)

  Larry also suggested to bring my gnome collection over to the mantel over the woodstove so I could enjoy them more.  I am loving them here very much-before they were sitting on the dresser in our bedroom  The cardboard goose is a vintage decoy. The little porcelain lady gnome to the left is a bell.(ah yes I have a small bell collection too haha) The others are from one artist 

  Saturday I wanted to use up the last of the apples so made up another apple crisp-the apples were totally full to the top of this deep cast iron pan.

Of course I added whipped cream to mine-smiles

for my drink share today, I have a pottery glass of ice tea while working at my computer You can see my black walnut salve to the left-that works so well for very dry skin.

It has been so cold here most of last week. I covered up a rod iron table with an old picnic tablecloth and taped it around so it wouldn't fly off-and added left over cornbread along with some black oil sunflower seeds.  The crows spotted the big chunks I had that ended up frozen-so after they flew off with half of it, I crushed rest for the smaller birds.

  First photo is after they flew off with most of it haha-we actually watched them fly to our neighbor's dock on the right and eat it.

Sunday  morning early

Sorry for the long post, if you missed my first Cast Iron Saturdays post for 2022 find here

  Happy T and hope everyone having winter right now can stay warm with the lights on as well