Yard Sale Bust

Sooooooo

The Yard Sale was a bust.

No customers. 

Holiday Weekend?

 The Stupid Economy?

Not enough advertising?

I dunno.

We're gonna do it again next Saturday.

But in the meantime, 

here are pictures of some of what's for sale.

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Sewing Machine - Gone!

Scrapbook supplies - gone

Some thread still available

Tablecloths on the right - Gone!

 

Violet plates - Gone!

          Cat still here -Yay!

Little girl Bootie Nut Bowls  - Gone!

Decanter - Gone!

Pirate Banner - gone

Knitting Books - Gone!

We just got a tornado warning so I'm off to duck and cover!

Introducing Rocky

BillHubby and I are happy to announce the addition of Rocky to our happy family! Kitteh and Stanley are less than excited but all are adjusting. Slowly.....

Rocky is the 8 year old nephew/cousin/somethin or another of our Petey.  Same wonderful breeders - Venture Bostons of 

Kings Mountain, NC.

Rocky's first humans were sad to part with him but their 5 year old's asthma dictates removing as many allergens as possible 

from their home.

Rocky attended his first social event - 

Siler City's (NC) 3rd Friday Art Walk. 

He flirted his way up and down the street and posed with us outside our friend, Dru's,  

Hotel Hadley Studios.

Rocky knows Art when he sees it!

 

 

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Hotel Hadley Studios will host a very exciting 

contemporary fiber art show, 

April 15 - May 14, 2011.

 The opening reception will be 

April 15 from 6-9pm.

The featured artists will be:

Bren Ahearn

Mark Bieraugel

Heather Cameron

Jamie (“Mr. X Stitch”) Chalmers

Robyn Enz

Bridget Franckowiak

Shannon Genova (aka Giggly Mama)

Giddy Girlie

Tod Hensley

Bascom Hogue

Kathryn (Vegkat) Lollar

Rebecca Martz-Burley

Penny Nickels

Drucilla Pettibone

Carl Johan Rydell

Ellen “Left Eye” Schinderman

Alaina Varrone

Veronika von Allmen

Alexandra J. Walters

This exhibition was inspired by the work of Alexandra J. Walters.  

Curator Drucilla Pettibone has worked with both established and emerging fiber artists to put together this group exhibition which will showcase new work and explore issues of war and peace, gender and sexuality.

If you'll be in the area I hope you can stop by to see the thoughtful and thought provoking works the artists have created.

The show will be funded through donations via Kickstarter!

What Have You Been Doing?

I have days that I feel as if I have been so busy but that produce little in the way of "getting things done."
How about you?

I often find myself doing what I want to do rather than what I "need" to be doing.

Lately I have been re-inspired to embroider and cross-stitch.

It is so much more fun than doing the laundry or dusting.

 

I made this one up.

It's a fire in honor of our first ever Fire-Pit party back in December.

I'll show you when it's finished.

 

This is a Kristy Kizzee design. I won

Zombie Cross-Stitch kit by Erika Kern and Kristy Kizzee!

I'm stitching it with waste canvas on black fabric that will soon (hopefully) be a shirt for BillHubby.

I'm taking poetic license with the colors. I just started stitching again and didn't have all the absolute exact DMC flosses. And there's no way BillHubby is goin around 

with a blonde on his shirt!

Kristy's etsy shop - Bombastitch

The Fabulous mr x stitch's review of the kit I won!

The last couple of weeks have been stressful so I escaped into an old habit.

Backtracking a wee bit - in First Grade I determined that my crayons at school and those of my best friend should be arranged thusly - yellow, orange, blue, purple, red, green, brown and black.

I do not know why. 

I still arrange things in this order.

Since 1964!

Anyway, my doodles are most often a design surrounded by progressively bigger outlines of said doodle. If I use crayons or colored pencils or markers I always start with yellow and so on. (Oh please, someone analyze this for me!)

So this flower was born.

When I finished it the other day I felt so happy and cleansed of all 

that had been plaguing my brain.

I leave you with, as Jon Stewart says, 

"your moment of zen." 

Is there anything more peaceful than tired kittehs curled up for a nap?

Kitteh Kitteh Lovey and Stanley

P.S. Coming soon! Blogiversary and new etsy shop items!

P.P.S. Please go check out Jodi's Blog and her fab Giveaway!!!

Review and GiveAway Fun!

 We had a wonderful long weekend! How about you? 

Saturday, Bill and I attended Greensboro, NC's Fun Fourth Festival.  

We only went for the music.  

We were not disappointed.

Ladies and Gentlemen, From Carrboro,NC
Big Fat Gap
Bluegrass at its finest.

 

Everyone enjoyed the tunes!

 

Here's one nano-second that Bill wasn't running around snappin pics!  

From all over NC - Hobex! A favorite of my entire family.

Gotta love Andy Ware's purple pants!

 

Fresh from his Prague tour- Greg Humphreys!  

The beautiful Taz Halloween! After the show. We is sassy wimmens!

Now for Giveaway fun!!!

CSN stores generously allowed me to choose a product from one of their 200+ stores. I received and reviewed said product - a sofa protecting cat scratching post. 

Originally submitted at CSN Stores
Features:

• Available in various neutral carpet colors - shipped at random
• Encourages cats to scratch on it instead of expensive furniture
• Treated with organic catnip oil   
• Pros: Inexpensive, Protects Furniture, Just The Right Size, Attractive Design  
• Cons: Cat Doesn't Use It, Wobbly base

Couch Protector Scratch Post

3out of 5

This is a well-built product in the sense that it is just the right height to protect our sofa corner. The base is wobbly though. We added a weight from a former floor lamp to stabilize it.
Sadly, Our cats have no interest in it at all. Even after adding more catnip! But I think that is just their personalities rather than any fault of the product.(legalese)

Hopefully Stanley, who is the main sofa scratcher, will soon understand what he is supposed to do with is new post! 

CSN Stores is also offering a $40 Gift Certificate to one of my wonderful readers!!  It's too hot outside to think a whole bunch, so I'm gonna make this simple.

Leave me a comment about your 4th of July weekend or about how to convince a formerly feral cat to use the scratching post rather than the sofa.

One entry per person.

Comment before this Sunday, July 11, Midnight PDST (yeah, that's 3am EDST.)

I will use the Random Number Generator to choose a winner and announce here on Monday. 

Be sure I have a way to reach you by e-mail!

VTT in my corner of Our Workroom/Den

Testing a new background and layout! All those little techie thingys make my brain hurt!!!

Happy VTT to you all!!!!

Last week I overwhelmed you with a whole room. I do get carried away sometimes!

This week I'll just show y'all the corner of our workroom/den that is mine.  More specifically - the stuff on my wall over my ginormous cutting table. (Yeah, go ahead and be jealous of my cutting table - heehee)

From left to right...........

Peaking from those 3 wide shelves of de-stash fabric - box that now contains only one of the original 45's of the  "Show Boat" soundtrack.

Lucky me, the remaining record is Ava Gardner singing "Bill."  The producers didn't want to use her voice even though they all agreed she sang beautifully.

A really, really old Ouija board from my great Grandparents House.  The pointer is missing so we can't conjure spirits or answers to our innermost questions ;-)

A closer view of my thimble collection and some old wooden spools, some with thread.

The lower half with more threads, a trinket from Washington, DC, tatting shuttles and a cute old bottle that held Violet perfume.

I love my "Ladies who Shop and Lunch" Coca-Cola ad.  The old magazine ad also mentions that the ladies outfits were made with Vogue sewing patterns!  Cool Clemson poster above.

 Just the other side of my cool scrap organizer I have another old magazine ad with Gene Tierney selling us Lux with Color Freshener! James Cagney pic from a now closed Applebee's restaurant, pennants from fav teams.  (My 1960's Wake Forest pennant is on another wall.)

My first Barbie clothing pattern. 

I have other patterns framed but those pics are far worse than this one!

Here we have my teachers, my Grand Mothers.

To the left there I am with Grandma Porter.  She was evidently the giver of the tools, hat and apron.

To the right is [Grand]Mama Holbrook and my Mom at the oft mentioned Great Grand Parents house.

Both Grands taught me about cooking and sewing and gardening and so much more.

I miss them, but the pictures (which I just slapped up on the wall behind a glass with thumbtacks)

remind me of their unconditional love and guidance.

Be sure to visit Suzanne's blog, ColoradoLady to find links to all the other VTT  posts.

Before you go, I added one thing to my De-stash along 2010 list!  I've been sewing others folks' stuff and haven't taken much time to do stuff for us.

AND

Here are our two new additions - I've adopted 2 feral neighborhood cats.

Kitteh Kitteh Lovey

She's a teeny (7 lbs) talker!  Skittish but comes when called and loves her catnip toys.

and

Stanley

He roams but we did manage to get him fixed last week.  Stanley likes to come in for short visits and loves to be rubbed and to purrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

No Grand daughter Aubree yet!!!  But soon!