Old postcards are fascinating. Sometimes they only have a name and the town on them and yet they were delivered. These pincushion postcards are clever, but I don’t know that they would actually make good pincushions, as all the ones that I have ever seen as so shallowly padded. But I suspect that [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Pincushion Christmas Postcards
Posted in The Shop on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Christmas in July Shop Hop
Posted in The Shop on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Make Mine Pink is celebrating “Christmas in July”
with a Shop Hop, July 21-27.
There are fabulous prized involved.
You can start by visiting my website and searching for the pink shopping bag. When you find it, click on it and it will take you to the Make Mine Pink page where you can register. Click on the [...]
Auction Fever…or Just the Heat of the Building
Posted in The Shop on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is an auction that we sometimes go to that I hadn’t been to yet during this summer. It takes place in a really decrepit building with no air conditioning. The seats were once movie theater seats upholstered in some scratchy, heat absorbing fabric from the 1950’s. The management does run four or five [...]
Garlic Harvested from Cottage Garden
Posted in cottage garden on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This theme for this weeks Pink Friday is The Garden Path. It reminded me that I’ve not shared much this year about our cottage garden. The garden is doing well as usual. Last evening when I got home this was the contents of the wheelbarrow. From year to year you never know what will do [...]
Hanging out the Laundry
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on July 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
They say the sense most plugged into our memories is that of smell. While photographing this
clothespin apron yesterday I really could recall the sweet scent of things dried out on the clothesline when I was a kid. We have no place we could do that now. But I would really love to at least [...]
Ode to Humidity
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These two sweet Victorian chairs are waiting for paint, one pink paint and the other buttermilk (I think.) But it it seems to rain every other day. I am distrustful of painting furniture when it is humid. It seems to cure better long term when all the coats dry with a full day of dry [...]
Twitter / preservecottage- preservecottage: Four mile run today in record time...another benefit of the hiatus. It has been a great lesson in taking the time to do what you have to
- preservecottage: Just discovered summer sm hiatus produced great spike in sales. But I miss my friends.
- preservecottage: Back into the universe and trying to figure out how to put all the pieces back together
- preservecottage: wondering how a project I thought would take a couple of months has turned into a four month project, at least
- preservecottage: wondering if alternating 1/2 hours working at computer and 1/2 hours doing moving tasks would help aging metabolism
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Lila appreciates all of you who have asked about her. Here she is in all her charismatic intensity. Slices of Life
