I live on a farm ... — knitting

The year of faith

January 25, 2011 • art • country life • country living • dating • dogs • faith • family • farm • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • romance • snow • spirituality • thoughts • travel • Valentine • women

Five years ago today I woke up not knowing this man or this place existed. Actually, that is not entirely true.

Purple Heart - A Treasury at Etsy

January 17, 2011 • art • blogging • children • country life • faith • family • flowers • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • relationships • shopping • thoughts • travel • Valentine • Valentine's Day • women

A great way to help bring attention to a favorite Etsy shop or item is to create your own Treasury list ...

Titles elude me at this moment

January 12, 2011 • art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • dogs • faith • family • farm • farm life • fingerless gloves • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • hat patterns • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • New York • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • scarf patterns • shopping • snow • socks • spirituality • style • thoughts • travel • vintage • yarn

Take a minute, if you are a knitter, and think about how many knitters there are around the world and then multiply that by some number that seems reasonable to predict how many hand knit gifts will be made this year ...

The Advent of Santa

December 17, 2010 • country living • family • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • thoughts • travel • Upstate New York • women

Today I show you 17 Santas from my collection ... Christmas is drawing quite near indeed. It snowed again, lightly, this morning and things are looking very lovely outside our many windows. My favorite sight is looking outside the dining room windows and seeing the barn in the snow. It looks most Christmasey to me, for some reason. Santa, Day 16 is one my husband purchased for me in the Adirondack mountains, at the Adirondack museum, on a fall vacation we took a couple of years ago. This Santa also reminds us of our cottage and our times in the...

The Advent of Santa: Days 7 through 15

December 15, 2010 • art • children • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • Holidays • home • humor • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • Santa Claus • September 11 • shopping • Upstate New York • women

My Advent of Santa continues, though I slipped up for several days in a row. I do that with advent calenders every time I attempt to follow them. I start out with the most sincere intentions that this will be the year when I finally follow the advent every single day. Inevitably I reach some critical point in the holiday season when the advent calendar is missed first one day, then another, and then several in a row as I focus my attention on completing various Christmas projects. Without further explanation, I offer you the following assortment of Santas, nine...