Dragging My Feet ~

I still haven't started my darn teapot challenge hooked piece.  I still have a couple months to git 'er done, but I would like to be able to cross that off my "must do" list.  I had planned to start it after binding Primitive Chickens, but opted to hook a couple "littles" to top cigar boxes that are hook in door prizes.  

Once again I opted to add a little something to the inside.  The red box is a slide top box.

The other two are hinged boxes.  

I have a problem with the hereafter.  I enter a room and wonder what I am here after!

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Lauren

Easter Around the House ~

 

Another Easter will soon be in the past.  It just dawned on me I never found the Dancing Bunnies rug to display.  Always next year, God willing.

I probably put out more Easter than many people put out at Christmas.  (They are much smarter than me!)  Here is a quick trip around the house!

In my purging, I found this little bunny who hasn't seen the light of day in many moons.  Part of the old trim on her apron is falling apart.

Isn't this just the sweetest?  Lift her dress and there is a baby bunny💘

Decor in no particular order.

Sweet egg painted by my mom and the two bunnies are one of the few ceramic items I painted back in the day.

More of my mom's beautiful ceramic work.

And a couple more of my mom's pieces.

The cast iron rabbit cake mold I found in the attic.

Vintage wind up bunny.

Mostly vintage items on the dining room jelly cupboard.

Vintage papier mache Easter eggs, from the Garman Democratic Republic or West Germany, likely dating to the mid-20th century.  Geez, I guess that makes me vintage 😁

Lastly (though there are other Easter items not shown) my newest Easter acquisition.  I am so happy I decided to have him come home with me!

Please remember the true meaning of Easter.  

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Lauren

Bad Again ~

 

I got the brilliant idea of heading to two of my favorite shops with a few of my favorite antiquing friends.  Of course I was going to be good and just look and come home empty handed.  Yeah right 😳

At the first shop I found this wonderful bunny chocolate mold, bigger than any I have . . . sigh.

Then I found this little vintage wall shelf with old quilt pieces folded below.

Little did I know that little shelf most likely had a drawer at one time.  And lookee what I have hanging on the wall going up to the second floor.  A near identical shelf!  No wonder I liked it.

If you do a Google lens search, several identical shelves are pictured so it must have been very common and mass produced.  This auction says it was a pipe box.  Whodda thunk?

At the second shop, I am happy that friend Laura spotted the antique sampler before I did or I may have been really bad 😁

Time to go work on binding Primitive Chickens.

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Lauren

FINALLY!

Primitive Chickens, a 12" x 36" pattern by Hooked on the Lake is finally finished.  It was started in a class with Katie Hartner of the Woolley Fox on March 16.  For whatever reason I continually drug my feet and would only spend a short time each day working on it.  It's not like I was hooking something else at the same time!  I am just glad it is done.  Now on to the least favorite part (right Saundra?) prepping for binding, steaming and then binding.  I don't think the binding fairy will show up and do it for me.  I know there are people who finish rugs for a price, but I am too cheap to even consider that.  I'd rather use that $$ to buy more wool 😁  Lousy color as usual . . . but the feet/legs do show up a little better in person.

For you cat lovers . . .

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Lauren

Being Bad ~ Again

 

So I will never learn!  I have so much wool it is now being stored in plastic tubs, but how can I resist bargain wool?  One of the guilds I belong to was having a member sale.  One of the members is downsizing and had to purge wool . . . and at such a great price!  I only purchased four bundles but could have bought many more.  All colors I love and many were older wools that I like to have in my stash and are difficult to find.

These two pieces from another member were also a great buy and all the small pieces were freebies from the member downsizing.

Yesterday was one of my favorite antique and primitive shows.  I could not pass up going but was hoping to come home empty handed.  I'm purging, remember?  I should know better 😀  I must say, though, that I was very disappointed in my partners in crime.  Friend Laura who always finds a treasure of two and sil Lyn didn't play very nice.  Laura bought a bunch of pussy willows and Lyn nada, as in not a thing.  Sue, who lives near the fairgrounds where the show is held met us there.  She, too, was good (or is it bad?) and only bought an old funnel, I presume for a planter.  I don't know if I want to go play again with such dismal-shopping friends 😁

I came home with a few Easter goodies.  A vintage papier mache bunny and a small candy mold.  One of the mold clips is marked ERMANY.  I guess it needs to buy a consonant.

My colony is growing.

A vintage West German papier mache egg.

Inside . . .

I always loved old clock faces and found this one.  The start of a new collection?  And a piece of a very worn old coverlet.

After being so bad, I need to get back to the attic and work on purging!  I am slowly going through boxes.  So many trips down memory lane.  I am finding things from my college days that haven't seen the light of day in 50 years.  Decorating items from decades ago.  Things that I saved from my boys, now 44 and and 45.  I am keeping a few things but trying to be ruthless in my purging.  The items mean nothing to others so it's best to throw things away, give them away and items that have value, try to sell.  I definitely have my work cut out for me.

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Lauren

Slo-Mo Hooking ~

When I got home from my Katie Hartner class just over two weeks ago, I was almost half done with Primitive Chickens.

Since then, I have hooked almost daily . . . and accomplished little!  I am determined to finish this soon.

My teapot challenge rug (that I am dreading hooking ~ teapots are not my "thing") is calling screaming my name.  I have until June to git 'er done, but I want it done now!

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Lauren

Three Finishes ~

 

The last day of March!!!  As I say every month, time is flying by at warp speed 😏

Miss March Hare is bound and labeled and given to my sister-in-law.  The background is much more subtle in person.

Same with Ezra's Farm.  I actually changed out a rug that was hanging in the dining room and here it is.

I had another punch needle piece finished years ago, and he's the perfect topper for a cigar box.  I left the box labels intact.  Wasn't how sure how well they would come off.  I tried removing a label from another box and a little sticky residue was left.  When I tried to remove the sticky, the paint started coming off.  

And the inside!

Just call me bad.  I still need to purge and purge and purge, but none has happened in the last couple of weeks.  It is on "THE LIST" to get back to it.  Well . . . the other day I went to an antique and primitive sale held one weekend a month (March to October?) about an hour from home.  I had seen this crock in the pre-sale video and was hoping it would be sold by the time I got to there mid-afternoon.  Darn.  It was still there.  It is a small Donaghho crock, I'm guessing a half gallon.  It has a huge chip on the rim but it displays well.  I'm sure you've figured out it came home with me.  "Antique pox.  A disease for which there is no cure . . . except to buy more." 😁

 

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Lauren

Door Prize ~

 

Crooked River Rug Hookers has traditionally used small mats hooked (or appliqued, punched, etc) by members as door prizes for our fall hook in.  This year member Rita came up with the great idea of decorating cigar boxes in the medium of your choice . . . hooked, appliqued, punched, etc.  A cigar shop near her sells the boxes for $5 each with all proceeds going to the local humane society.  The more boxes sold, the less that end up in a dumpster and a win for the homeless furkids.

Here is my first one.  I punched the piece years ago and never fully finished it.  For me, it's the journey and not the destination.  The "destination" was the perfect box topper.

I decided to add something to the inside, and thought a scrap book page of men's sweaters was a perfect complement to the guy theme.

The backside of the lid had an area where the graphic had been torn, so voila!  A Tim Holtz cutout was the perfect camouflage!

Not bad if I do say so myself 😁

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Lauren