OPEN TODAY!

Ready or not, here we go :).  We are open today....the shop isn't finished or completely set up, but it will give me something to do (ha), as my husband tells me.  It's been fun setting up and arranging, and who knows, it may all be re-arranged by next week.  We have a lot of birdhouses ready, along with feeders, aprons, and a lot of fun home decor, even a table of old tools for the men to browse through.  See you soon.      (Open Tues., Wed., Fri., 9-5 and Sat. 9-3)

WE HAVE A DATE!

       We finally set a date to re-open for the summer, and the date is April 10, 2012. The shop should be finished and hopefully we will be settled in.  Can't wait to show everyone the new items purchased and the stone birdhouses and feeders we have ready to go.  I just finished the first oriole feeder (to put oranges on), and I have a second design for grape jelly.  The picture to the right shows the old barn siding and barn beams we are using in the entry to the shop.  See you soon.

New (Old) Shop

Hard to believe, but this is going to be one wall of the new shop area in our barn.  I can't wait until it's done and we can start putting items in the shop, decorating, etc.  It will be such fun.  It all sounded so simple, "let's move the shop to the barn..." but now we have a lot of decisions to make, what and how many lights we need,  old flooring, ceiling, colors....what old door where.  It will all come together in the end,  (and hopefully our marriage will stay together too.)  :)  So we'll keep working at it and we'll see you in the spring.

THE BIG BOOM

This church will be for sale when I open the shop up again in the spring. I attended a sale last Saturday, and this is one of the items I was able to buy.  Isn't it the neatest?!  It's from back in the 40's/50's, and it's all there, the light works and it has a music box that plays "Silent Night".   I was so excited, my husband could tell...he laughed and said, "The buy of the day"!  I agreed.      On a personal note, last evening, while sitting at the table working on taxes, the silence was interrupted by a loud reverberating noise and the house seemed to be ready to collapse around me.  I've never heard or felt anything like it before.  They still don't know what it was other than perhaps thunder (it was foggy all around us at the time), or a sonic boom.  After I realized the house was ok, and I was ok, I started thinking about "things".  Will it be like that when the Lord returns...just something sudden, out of the blue?  Will I be prepared?  I sure wasn't prepared for this "boom", it really startled me.  We are to be watching and ready for the Lord's return, it will happen ... how "startled" will I be? 

Stoning Again

I'm finally back stoning birdhouses after the holidays, sitting in my sunny kitchen with music on the radio, thinking about my friends and praying for certain situations.  It was a good day, and I actually got 5 birdhouses stoned.  I'll be glad for that next summer when I'm busy with the shop and don't really have time to stone.  Hopefully I can get ahead this winter and next summer won't be so stressed.