Thanks For All The Inspiration!!

OK, is this a bit better??.................

Still grey, but a dark charcoal,

sanded it a bit.........

put some wax on the top.

Maybe needs darker knobs?

A work in progress................

I need to find something to hang under the turtle shell

for better balance.

It will be fun to fill this out over time.

Thanks for all your suggestions!

It really helped to motivate me.

                                                                      

VINTAGE PENDLETON BLANKETS

COLOR AND PATTERN.............

Probably my FIRST love is and always will be vintage textiles. Since my

SECOND love is all things western........Vintage Pendletons are high on my list.

Most of the curtains in our house are made from "cutter"

Pendletons. WHAT???????? you saw my black cupboards and my pdr room......

What were you expecting????? Something normal??

I like to stack the blankets, hang them over the backs of chairs,

bundle in them...........

I just bought a new one to hang on our headboard!!

And I love to sew with bits and pieces of them.

So here's a bit of our living room..........................

The coffee table is an old furnace grate from  Garys family,

I had legs welded onto it.

 Pieces of junkity junk gathered from here and there

For all you poultry lovers out there.

Case full of small treasures, all mean something to us for

one silly reason or another. Those two small beaded baskets were done by my sister.

(Frost Creek)

What's really cool is that she first MADE the baskets THEN she beaded them!!

Old pie safe full of memory jugs and nests.

Speaking of memory jugs..............................

Here is the "infamous" first jug AGAIN.......

I went over it, with a new concoction I came up with.

I am liking this much better.

What do you think??

(These photos can all be enlarged so that they show up better......

NO FAIR looking for dust and dog hair!!!!!)

  

                                                                               

Weekend Tidbits

MEMORY JUG........

I am still not quite sure how I feel about this jug, although as I have finished it , stepped away, and come back,  it is growing on me. It takes a lot of items to make a memory jug. I thought I had enough left over and tucked away from making other jugs to do one more.. but it was touch and go. The GOOD news is I cleaned up another area of my workspace. AND that I now need to go junking for more jug material. The BAD news is it takes time to find enough stuff. And I usually like to have some sort of "theme" going on in my head while making a jug so it can take even more time. 

This jug does have a fair amount of fun and interesting things on it..........for example.. a pair of old false teeth. My neice bought one of those old folding sewing baskets at an antique store. When she got it home and took a good look at the contents she found the pair of dentures. ( Don't you wonder about that story? and did the dealer know that they were in there?) She was really creeped out and told me she was going to throw them away.....I immediately yelled "NO! I want to put them on a jug!!" So she mailed them to me, and they are on this jug. (see them?) Ok, I admit I was a bit creeped out as well, but  "all in the name of art?" I have never painted over everything on a jug before like most of the antique ones are, but I think this one might be a good candidate for painting. I 'll have to think about that while it is drying. It might look better under a layer of paint.  :)

  

BULBS......                                                                                                                          

The most valuable lesson I learned this weekend was that if you plant 90 gladiolus bulbs using organic bulb food/fertilizer......containing lots of stinky stuff .....you should turn down your loud music and have a look behind you once in a while. There is a very good chance your corgi/dog  is happily coming along right behind you digging them ALL up to see what that "yummy" smell is all about.                                                        

                                    

A Little Ebay Love !!!

Oh look! The mailman has brought me a little Ebay love!! Let's open it and see!!
                            

                                                    A MEMORY JUG!!!             

This memory jug is "guesstimated"  to be  from the late 1880's according to the seller on Ebay. After looking it over that would be my guess as well.  It is only about 7 1/2 inches high and a few pieces have fallen off over the years. It has some interesting items on it, lets check it out:
How about I enlarge the photos?

Wishbone, domino, thimble, clock key, starfish, buttons, and of course ....the ubiquitous peach pit!

Bisque doll, more buttons, a tiny file, shells, mother of pearl belt buckle, Mass. volunteer militia button.The buckle with the trojans (?) on it looks like a cape closure.

Perfume bottle stopper, hinge, glass acorn, petrified wood, little red game piece, shells, buttons,

More mother of pearl, a little bucket (hanging on the right), and in the middle of all the nuts, beads and I don't even know what all.....my favorite thing.....the military crossed swords. They look and feel to be brass? Are they off a hat? uniform?  If anyone knows please let me know , they are the real reason I wanted this jug so bad.
 OK, that's my junking for today! I really prefer to stand in line..... in the rain...... behind all the early birds at estate sales to get my treasures, with a number of , oh, I don't know 100 or so. It's much better than sitting in my warm house, in my jammies, with a cup of coffee and a cookie (or 2) in front of my computer, BUT.....I can't seem to ever find jugs around here.  I am convinced it's  more of a southern or East coast type of thing.

But hey!!!!!!Ebay is better than nothing!!

(seriously, any info about the crossed swords would be welcome! They are metal)

WELCOME!

Recent Memory Jug I made.







Hello,  welcome to my blog.  I am still exploring this medium so bear with me. 

I am hoping you will check in with me occassionally to see what I have been up to in my studio, growing in my garden, or what rusty crusty treasures I have drug home. 

I also plan to share things that I love, people and things that inspire me.

Hope to see you soon!