Gourmet hand painted yarn. Feed your inner fiber fiend.
Gourmet hand painted yarn. Feed your inner fiber fiend.
Cart 0

I live on a farm ... — family

July is here, July is nearly gone

• art • country life • country living • faith • family • farm life • flowers • friendship • gardening • health • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • relationships • socks • spirituality • summer • yarn

Hello dear readers, I have been absent from my blog during the month of July.  As it turns out, I needed some time to recuperate from months of intense fine art painting.  Summer also brought with it many activities including a day of plein aire painting on the Master Gardener's Garden Path tour along with other painters from the county, our annual Chicken Barbeque fund raiser at church, and many chores around our property. Even today I don't have as much time to write as I would like to.  However, you have been promised a July Sock Yarn Give Away...

Read more →


June's Sock Yarn Give Away Winner

• art • country life • family • gifts • knitting • Life • love • women

Just a quick note here to announce June's Sock Yarn Give Away Winner ... Elisabeth W. of Norway. More on this plus rules for July's Sock Yarn Give Away rules coming in this week's blog. Stay tuned! If you get a chance, join or "like" the I Live on a Farm and/or the J. L. Fleckenstein Fine Artist pages I set up at Facebook this week. I'll be using Facebook more and more to provide additional access to content, news, "heads up", etc. for my readers. Both Etsy stores are also tied in with the Facebook pages to make it...

Read more →


Moments Show Opening

• art • country life • country living • culture • family • farm life • flowers • gardening • knitting • Life • love • marriage • photography • relationships • romance • socks • travel • Upstate New York • yarn

My summer art show, "Moments", opened this past Friday night at Shawn's Gate Gallery in Medina, New York.

Read more →


Enjoying a perfect moment

• agriculture • art • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • flowers • gardening • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • summer • thoughts • travel

These perfect moments are happening all around us at all times, every day ... it is up to you and I to notice them and find at least one each and every day to thoroughly appreciate and enjoy.

Read more →


I Love New York

• art • blogging • country life • country living • culture • dating • family • farm • farm life • flowers • free knitting patterns • friends • gardening • knitting • Life • love • marriage • Mother's Day • photography • relationships • romance • socks • travel • Upstate New York • women • yarn

I have to say this-- though I never would have thought I would--I love New York.

Read more →