Gourmet hand painted yarn. Feed your inner fiber fiend.
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I live on a farm ... — travel

Our place

• art • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • food • health • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • recipes • shopping • snow • soup recipes • travel • women • yarn

Saturday evening there was an unexpected show fall that brought us several inches of dry, powdery snow overnight. There was no wind during the night, so the snow was still blanketing the branches of the trees in the morning. I love waking up when it is still dark in the winter time and being surprised visually once the sun comes up with whatever might have happened overnight. Soon after day break the cloudy cover started clearing away, with golden sunshine breaking through here and there lighting up the trees, fields, river, and our barn most beautifully. It has been quite...

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A walk in the city

• art • country life • country living • dogs • faith • family • farm • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • pets • photography • Photos • shopping • snow • thoughts • travel • Upstate New York • women

My latest tribute to Etsy sellers ... a Treasury titled, "A walk in the city." Here we are on the farm, out in the country enjoying a beautiful winter of abundant snow, cold temperatures ... beautiful weather and cozy times in the house. However, feeling a touch of cabin fever I imagined for a few minutes that I was driving and walking along city streets. Side Bar: The smell of homemade bread is wafting its way through the house, from the kitchen, reaching me here in the livingroom ... mmm.  Just a sec, I have to take it out and...

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The year of faith

• 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.

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Purple Heart - A Treasury at Etsy

• 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 ...

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Titles elude me at this moment

• 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 ...

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