Another attempt at blogging

Wow, I am just terrible at this blogging.......and I just can't seem to get back on board so I am hoping to start doing better, but only time will tell.

To the right is a potholder I made out of this adorable Lucy material I found. I have always been a big Lucy fan so I got this and made some potholders out of it. Anyone interested in one, just email me.

We will be headed to Lafayette, Ky. this weekend for "Old Timey Festival." This is a neat and historic little town not too far from Fort Campbell, Ky. or Clarksville, Tenn. If you are free for the day and want a neat little festival to attend this one was great last year and we look forward to attending it again this year.

Since craft shows seem to consume my world I guess that will become the focus of this blog.

Hopefully, today I will get a lot accomplished in the old craft room today. I am soon going to have to do some cleaning and organizing or I am not going to be able to walk through there much longer.

Naturally I have to leave you with two pics of grandkids, they are growing so fast. Have a good day. It rained during the night and so much cooler today and I love it.

Cody, on the left, seems to be in serious thought, and Shelby, always smiling, she is such a special little girl.

Glendale, Ky.

This was the Model T that hailed from Green County, Ky.

Just one of the crowd shots. Booths are lined up

everywhere as well as the people.

Aren't these jackets just adorable?

Here is the husband with out booth.

I just loved these old pots or old canners painted to look like

pumpkins. They were just so bright and cheerful looking.

The Amish are always there with their crafts.

Of course, you have to get some playtime in.

The third weekend of October always finds us in Glendale, Ky. set up at the Glendale Crossing Festival and this was the 30th show we have done this year. The crowd at this show never ceases to amaze me.

The weather was a little cool but other than that it was a great day. There was an Amish booth behind us that sold homemade doughnuts and I think I may have gained 10 pounds that day from eating her doughnuts.

At this festival you will find a little bit of eveything, from antiques to crafts, to wonderful food. It's a great place to visit and if you didn't get to make it this year maybe you can next year. I am sure you won't be disappointed.

I FINALLY finished it

I finally finished my Amish Roman Stripe quilt this week. I made this using the Eleanor Burns quilt in a day directions. Needless to say, I didn't get it done in a day, much less a week. But that has nothing to do with Ms. Burns directions, I just don't have enough focus to stand and cut strips all day. Me and a rotary cutter are not the best of friends.

Anyway, if any of you are in Glendale, Ky. this week for their big festival, my husband and I will be there with my homemade quilts for sale as well as his homemade ciders.

We will be set up next to True Kentucky which is behind Benny's Antique Barn. We don't use a tent so just look for the white haired woman (me) who will be sunburning and Mark will have his Retired Army hat on. We love for you to visit.

The two quilts on the top are ones I will also have at Glendale as well.

Tiring weekend

We spent the weekend doing a craft show in Grand Rivers, Ky. on Saturday and then drove up to Metropolis, Ill. Saturday night and part of Sunday. Will write more tomorrow, just too tired at the moment. This was the view from my booth when we did a craft show at Kuttawa, Ky. Kentucky is such a beautiful state. Talk to you tomorrow.

hidden art talent

Apparently my husband had a hidden art talent because he has started making these Hillbilly Ten Commandments for the craft shows that we do. He has had really good luck at selling them as well. He completely draws the picture freehand (and each one has a different picture) and does the lettering. I love the plain spoken English and how we are supposed to behave.

Pumpkins and quilt making

I love pumpkins, I love seeing them in trailer loads, lined up on people's porches, mantles, wherever they choose to display them as well as pumpkin roll, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, if it's orange and looks like a pumpkin, then I just tend to drool and drool over it.

Don't you just love this time of the year? Cool night, cool mornings, the days aren't as hot, the air has a calmness about it that summer doesn't have, leaves are taking on a different color, mums everywhere, it is just a great time of the year.

I started yesterday on one of those Eleanor Burns quilt in a day projects. I know I haven't gotten to sit and work at it non stop, but I don't think I could complete one of these in a day. However, I will be very glad if I can complete this quilt in a week.

I made a specialty quilt, or at least that is what I would call it, of deers. Well, I invested way too much money into it to be able to recover my costs selling it at a craft show but I did manage to sell it Saturday at the Franklin Craft Show. I was so glad to see that quilt go, believe me, that one quilt had more blessings said over it than any other than I have made.

I told the lady who bought it she was certainly getting one of a kind there, because I would not ever make another one. It was made in the crazy quilt design and I was just about crazy when I finished it. I certainly hope her husband enjoys it because it had a lot of hours invested in it.

The morning found me cutting out potholders for the show we are doing this weekend, so if I can get all of those made and this "quilt in a day" I will have a full week invested as well as keeping the two grandbabies four days. I need an energy pill.

Oh, but the good news of the day, the new season of NCIS begins tonight.....doing a happy dance.

Sunday night

Here it is Sunday night and it is cold here in southern Kentucky. We are down to 25 and it is supposed to get down to 16 degrees tonight.

Church was good, the sermon was on God's Love. Always glad I went, but it seems like Sundays just wear me out.

I can't close this blog today without posting a picture of precious and precious.

These are my two grandchildren. Shelby on the right is two and Cody on the left is one. Needless to say they run me ragged. They are my daughter's children. I keep them everyday and believe me by the time I get home I am pooped to the coop.

It can really be hard somedays trying to give them what they need and trying to get things ready for the upcoming craft season.

I pretty much make my living from doing craft shows, the etsy shop and private orders and don't think it is easy because its not. But they won't be this small forever and I am just glad I am able to help. I had the most perfect grandmother in the world and she is the model I am striving to follow.

Well, I am off to cut out a doll or do some crocheting. It's really going to be cold in the morning when I leave the house at 5:30, but I just won't think about that now.

Hope all of you had a good weekend.