Farmers Country Store

Here is Farmer's Country Store, that is in Lancaster, Ohio. This store is just so adorable and has wonderful things to purchase for your home or for gifts.
Below is Shirley (Farmer) this store has been in her family for several generations, she has had this shop for over 30 years as a gift shop, a miniature shop (not longer does that)and she now has a quilt section at the back of the store.
Here is the check out counter which is sitting on the old meat counter from the general store. The little wooden window is an old postal window. They still use the old register today, but with the help of a calculator and paper and pencil. (That's Penny at the register now)The display items on the upper half of the shop are from Shirley's family homestead.
Some pictures of the little cubby areas in the shop.Below is the family sleigh with the velvet lining still intact.Several of the display cabinets from the original general store are still in use today.Here is a shot of the quilting area - wonderful fabrics and pattern, just love shopping in here.Couldn't resist taking a picture of the step stool - isn't it cute!I have a few more shots to share will post them on a later date.

Thank you for stopping by - Happy Easter to you ---- Roberta

Fabric finds

Finally went to the little country/prim/quilt store near my sister's here in Ohio. This is one of my favorite places to go when I visit my sister. I asked if I could bring my camera and take a picture of the store and they said yes. So tomorrow I will head back and take pictures - this is just a tiny store that has been in the owners family for years - it use to be the general store. The original meat counter is where the register sits. Lots of the family things are displayed on the upper part of the walls.

Below is fabric that I found to go with my Sarah Tobias Needle
roll.
I think it goes really nicely with the linen and thread colors - do you agree?
I also found some of the Moda Sampler fabric. Below is coral on ecru panels.
This is random sampler motifs in Brown on Ecru.
I also found several books that I would like, but purchased this Christmas one and a Penny Rug pattern. The glass jar is a 'fly catcher', just could not leave that - way too quirky and fun.
Well, that is it for now - hope to get some good pictures tomorrow of this little cute shop.

Thanks for visiting --- Roberta

Karetaker Kitties

My sister, who lives in Ohio, had knee replacement surgery at the end of March, hence why I haven't put anything on my blog.

Below is a picture of my sister, being cared for by her two cats - Juliette in the forefront and Jasmine sitting on her good leg.
Jasmine in ready to help pose!Juliette standing watch!Here they are on their rest break!!
My sister is doing remarkably well with her recuperation. This morning, we walked 1/3 or a mile around her community and then a shorter walk this afternoon. The surgery was a week ago Wednesday and I am amazed at how quickly her incision has healed. Instead of staples or stitches, her leg was glued together. She was able to take a shower within 48 hours of surgery and did not have to cover the incision. Jean has been really good with doing her exercises. We have had a good time together - great sister time!!! Tomorrow we are heading to the 4th session of PT and then a bit of shopping!!! Of course, she needs to use her walker (which she does not really like)but in the house and going to PT she uses her cane!! Again I am amazed at how quickly this proceedure and recovery has been. Her doctor is one of the top in this field and travels around the country teaching. I am very impressed.

Well, time to go and redo the ice packs

Thanks for stopping by --- Hope to put up some pictures of my stitching within the next few days.

Roberta

Wonderful stitching gifts received

Well here I am trying desperately to get packed and the house cleaned. Tomorrow I leave for my sister's in Ohio. She is having a knee replacement and I am heading up there to help her out.

I wanted to make sure that I posted everything to bring myself up to date. Some of my little gifts have been with me for several months and I apologize for being so late getting them posted.

I received this lovely homemade card, beaded thread counter, plastic storage box and darling little voile bag from Jill (now I do not know how to make her name so that you could see her blog, but she has posted to my comment sections and I encourage you to visit her blog she is a very talented lady) Jill had a PIF (pass it forward) that I signed up for and my name was pulled.So with any luck - when I get to my sister's - hopefully I will have internet!!! I will then have my own PIF and it will be a big one since I ended up winning another PIF from another great stitching gal.

Below is a close up of the beaded thread counter, isn't the Mother of Pearl piece beautiful! Thank you Jill I love what you put together and this little needle counter.Below is a birthday gift (I know! I know! my birthday was in December!!)now I cannot remember if I had shared this with you all - this is from Clare in England. There are 2 little candies, a keychain with my initial, Carrie Threads, little pens, a bottle of beads, a phone fob/or scissor fob!!;o)) a lovely voile bag and a beautifully stitched needlebook.

Here is the inside of the needlebookThis is the stitched outside - Thank You Clare for putting together this lovely package - I truly love everything. (again not good at getting this link thing)Below is a giveaway from Barbara in The Netherlands. Just love the chart from the Sampler Girl and the threads, but look at how cute the hanging pillow is!! there is a little kitty there - so cute!!
A close up - can you now see the little bird on the roof!!I just love the backing fabric - Thank you Barbara for such a darling little pillow and for the chart and threads!Now this is a huge apology to a very special gal - Heidi!! She made this lovely stocking for me for our Secret Santa exchange back in December and somehow I never posted it!!! This is so lovely and so well done, I just feel badly that I didn't get it posted.

Thank you Heidi for making this for me, I will treasure it.
Now I will leave you with these final pictures. The other day I showed you what my yard was starting to look like and I had a few cherry blossoms at that time. Well!!! You can see in just 3 days what a change the cherry blossom trees have undergone. The whole city is a bloom with Bradford Pears and Cherry Blossoms and today is the start of the Cherry Blossom Festival - it is also the first day of SPRING!! Everything here is Pink -----including the paper today - the entire paper is printed on pink paper.
Thank you for stopping by ----- Roberta

Springtime in the garden

Thought I would wander outside today with the camera to share the beauty that is starting in my yard.

This is the Weeping Willow that we received as a housewarming gift from our realtor and we had it moved to the back yard a few weeks ago.
For Terry's and my 30th anniversary we planted a Blood Red Japanese Maple.
Below are some shots of the creek that runs behind our house - the 1st picture is where 2 creeks come together.
This is a view from the back of the house looking to the left.
Another view of where the waters meet.
This is looking to the right from our backyard.
Once the summer comes you cannot see the creeks or even walk back to them for all of the foliage and plants.

Below is the cherry trees budding and blossoming - Macon will begin its annual Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend.Here are some of my pansy's in the front yard.The Camilla bushes have been in bloom all through February and are still blooming.

Here is the Dogwood tree down near the creek.The front door with spring flowers and sprigs of silk Cherry Blossoms. Almost everyone decorates their door or mailboxes with pink bows and Cherry Blossom sprigs.

Have been out of town and crazy busy

This is just a quick HELLO to let you all know that I am still here in blogger land. Just returned from a trip to Florida with DH, Terry, and now need to get ready to head to my sister's in Ohio.

During the month of February I worked 2 days a week at the LNS while the owner went to 'market', went on a trip with her husband and then off she went to stitching seminar. I also have been looking for a job (not going well in these tough times!!), have applied for a job and I do have an interview on Monday, but they had 50 applications and I haven't worked in over 20 years - but have volunteered lots!! I did pass the phone interview, hence, the face to face on Monday. Will give more info Monday.

Of course, the weather has been warm then cold, warm than, cold --- so I am trying to get out into the yard as much as possible. Needless to say, my computer has been ignored!! I was slowly catching up with messages and I am almost caught up.

I have several pictures and things to say before I head to my sisters - so I am hoping to get them on this blog before I go.

Now, why you ask, are you going to your sister??? She is having 'knee replacement' surgery on the 25 of March. I am going up there on the 21st of March and will return on the 19th of April. I am taking my laptop and I am hoping that I can log on to her wireless network - of course she and I are as computer literate as fish on a beach!!!! I am hoping that my nephew will be able to talk me onto the network from college!!! If so then I will be able to blog and read my messages.

Sorry that there is no pictures, but did want to say HI to you all and let you know that I will be posting some stitching and gardening pictures hopefully all this week.

Again I really love that you all do drop in to visit - THANK YOU!!! Roberta

Last Week was our 30th Anniversary

Just a quick hello on my blog, I am a bit behind in my blog reading, and my e-mail messages.

Last Tuesday the 24th of February was DH Terry's and my 30th anniversary. We had a dinner at the Outback restaurant with DD Lindsay. But on Friday night I made, dinner in celebration. We decided not to go out since we will be heading back down to Florida in a week and will be eating at some really nice places in Palm Beach.

So for dinner, I made prime rib, with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes (Tyler Florence's recipe) and roasted asparagus. There was also buttermilk biscuits (Mary B's from the freezer case) - I couldn't make these biscuits as good as these are!!!

Below is a photo of the flowers that Terry gave me - I am also getting red Japanese Maple for my yard.
I am thinking that I might try to dry them when they are finished looking pretty.
Have a great week - and thanks for visiting -----Roberta