Caw of the Crow Primitives and a Polka Dotted Owl

Pumpkin Halloween Sampler

It's that time of year

when the frost is on the pumpkin

and the leaves turn beautiful colors.

Autumn!

The foliage has been losing its freshness

through the month of August,

and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself

like the first gray hair amidst the locks

of a beauty who has seen one season too many. 

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

With warm sunny days,

and crisp and cool nights,

I feel a creative stirring in my soul,

and anxiously begin decorating for the holidays.

Gretchen Waggoner caught my eye

a few years ago with her

beautiful one-of-a-kind primitives.

I always looked forward to her new 

creations on Lemon Poppy Seeds

an online primitives shop.

She recently joined forces with

Ashley Vogele to form an Etsy shop called

A Polka Dotted Owl

"a nest full of whimsy and primitive collections"

Crows on a wire primitive pillow

Grungy Old Jynx

Hoot Owl Tags

To learn more about Gretchen

please check out her blog

where she shares her work,

and devotion to her family.

Thank you for visiting!

Happy Fall to you and yours!



Lori Brechlin of Notforgotten Farm

"Mr. Jasper Binx"

OOAK Mohair Cat Doll

This awesomoe one-of-a-kind creation

can be found in the eBay group 

EHAG

Friendly Familiars Challenge

  

Sweet Annie Primitive Folk Art Doll

At dusk, just when you think all is settling down

for the evening ~

there is much activity at Midnight Farm....

Little Hedgewitch Shop

Midnight Farm

was created as a place

to showcaseLori's love of the Holidays,

especially Hallowe'en...

 Lori is a full-time Folk Artist

living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,

on an 84 acre farm...

with her husband and daughter.

Lori often writes about her life, 

(which is abundant with creativity),

on her blog,

and is very passionate about

her family, home, pets and farm animals.

You can view photos of her home,

handiwork, and patterns

on her picturetrail site.

If you are lucky enough to be in

Nelson County, VA

You could visit the

Notforgotten Farm Shop

on Friday and Saturday,

or by appointment.

"Here's my Heart" cross-stitch pattern

Lori has been a published designer

of needlework patterns since 2000

and has been creating and selling her finished

folk art since 1987.

"Farmer and Wife" 2-for-1 pattern

You can find her patterns

for counted cross stitch,

primitive needle punch

and hooked rugs in her 

Notforgotten Farm shop

as well as here

for more locations.

Lori's work has been published in

Country Home magazine,

Country Sampler magazine,

Country Living magazine,

the Wool Street Journal,

Country Marketplace magazine

and most recently,

Primitive Quilts and Projects magazine.

Lori is a proud member of the following groups:

Cloth and Clay Dolls

Doll Town
Master Bear Crafters

Eclectic Halloween Artist Group

Sampler Makers

Teresa's Prim Treasures - Stitches and Wood

Lil'Miss Victoria

measures 13"

and in her arms she holds a sweet little rabbit!

Both are made from fabric
and stuffed with polyfill.

Her dress is a nice mustard cotton fabric

 with pineapple and x's.

Tarnished safety pins
were placed on the shoulders
to finish the dress.

Bloomers are made from osnaburg fabric.

Everything has been coffee/vanilla

stained for that nice well worn look!

Teresa Miller grew up in rural Pennsylvania

In 1989, she began creating Amish dolls
for a local gift shop.

Her husband creates the beautiful wooden
pieces while she completes the finishing touches.

Teresa's Primitive Treasures online shop

was created in 1996, where you can

find Teresa's dolls, patterns, kits, pinkeeps,

dried pineapple, beeswax ornaments, furniture,

penny rugs, prim wool appliques,
and hand stitched items.

A wonderful way to hide your KitchenAide Mixer!

It will slide easily away from your mixer!

The inside measurments are
15 wide by 14 1/4 high by 9 1/2 deep and

will accommodate otherstanding mixer brands.

Handcrafted wood by Teresa's husband,

shown here with 3 faux drawer fronts and wood knobs,

finished in a warm Mustard color!

(New England Red soon to be listed in the spring).

Teresa's handmade prims can also be found
on the following Etsy teams;

Primitive and Folk Artists

(PAFA blog)

PAFA Team

Etsy Treasury Team

(ET Team blog)

ET Team on Etsy

Old Farmhouse Gathering

(OFG blog)

OFG Team

You can follow Teresa on her blog!

 

Primrose Days

Internet Open House

  

DATE: March 28th 

TIME: 8 pm EST 

www.picturetrail.com/thequillandwell 

 

Great News! 

Tonight,  Monday, March 28th at 8pm Eastern Time, is the Primrose Days Internet Open House for handmade early goodes, one-of-a-kinds, antiques & fiber art jewelry!

Participating in the update will be: Samplers Country Collectibles, Primitiques, Havenshire Downs, Arnett's Country Store, Monahan Papers, M & M Dry Goodes,Timeless Threads and Restoration of my Humble Spirit (fiber art).

 

The Primrose Internet Open House is open to the public and there will be no need for a password... The show will be visible to all promptly at 8pm (eastern time)...

 

From small treasures to complete your early vignette to larger focal points- this update has everything you need to re-create Early America & decorate with American Hand-Mades!

Wonderful Places To Visit:

  

Samplers Country Collectibles

Primitiques

Havenshire Downs

Arnetts Country Store

M & M Dry Goodes

Monahan Papers

Little Black Crow Studio

Meet ALICE

Alice wears a cute little dress,

nautical themed with a peter pan collar.

A bright red vintage button decorates the front

while a little white vintage button is attached

to the back of her dress.

Alice's eyes are made from

two vintage dark brown buttons.

Her body and dress have both been

distressed with coffee and sandpaper

to give her a little vintage feel.

She has tiny pink stitches

on her arm sewn by her mum.

Apparently after Alice had fallen down a hole!

Her face and paws are hand embroidered.

Her shoes and socks hand painted.

Alice also wears a blue and

red woolen scarf knitted by her mum!

This little bunny stands 9 inches.

You will also receive an authentic

little Black Crow tag

that lists all the ingredients

used to make this bunny,

her name, date of birth and edition number.

Meet FERNANDO - Whimsical Donkey

Meet PETAL - The Elephant

This month's amazing feature is

Grace Garton of

Little Black Crow Studio

from Tasmania, Australia

She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree 

from the City Art Institute

(Alexander Mackie) in Sydney 

and has over 25 years working in animation

Her talents include;

sewing, knitting, printmaking, mixed media,

photography and doll making.
She is inspired by the environment:

city, bush, suburbia and rural.

Grace works as a production designer

for an animation studio.

and previously worked on a TV series as

production designer for Blue Rocket,

which lasted for nearly 5 years.

Her work is featured in

small magazine, Summer 08 Issue

and

small magazine, winter '09 issue

Grace is also a member of

Artisans creating outside the lines

as well as a contributor to Art Dolls Only

Read more about Grace Garton

on her blog

called Little Arty Crafty Crow.

View her gallery of bunnies

odd dolls, animation, illustrations and

where she offers yet another talent;

she can help you spring clean your blog!

Valentines in the Ditty Bag radar....

Check out what's currently trending for prim valentines!

Skunk Hollow Country Store

In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown

Prim Stockings- Village Vintage Prims (ebay)

I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood

The Stitcherhood (Etsy)

For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland

Rock River Stitches (Etsy)

As soon go kindle fire with snow,

as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

~William Shakespeare

Aunt Manny's Creations

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton

Amybug's Primitive Attic auction template

My whole heart for my whole life. 
~French saying used on poesy rings

Cleaning out the cobwebs

It's been some time since

I have posted to this blog.

I decided to dust out the cobwebs,

and cleaned out the spam comments.

(sooo many opportunists out there).

 

Perhaps the title of the this blog is

attractive to those particular spammers....

It's a shame there is always someone
lurking to spoil the fun.

I will remove the "comments option"
if it continues...

but I have decided to continue this blog

due to the positive support,
and increased followers.

Thank you for that.

The Ditty Bag WILL be back soon!

A Simple Life has arrived!

My issue has arrived in the mail!

It's beautiful!

Click HERE for a Sneak Peek!

Cinnamon Creek Cabin has a blog!

Recently, I happened to stumble upon a new site called
A Fine Farmhouse.
Once again, I found the work from an artist
I consider the real deal, when it comes to primitives.

Located in Centertown Kentucky

You may recognize Dru A. McCarty from
Cinnamon Creek Cabin,
featured here back in December 2007.
I was delighted to see she now has a blog,
and received her permission to announce it!


She writes that she has been sewing, stuffing,
stitching, painting, and grubbing like a mad woman!
She shares her thoughts and photos of her past creations.

I get the feeling she doesn't realize how
genuinely talented she is!
That is what I mean by the "real deal".
She is such a natural at what she does,
and she instills so much inspiration in me.


I could fill my entire home with her creations.


Congratulations are in order,
for winning the
One Year Anniversary Giveaway
from Doreen Frost of
Vermont Harvest Folk Art
(another one of my most favorite talented artists)

She has won a very sweet little sleepy blackened
beeswax mouse resting atop a reproduction Civil War
fabric covered mache box filled with Sweet Annie Seeds.

American Folk Art from the hands of
Dru A. McCarty

Thank you for visiting the Ditty Bag~

This Olde Crow

http://thisoldecrow.homestead.com/


Straight from the Old Family Farm.....
Grungy early wares,
a gathering of prairie goods found here....

Sugar cones, garlands, prairie cakes, drieds,
settler's breads, great pantry items, early and right.


Grubby wax aged and cured, hand did needfuls,
homestead clothing, old dolls too....
Wholesale available and Special orders taken.


Lori Turner is a christain,
living a simple life, and
grew up in a small town in Southeast MO.

She likes to make people happy
and to see them smile....

contact Lori here:
thisoldecrow@webtv.net