Teapot, Teacups, Pitchers

Good morning my friends.

This crazed, creamy, and blue teapot is the cutest. 

I found it in a junk shop.

 It is on my dining table where I have a vintage bedspread with intricate embroidery.

If you see cat hair-this is where Gremmie hangs out. 

We eat elsewhere.

Thank you all for your comments in my last ice storm post. 

Y'all are awfully sweet. 

I have the best friends here too.

Look at that old embroidery.

 Do use vintage spreads and quilts as tablecloths. 

They work quite well.

Two Meakin {made in England}small pitchers from the same junk shop. 

Forgive my blurry pics. 

I am in bad form. 

We picked up more truck loads of limbs yesterday. 

We are making progress. 

We can now walk to our mailbox unscathed.

A leaning tower of Meakin teacups in a cloche.

 I like that caddy wampus look.

Caddy wampus is where it's at for us these days:}

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joy and peace

Olive

Needlecraft Reboot

Hello friends and happy Friday.

I have not done embroidery in twenty years but have started again.

 I enjoyed this needlecraft from age fifteen until age thirty. 

Having a premature baby and working as an R.N. did not leave me creative time.

You can read about my outlandish embroidery, for my aunt, here 

in the Hold Everything Lightly Series.

This is the finished runner, blurry though it is, thanks to my assistant Gremmie. 

I found several embroidery kits for three dollars. 

The same kits sell for twenty dollars online.

Now I am working a white runner with a rose on each end. 

My stitching is improving with each piece (yay).

In Olive Out news I am doing embroidery again to relax because

 I seem unable to get myself together these days.

 I adore blogging and miss all of you. 

The connecting with you part of blogging is what I miss most. 

 I will blog when I can.

 Perhaps once to twice a week. 

I continue to have an issue with my ear.

 I had a minor surgical procedure on it about four weeks ago and it has not healed.

The bone is exposed which puts that area of the ear canal at risk for infection.

 If it does not heal I may require a surgical graft in the operating room. 

I am busy pricing Christmas items for our antiques booths.

 Christmas decor is bursting forth all over our dining room.

I'll photograph the open house for y'all. 

joy and peace

Olive

Living Room Chairs

Hello friends.

 I hope you are having a good week.

The chippy green primitive chair in our living room has acquired 

a vintage suitcase and a basket of fall gourds.

I found the white chair at an estate sale.

 It is slip covered but pretty rough otherwise. 

Yes, I nailed a chair to the wall.

It has beautiful primitive curved legs.

 It's a child's chair and was hand carved. 

I think it's a piece of art.

If it was on the floor the legs would be unseen. 

 Dried forsythia is in the urn. 

I dried it quite by accident and liked how it looks.

Ghost Cat Alert!

Sometimes camera hiccoughs are fun.

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joy and peace

Olive