christmastime house!

Our new saw.

Trying to cut down on overhead
So we got this new saw to make our own stretcher bars for our HANG-UPS







-Blog'd on the move.

busy bees

we did a couple of craft fairs this month--Bloomington Handmade Market and the Crafty Supermarket in Cincinnati. there was a great turnout at both events and tons of supportive people & great handmade things. we were so busy we forgot to take any photos. dang.

but here is one of a couple of new prints we made for Cincinatti.


oh, and here is a new one of mr. scampers.

now we're busy getting ready for the Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale in Chicago coming up in a couple of weeks. so much to do and so many Thanksgiving feasts to eat!

happy birthday, amber gayle!

we would like to wish a very, very happy birthday to Miss Amber Gayle Myers!

ain't she a doll?

if she weren't so far away, we'd touch her lil nose & give her a big squeeze!

junk

My great grandma Opal had a Hoosier cabinet in her kitchen. I used to admire it while sitting at her kitchen table listening to gossip and outrageous tales. I had been on the hunt for one of my own for years now, but finding one in my price range (free) had always been a challenge--until one day we were driving down an alley and there sat one, waiting for the trashman. Five minutes later it was in the van, heading to our house.


As soon as we had time we sanded, sanded, and sanded some more. And then more sanding. The previous owner had apparently tried to refinish the cabinet, but it was a smeary mess of wrongly applied brown wood stain all over everything, even the white enamel top!

After Sand-tacular 2010 was finished, we took out the wire rack in the bottom and added a wooden shelf, to make it a little more functional for us. We also added a shelf where the flour bin would have been and reinforced some of the other shelves that were a little wobbly. We gave it a couple of coats of paint from we had leftover from previous projects. And then used a can of enamel spray paint on the table top and handles.

And that was it. Now it's in our kitchen and we love it.

And the best part is, the only things we bought for the project were a can of spray paint & a piece of wood for the shelf. Holler.

sleeps

Tiny House Just Got Tinier

Our very own press!

crawdaddin

Friday evening FUN @ Cherokee Park.

Aight then.

-Blog'd on the move.

progress, i guess.

my hometown is getting a sidewalk.

Screenprinter breakfast

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To the post office we go!

-Blog'd on the move.

Who Ate Em All?

DD is obsessed, but is the Thornton's on Taylorsville Road seriously the only place that has them?

Steamy

The other day it was super humid, like bad even for Louisville. I was trying to take some photos of our garden and the camera lens kept fogging up. I got annoyed and stopped, but after looking at the photos I think I like it better than how they usually turn out with that too fancy digicam.

Garden Helper

(and all-around scamp)