Love your new sewing machines and your Halloween decorations on display! What a great touch! I have a question for you. Have you stained or restored the Singer cabinet or is that it’s original condition? Would staining the cabinet lower its antique value? I also like how you repurposed vintage patterns. I want to try something like that!

I love “old” machines too. I gave my grandmother’s treadle to sonshine4u so she can enjoy it as much as I have. I learned on a treadle and sewed lots of things on it. I also have my aunt’s toy singer from the 1020s and used to sew doll clothes on that. Thanks for loving and appreciating the past and sharing with us.

I love the decorated sewing machine. We have a decorated sewing machine too. Thanks for sharing this post and photos.
Marilyn

I love that you do this. I loved and used my vintage machine for quilting when I first learned to sew more than twenty years ago. Regrettably I no longer have that machine, it pains me to say. I just wanted to take a moment to express my enjoyment of your blog post.

Hi Nicole,
I am starting to curb that collecting gene now! I have a 1911, and a 1921 treadle Singer 127 models. One has the Sphinx design that I also love so much. At the Animal Welfare League I lucked into the 1911 motorized Singer in it’s carry case. Such an elephant, and it works beautifully. I was told that the church women used it to sew roll-up sleeping bags for the homeless. Luckily we had a repair man in West Liberty, a town nearby, who repaired old machines for the Amish and Mennonite’s. He supplied the leather belt and re-wired my machine. I recently learned he retired when I needed a Centennial 1950 Singer cleaned up that I scouted out for my good friend in Kentucky. Luckily he helped train a woman who now carries on this good work. I once found a cream-white FW like yours with the green and white case in wonderful condition. Before I could use it our house burned down! Well, Mr. McCulla had a black one (with a mildew smelling case) and I bought that one. My heart was with the white one though. They all work so well that I won’t buy a modern one now. At thrift shops, I have been able to buy the attachments and have nearly all of them and a buttonholer. I’ll use vinegar first and then the Mr. Clean sponge to get the mildew off. Thanks for that tip. Keep up your wonderful blog. Ellen in Ohio

Hello Nicole,

Really love your blog and enjoy your stories so much. Thanks for all the hard work you put into your writing. Also, thank you for the link to download and print a certificate for older Singer sewing machines. I have a 1928 treadle given to me by a dear friend before she passed away. And of course she bears my friend’s name. My certificate is printed and waiting to be framed and hung above the machine. I love featherweights, too, and have put one on my Christmas list!

I also love your decoupaged trays of vintage patterns. Another idea is to frame the fronts of the envelopes in floating frames. The painted wall or wallpaper will be the background when hung, or you can cut and mount any background you wish behind the envelope picture. We have recently moved, but I will hang these in my sewing room when we get unpacked and organized.

Thanks again for a wonderful blog!

Love your new sewing machines and your Halloween decorations on display! What a great touch! I have a question for you. Have you stained or restored the Singer cabinet or is that it’s original condition? Would staining the cabinet lower its antique value? I also like how you repurposed vintage patterns. I want to try something like that!

I love “old” machines too. I gave my grandmother’s treadle to sonshine4u so she can enjoy it as much as I have. I learned on a treadle and sewed lots of things on it. I also have my aunt’s toy singer from the 1020s and used to sew doll clothes on that. Thanks for loving and appreciating the past and sharing with us.

I love the decorated sewing machine. We have a decorated sewing machine too. Thanks for sharing this post and photos.
Marilyn

I love that you do this. I loved and used my vintage machine for quilting when I first learned to sew more than twenty years ago. Regrettably I no longer have that machine, it pains me to say. I just wanted to take a moment to express my enjoyment of your blog post.

Hi Nicole,
I am starting to curb that collecting gene now! I have a 1911, and a 1921 treadle Singer 127 models. One has the Sphinx design that I also love so much. At the Animal Welfare League I lucked into the 1911 motorized Singer in it’s carry case. Such an elephant, and it works beautifully. I was told that the church women used it to sew roll-up sleeping bags for the homeless. Luckily we had a repair man in West Liberty, a town nearby, who repaired old machines for the Amish and Mennonite’s. He supplied the leather belt and re-wired my machine. I recently learned he retired when I needed a Centennial 1950 Singer cleaned up that I scouted out for my good friend in Kentucky. Luckily he helped train a woman who now carries on this good work. I once found a cream-white FW like yours with the green and white case in wonderful condition. Before I could use it our house burned down! Well, Mr. McCulla had a black one (with a mildew smelling case) and I bought that one. My heart was with the white one though. They all work so well that I won’t buy a modern one now. At thrift shops, I have been able to buy the attachments and have nearly all of them and a buttonholer. I’ll use vinegar first and then the Mr. Clean sponge to get the mildew off. Thanks for that tip. Keep up your wonderful blog. Ellen in Ohio

Hello Nicole,

Really love your blog and enjoy your stories so much. Thanks for all the hard work you put into your writing. Also, thank you for the link to download and print a certificate for older Singer sewing machines. I have a 1928 treadle given to me by a dear friend before she passed away. And of course she bears my friend’s name. My certificate is printed and waiting to be framed and hung above the machine. I love featherweights, too, and have put one on my Christmas list!

I also love your decoupaged trays of vintage patterns. Another idea is to frame the fronts of the envelopes in floating frames. The painted wall or wallpaper will be the background when hung, or you can cut and mount any background you wish behind the envelope picture. We have recently moved, but I will hang these in my sewing room when we get unpacked and organized.

Thanks again for a wonderful blog!

Cute sewing machine. How about her name being Creamsicle.

Wow! I ridiculously thought I was the only one collecting vintage machines! I have my great grandmother’s treadle, as well as grandma’s 1940’s conversion that sparks when I turn it on, so I don’t use it. I have a new belt ready to go on the treadle, and you have inspired me to put it on. I also have an extremely heavy 40’s or 50’s machine I use regularly. A friend gave me a new singer, with plastic parts that broke the first time I tried to sew with it! Old is best. I would indeed be interested in a spindle doily, can you give me the info? Also, thanks for the info about the maintenance book. I plan to order it.

My mother’s best friend worked in a drapery factory and would bring home the small pieces to give to my mother. Sigh. I spent my middle school years dressed in nubby brown, tan and off-white skirts; blouses with contrasting sleeves; and even my Barbie doll wore drapery fabric. Mom didn’t waste anything. As for your “new” acquisition, how about “Cafe au lait”?

I am IN LOVE with my Mom’s sewing machine. I received a fancy (late 80’s) computerized machine as a present for my high school graduation. I have a love/hate relationship with this machine.

My Mom comes over and just loves using my machine and I keep begging for a switch. She refuses. So, she comes over and uses mine and I go over there to use hers. It is a great reason for us to get together and share the time as well as sharing our machines.

Thanks for reminding me, I have some hemming to do this week- better call my Mom and see if I can head on over!
Jena

Loved reading your post on old sewing machines. I am totally smitten with classic Singer’s. I have two black cast iron machines that date back to 1925, model #66. One is full size and sews like a dream, she is Miss Singer, I’ve used her for the last 40 years to hem jeans! Nothing stops it, lol. Recently, for Valentines Day, my husband bought me a portable model of the same machine with a stunning curved wood carrying case with all of the original attachments! I almost cried, lol. Her name is Birdie, short for Song Bird :). Both were in beautiful condition when I got them. Both machines are well loved and I know they will be working well beyond their 91 years! Thank you for a wonderful blog post!

I was thinking it sounded like a deer, Bambi maybe?

I’m not a great sewer and lose patience about halfway through a project, but I do know how to sew and have a sewing machine. I think it’s weird when people ask if I can sew and do I have a sewing machine. My thought is, doesn’t everyone? Apparently not.

I am going with Sandra for the name since it was one of the most popular names of 1961 and the machines “sandy” color. Love the article AND all your machines!!

I can relate! My sister still has my mom’s 401 Singer that runs like a dream and I salvaged a slant needle version of the same from a trash pile. Despite owning a relatively new Bernina, nothing can beat the old singer buttonholer. I also have at least 4 Singers in cases stored in my basement. (They are my sisters but she doesn’t want her husband to know.)

I had a Lithuanian friend who said his mom stored her silverware in her “Zinger” drawers. There will always be a use for those beautiful cabinets.

What about naming her Twiggy for the 60s model?

Loved the article. I have been using my mother’s 1947 Singer since I was 10. I recently found a Singer – Great Britain in the table case for $50. It is a 1951 3/4 size Singer. Too cute to pass up.

Nicole, thanks for the wonderful article on vintage sewing machines. It was so informative. I, too, have a Singer “Red Eye” sewing machine. It was my grandmother’s and I love it! It is also missing a leather treadle belt. I have lots of memories of her sitting at her machine making aprons for her friends and doll clothes for me. I love your blog posts and I, too, have always felt that I was born in the wrong generation.

I sure hope I can find me an old Singer some time. Having just retired I look forward to getting back to my sewing roots.

How about naming her Mocha Momma?

I LOVE your article!! We were just talking about vintage sewing machines on a sewing Facebook page! I just brought home my great granmother’s singer treadle that is converted to electric. I need to do some work on it, but I can still use it both electrically or treadle!! I can’t wait to share your article!! Thank you!

Those are some beautiful machines. I have my mom’s Singer electric and a Singer Red Eye treadle. I have purchased my leather belts online. My treadle was new in 1896. It has a bullet bobbin which took some getting used to. My great grandmother, grandmother and mother were all wonderful seamstresses. My mom worked in a clothing factory for many years making ladies undergarments.
I as well as my two daughters also sew. It is a love that has passed through the generations. My mother’s sewing machine will be passed along as it was to me. I love using it and thinking of all the wonderful things my mom made for us children and for others as gifts. Isn’t wonderful to rescue the things of long ago and put them to use again?

Hi I like old sewing machines they are beautiful..maybe cinnamon bun for her name,she sure is sweet!

I learned to sew on a vintage 1948 Singer that was a mainstay in our house. We each (three sisters and I) had our own newer portable machine which my father built sewing cabinets for. I still have mine but acquired my mother ’48 Singer when she passed. I use it for everything from clothes to mending to quilting full size quilts. Recently I picked up a 3/4 size Singer Great Britain. Haven’t had time to clean and refurbish it yet but it is so cute I couldn’t resist. Got the machine, cabinet and bench for $50 so couldn’t pass it up. The 301 is the same mechanically as the older singer machine but with the updated case that the newer homemaker demanded. YOu will love it. My name suggestion is creamy dreamy.

While I’m not one for sewing I did find your blog interesting. Those were classic looking machines. I remember going to the fabric store with our mom (before you were born).. She sewed so many nice clothes back then. I guess it’s in yall’s genes.

I loved this blog. I have a 1947 Featherweight That I love. I take it to quilting club. I too would still like to find a Singer Treadle like the one my mother taught me to sew on. Happy Sewing!! Cindy

Wow, I’m drooling over your vintage machines! Just gorgeous and so charming. In the picture the 301 appears to be two shades of tan. How about Mama Latte? Queen Cream? Ha!

Thank you for sharing your story. I wish I had my mother’s machines, the ones she sewed my clothes on…
Joan #6465

I really miss the mid-century Kenmore I learned on. My mother’s, I don’t know the exact year but know she had, had it for sometime before I was born in 1966. As a little kid, I remember thinking it was just the coolest thing how it completely hid in the cabinet by dropping down and then the table folding over. It was heavy, so I also remember begging to learn to use it and finally being tought around five, when Ialmost could get it opend and closed up by myself! The cabinet was such a pretty wood with modern, clean, simple lines. I can still see, feel and smell it in my minds eye!

Cute sewing machine. How about her name being Creamsicle.

Wow! I ridiculously thought I was the only one collecting vintage machines! I have my great grandmother’s treadle, as well as grandma’s 1940’s conversion that sparks when I turn it on, so I don’t use it. I have a new belt ready to go on the treadle, and you have inspired me to put it on. I also have an extremely heavy 40’s or 50’s machine I use regularly. A friend gave me a new singer, with plastic parts that broke the first time I tried to sew with it! Old is best. I would indeed be interested in a spindle doily, can you give me the info? Also, thanks for the info about the maintenance book. I plan to order it.

My mother’s best friend worked in a drapery factory and would bring home the small pieces to give to my mother. Sigh. I spent my middle school years dressed in nubby brown, tan and off-white skirts; blouses with contrasting sleeves; and even my Barbie doll wore drapery fabric. Mom didn’t waste anything. As for your “new” acquisition, how about “Cafe au lait”?

I am IN LOVE with my Mom’s sewing machine. I received a fancy (late 80’s) computerized machine as a present for my high school graduation. I have a love/hate relationship with this machine.

My Mom comes over and just loves using my machine and I keep begging for a switch. She refuses. So, she comes over and uses mine and I go over there to use hers. It is a great reason for us to get together and share the time as well as sharing our machines.

Thanks for reminding me, I have some hemming to do this week- better call my Mom and see if I can head on over!
Jena

Loved reading your post on old sewing machines. I am totally smitten with classic Singer’s. I have two black cast iron machines that date back to 1925, model #66. One is full size and sews like a dream, she is Miss Singer, I’ve used her for the last 40 years to hem jeans! Nothing stops it, lol. Recently, for Valentines Day, my husband bought me a portable model of the same machine with a stunning curved wood carrying case with all of the original attachments! I almost cried, lol. Her name is Birdie, short for Song Bird :). Both were in beautiful condition when I got them. Both machines are well loved and I know they will be working well beyond their 91 years! Thank you for a wonderful blog post!

I was thinking it sounded like a deer, Bambi maybe?

I’m not a great sewer and lose patience about halfway through a project, but I do know how to sew and have a sewing machine. I think it’s weird when people ask if I can sew and do I have a sewing machine. My thought is, doesn’t everyone? Apparently not.

I am going with Sandra for the name since it was one of the most popular names of 1961 and the machines “sandy” color. Love the article AND all your machines!!

I can relate! My sister still has my mom’s 401 Singer that runs like a dream and I salvaged a slant needle version of the same from a trash pile. Despite owning a relatively new Bernina, nothing can beat the old singer buttonholer. I also have at least 4 Singers in cases stored in my basement. (They are my sisters but she doesn’t want her husband to know.)

I had a Lithuanian friend who said his mom stored her silverware in her “Zinger” drawers. There will always be a use for those beautiful cabinets.

What about naming her Twiggy for the 60s model?

Loved the article. I have been using my mother’s 1947 Singer since I was 10. I recently found a Singer – Great Britain in the table case for $50. It is a 1951 3/4 size Singer. Too cute to pass up.

Nicole, thanks for the wonderful article on vintage sewing machines. It was so informative. I, too, have a Singer “Red Eye” sewing machine. It was my grandmother’s and I love it! It is also missing a leather treadle belt. I have lots of memories of her sitting at her machine making aprons for her friends and doll clothes for me. I love your blog posts and I, too, have always felt that I was born in the wrong generation.

I sure hope I can find me an old Singer some time. Having just retired I look forward to getting back to my sewing roots.

How about naming her Mocha Momma?

I LOVE your article!! We were just talking about vintage sewing machines on a sewing Facebook page! I just brought home my great granmother’s singer treadle that is converted to electric. I need to do some work on it, but I can still use it both electrically or treadle!! I can’t wait to share your article!! Thank you!

Those are some beautiful machines. I have my mom’s Singer electric and a Singer Red Eye treadle. I have purchased my leather belts online. My treadle was new in 1896. It has a bullet bobbin which took some getting used to. My great grandmother, grandmother and mother were all wonderful seamstresses. My mom worked in a clothing factory for many years making ladies undergarments.
I as well as my two daughters also sew. It is a love that has passed through the generations. My mother’s sewing machine will be passed along as it was to me. I love using it and thinking of all the wonderful things my mom made for us children and for others as gifts. Isn’t wonderful to rescue the things of long ago and put them to use again?

Hi I like old sewing machines they are beautiful..maybe cinnamon bun for her name,she sure is sweet!

I learned to sew on a vintage 1948 Singer that was a mainstay in our house. We each (three sisters and I) had our own newer portable machine which my father built sewing cabinets for. I still have mine but acquired my mother ’48 Singer when she passed. I use it for everything from clothes to mending to quilting full size quilts. Recently I picked up a 3/4 size Singer Great Britain. Haven’t had time to clean and refurbish it yet but it is so cute I couldn’t resist. Got the machine, cabinet and bench for $50 so couldn’t pass it up. The 301 is the same mechanically as the older singer machine but with the updated case that the newer homemaker demanded. YOu will love it. My name suggestion is creamy dreamy.

While I’m not one for sewing I did find your blog interesting. Those were classic looking machines. I remember going to the fabric store with our mom (before you were born).. She sewed so many nice clothes back then. I guess it’s in yall’s genes.

I loved this blog. I have a 1947 Featherweight That I love. I take it to quilting club. I too would still like to find a Singer Treadle like the one my mother taught me to sew on. Happy Sewing!! Cindy

Wow, I’m drooling over your vintage machines! Just gorgeous and so charming. In the picture the 301 appears to be two shades of tan. How about Mama Latte? Queen Cream? Ha!

Thank you for sharing your story. I wish I had my mother’s machines, the ones she sewed my clothes on…
Joan #6465

I really miss the mid-century Kenmore I learned on. My mother’s, I don’t know the exact year but know she had, had it for sometime before I was born in 1966. As a little kid, I remember thinking it was just the coolest thing how it completely hid in the cabinet by dropping down and then the table folding over. It was heavy, so I also remember begging to learn to use it and finally being tought around five, when Ialmost could get it opend and closed up by myself! The cabinet was such a pretty wood with modern, clean, simple lines. I can still see, feel and smell it in my minds eye!

Great post! Thanks for teaching me a new word! I will have to try and use it sometime. As far as transitioning from Summer into Fall, I dont have very many tips. I am not good at slow transitions between seasons. What really happens is that I just wake up one day and feel ready for a change!! Sunflowers are one of the few things that help. Once I see the hundreds of sunflowers opening up in the field next to my house, I know fall is on its way and it helps me get ready to put up pumpkins, corn stalks, and straw bales. Winter is really hard for me lately. I have tons of decorations for winter, but it simple just doesn’t feel like winter until there is snow on the ground. Each year we have less and less snow. I will have to use some of your transitions to help me out.

Really enjoyed your blog. Loved the pictures. Keep up the good work!

I love all the pictures, too! The decks in front and back look good. You are quite a decorator! Great picture of Audrey with her guitar. Miss you and love you. Mother

Super great blog!!! as usual. My my Audrey sure has become quite a young lady, I know what you mean about remembering when she was the age of your nieces, my granddaughter has become a young lady and it sure does bring the joy and tears. God bless.

What an amazing trip! I would truly enjoy visiting Washington DC sometime soon! I was unaware of how much you can see and how much you can learn from visiting there. I really enjoyed looking at all your pictures and reading about your trip. Thank you for sharing such an amazing experience. I’ll have to plan a trip now!

Thank you Nicole, for the tour through your eyes. It’s was so lovely to see the photos and info for each. I can well imagine the emotions some of the places would’ve stirred up in you. Wonderful visit for sure.

Nicole: I am glad you are close enough to enjoy the city. We took my boys in 1976. Long time ago but had a great experience. As adults they said they were glad they went. It was great for you to be a chaperone. You are perfect for the job.

Great article! My twelve year old daughter to going to Washington DC next March on a four day school trip. Wish I could go too, but I won’t be able to. We are from Tennessee so it is a pretty good distance, they are flying. Thank you for sharing, she will love the article and photos.

Wow, it looks like you hit all the best sights! That is a city I also need to get to. Your pictures really stoked my enthusiasm. 🙂

Too funny about the Danes you ran into. Last time I was in FL visiting my parents, we were at the Clearwater Aquarium. I heard a little boy chattering excitedly to his mom in Danish about goodies he found in the gift shop, and followed their voices. Family of 3 visiting FL. They were surprised, not expecting to run into Danish-speaking Americans LOL! (For a small country/low population, those folks sure get around!)

What a great tour around DC! I was there for a day but missed the Vietnam Memorial and the changing of the guard. I loved the Newseum. You reminded me I want to go back!

Simply WONDERFUL!!

thank you for sharing your story…I think that was one of the sweetest blogposts I have ever read. you never know who will cross your path each day and how lucky you were. the good news about your story is that it started my day today with joy…..the bad was that you may have sparked me to start collecting THIMBLES 🙂 ….perfect with my quilts.

GREAT story! What wonderful memories!

Nicole, I did not realize how many thimbles you have now! I forgot you gave the little wooden thimble holder to me for Mother’s Day. And which thimble did I accidentally drop and break when I was at your house? I have three collectible thimbles left, one you gave to me from Denmark, a wooden one with Texas and blue bonnets on it, and one from Galveston Texas which I think my mother gave to me. Your story of the notes in the thimbles is so wonderful and I love the castle thimble. Very interesting to read.
Love, Mother

Loved reading this. While I have a few thimbles, this made me remember my late friend Joyce who collected them and belonged to a thimble club. She also belonged to our button club. Miss her still. Enjoyed the stories about your collection.

I loved this story, thank you for sharing it with us. I also have a thimble collection. I have mine, my Mother’s, my Grandmother’s and her Mother’s, all under a little dome. I am going to go back now and put little notes in many of them. My everyday thimble I wear in a cage around my neck. It is a conversation starter. I have met many wonderful people.

Wow, what a great story! I don’t have a thimble collection, just one that I got for high school Home Ec class (in the ’70s, including a dab of red nail polish!) and the ones from my mother’s sewing box. But I love hearing the personal stories about how your collection came to be. Thanks for sharing.

I got my Mom’s thimbles after she died. Included with the ones we kids bought her as gifts and the ones she had purchased herself were the ones that had once belonged to her Mom and her Grandma. All the ladies in the family were stitchers. As I look at these thimbles, I can only imagine which ones were used during the construction of the patchwork quilts, which ones were used in the sewing of my Mom’s satin wedding dress, and which were used in the sewing and repair of our clothes when we were children. So many stories. I am glad that your thimbles came with a written history!

Thank you for your loving stories. I started my thimble collection when I was in high
school a long long long time ago. I have enjoyed sharing them with my friends’ now
it’s time to let them go. I’m downsizing and soon to move. Does anyone know where
I can sell them?
Thank you for all the wonderful stories on a little thing known as a “thimble”!

Simply WONDERFUL!!

thank you for sharing your story…I think that was one of the sweetest blogposts I have ever read. you never know who will cross your path each day and how lucky you were. the good news about your story is that it started my day today with joy…..the bad was that you may have sparked me to start collecting THIMBLES 🙂 ….perfect with my quilts.

GREAT story! What wonderful memories!

Nicole, I did not realize how many thimbles you have now! I forgot you gave the little wooden thimble holder to me for Mother’s Day. And which thimble did I accidentally drop and break when I was at your house? I have three collectible thimbles left, one you gave to me from Denmark, a wooden one with Texas and blue bonnets on it, and one from Galveston Texas which I think my mother gave to me. Your story of the notes in the thimbles is so wonderful and I love the castle thimble. Very interesting to read.
Love, Mother

Loved reading this. While I have a few thimbles, this made me remember my late friend Joyce who collected them and belonged to a thimble club. She also belonged to our button club. Miss her still. Enjoyed the stories about your collection.

I loved this story, thank you for sharing it with us. I also have a thimble collection. I have mine, my Mother’s, my Grandmother’s and her Mother’s, all under a little dome. I am going to go back now and put little notes in many of them. My everyday thimble I wear in a cage around my neck. It is a conversation starter. I have met many wonderful people.

Wow, what a great story! I don’t have a thimble collection, just one that I got for high school Home Ec class (in the ’70s, including a dab of red nail polish!) and the ones from my mother’s sewing box. But I love hearing the personal stories about how your collection came to be. Thanks for sharing.

I got my Mom’s thimbles after she died. Included with the ones we kids bought her as gifts and the ones she had purchased herself were the ones that had once belonged to her Mom and her Grandma. All the ladies in the family were stitchers. As I look at these thimbles, I can only imagine which ones were used during the construction of the patchwork quilts, which ones were used in the sewing of my Mom’s satin wedding dress, and which were used in the sewing and repair of our clothes when we were children. So many stories. I am glad that your thimbles came with a written history!

Thank you for your loving stories. I started my thimble collection when I was in high
school a long long long time ago. I have enjoyed sharing them with my friends’ now
it’s time to let them go. I’m downsizing and soon to move. Does anyone know where
I can sell them?
Thank you for all the wonderful stories on a little thing known as a “thimble”!

I have been looking at the chalkboard paints in our local craft stores for quite some time but have refrained from purchasing them because I have no specific projects in mind. What fun to read this post, look at the pictures, and see how you have so effectively used it! Your cherry chalkboard painted up nicely – and wouldn’t it be a hoot to have a red phone like the one from your childhood? Loved this post!

I wonder if our generation hasn’t made chalkboard paint popular because we enjoyed using the chalk so much when we were younger. After all, the children and used chalk outside on sidewalks and drives for quite a while.

Lovely projects.
Marilyn

I enjoyed your blog. Seeing the old phone in our childhood home brought back old memories.

Awesome..I love chalk paint. Nice pieces.

I love all your beautiful plants and the refresher on what plants like and need! In the past I have struggled keeping my house plants alive but have a beautiful bamboo plant that has survived 4 years now. It’s large and healthy! I am proud of that!! Can’t wait to be out in the nice spring weather gardening. Soon!

Nicole, loved this article on indoor gardening and plants that filter the indoor air. Also the article on making your own worm farm. Will try that later this summer maybe. We are waiting on the wind and rain to stop being so prevalent here in Kentucky so we can get our double-wide moved in on our lot and get set up for house-keeping and gardening. I have tomato plants waiting to be planted and also some Colorado Blue Spruce trees that I got from Arbor Day Foundation. Our lot is small but I plan to use every inch of it to make it beautiful and useful and beneficial by planting bee loving flowers for pollinating as well as looks, making a wind-break with the trees, having a chicken coop and run later this summer, and planting bulbs this fall of tulips, daffodils, alliums, hyacinths, and iris’ as well as transplanting the ones I have in the ground already where I live now. Also going to transplant our blackberry and raspberry vines, hostas, rose bush and peonies and our strawberry plants. A lot of work but I can’t wait.
Love reading all the columns in Mary Jane’s Farmgirl magazine and blogs. I wanted a milk cow too, but no room for one.

I bought that same greenhouse on clearance last fall, but I had forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding me…. That’s going to be my project for this evening; put it up and start some seeds since the weatherman is predicting snow for tonight. I love all of your beautiful plants. I have a big orchid on my desk that’s absolutely beautiful. I’ve had it for about 4 years and it’s the first time I’ve gotten it to re-bloom. I had forgotten what color it was, so I was very excited to see the blooms. Love your blog.