Bragging!

I would like to take this post to brag on my husband. We had a tree come down on our property and my husband told my #2 son that he would make him a coffee table and end tables for a wedding present. For you regular readers you might remember my son got married in July.
My husband used old hand tools to make this table. The top has two slabs put together to make the table that wide. Where the legs come up into the top my husband took little pieces of dark walnut wood to put into the legs. The shelf on the bottom is a piece that my son bought at Lowes Hardware store.
Even though this view of the table looks rough, the top is smooth as glass. My son and DIL are so proud of the table. They just love it. I am pretty proud of my husband because this is the first
piece of furniture he has made. Now he needs to finish the end tables.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford

It's Snowing...

Frosty Flakes from Dawn Hay.
With Passion,

Carrie P.

Last Block

The last block is finished from Linen Closet Quilts BOM. Dawn has the first block out for her new BOM. It is called Folk Art Tribute.
Unfortunately this block will go in the UFO pile for a while so that I can work on Christmas gifts. It will be here before we know it. Kaaren says there are 110 days until Christmas. Eeekkk! She has a cute needle case tutorial on her blog that would make a great gift.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Waiting on Autumn!

I am really looking forward to Autumn after the summer we have had. I bought this little wool kit from Farmhouse Woolens. I don't think you can get this kit anymore but there are some very pretty things on the website.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Nature

Nature does not hurry but everything is accomplished. Lao Tzo
Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.

Rachel Carson
Flowers are heaven's masterpiece. Dorothy Parker
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein
Nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne, Religio Medici 1635
The best remedy for those lonely, afraid, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank
With Passion,

Carrie P.