Giveaway at Green Fairy Quilts

Big giveaway at Green Fairy Quilts! Check it out! :)

Before, I only thought I had a problem...

...but now, I know I do.

I don't even know where I am going to put this. LOL* We don't have a very large house, and who knows, I might just have a really good yard sale in a few years! ;) I am actually embarassed that I could not control myself, and I bought another sewing machine. LOL* It's just an old singer from probably, what, the 40's? The cabinet is nothing to write home about, but it's so pretty, and I worry that these are popping up everywhere because their long time owners are passing away and in a few years they might be harder to find. So now my daughters have a nostalgic beauty to learn to how to sew on. It's like the machine is pouting at me, saying, "Valerie...please take me home, please love me." I do love you sewing machine, I do. :)

I also found a couple other sewing related treasures. Some old needlebooks filled with needles, and an old Dritz sewing basket.

Now all I need, is to do some actual SEWING! Lol*

Giveaway at Candle Lite Quilter

Just wanted to post and share about a give away over at Candle Lite Quilter - stop over and check it out. Even if you don't enter, she's got a really cute blog and you should check it out! :)

Oh my little daylily...

I am so in love with daylilies. Without even intending to, I collected more than a dozen new daylillies this year. I'm not sure what the name of this one is...it was supposed to be more of the coral color around the edges, but I'm not complaining! The peachy pink it turned out to be is so beautiful...

Donna - you asked what kind of lily this is? Well, I'm impressed with myself because I actually found the tag! Lol* It's called "Always Afternoon Daylily". I bought it on clearance at Lowe's for $2.00. The picture on the tag shows it to be a little more of a coral color, but I love the mauve pink with the green center it turned out to be. I am learning...tags don't always tell the truth!

A Stitching Treasure

I found an absolute treasure at a yard sale Saturday - a treadle! It's much more ornate than the treadle that my Husband bought me, that I think may have been made sometime between 1900-1920. This one is so fancy that I'm wondering if it might be even newer? Maybe made to look like the fancy old earlier ones? I'm not sure.

In any case it is beautiful, and I think all it needs is a cleaning and a new belt. When we got it home, after some fiddling, Hubby and I opened the drawers to find them stuffed full! There were four or five boxes of parts and attatchments, notions, some old pictures that I actually felt really guilty for having after we got it home because it probably belonged to the lady at the sale...now I couldn't tell you what house we got it at either. There are old reciepts for service repairs and I think, the reciept for the actual machine...it says $300 and some odd dollars. SO neat. I can't wait to get this machine working...

it has the bullet style bobbin case - anyone know anything about this type of bobbin? There are a few manuals but I didn't see one that went with the machine, although there are so many things inthe drawers I wouldn't be shocked if it's in there somewhere!

OH, the kicker? It cost $25.

July 5th, 2009 Morning Walkthrough

New Garden Bed

Ran out of room, so I had to expand this bed...it's on it's way to creating a grass pathway! :)

Roses, day lillies, iceplant, salvia, perennial verbena...

I think this is perennial verbena anyhow? It's a vibrant purple, although the picture makes it look lighter. Some members of the Garden Web forums suggested this could be 'Homestead Purple'. In any case I bought two, both were 75 cents each because they looked pretty shabby. As soon as I got this one in the ground it got to the business of putting out flowers! Lol* Good plant, goooooood plant, that'll do. ;) Now, just, come back next year!!!