A step back in history

We just got home from exercise and I just realized I hadn't posted this earlier like I planned. So here is part two of three parts of our weekend activities.

This past Saturday, as part of the festival, there were displays by a number of re-enactment groups. I only took a few pictures but you can get the idea I think. You can click on each picture to make it larger so you can perhaps see better detail.

The first two pictures are of Revolutionary war soldiers. The first is an enlisted man. He is showing and demonstrating some of the items he would have needed and used.

The second picture is of an officer. He didn't look very happy but actually he was deep into a conversation at the time.

This picture is from the Civil war reenactment group. This shows a "recuiting" stand to get NY folks to volunteer for the North. No one was there when I was but I took the picture anyway.

My final picture in this group is of a woman doing bobbin lace. I own some of the bobbins but have never learned how to use them. It is a slow, patience needed, kind of art.

Come by my blog again tomorrow to see some pictures that will tell a bit about Mourning during the civil war era.

Weekend Activities

We spent our weekend, including Friday, in the town next to ours doing an antique show. This was part of a festival they have every year. This is the second time we have done a show during their festival. We weren't exactly overwhelmed with customers but did sell enough to have made it worth our while. And we probably met a lot of future customers.


Here are a couple of pictures of the things we took to sell. They don't exactly show off to their best in the middle school gymnasium. But here they are.




The days were hot and muggy so we were thankful for a few fans in the vicinity of our space. But we were also glad we got to go home each night to our cool house.

There was a lot of activity going on during the festival and I was able to get to some of it. My husband took care of our sales while I wandered around. Then I did the same for him.
Tomorrow and the next day I plan to show some of the things we saw. They are worth coming to see.

Drying out after the rain

As I mentioned in my last entry here.... we had a HUGE rain storm on Saturday night.

I was a bit worried because I was planning to have my doll house club at my house on Sunday afternoon to have a picnic.



Well thanks to exception drainage you would never know it had rained like that. AND the day itself turned out to be beautiful. Temps in high 70s and NO humidity. I felt really lucky.



If you want to see the picnic pics click here to my friend Liz's BLOG The Fragrant Muse.
She covered the event so well with her picturesvthere is no point for me to duplicate it here.

So be sure to check it out.

It rained and rained and rained and then it all went away.

I started to post this yesterday but got sidetracked. I took a lot of "little movies" of the heavy storm we got but for some reason blogger only wanted me to upload one. Here it is.

And here are a couple of pictures of the rain running through out yard. Those are NOT real streams....... but for the time of the storm they were raging whitewater. Well it seemed like it anyway.

We are thankful that we have good drainage so by Sunday morning it was all drained away and dry again.

The Tea Shop is Open for Business

I mentioned awhile back that I would be finishing up my little tea shop before I get on with my next miniature project. Today I did that and here are the results.This first picture shows the little tea cart I finally finished today. The little tea set on top was from a swap, can't remember what or when.


Now you can see inside... I have added chairs and a little table to the ladies room, food to the pastry holder and the tea cart as I mentioned before.

And here is a close up of the food, all came from swaps.

I will be moving all these pictures over to picture trail soon. Just in time to start another project.
Let me know what you think.

A Brand New Day

After feeling miserable with a cold all weekend I am much better today and getting lots of work done. I have spent the morning catching up on a lot of jobs around the house. We are getting cable phone put in so couldn't go near the computer until now which was good to keep me working on all the things that needed to be done.

Here is a picture of a little building I bought at a yard sale on Saturday. It has a hole on the top that made it look like a bird house. However the lower portion includes two doors that open up onto two inside shelves. The item had been on sale at Big lots and I had put off buying it until suddenly it was gone. Good that I waited as this was a LOT cheaper at the YS.

And here it it with the door open

I am going to make some sort of miniature scene inside.... I would love some ideas. Just write them in the comment section.

Time to Relax and Catch up

The dizzying travel around the country side to attend BlueGrass festivals is over for a couple of months. Three festivals in 5 weeks may? be a bit too much. We Enjoyed the music, we got to see several friends we have met at other festivals and now it is time to stay home. I have to admit I started getting a cold on Friday and by Saturday it was affecting me a bit. It didn't stop us from attending a huge garage sale that morning but by mid afternoon I was a mess and ended up sleeping away the afternoon and evening...... I missed seeing one of the groups I really wanted to see but they will be at our next scheduled festival and Bill bought me one of their CD's so is isn't so bad.

I am hopeful now to get back to my mini making as soon as I can quit coughing.........
I have to finish up my little tea shop and another project I have started on but not mentioned here yet.

So keep checking in....

Tomorrow I will post the picture of a birdhouse type building I bought at the garage sale and want to turn into a 1/2 scale "something???" Any and all suggestions are welcome. Just add a comment if you think of something.