The Little Red Lighthouse Under the George Washington Bridge

This project, as happens with so many projects, has certainly been a long time in the works. But now I am fairly finished with it. It is limited edition (run of 200) gocco'd notecards. They are printed by hand over an inkjet-printed background (as you can see in the second photograph down) from a sketch I made of the Little Red Lighthouse. I had a ton of fun working on these and hope that you enjoy them. They're up in my shop now.

Vintage Puzzles

I think I'm finally finished working, photographing, and listing my found stash of vintage puzzles. They're over on etsy if you're interested in that kind of thing (I know I am)!

Gems

I think I've mentioned here that I've spent most of the past three weeks working with a wonderfully helpful local antique dealer to clean out the "presents" left by my house seller in the basement, attic, and many of the closets. With the trash pick-up yesterday, we are almost finished!

In the process of doing all of this work, we've found some definite treasures, many of which went with the antique dealer but a few of which I am keeping for my own purposes or to find a good home via etsy. Today I've listed a few things over on etsy. I'll post the gems that I'm keeping myself here soon but, for now, these few things are all that I've had time to photograph.







Probably this is because the local strawberries have started to show up at the Farmer's Market and I find myself tied to my berry bowl lately.

And who could blame me, with those lovelies? Hopefully my own plants will produce something next year but, in the meantime, I'm certainly enjoying other people's plants.

Buttons, Buttons Everywhere

Lots of button-related posting for today. I've put up 4 styles of cross-stitched buttons over on etsy.

Also, I'm working on a summer cardigan (Marigold Sweater from Interweave Knits, Summer 2010) and, due to my extensive button collection, can't decide which buttons I like best for it. Any opinions?

vintage red plastic (from Tender Buttons -- designed by a store employee pre-1960's)

peach glass

pink ceramic with imprinted flowers

white victorian shoe buttons

Scarves! Just in Time for Spring.

Well, I finally did it, after only 2 years of contemplation! I have put 4 handwoven scarves up on etsy, hopefully soon to be followed by 3 or 4 other projects. I hope that my store will eventually have a variety of things along the lines of being a sort of general store (or five and dime -- which is wherein lies Patrick's inspiration for my blog/shop name). If you feel like it, please click on over and have a look.

Maybe some of you live in Australia and are preparing for winter? Or perhaps it's still chilly in your neck of the woods (as it is in mine) and you'd like to have one final scarf to carry you through these last bits of the cold before summer?