The Great Onion Harvest...

...Charlie Brown. That is what's going on at our house right now..


Hub planted rows and rows of Onions and now they are needing to be pulled..a big wind came thru a few weeks ago and knocked all the tops over and they have stopped growning..

So my part in all this is to take off the tops and roots and put them in the panty hose to store them. We did this last year and had enough onions until January this year!..Onions, either you love'em or you don't~ As you can tell, we love'em

We put this Martin house up a couple of weeks ago too..In hopes of having visitors. They eat more than their weight in mosquitoes...But it may take up till next year for them to really settle in..

This is round 2 of the Killdee nest in the driveway..

Something ate her last one, and we thought it ate her too..but maybe not~ Been watching this over the last week, first one egg, then in a few days and other, and so on until there are now 4...

Have a great Monday!

t

Make a Wish

Here ya go...blow and make a wish, it's on me.

It's another overcast day here in the Prairie lands..maybe some more rain will come of it..it's chilly and depressing looking outside..so I'm just going to stay snug in the shop shack and clean house and play in the studio!

I have to tell you I'm obsessed with the Michelle Caplan work that is in Somerset Studios this month...and my friend in AZ, Becky is in this edition too!! Kudos to Becky!! Her foam core work got 4 pages!!! This is her first ever submission too!! You Rock Gal!!!!

Hope your day is what you make of it...

hugs,t

A Wonderful Rainy Day

When hub got up this morn, he said: "Looks like you aren't going to walk today." and about that time Thunder boomed..and it continued to rumble on the rest of the morning..


It rained fast, it rained slow, it rained sideways, it rained, and rained all day long..

As I looked out on the garden, I wondered if I could take a shot of it thru the blinds...and byjingo~ I did..We needed this blessing of rain..it was dry as a powder house floor here at the Shop Shack..I just sat at my work table most of the day and soldered up charms for Paper Cowgirl..just wait till you see'em..they are super cute!

Another mind blowing question came to me today, as I looked out into the rain...

Do you make your bed???

Gonna be busy

With Spring break starting this afternoon for the Grand #1. We are going over to pick them both up for the week. So ,fun and spoilin' and playin' are going on here at the shop shack...Needless to say, Nana is going to be busy..very busy...


This was a visitor the other day on the window..all night and into the next day..

A starting of a collection of small doll heads..not the skeery ones with gaping hole eyes...

this was found in the button jar, that day we looked for Coraline eyes.. it's tiny..

Ya'll have a good weekend!!

Happy Friday the 13th..

later,t

Excitment at the Shop Shack

We have concrete at the entry ways!

Those guys did a good job:

Now the shop won't stay quite so dirty from all the dust blowing under the doors..and we have a place to wash the cars and Harleys...

I've been wanting to show you the "polka dot" tree:

Doesn't it look like Polka Dots hanging from it??

Did the black and white just for fun...

Have a great day!

t

Christmas decorating

This is what I've been doing around our house:



This is my snowman area..I received these thru swaps, aren't they great??




Here is our entertainment cabinet:

Some of the many little ornies I've received through swaps..that big Santa, I found a Target a few years ago, up on the fan is a Mark Roberts fairy Santa, my sister and I have been collecting them for a few years now, she's more than me..but I love the ones I have..they are fun.

Here is another Mark Roberts Santa fairy hanging out in the bathroom..

My manny..Matilda, she's sporting a Merry banner I made from HobLob snowflakes and Wallymart chipboard letters.

I really wanted a tulle skirt or something for her..but have not found anything at the thrift nor have I wanted to spend the money on fabric..so she's still wearing my Mamaw's apron.

This is what you see when you come in, from the shop door:

But the light is so low here I had to get a funky angle..I can't wait to start the photography classes I signed up for..they deal with low light settings..This is some of my many Santas, most all of this table is Western..

Hope you enjoyed my little tour..Have a great week!

t

Chili Weather

BBBbbbBBBBbRRRRrrr..it's rather cool in this area the last couple of days..so, I thought I'd make a pot of chili..if you don't make chili and pour it out of a can, alls I can say to you is : Shame on YOU...this is some good stuff:

Don't let the name fool you..you can season it as hot or as not as you like..sometimes, I add the red pepper, sometimes I just wave the package over the pot and tell hub I did add it...This makes a nice sized pot and will feed us a few meals.. enchiladas, chili buns, Frito pie,(Frito pie can be a whole entry..football games and funny stories about out of state neighbors not knowing about it), abigoldbowl of red topped with cheese and sour cream,chopped onions or even chili fries..you can bet we are having a couple of these in the next few days..So, if you hunny is feeling frigid, run to the store for Wick Flower's chili kit and some ground meat and whip out a big pot and get busy, you'll warm him up in no time...

We've used this for years, I grew up on this 2 alarm..my dad used to make up a pot of it on cold Saturdays..One time back in the late 80's I wrote them a letter about how much we've used this and such..they sent me back a nice thank you letter and a TON of coupons..needless to say we didn't have to buy any kits for quite awhile..I'm tellin' ya, this is some good stuff...

Now back to decorating the Shop Shack..

Happy Tuesday!

t

Turkey Hangover??

We are having that here in the Wright household...Hub is out on a rented bulldozer digging a tank (or a pond as it's called in other parts of the country) I'm in the house just hanging out with Grand #1 who opted to stay with us instead of going home with her family....


I wanted to let you know, I'm offering NO SHIPPING charges on ALL my house charms until Dec 6th in my ETSY store..


Hope your recovering from your Holiday and all is well in your little part of the world!
Have a great weekend!!
tina

Busy day..

But, I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels..did get some household chores done and finished up 2 more little houses..




This one I'm going to keep..it was all cut 'wanky' so I had to do some extra soldering to it. I like how it turned out..but, it's not good enough to put on Etsy...





This one is telling me it needs to go to someone..but has not told me who..so I'm sure it will get put in the mail in the next day or so..just like another one did today..

But the photo of that one came out blurry and it's already out in the big black mail box..so you won't get to see it..dang it..oh well, my BFF since 1st grade is getting it..she reads here sometimes,, so maybe it's a good thing I can't show it..wouldn't be a surprise then, would it?

Here is the "married" table top and bottom:

We are going to keep stuff off of it for another few days so the finish has plenty of time to cure, but we had to bring it in the shop shack to see how it will look..we love it..hub did a good job, didn't he? and he beat his 20 day deadline too! Brownie Points~

Thanks and hugs to all of you who have included us in your prayers, they are working but we've not see complete "daylight" yet on the subject at hand with our son, so please continue..

Have a good Tuesday..

t

goings on here..

Here is the table top after I've coated it twice...


Here is the table frame after hub got it all painted:


Now we are going to "marry" them....photos to come.

This is my newest Little Shrine..I'm keeping this one..said that before, haven't I??



I've added another little shrine called : Wild Thing to my Etsy...and there are more 'houses' in the works..



Here is the "man can" door in all it's Texas Glory!

Now to get into some more mischief...

t

Beautiful things...

Were found in my mail box:


From my friend Sharon @ all Norah's art...I cried when I saw that this. I had admired this wonderful piece on her blog the other day never knowing..she said she left a 'hint'...Sharon!!!! it's beautiful and seems the postal service must have loved it too for not a scuff or mark other than on the stamps were to be found :)


Inside were promised goodies! At Paper Cowgirl, Sharon had told me about the 'super duper' huge Watch/clock crystals she had and promised to share with me...so those were in there and a couple of her prints were in there too! Thank you soo much Sharon! Such a sweetie!

The setting sun was beautiful on this side of the shop shack this evening...

But then, the Moon was beautiful on that side of the Shop Shack.

I found a happy medium on the South end of the building and snapped away at both..

I almost burned the cornbread that was in the oven for supper:

It was good and crunchy..yummy with some butter on it while it was piping hot..Went with the stew that had been simmering the crock pot all day...



Here is the Door to the "man can"..hub's bathroom in the shop..

I'm making it look like the Texas flag..Tomorrow I'll add the star and the white section tomorrow after it all dries good tonight..





Here is one more of my Sally Jean versions of Home Sweet Home:

One more....hang on...

This is the table Hub is making..he's just finishing up the grinding and such so I can prime it tomorrow too..we are then painting it satin black..a red cedar plank top is going on next..

The huge canvas now has a bit of color on it..I glazed it with a bit of raw umber too today..

Happy Halloween!

Tricks or treats???


I decided to re-cover the bar stools, here is the before..





Here is the after:

These were going to be thrown out at a house I was fauxing at..so I took them, knowing we were going to have a bar here in the Shop Shack..so we hung on to them for months..cause you can't beat free...and that cowgirl fabric I've had for awhile now..don't even remember what I was going to do with it to begin with..but now it's covering those purple bar stool seats..hub likes, I like it, we are happy...but I have to do something with that brass ring..that's next~

Look at this little girl:

She looks so melancholy...I found this sentence in a child's reader and had to use it with her.. These are small charm sized houses..wanky and prim..I love them..did up 4 for Etsy.. one has a pug dog on it !

Don't eat too much sugar~

t

PS: the mouse is gone..not by his own accord..I'll just leave it at that..

Still waiting...

Heard his toenails go in and out of the bedroom at least a million times last night..If I'd made him a bed in the kitchen I'm sure he'd camped out in there...still no mouse..it's in there..he hears it.. I think~


Loaded these on Etsy yesterday, I added a soldered charm to this one and hanging it from a larger ball chain..I like it...

This is a larger version of yesterday's smaller ones..I've kept one of those and listed the other one..so if your interested...

Beee Verrwe Verrwe quite.....

We are hunting mices.......He's worried and worried..watched and sniffed and shook with anticipation when he would hear movement back there.....we moved the fridge, and it was holed up in the motor area..then between he and hub they flushed it out..right to the stove..it high tailed it with Scooby hot on it's tail to under the stove.. he missed it by a hair...and we've not seen it since..even with the vigilant watching/cruising by, every few minutes...more on this saga as it unfolds..stay tuned...

I did these up today...they'll be on Etsy one day soon...

The sunflower image is one I took it at a friend's garden 2 summers ago... Then the 'dude' Cowgirl is off of an old map I bought on a trip..isn't it a hoot??

Then I about wet my pants over these two:

I freaking LOVE them!!!! using up scrap from the little shrine glass I have to cut, I made these..they are about 3 inches maybe 4 tall..the background paper is old Deeds, I got a whole gallon zip lock full of them at a sale..they are OLD..from the 1900's to the 30's..Then the words came out of an old school book~ LOVE them!! did I say that already?? I think I'll put hangers on them, and they can be ornies or even a charm on a necklace..I may not even give them up..but who knows..I have started some larger versions, again with scraps of glass..those will be ornaments for sure..



Have a happy Wednesday!
t

Some left overs

I wondered around our place the other day, looking at the change in the flora...A few stray Sunflowers are showing out one last time..but most have seeded or been mowed over..

..a few escaped the mower last time he mowed..

These things, what ever they are..make me sneeze when they are blooming full out..

But I love the puffy dried mess they are at this point in time, they are so soft downy looking..yet brittle and hard...the lot next door is full of them..they are building a house over there and have not yet mowed anything on it..

These nasty bull nettles are here and there around the place, we are trying to get rid of them..for they are no fun to step on in sandals or barefoot or dogfeet as you can see:

Hub is going to make some cement pads at the north and south doors of the shop, so he's been framing that out for pouring in the next week or so..

We've been 'mouse hunting'...they are coming in finding out the shop is a nice cozy place to winter over..but Scooby has been on the hunt and caught a few with some help...

We went to buy a new table/chairs..came home with what we thought was the perfect set only to find the apron of the table busted and the legs wobbley after getting it out of the box..so back to Ashley they go and we have decided to build something..he's got a time limit of 20 days..We are doing metal legs and wood/maybe a tin top like the cabinets..My job is to find the perfect bar stool height chairs on a budget...

I'm adding a new little shrine to Etsy this week and my new banner should be ready soon by Ms Dale at Sea Dreams Studio....Can't wait to see what she comes up with for me~

Hope your week is a good one~

later,t