Our Graduate

Hi everyone,

I just had to share a very special picture that was taken tonight after my nephew Logan graduated.I think you will see how very proud I am of him.Logan,is a very sweet,caring and hard working young man.He is a very good son,brother,grandson,nephew and friend.He would give you the shirt off his back.He will be going away to college in August and I am having a very hard time dealing with that.I am going to miss him very much.You see,I never had any children of my own and my nephew and neice are like my own children.My husband says I have got to let go but it is so very hard.I know he will be a success in his new college life and I only want the best for him.I so wish that my Daddy(Logan's Grandpa)and my Grandparents(Logan's Great Grandparents)could have been here to see him graduate but I know they were watching from Heaven and I know they are proud too.I hope you will enjoy seeing the picture and just overlook me,I am a mess from crying many happy tears.

Prim hugs,

Tammy

A great swap with a great friend

Hi everyone,

I just had to make a post about the swap that I just did with a great friend of mine Lecia from Farm House Prims blog.Lecia is a great friend and a great swap partner.She always goes well beyond what she should and I always enjoy doing swaps with her.Lecia sent me one of her awesome bonnets.I love it!Lecia makes the best bonnets!She also made me the cutest little Prairie doll sitter that has on a small bonnet and she made it in my favorite color mustard.I love it!She also sent me a Gooseberry Patch cookbook.I love those cookbooks and have a collection of them.She even put in something extra,a sweet little seed bag that has a pocket on it and in the pocket there is a sweet little Prairie doll.Lecia knows I love Prairie dolls.It will look great with my bonnets.Now I have got to nag Mark so he will make me another peg rack for my new bonnet and the seed bag.I love all of my swap goodies from Lecia!I always look forward to our swaps.I just hope that Lecia likes her swap goodies from me,I know I love mine from her!It is so nice to do a swap with someone that knows exactly what you like,right down to the colors.Thank you Lecia for my great swap goodies,for swapping with me and most of all for being a great friend!

Prim hugs,

Tammy

Bunnies,Bunnies and more Bunnies

Hi everyone,

Finally I am getting some time to update my blog.I have been so busy making Spring and Easter primitives and working on orders for swaps that I fell behind on my blog posts.I think I am finally caught up but still have another order that I am working on and I am doing a swap with one of my sweet online friends.I also have some house projects that I want to do now that it is Spring,but today feels more like Winter here in NC.It is cold with temps in the 30s and it has rained off and on most of the day.I am ready for the sun and warmer days.The house project I want to do is to redecorate my bedroom.I have it tore apart...LOL.There is nothing on the walls and only have the bed and what furniture we need for now.I had it decorated in an Americana theme but I was tired of that and want to go with a more primitive Prairie look.I bought 2 little wooden cabinets at Michael's and painted them black.They will be our night stands by the bed.I also painted my old deacons bench(it was my Grandparent's).I had wanted to paint it for a long time but I thought what would my Grandparents think of me doing that but finally I thought they really wouldn't care as long as it made me happy so I painted it black and it looks great!I haven't decided where I will put it yet but it will be somewhere in our bedroom.I still have some other things I want to make for the bedroom but I need to take care of orders and the swap first and now my sister wants me to do a show with her in May....there are just not enough hours in the day!

I thought I would post some pictures of the things I have been making and most of them are bunnies,bunnies and more bunnies!I think they really do multiply...LOL.I hope you will enjoy the pictures.I did a little Spring and Easter decorating but haven't taken any pictures yet.I might do that and will make that my next post.I hope everyone will enjoy the Spring days,that is if it feels like Spring where you are.Happy Spring!

Prim hugs,

Tammy

Another Great Swap

Hi everyone,
I just had to post a picture of all the great swap goodies that I got yesterday.I did a swap that Char(Pickled Pepper Patch) hosted.It was 5 favorite things swap and my swap partner was Nancy Williams(Primitive Finds).Nancy really spoiled me!She sent way more than 5 things and I love everything that she sent me!She knew exactly what I like!I love the wooden bowl with the candle holder and she even sent me a battery operated candle(I love them) to put in it.I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the little firkin!I love firkins and now I have 4 of them.She also sent me some yummy smelling tarts!I could smell them as soon as I opened the box!I got some really pretty prim Easter eggs with grass and a tag.I think they will look great in the bowl candle holder.She must have known that I have some brown and beige crockery pieces and she sent me a small brown and beige crock.It is so cute!I have never seen one like it!It looks great with my collection!She also made me a really prim pillow that says Prim Blessings and has crows on it.She did a great job on it and I love it!She sent me 2 note pads and I can never have enough notepads....love them!She also sent 4 cute wooden tags.I think they would look cute with dolls or hanging from a peg rack.Nancy did way too much!I love everything!This was a great swap and Nancy is a great swap partner and the best part of it was getting to make another prim friend!Thanks so much Char for hosting the swap and thanks so much Nancy for being a great swap partner!
Prim hugs,
Tammy

A Wonderful Swap

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all staying warm wherever you may be with all the cold weather and snow.We have been lucky here in my part of NC...we have had a few nice,sunny,warm days.We got rain instead of snow and that was a good thing to me but it has turned cold again and they are calling for freezing rain in the morning and maybe some snow next week.I don't like that 4 letter word....SNOW!So onto better things.I was part of a swap on Tammy's blog A Primitive Place and I was very lucky to have Lorna (Live Oak Primitive Peddler) for my partner.Lorna is a very sweet lady and very talented too!I got my swap package from her yesterday and it was like Christmas!Lorna really spoiled me!She really knew what I like.It was like we had known each other for years and years.She made me an awesome Prairie doll.I love Prairie dolls.It is dressed in browns and smells so good!She also made me a stenciled primitive pillow.I love it!It is just prim perfect!It has black homespun patches on it and has such an old feeling to it.She also made me a set of stacking boxes in all my favorite prim colors.She even made me some pantry cakes and they smell good enough to eat!I love all of my prim goodies from Lorna!This was a great swap and the best part of it was that I now have a new prim friend!Thank you so much Lorna!I hope you will enjoy the pictures of my swap goodies from Lorna.Stay warm!

Prim hugs,

Tammy

A fun day and my Christmas gift

Hi everyone,

Finally I am getting time to update my blog.Things have been crazy since Christmas but finally I am getting things back to normal or as normal as they can be for me...LOL.Today was a very fun day for me.I got to meet one of my Facebook friends Susie Hamill from Yankee Lane Primitives.We met at Diana Gaines' shop Splinters and Rags.I have known Diana for years and Susie had an order for Diana and she told her she would deliver it in person.We had a good time talking and laughing and Susie and I did some shopping.Susie is so sweet and fun.She is just as sweet and nice in person as she is online!In the picture Diana is in the brown jacket,I am in the middle in blue(but just don't look at me and my fat) and Susie is standing,she is in the black shirt.It was a fun day and I hope she will be able to come back to my area sometime so we can do some more talking,laughing and prim shopping.

I also wanted to post a picture of my Christmas gift from my sweet hubby.He went to Diana's shop and told her that I had been going on about wanting a make-do chair and that he had no idea what it was but if she would make one he would buy it so Diana and her husband Gary made one for Mark.They all kept this secret from me and Mark had even picked it up a few days before Christmas and had put it in his storage building.We exchange Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve and I thought he was crazy when he handed me the building keys and told me to go open the building and he was following me with the camera.I knew it wasn't a new car because it would have to be a tiny car to be out in the building.I was so surprised when I pulled that big lawn bag off and saw a make-do chair.I let out a scream!He really had been listening to me when I go on about things that I want...LOL.It is just perfect!The perfect size and color.I put it in my family room but I am still in the process of decorating it.I am going to put a doll in it and with all the dolls I have nothing looks right so I am going to make a doll just for my make-do chair.I had a great Christmas and was very pleased with my gift!If you want a really nice make-do chair then get in touch with Diana and Gary Gaines Splinters and Rags.

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year!I am hoping that 2011 will be a great year for us all!

Prim hugs,

Tammy

Merry Christmas From My House To Yours

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Well I have gotten behind on my blog posting once again but it is that busy time of year.I love Christmas but every year I say I am going to get a good head start so that I can finish up everything and has some time to just relax and enjoy Christmas but once again here I am less than 2 weeks from Christmas and I still have so much to do!My decorating has been finished,thank goodness.I started Thanksgiving weekend.I didn't do as much this year...I simplified alot...LOL.I didn't even do that much outside.I just remembered I have not even took any outside pictures.I should do that today while there is still a dusting of snow on the ground.I just did a little decorating on the front porch and decorated my tobacco stitck gate.I also put out my Christmas flags.Mark put the icicle lights on the porch and the greenery with berry lights on the porch coloums and that was it for outside.I did take pictures of inside and I wanted to share them here on my blog.I did very little in my kitchen...just a touch here and there.I think I am liking the less is more look...LOL.

We have almost finished the shopping,just need to get a couple of gift cards and some little add ons to go with gifts.I am also working on making a few gifts too that I need to get finished.I have not wrapped one gift.It will probably take me a whole day to wrap everything.Our Christmas dinner menu is planned and next week I will start my baking.We will be going to my in-law's for Christmas Eve dinner and opening gifts and we will be going to my Mom's Christmas day for dinner and opening gifts.It is going to be non stop from now until Christmas for me.I guess I will rest after Christmas...LOL.

Well I guess I better end my break and get back to work.I just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from my house to yours!

Prim hugs,

Tammy