at home, at the shop

Dahlias on the balcony at home...

Afternoon sun in the shop window... 

Cows in the field on Sunday..

Cutting board sprinkled with blossoms at the store...

 

oxygen

 April has been a beautiful month in so many ways, but also a hard month.  I'm exhausted!  And somehow I feel completely depleted and defeated and poor and hopeful and rich all at the same time.  Leave it to life to be complex and surprising, every day.  At the beginning of the month, I was so stressed that I couldn't take a deep breath... my lungs just wouldn't expand quite enough.  But the past week or so I've been able to enjoy delicious lung-fulls of air.  If nothing else, good old oxygen will keep you going!

redbud branch

Just finished painting this redbud branch.  I love how the emerging leaves are an orange-tinged green.  It is a beautiful afternoon, still and warm, with a soft blanket of gray clouds promising evening rain showers.  

my brother

I don't know how people live without brothers, or with bad ones.  Somehow I got a really, really good one who can make me laugh even when I feel terrible, and who is willing to come balance on a banister and hang up my shop sign after already working a long day.  Thank you, Trey!

shop opening @ 132 East Main Street, Orange, VA!

I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't think it might be a good idea to be a shop keeper.  On March 20th of this year (the first day of Spring!), I'm really and truly going to become one!  Here are some messy photographs of the set-up in progress.  Regular hours will be 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Thursdays - Saturdays, BUT I've moved my sewing machine, cutting and ironing boards all to the shop, so it will be a workshop too, and the door will be open anytime I am there working.  Please come and visit me!  

132 W. Main St.

Orange, VA  22960

540-222-9644

Happy Valentine's Day!

winter

I love winter.  The cold, the pure colors, the way everything is stripped down bare.  Only one thing is missing so far... enough snow for a good sledding party and a bonfire.