Simple Pleasures blog

Many of you wanted to see my "booth" at the Country Folk Art Festival in St Charles, IL...this lady was there and took photos. Please visit her blog and see. http://simplepleasures317.blogspot.com/2012/09/country-folk-art-festival-meet-lucy.html

Come to The Grainery Cranfest Weekend

This is a fun new venture--a sale of handmade Primitives and Folk Art  Cranfest Weekend. Cranfest is a huge local festival celebrating the cranberry harvest.

The building WAS a grainery on a local farm. It's
been power washed and swept clean. Wait ti you see it!

Country Folk Art Festival

This herd of pull toy piggies is hurrying to the Country Folk Art Festival in St Charles Il September 21, 22, and 23. My website and other selling sites will be closed until October 1st to give me time for that show and something else I'll tell you about on the 24th.

I hope anyone who can make it comes to the festival and introduces yourself. You can't miss my space--I have painted my website logo on a large banner that will be on the front of one of my tables.

This wonderful piece, Pumpkin Pete's Ride, was published in an article in the Fall 2012 issue of Prims magazine. I'm also taking him to the Country Folk Art Festival.

EEK A MOUSE

Guess what I've been making! I feel like I've been invaded with my little critters.

I'm making scarecrows and pumpkin head make dos for fall and I like to add a mouse to the brim of the hat for that irresistible touch of whimsy. The 28 mice you see to the left are ready to use.

I'll be at a huge Folk Art show in St Charles, Illinois September 21 to 23rd and I'm creating as fast as I can. If you're in the area that weekend, I'd love for you to stop so we can meet.

New Spring listing - Seamus Finnegan w shillelagh

    I listed this gentleman rabbit last night. He's made of muslin and button jointed. He has button eyes and string whiskers and there is a "cottontail" on his back side.
    He's wearing a lined black and tan wool blend vest. There are brass safety pins holding the front closed and there's a gold tone "watch chain" draped across his chest. Seamus is too poor to afford a watch so he fastened his door key to the the chain.
     Seamus is a very Irish rabbit with his shillelagh. I made the walking stick from a piece of tree root I discovered after a neighbor had some trees uprooted. It was so gnarly and interesting I had to carry it home. It's perfect here. I scrubbed it, sealed and stained it. It's actually sewn to his hand and the toe of his foot and makes it possible for him to stand all by himself as you can see.
    This rabbit and many more new items can be found at Lucy's Lazy Dayz Primitives.