NEW OFFERING ON SIMPLE GOODES STITCHED BY JENNIFER

Hi everyone!!...I hope you're having a good Friday!!...It has been a busy week...And I've been busy trying to get some new offerings finished for "Simple Goodes Stitched By Jennifer"....I put 2 new offerings on there for your consideration...

Have a good weekend!!!.....

hugs, Jen

A Mother's Love

TEXTURES IN MY HOME

Hi everyone!...I hope you have had a good Friday!!!...It's been a busy one around here....I've been enjoying all these texture posts I've been seeing on some other blogs and I've been meaning to update mine with new pics, but in the meantime if you haven't checked out my slideshow on the right of my blog then go check it out....They are pics I took back at the first of the year when i did my texture series...It's been on there for a while, so if you haven't noticed it just click on the pic and sit back and relax.....Saves you from going back to find those posts..I want to add more to them and I will let you know when I do....Love seeing everyone's textures....It is fun taking those pics!!!
Have a great weekend!!!....hugs,Jen

PLACES I CREATE AND WORK..........

Hi Everyone!....What a busy week this has been!...This is going to be a short post...A while back Karen (My Colonial Home blog) had posted pics of where she blogs and creates at...So I decided I would share with you where I do my work....

This is the arrangement above my computer cabinet...

And this is the computer cabinet that hides my computer....

And here is my computer surrounded by all my packing supplies...Not the neatest, but the system works....

Another view.....

This is where I work at night when I'm x-stitching....

And this is where I finish the final touches...

And of course I work on my farm table....And it is still piled high with unfinished boxes to paint like in a previous post...I'm trying to decide on colors and I need to order some stain....We will eat at the table again someday!!!...ha!ha!...So where do you create???...Share!!!!

Hope everyone is having a good week!!!

Until next time......hugs,Jen

New things are popping up on Simple Goodes Stitched By Jennifer......

New offerings are be added, so be on the lookout!!!

Off to work on the next offering!!!
Until next time.....hugs, Jen

A NEW OFFERING...REDWARE TUTORIAL....

Good Friday evening!!!....I hope everyone had a good week and have fun plans this weekend....I plan on getting getting started on some new offerings...I just finished one and it sold before I got it posted...A faithful customer from ebay emailed to see if the large tombstone pic was available that i had posted in my previous post...It was!..I was just trying to decide on a price....So she got that one and this one I was just finishing up..

SOLD!!!!

This is a freebie from primitivebettys blog that I stitched up.....I did mine all in black....So all you x-stitchers go on over to her blog and get your free pattern...

And here it is made into a pinkeep!!!...All antiqued and wrinkled...I love the simplicity of it!!!

So now onto something new!!!
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A Redware Tutorial....Sorry it has taken me sooooooooo long to get it posted...I was so busy getting house ready for the Country Sampler photo shoot....So here it is and thank you for your patience!!!!...

Ok...The directions are fairly easy!!...I got some dinner plates while on our trip in Myrtle Beach....Ones that were completely smooth....I paid a dollar for them at Old Time Pottery....

Clean them first.....

Then I chose Americana Light Cinnamon for the base...It was what I had on hand in my paints...I put numerous coats on til I felt that they were covered well...Let dry completely inbetween coats....

I didn't paint the backs of mine....But you go ahead and do it if you want a more completed look...Make sure you paint around the edges of the plates if you choose not to paint the backs....

Then for the stripes i used yellow moon....Once again a color I had on hand...You can use any color you wish....I had thought about using a paint pen, but I hadn't used one before and wasn't sure how smooth I could do the lines, so i stuck with what I knew...A paintbrush....The yellow moon is an Americana color...You may want your yellow brighter.....

The stripes were just free hand.....I googled redware and looked at sites that sold redware to pick out the designs i liked and were easy to do....I did 8 plates...I KNEW that I wanted 4 of them with our names on them...so I only needed 4 redware designs....

The next step I did was stain mine after the lines were dry....Now that step is up to you...I wanted a subtle antiqued look....I used a sponge brush and stained them....Then I used a sock and dabbed stain all over the plate.....This took days to dry due to the build up of stain and the muggy weather....might want to leave them for a week to just dry....check everyday.....

If you decide to put a light stain on yours then it probably won't take as long.....

As soon as it's dry then its time to varnish or modge podge.....Put 5 or 6 coats on....or more if desired...

Then they are finished...These are only for decorative purposes.....I'm NOT a professional or expert on this....It was just a decorative project I made for myself and shared on here with you!!!

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A new offering on my selling blog.......

So everyone have a good weekend!!!....Until next time!!!...hugs, Jen

Update from Sandy of Missouri Dry Goods.....

I received this email from Sandy of Missouri Dry Goods....Sandy is the one I got my dolls from in a previous post....This is the latest update......

OH MY GOODNESS!!

Where do I begin?? Lots of emails coming in with well wishes still. All the prayers have been paying off!! Last night they took my Brother In Law's ventilator out and he was talking to us!! YEAH!!! He has a few loose teeth from the accident and we are hoping that they tighten back up. He doesn't remember the accident or even leaving from work, but he has his wits about him and know's who everyone is. They even got him out of bed and had him sit in a chair for a couple of hours and he was even joking around with the nurse's. Then I just got word a few minutes ago, that he has improved so much they moved him out of ICU today!! HIP HIP HURRAY!! Still a very long road to recovery, but we will Celebrate any improvements as they come.

I will be starting some Primitive Raffle's on Sunday Evening and will add more as items get donated. You can buy chances for $1.00 each or $6 for $5.00. Then you can choose to put all of your tickets on one item or dived them between the items. On Oct. 2nd I will draw a winner from each item that is listed. The winner's will be posted on my Picturetrail.

I also have two new items posted on my Lemon Poppy Seeds tonight as well. So if you get a minute stop by to check them out. I hoped to have had more done, but my time has been spent on trying to get a Fund Raiser, Bake Sale, Auction Donations and other things going for my Brother In Law's Benefit. The Raffle tickets are here now, so if you are interested in purchasing any please let me know. They are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00 with 1st Prize:$500, 2nd Prize: $250, 3rd Prize: $100.

That is about it for now. Have A Wonderful Weekend.

~Prim Blessings~

Sandy Holt

Missouri Dry Goods

www.picturetrail.com/missouri_dry_goods

http://www.lemonpoppyseeds.com/shoppes/psmissouridrygoods/

So go check out her picturetrail and her site on Lemon Poppy Seeds....

hugs,Jen

At the Gass Homestead it is HOT...MUGGY...And I don't mean outside!!!...Last night I was sitting and x-stitching...I kept thinking it is warm...But I was sitting under a light....But then Tim got up and said it was really warm...Well, I knew something was up if he was saying that because heat doesn't really bother Tim...Well, he soon discovered that the AC wasn't blowing out cold air...NOT cool air either....Really NOT even luke warm air....So he takes the flashlight and heads outside....The news wasn't good!!!...We're hoping we just have a leak.... Hopefully Tim will be calling to say someone is coming to work on it....So Luke is having a marathon of Disney cartoons this afternoon under a fan....Taylor is vegging in her room under her ceiling fan...For the moment I'm on the computer with the fan on me....I will soon be heading to the family room to do some stitching this afternoon and I will carry the fan with me...So I guess that is the good side of things because if the AC was on I'd be working in the house instead of getting to x-stitch.....So I'm going to go fix me some ice tea and listen to the rain and thunder outside....Or maybe we will have a chick flick afternoon....See there is always a good side to everything!!!....Gotta love those Georgia summer afternoons!!!...But only if i'm inside in the AC!!!...Do you feel for me Linda????...I know you do!!!

Until next time!!!...hugs, Jen

p.s....the sign was made for me by Lisa (Black Sheep Prims Homeplace blog)...I will soon be sharing the other ones she's made me...And baskets Pam (basketsnprims blog) has made me....I will also be doing a tutorial for the redware plates soon for all that have asked for one...

NEW OFFERING ON SIMPLE GOODES STITCHED BY JENNIFER

SOLD!!...Good Thursday morning!!!!....I just put another offering on my selling blog...And unfortunately I have discovered and then Kim left me a comment that something has attached itself to my blog...Some sort of on-line dating service, no doubt!!...Not sure what to do....It has been popping up when I go into my blog and others...I just exit out and try again....Sorry!!...If anyone knows what to do then let me know please!!...In the meantime this is my new offering!!

Now as it gets closer to Fall I will be making lots of new items and I will try to give you notice before I put them on....As of now I have the Halloween sampler I showed in my other post from last night and I'm busy working on another one...I have boxes to paint and I will be doing some sampler/primitive box combinations to offer....Some will be other designers patterns and some my own....Some samplers I will offer as is and some I will have in frames I've painted...pinkeeps....bowl samplers...primitive box sets....So check back often to my blog for updates for when I will be adding new items..Also Add my "Simple Goodes Stitched By Jennifer" to your favorites....

Also as I mark things "sold" I may still have items that haven't on Simple Goodes, so be sure to scroll down to see other offerings that have already been posted....

I just want to say hi to Catherine...She emailed me the other day and has been a faithful buyer from me on ebay for several years....She had found my blog....So I will be offering some items on ebay also, but not like I usually do because I'd rather sell off my blog....Sooooo glad you found me, Catherine!!!

Ok, go on down and read my other posts from late last night...and have a great day my friends!!!...I hear the post woman at my door...I hope it's the giveaway I won...My first win!!!...I will share that next time...

hugs, Jen

I added two new offerings on my selling blog tonight and will add another one later today....

I'M STILL HERE !!...Along with boxes,paints, textiles, and a Halloween sampler

Hi everyone!!!...I'm still here!!!...Sorry I haven't posted in two weeks....It was two weeks ago today that the Country Sampler photo shoot was here...Needless to say I needed a much NEEDED break...Taylor had left to go to my parents for over a week visit, so I gave myself permission to take a break and get some things done...I did some cleaning out and some x-stitching along with watching movies EVERY afternoon, watching cartoons, and playing with Luke...It was relaxing!!!...I regret that my emails piled up...Linda (Behind My Red Door) and Pam (basketsnprims) along with others emailed to check on me to make sure I was ok...Sorry to worry you!!...I should have posted I was taking a break...I didn't know I needed one so bad!!...Getting ready for the shoot for months wears you out!!...Mentally and physically because you think so much about it and do so much to prepare for it...I think it was harder too because I have a 2 year old and NOTHING stays straight for long....ha!ha!...I laugh as I remember on the day of the shoot I had to remake the bed about 6 times because Luke kept sneaking in our bedroom and playing on the bed when we weren't looking...AWWWW!!!....BOYS!!

Alot of changes this week...Luke's baby bed came down and a toddler bed went up in it's place for now....It was sad, but I don't know why because he only slept in it maybe twice....In the other house he slept in our room in his pack-n-play....Now before you say "OH, Jennifer!!!"....I suffered from post partem and anxiety after Luke was born....It was pretty bad!!!...Along with it I had fears of something happening to him...Looking back it probably is as everyone said that I'd had been through so much with the cancer, miscarriage, and the scares while I was carrying him that it manifested in the post partem...I couldn't let him out of my sight even at night....I had to be able to wake up and see him and know he was safe....And also looking back I was 40, so I was a tad bit more tired than I was when I had Taylor at 23....So it was easier than running to his room all night....So when we moved to this house we are in now there was very little room for a pack-in-play in our room...But I had kept saying he would sleep in his own room when we moved...For the first week I had alot of anxiety with not being able to see him at night in our room...Fears of someone taking him in the night....But it eventually got easier....Not completely gone, but easier!

I still suffer from the anxiety and the move didn't help...Getting use to a new house added to it, but I can finally say that after a year and 4 months in this house I'm pretty much back to normal without having to take anything...I weathered the storm!!!...It has been a long and emotional 2 1/2 years....

I think the hardest part was not trusting and having control over my body...We all need to control things!!!...Having the gestational diabetes I could get the shakes and feel light headed anytime I was out...So after Luke was born my mind still remembered when i would get the shakes and be sick and Tim and Taylor weren't home...I had no control!!!....So I would have the anxiety when they would leave the house...I was afraid to be alone for the first time in my life!!...Or when I had to go somewhere alone....

But i'm proud to say last week with Tim and Taylor gone everyday I suddenly realized that i didn't have that fear anymore....It had gotten better so slowly that I didn't really realize it...So Luke and I had a relaxing week and I'm pretty much back to normal with only minimal anxiety...As normal is!!...

OK, I wasn't going to put my heart on my sleeve and share all ot that...It just seemed to come out....So I guess I was meant to share it!!...Maybe it will help someone going through the same thing....There is light and peace at the end of the tunnel...Not that I'm not still overprotective of my kids....I'm still REALLY over-protective...And it's NOT good for me to watch Nancy Grace and hear about all the child abductions...UGH!!!....But as mothers we all worry about our kids!!!

So needless to say I don't worry about Luke at night anyway because he now sleeps in the bed with us!!..ha!ha!...As soon as he could climb out of the pack-n-play he started getting in the bed with us....But I don't mind...He's only small for a short time...

So now he has the toddler bed in his room with the baby mattress in it which is good for the second change...POTTY TRAINING...I had started it back in January, but decided he wasn't ready and I wanted to wait for warmer weather...So this week we began....Wish us luck!!

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Ok, on to other things...And I will post as long as I can...A bad storm is coming and the thunder has already begun....

Hobby Lobby had their boxes on sale last week, so on Monday we made the hour drive to Aiken, SC to the closest one...I was so disappointed...They are usually so stocked and it isn't unusual for me to leave with 4 carts full piled as high as I can get them....But it was slim pickings this time....So when we met my sister outside Atlanta this past Saturday to pick the girls up...(Taylor had her best friend go with her)....I made plans to meet at the Hobby Lobby to get what they had....So this is my collection ready to be painted...I'm still really disappointed that I couldn't get more, but I have these to work with....

I also wiped both stores out of their Americana Uniform Blue....Michael's doesn't carry it anymore at our local one along with any of the other blues I use, so I will have to start ordering them along with the stain...When I did craft shows and did the folk art painting I use to order from the Artist Club....So I found that they have the blue colors and the stain available...The stain in the bottles that doesn't smell bad and can be applied in the house and has easy clean up...No spending time out in the 90+ temps staining here!!!....I have learned over the years!!

Ooooooops!...I ended up with 2 pics and I couldn't get this one deleted off....

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Here are some old quilt and textile pieces I got in the mail on Monday...I ordered them from Tammy of A Primitive Place.....I absolutely love them...The red will be perfect for Christmas...And I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the blue textile pieces....I'm always on the lookout for them...

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And last but not least...This is my first Halloween/Fall sampler completed....I absolutely love it!!!!....The fabric measures 14 3/4" by 18"......So it is a large piece of linen....It is a Stacy Nash design....And heavily antiqued!!!...It took me a while, so I'm glad I've completed it and on to something new....SOLD!!!!

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I have so much more to share, but it will have to wait!!!....I hope you're having a good week and enjoying your last days of summer...It is funny saying that because I'm not sure when ours ends.....It will be HOT and HUMID when I start decorating for Fall...It always is....We will have some cool weather, but it's not uncommon for us to have a warm Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas....In fact this past Christmas Day til New Years we were wearing shorts and had the screens open on the doors here at home while it was very cold up in Chattanooga when we were visiting a few days earlier.....So we'll see what this Fall and Winter brings....But we should have some cooler weather by the end of September...HOPEFULLY!!!...So we have a ways to go yet, but Fall is coming!!!...YEAH!!...The BEST time of the year!!!...Right Linda!?!?!?....I know you're nodding your head girl!!...ha!ha!..

So until next time!!!!....hugs, Jen