Christmas Elf

Currently listed on Ebay.

Thank you for looking!

A Sweet Peaceful Birthday...

I enjoyed a sweet peaceful birthday...68 didn't hurt at all.

Thank you all for the wonderful response to my latest epattern! Your support is greatly appreciated.

Now I'm off to work on floors and get my house in order for Thanksgiving. Enjoy your week.

NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING...*instant download* EPattern

This sweet 9" mouse is painted fabric. Mouse is
reading The Night Before Christmas, wearing it's gown
and night cap, soon to be dreaming visions
of sugar plums. Great for Christmas decorating or
remove the book and leave it out all year. This pattern
is fun to do, so make a whole family of Mice!

Graphics and instructions for book and greenery included.

My instructions are simple and designed to be
printed on regular 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

File Size: 1.03mb

Price: US$7.00

Also available on PlumThicket Patterns and

PatternMart

Marching On...Inch by Inch...All Through The House

Little by little, inch by inch our whole house makeover is coming together but things are still in a big mess! The fun part about a redo is it's like camping out without leaving home :) The hall floor is finished, the hall closet has been painted inside and we a new light fixture.

I put a sweet stencil at the doorway between the
living area and the hall.

Next on the list is the bathroom. Prep work has already started. The wallpaper is coming down; the walls will be textured. The carpet is coming up and the floor will be painted. We have a new light fixture and a new faucet. Don't we have fun? What a great birthday/Christmas present for me! Poppa could really care less about redoing. As long as he has a path, food to eat and clean clothes, he's happy as a lark. What a great guy!!

Before picture of the bathroom

Handmade Craft Fair

My zany and effervescent friend, Brenda Sanker is opening a new selling site! Go on over to her blog for details and get in on the ground floor of the fun and excitement!!

Blessings Angel or Pilgrim Lady *Instant Download* EPattern

Blessings is a very versatile painted cloth
doll pattern that was inspired by the art of
my dear friend Marilyn Leonard. It is a square
bottom Shelf Sitter or Weighted Door Stop.
Easy to make, this 12" tall and 8" wide design
will fit nicely in your Thanksgiving/Harvest
or year round decorating.

My patterns are designed to be printed on standard
8-1/2"x11" paper.

© 2009 Edna Bridges/Plum Thicket Folk Art
All Rights Reserved, Worldwide
This pattern itself is not to be reproduced, copied,
duplicated, reduced, enlarged, shared by email, sold
in any form or otherwise fiddled around with. DO NOT
resell this pattern. Item/items made from this pattern
are intended for your personal use for fun or profit
and are not to be mass produced. If selling finished
product from this pattern be sure credit is given for
the design to Edna Bridges. Edna Bridges/Plum Thicket
Folk Art is not responsible for human error, printing
errors, computer malfunctions or individual workmanship.
There is nothing new under the sun so any resemblance
to the work of any one or any thing, living or dead,
past, present or future is strictly coincidental.

File Size: 1.04mb

Price: US $7.00

Also available on Plum Thicket Patterns

Living Area Floor Finished...but not the decorating

Here are some before and after pictures of our living area. We still have decorating decisions to make and accessories to add, but we are thrilled the floor is finished in there and things can get back to normal...well, at least in that room :)

I am delighted to be rid of the heavy drapes and valance
but now have to decide what we want.
We have a sweet new black drapery rod.
That long drop leaf table has been moved to the dining area
and our antique coffee table is now between our recliners.

This is the before and after of the wall with the fireplace

We now have oak shelves just waiting for things that need to be dusted!

Things are pretty much the same on the wall with Poppa's
computer and television (for now any way)

There is a sweet beige chenille sofa under that cover

A tufted storage bench is being used as a coffee table
or extra seating

Now on to painting the floor in the hall
and redoing a bathroom...don't we have fun?

What better way to spend a rainy day...

What better way to spend a rainy day than moving furniture and ripping up carpet! It seems like it is never ending, but believe it or not, this is the last section of the living room concrete floor to be painted. We are liking it so much better than carpet.

Not much left to do in this room then on to the hall and bathroom. Finished before Thanksgiving would be nice; not likely, but nice!

Oh so comfy...

I would read about people knitting socks and thought *why would one knit socks where they are so inexpensive*...However, last year I became addicted to knitting socks and there is nothing more comfortable and satisfying than a pair of hand knitted wool socks. These are in a basic sweet flax color and my latest pair finished this morning just in time for a nippy cold front that is due today! Can't wait to start on a new pair using a my new pumpkin colored yarn...

Papier Maché Halloween Witch...

Listed today on eBay...
From my personal collection
Thanks for Looking!

Yes, Yes I Do!...

I remember the *good ole days* BEFORE the government took over everything, and that was just December of last year!!!...So sad and frightening what is happening to our country! Soon we will have *no rights* if the current administration has their way. My mother taught me at a very early age how to manage money and live within a budget; something the folks running this country know absolutely nothing about. They don't teach COMMON SENSE in big expensive law schools.

There must not be any business here in the United States more important than the Olympics. How much are these trips to Copenhagen, Denmark costing us so the Obama's can get the Olympics in Chicago? A lot more than their EXPENSIVE *date night* in New York, I would suspect. I don't know about you, but the United States Taxpayers never paid for one of my dates! I think the Obama's or any First Family should pay for their own personal expenses like the rest of us...

WAKE UP VOTERS!!!!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING OR WERE YOU EVEN THINKING AT ALL?????

First Day of Autumn...Laying in supplies...

What a beautiful day! It is cloudy and dreary. The smell of rain and wood smoke is in the air. The wind is out of the north and the temperature has cooled nicely from the usual Texas heat. I have been laying in supplies for Winter projects. Wool for hand knitted socks, fabric for dolls that are dancing in my head, a few sculpting projects, paints, brushes, carving blocks, carving tools, stamp pads; all of those sweet things that spark imagination...

BONES *Instant Download* EPattern

New "BONES" Instant Download EPattern
Now available at Plum Thicket Patterns
for just in time for Halloween.
This is a fun guy!

Dinky Sugar says, "We have something new!"

My sweet pillow arrived today! This is my prize from Heidi Devlin Designs, aka Foxgloves Fabric and Folly blog, for being the winner of her August Decorating Challenge. Kitty had to investigate and was delighted with her findings. Beautifully wrapped and with a sweet personal note, this Urban Colonial Collection Vintage pillow makes a wonderful accent to our newly decorated living area. Thank you Heidi!

Relax, Revive, Restore, Renew

Relax, revive, restore, renew...I think those words were originally a Ramada Inn commercial that I heard way back when. I adopted those words years ago when I was plagued with anxiety attacks and used them to visualize relaxation.

Another bout with inner ear problems has me quietly sitting in my recliner today to *relax* and *revive*. While sitting I was able to do some sewing/mending on four items to *restore* them back into use. I also took apart one of my favorite lamps that I had put in the donate box because it no longer worked. I had purchased a new lamp to replace it, but was never happy with the new lamp; I love our old stuff. The old lamp was a touch on/off lamp and after doing some research on the internet a couple of weeks ago, I knew I could take out the touch on/off gizmo and just have an on/off switch. Poppa came in to check on me and discovered lamp parts all around so he rescued me from electrical chores and fixed the lamp. Price to repair our sweet lamp, ZERO, and just to think I was going to give it away! Now it has been *renewed* and in it's proper place.

Full circle. Relax, revive, restore, renew...powerful words!