Home Sweet Home

Why I love this place

All from our Jeffersonville home. More pics to come. 

These are a few of my favorite things

And if life gets real tough....

Just get plumb wild with it!

Do you ever wonder what they would wish for?

Fibery Friends

Fibery friend,

what would though ask of me

If the Lord of all

 would grant to thee,

A moment of time

 for thee to tell,

 what  thou  would wish,

 oh wish it well…

Is thy bed cozy,

 a shelter for thee?

The timothy hay,

a choice you’d keep?

The heated bottle,

too hot?  Do tell?

Oh speak thy wish

 and wish it well.

I feel thy nose,

  Press  up my hand.

Lean gently in,

 I understand…

How sweet of thee,

 to ask thy wish

A gentle nuzzle,

 a little sniff.

I see thy wish

  the same as mine,

A comforting friend

 in a moment of time,

And what a gift,

Our Lord is giving

You spoke it well,

What a life we're living

My  fibery  friend

Rebecca Gould

Old Fashioned Dishcloth

I have been wanting to make my kitchen look more homey and adorable. I don't have a ton of money, or a tone of time. So...cute little dishcloths have been the main event lately. I thought this one was so cute, I wanted to share it with you. At first I thought I would be disappointed in it. But...the instructions in at the end tell you to steam it...that makes the difference! You can find the pattern at Lily Cotton yarn It really is a good place to look for wonderful free cute dishcloth patterns. Oh...the pattern is called Christmas Pudding Dishcloth. I changed the colors to match my kitchen. Thanks for visiting. I do read your comments. I enjoy hearing from you.

Warm feet!

I love love love my felted slippers. If you want to make the same pattern you can find it on ravelry here fuzzy feet
I did spin the fiber to make the yarn, to felt the slippers, to keep the feet warm... in my little acre of the woods. :) My darling english angora rabbits contributed to these wonderful slippers that are very very very soft. No harm to the rabbits.
One note about the slippers in making them...it took a long time for them to dry. I think because of the angora, and how thick they are. But very much worth the wait. Just luck would have it, and it has been rainy here and hard to get them to dry. I also was silly enough to use my expensive wooden sock blockers...all to have them warp from the moisture and drying out. The picture didn't turn out so well. It looks like they are really large at the toe, but because I was trying to get them to stand up for the picture, I stuffed some socks in them...so they are stuffed a bit to much! lol Oh well....
But here they are:

Gigi

Or G.G. meaning Gods gift. I couldn't resist showing you her picture all prettied up.
We should be starting 4H dog training back up real soon. Never ever give up. So many things to look forward to with the coming of Spring. So what's your soon to be project for spring.What are you looking forward to?

Uncle Mac

My Uncle Mac passed away this morning.

 He was special to me. 

Uncle Mac, Cousin Steve, Aunt Faye

When I was young I used to sit on his foot, and hold onto his leg and he would walk around the room and zoom me in the air. He had this rough exterior...but you knew inside he was as sweet as molasses.

 I loved his laugh. 

He was one person that never put me down about my religious beliefs or thought ill of me. We actually talked pretty deeply about the Lord. I was able to share some books with him. He is the only one of my relatives (not talking about my husbands side of the family or our children) that I have really been able to talk about the deeper things of God with. I can just picture him up in heaven, finding the answer to all the questions he pondered. 

I bet he is bouncing our little baby on his foot...zooming around the corridors of heaven. 

Heaven just got a little more beautiful today

and has given me more to look forward to in eternity. 

Silly Hubby

My hubby is a darling really. He is so sweet. He was looking at my knitting while I worked, with this quizzical look on his face. I could tell he was really struggling. Then finally, he comes out with it. Honey? Don't you think that is a bit big for a sock?

I should have soooo played this up. But...I didn't. Yup honey it is a bit big for a sock, because it is a fuzzy slipper. Pattern here fuzzy feet from Ravelry. It is supposed to be big, because you wash it and felt it, then it shrinks to magically fit your feet.

A wonderful look of relief comes over his face....He really does love me. He knew how long I had worked to raise the bunny for wool, dye the fiber, blend the fibers, spin the fibers, knit the yarn and all to come up with this huge sock!
I'll update when I have felted the slippers. :)

A Cute Idea

We were discussing on ravlery, in our Sisters Crocheted and Knitted in Christ Group SCKC, how to keep track of where we are in a pattern. The wonderful idea of blue tape, is working absolutely wonderful for me. So much better than post it notes, marking on my paper, or even the magnetic boards.
But I also wanted a better way to view my pattern. I thought to glue the copy to a piece of cardboard. Then I thought, card board is so ugly... I should first glue a piece of scrapbook paper...well I went on from there in all my creativity to come up with this pink beauty. Then I made one for my daughter. Then we talked about making several as a keepsake of my favorite patterns for her to have. So, I shall begin another craft adventure. Thought I would share our idea with you. Perhaps you have someone that would love to have beautiful copies of your treasured patterns. Just as side note...I did not create the pattern listed on mine. It is the pattern Half a Dozen Hearts, 6 inch block that you can find here halfknits 

Our Jeffersonville Home

(this picture is a bit old, the vinyl is finished, I'll try to update soon)

 I feel so blessed to have so many care about our housing situation. We have wanted to go "home" for so long.
As many of you know, when we started our remodeling project. Calvin and I where both working. We had 2 children at home, well...teens at the time. We moved out of the house to make the repairs as this was to be a major overhaul. We planned to stay in Charlestown for 3 months. 
Then our world turned upside down, inside out and just threw us for a loop. From my sisters illness and then her death, losing a baby, hospitalizations for Calvin, 3 surgeries for me, foster parenting our great nephews , then adopting...we had to change our plans over and over. To care for our boys and their special needs, I left the work place. Then the bottom fell out of Calvin's hardwood flooring business. It has just been a wild ride. I am amazed at how we have made it through. I know the Lord has kept us. The people that have reached out to us has been truly amazing. I am in awe at the compassion others have had. From praying with us, to giving gifts to the boys, providing a car so I could visit my father in the hospital, to sharing informational resources, and a shoulder to cry on...
I thank you deeply from the bottom of my heart! The Lord has truly blessed me with the most awesome people to call "my friend".