~Happy Thanksgiving~

Wishing all my blog friends a very Happy Thanksgiving! And safe travels if you will be traveling this holiday season. I made 2 apple pies today and my house smells wonderful! I so can't wait to eat all the fixings tomorrow!!

Just wanted to post about another couple of Primitive Christmas dolls that I just listed in my Etsy Shop! Please visit here -----> Rock River Stitches

Every time I make one of these dolls I fall in love with them and want to keep them. But I then decide that I have to let them go.

I also have sale going on at my Society6 website!! FREE SHIPPING now through Cyber Monday!!! Please visit here -----> Society6 

Save on all my fine art photography items!!!

Be sure to come back soon....I'm working on something entirely new!!!

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!

Primitive Santa and Snowman Coming to Town!!

Finished a couple of Primitive Dolls this past weekend!! These have to be my two most favorite designs to make from my whole pattern line!

These two Primitive Holiday Dolls will be ready for sale in my Etsy Shop tonight!! You can check out my shop by clicking -------> Rock River Stitches

Have a Wonderful Evening!

New Primitive Icicle Snowman Ornies

Finished the most adorable Primitive Icicle Snowmen Ornaments yesterday. They are newly listed in my Etsy Shop now! I'm selling them in a set of 6.

I have a huge Oak Tree in our back yard that drops the most perfect acorns. I was out looking for tree branches for my owl ornies that I make and came across a ton of the acorn caps laying on the ground. So I collect a bunch and tried to think of something to make with them and thought of these ornaments! What do you say.....should I make a pattern???

Last week I made up a couple more of my Primitive Owl Ornies as I sold the very last one last week in my etsy shop.

They too are now listed in my Shop here----->Rock River Stitches

Making this post very short....Working on a Santa Doll and hope I can get him finished the end of the week!!

New Primitive Goodies!!!

Oh my goodness...I can't believe how long it's been since I lasted posted on my blog.

I can tell you that I have been extremely busy creating! And it's awhile since I have made a new pattern. I've noticed that Fox's have become very popular lately and thought I would create one. As of yesterday I now have a new pattern for my Fox pincushion on Pattern Mart and in my etsy shop.

 

And I have the finished Fox Pincushion for sale in my Etsy Shop too.

 

I have a few Christmas Items newly made and for sale in my Etsy Shop.

 

 

My Primitive Crescent Moon Santa Ornies have always been a hit. They are now listed in my Etsy Shop

 

 

And these Snowman and Tree Make Do's are very popular. Get requests for these to be made every year!

 

 

I currently have 3 sets of these in my shop!!!

 

 

A few weeks ago Hubby and I visited my daughter and family in North Carolina. They live close to the Blue Ridge Mountains and it's just beautiful there in the Fall.

 

 

Lake Junaluska

 

Ducks at Lake Junaluska

 

Well that's it for now. Need to get back to sewing. Many more primitives to create.

 

 



Primitive Halloween Goodies!

I have a few new Primitive Halloween items in my Etsy Shop! 

We've been getting some wonderful cool fall days lately. And with that I start seeing the Buckeye Butterflies. 

And the hummingbirds are gasing up at my feeders, getting ready to fly south. The Male hummingbirds left a couple of weeks ago. I have a few females and male juveniles still around.

This one is a juvenile male

Please don't forget to check out my phone case etsy shop! I'm always adding new cases each week. 

Happy Labor Day!

We are finally getting our Summer heat. It seems Summer is way behind this year. Been mostly in the 90's all week. Had a record breaking temp the other day of 97º. 

Finally things have slowed down a little with the phone case whirlwind! I've been so busy with orders and such that I haven't had time to work on Halloween. The Blue Ball Jar phone case has been a HUGE hit! I have also added photo pillow cases to my Red Oak Images etsy shop. I don't have as many pillow cases as the phone case, so if you see a image on a phone case you like that you would like in a pillow case, just let me know. 

Pillow Cases come in 3 different sizes....16" X 16", 18" X 18" and 20" X 20"

 I'm getting requests for a few old primitive items that I had made years. Need to get cracking on those things. I picked up a old wool blanket at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago and thinking that would make some pretty cool primitive pumpkins. So Have that idea in my head right now. 

So that is what is been going on with me lately and trying to keep all my flowers alive with the awful heat we have been having. Every morning I'm outside watering! We need rain really bad. I think it's been about 3 weeks!!

Almost forgot to tell about my experience with growing potatoes!! Last fall I bought what is called a potato bag. You grow potatoes in a bag that is made of a porous fabric. I had never grown potatoes of any kind before. It was super easy! 

In the Spring I bought Red Pontiac seed potatoes. You cut potatoes up in cubes and make sure you have at least one eye on each. Fill your bag with about 4 inches of soil and place you seed potatoes in the bottom. Cover with a couple inches of soil. As the potatoes grow add more soil to the bag. They say every 8 inches of growth add soil. I had a little trouble with the deer eating the plants in the end of the growing season. We harvested the potatoes last Sunday and had about 5 pounds of taters!! Not bad I think for a beginner in a bag! LOL

Purchased my bag at Gardener's Supply Company  

Have a safe Labor Day Weekend my blogging friends!!!

New Primitive Squirrel Pattern!!

I did something yesterday that I haven't done for a very long time, about 8 months ago. I made a new pattern! By the request of my fans, I now have a pattern for my Autumn Squirrel! 

You can find him in my Etsy Shop HERE And he is listed at Pattern Mart as well.

Besides working on this pattern I also made 2 business Facebook pages! Please stop by and like both my pages to keep up to date on what's going on. 

Rock River Stitches Facebook

Red Oak Images Facebook

The weather this morning was so cool, I decided to sit out on the deck. I hadn't taken any pictures of the hummers this year. So I thought I would set a time limit of a hour as I had much to do today. 

This is what I saw!

Grackle

Grackle

Mourning Dove

Young Nuthatch 

Young Chickadee

Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird


This weekend I plan to work on some Primitive Halloween Shadow Boxes!!!
Stay Tuned!

Where has the Summer gone?

Can you believe in about a week it will be August! Where has the summer gone? I'm enjoying it puttering around in my gardens. And I can't complain to much about the weather. It's 70º right now and that is very unusual for us here in the Midwest.

I had a request for a Flamingo Coin Purse for my sister's friend. I do believe it turned out pretty cute! What do you think? Should I sell these in my etsy shop? 

Today I will be starting on a few new Primitive Halloween Goodies!! I'll post here with my new creations!!

A Sunflower planted courtesy of my chipmunk friends. 

Below are a few new phone case designs that I've listed in my Red Oak Images etsy shop. 

Click HERE to see these new designs!

I Really Should Be......

Really should be working on Halloween and Christmas goodies for the up coming fall/winter season. So hard for me to do when it's 90º outside. I get so caught up with photographing everything outside, like flowers and wildlife that I normally don't get to do in the winter. And I love just playing in my gardens, pulling weeds transplanting plants, watering. You know all that stuff that goes along with caring for a garden. I hate being indoors in the summer, even if it's hot out!! 

And I love, each Summer watching the baby deer grow up right before my eyes. I see Mommy and baby practically everyday now. She drops baby off at my next door neighbors backyard in the ferns and leaves for the morning. She usually comes back in the afternoon to pick her up. Baby is now old enough to venture out in the backyard on her own while mom is away. I captured an awesome shot of her today while mom was away. 

I think I may print out this photo for myself and frame it!!!

I've been playing around with my camera a lot the last month, capturing very cool images and turning them into IPhone cases. I've just started listing them in my Red Oak Images Etsy Shop. Click HERE to check out my new designs!!

Here's a few of what I have to offer!

This one is a vintage camera that I own. 

I have this one, the Blue Ball Jar case for my iphone and just love it!!!!

From a wooden bench my hubby uses for a foot stool

A Baltimore Oriole photo that I took this Spring

This is an old Elm Tree stump that is on our property. Very cool I think!

Like some rust? This was taken inside of a huge tractor rim that my neighbor has.

And my fawn that I get to see everyday!!!

These cases are available in IPhone 4, IPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy 4

Cool Summer!

I'm just loving the weather we've been getting lately. Hard to believe that it's July and only highs in the 70's! Perfect I say!! And mother nature is giving us rain when it just starts to dry out. That helps me with my daily watering of all my flower gardens! Gives me more time to sew and take photos!

Captured this shot of a rainbow on Saturday. It was a crazy weather day. It would pour down rain for a little bit and then the sun would come out. Did that all day. I think there had to be at least 4 or 5 rainbows that day. 

Several months ago I had a couple of people interested in this pillow that I made with one of my photos. You can now purchase it by clicking Here  You can get the pillow in 16", 18" and 20" with or with out a pillow insert. Very reasonable prices!

Also I've been working on some really cool vintage iphone cases that you can get at the same website.

Vintage Ball Blue Glass Canning Jar Case is Here

Vintage Brownie Camera is Here

I also have a couple new bird scrappy birds in my etsy shop!

These sweet birds can be found in my etsy shop Here

That's all for this day before the 4th of July! Have a safe holiday my blogging friends!