Tomorrow is our annual primitive Christmas party – soooooo excited. We eat, laugh, yack and EXCHANGE OUR HAND MADE CHRISTMAS PRESENT (SUPPOSEDLY UNDER 10.00 BUT 30 HOURS OF WORK) AND ORNIES. This year my tree cried as it is overwhelmed with ornies so I decided to not take part in the ornie exchange although tomorrow I know I will be kicking myself!!! I need to come up with another way of hanging ornies rather than putting 3 on every branch of my poor Charlie Brown tree!!!
Yesterday we decided (or rather I did) to hang my beautiful antique scoop. Ohhhhh I love my scoop. Once I cleaned it with orange oil not only did it smell wonderful but the old red paint and all the worn areas just looked amazing. I took a bit of brown shoe polish (my favourite antiquing medium) to a few dings that had gone down to bare wood. They are now dirtied up and it looks amazing. However, after 3 hours of trying to put it up on the wall in the bathroom where it was to serve as a towel rack and funky spot to display mini hooked rugs or punch needle pieces I was ready to toss it in the burn barrel. I insisted, to Gord’s frustration, that the integrity of the scoop not be damaged with screws going through from the front so hmmmm, how to hang it became a much discussed and argued about dilemma. Finally we decided on little metal interlocking hangers but they needed to be screwed into the back of the scoop without the screws coming through the front and damaging my lovely antique. Well, much sweating and cursing and breaks later it was finally up. One of the problems contributing to hanging the scoop was the fact that hmmm it is handmade, old and much used so nothing is straight – not the bottom, top or sides!!!! Which is one of the things I soooooo love about it. Anyway it is up and covers about 7 holes in the wall and a ton of pencil marks 🙂 and it looks sooooooo perfect! I stuck in a wool appliqué piece, some greenery and faux berries and it is ready for Christmas but will get changing little mats for every season! So here is a picture :-)…
And a few pix to share of rugs by others…
Christine finished this piece (design by Martina Lesar) just in time for winter snows…

and Jill finished her Karla Gerard Crescent Moon (one of the patterns I carry)…
DON’T FORGET – MONDAY IS INTERNATIONAL RUGHOOKING DAY. EVEN IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT TO ONE OF THE LOCAL EVENTS PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES (OR HOURS) TO WORK ON YOUR LATEST HOOKED PIECE. IF YOU CAN JOIN US IN WILLIAMSTOWN ONTARIO (NORTH OF CORNWALL) WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU.