Tin hat? Tin everywhere perhaps?! lol

If this is true I find it (among a list of many things) disturbing to say the least......
                 (and note to self: keep the 'dumb-phone' I currently own, lol)

                   http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html

BARN SALE CONTINUES!

By popular (and lovely!) request
the barn sale at etsy continues!!!
~~
The old red barn is overflowing
that means I need to add more things to etsy

that means I'd love to find 'new homes' for

the lovlies currently residing at etsy

So.....

CYBER BARN SALE

at Etsy 
*click on the text that reads 'old red barn'

under the etsy images at right

to visit the Big Red Barn Etsy-ness and click on the
BARN SALE tab at the top of sections...

Spread the word, pull on your barn boots

& come visit the big red barn etsy cyber sale!

Various currentlly listed items will be on sale (see barn sale tab on etsy)

Some new items will be added both small and large (see the entire shop)
Some new items will be included in the barn sale (see barn sale tab on etsy)

Oh What Fun!

Smalls, China (plates, cups, saucers)

And whatever more I can have ready...

Wherever your travels take you on Thanksgiving
be it across the country, state, county, city, town
(or just across the kitchen to the dining room, lol)
be safe, be happy, be yourself, be bemused, be kind
Be thankful - if not for much, then for some, if not for some
then search for one small thing life holds that gives you contentment...
Past or present, here or gone, current or yet to be
The possibilities for thankfulness are vast.

For my part, the count of "thankful" found on my list is long & deeply treasured.
I've arrived at the point in life where one has learned even the challenges
yield something of benefit ~ if you strive to view from all aspects.

One of the most recent additions to my 'thankful for' list is each of you
Each who has made me feel warmly welcomed, shared, followed, laughed, struggled, been 'real'
New friendships found ~ across the miles - bound by keyboard and heart, warmth shared.
Thank you each for sharing my farm, my fields, my ramblings ~ and for sharing yours with me

Blessed Harvest Shared To Each Of You And Those You Love!

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AI Anyone?

If you are intrigued by
(as I admit I am) the application
and interaction of tech advances
in this case Iphones' AI then

THIS Iphone SIRI ~ Singer interaction

will amuse.....

*hat tip to the programmers at Apple for

humor and ingenuity, lol*

~ hat tip to the singer Jonathan Mann for the concept of the SIRI duet~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~After all, being able to work from the old girl depends upon cyber-ness~
Growing food, the 'someday' chickens and red barn etsy all (oddly) co-exist...

As the saying goes
"Ain't life strange"?!?

Between Here And ...

These curves of wood with tight-drawn strings cradeled within these collective hands & joined by voices lean yet strong sketch an image on my heart.....
(My words above hyper-link Youtube Here and Heaven (Live) Goat Rodeo Sessions Sony 2011 (c)

Sometimes

Sometimes I Sit And Think
Sometimes I Sit And Dream

The Best Days

Are
The Days

I Do Both


A teeny tiny late-ish start to Halloween Decor

Oh my! How can Halloween be just around the corner?!?  I, once again find I empathize and identify with the Rabbit of Alice In Wonderland (aka I'm late, I'm late for {yet another} date)!  But it won't impair the enjoyment of the pieces I do manage to place in the remaining days counting down to Halloween - no not one little bit!  It's such good fun!

Thus far, only the mantle is dressed ~ but isn't he the cutest?!
Flanked by two traditional pumpkin pals seen in the top image
I believe it's a spookily cheerful little beginning!

Tea a la a bit 'o the UK

This, well..... this is just one of those remarkably curious wrinkles of fate that is wonderful.  Found on a  recent treasure hunting trip ~ which, for me is every time I step foot out the door. It's like breathing for me.  I'm incapable of not looking, not seeing, things that are orphaned, about to be dumpstered. Add to that the facts that a) people know that of me b) people who don't know me seem to sense it. Put all those fiddly bits of information together and the fates seem to wind my path to the amazingly beautiful "things"....

This amazing collection was no exception to the way these things seek me out. Found in the back of an open shed, in one half of a study but very dusty box that originally held fruit shipped from Africa and covered with crumpled papers it appeared an empty box filled with discarded paper.  A bit of poking revealed a very old & time faded tag with a UK pounds price. Thru dust and damp and detritus I dug. This is what I eventually unearthed....

This image is, I'm guessing sans proper count, 1/3 of the total number of pieces.

Unbelievable.

It was 50 % ~ 'gotta-go' reduced.

Amazing.

It's older than the dirt it was covered in, lol
"The old girl" (aka farmhouse)  is pleased
She loves an old world tea in the dining room
with ancient cups, delicate sandwiches, cakes and scones!

Can't wait to research it, then see how much of it I can realistically fit
 into my tea-cessities collection cupboards

An enjoyable challenge without doubt!

Will any escape me to be adopted/shared?

Not if I can help it, lol - but cupboard space being what it is - we'll have to see! roflmao

Are You Ever Too Old?

 For A New Pair Of

 Polka-Dotted Fall Rain Boots?!!??

(Personally, as you see, I think not, lol)



The 'reveal' of the project lol

My last post gave a tease-view of my current and finally completed project
Without further delay, here's the reveal
(Wendy's right I do like to keep ya'll guessing)
(Robin's guess-comment had me laughing out loud :-)
Thanks for both your comments sweet ladies!

Now, may I present my
new/old kitchen table!
One of my beloved sewing machine bases & safety table glass
blended with antique chairs and comfy english floral cushions
to create (to my eye) a blanace of soft and hard textures
antique and contemporary components
wisked into a pleasing outcome....

(and after this project I felt entitled - if not deserving, lol - of a brew or two)!

Thanks for guessing-along-with-my-'what's she up to'-game!!