...!...Now Hiring...!...

dependable, self motivated person

who likes to drink coffee

that will

Turn & Stuff

all these recently sewn prims

Please reply by comment or email

As you can see from above picture, the old Singer has been just a humming

the last two days I have cut out and just finished the sewing of many

Primitive Dolls, Pumpkins, Bears & more

Now for the part that I don't like

turning & stuffing

so I thought maybe there was someone, somewhere that would like a job, LOL...

Yesterday was the start of Maygan's 3rd grade year!

She was all smiles and full of details when I picked her up from school

couldn't wait to go back this morning

(Boy, I hope it stays like that.......til she's a SENIOR)

1st Day 2010

1st Day 2009

So, who wants to go shopping with my $20.00?

You???!???

Get yourself signed up for my giveaway

Click Link for all the Details

http://yorkmountainprimitives.blogspot.com/2011/08/york-mountain-mercantile-bucks-giveaway.html

Have a Blessed Day,

Traci

Kinzua Heritage Arts & Music Festival Weekend

We revisited the 1700's & 1800's this weekend....

I still say that I was born way too late, I could get lost in this

 Encampments, Artisians, Bluegrass & Native American Music and Dance

Storytelling, and the list goes on & on

Hop in the old fashion time machine....I'll take you back

Just some of the trades

Quilters, Spinners, Hewers, Chair Canner, Potter, Flutemaker, Leather Tooler, Glass Blower

Bow Maker, Forger, Beaders, Schrimshaw Artist

Hand spun & dyed Wool

been spinning since 1975

all natural dyes - no chemicals - gotta love that!

Alan Eaton - glass blower

Chicago, IL

Log Hewers



 

Blacksmith/Forger

Scrimshaw Artist/Gunsmith (seated)

Tim Ferrie

Confederate Civil War Soldiers

Hands on Fun

Too Funny

Maygan says while playing the washboards

"Mom, I've always wanted washboard abs"

My small treasures

Next year, we will be participating in this festival.  Camped out, selling our wares and demonstating

Boy, I can't wait until next August!

Festival Website

Kinzua Heritage Arts & Music Festival



York Mountain Mercantile Bucks Giveaway

Hot off the presses...........

York Mountain Mercantile Bucks

A fun giveaway!

You get the YMM Bucks and you Pick Your Prize

To enter:

1.  You must be a follower of at least one of my Blogs

http://yorkmountainprimitives.blogspot.com/

http://yorkmountainmercantilesales.blogspot.com/

(new followers are welcome for this drawing)

2.  Comment on this post that you would like to be entered

3.  Live in the USA or Canada

Extra entries awarded for:

1.  Posting my giveaway on your Blog - 2 extras

2.  Picking one of my Followers to follow - 2 extras

(that you don't already follow, it's always nice to make new friends)

this is done on the honor system, please don't say you did it if you didn't

Please list all your entry options in just one comment

Winner will be drawn at random on September 16th

if you are the winner, you must contact me within 24 hours

I will not search for you, you know how to find me

New winners will be drawn if I am not contacted within time specified until I get one

As for picking your prize

York Mountain Mercantile Bucks can be used on either

My Website

http://www.yorkmountainprimitives.com/

or

My Selling Blog

http://yorkmountainmercantilesales.blogspot.com/

You can spend your

 $20.00 York Mountain Mercantile Bucks

however you choose, a $20.00 item, 2 $10.00 items or have the

$20.00 discounted off a larger order.  Any orders that can be shipped First Class Mail, the shipping will be Free, otherwise exact shipping will be charged (can be included in the $20.00 also)

Get signed up!

Are you Hungry for Hooking?

Well my dears, if you are

please go and visit Margie at

Hungry Hook Primitives

she has been kind enough to share Tips,
Techniques & even a GIVEAWAY

all about

Primitive Rug Hooking

(now who doesn't want to give this a try)

She is posting a series of  Rug Hooking Tutorials.

the first one is up already

but

that's not it

Margie is hosting a Giveaway with 3, count them, 3 prizes

Pumpkin Spice (if I win, I'm choosing this one!)

Americana

excerpt from Margie's Post

The 1st place winner will receive a kit in either color choice. The kit will include the pattern on monks cloth and all the wool (cut and ready to go) you need to finish the rug.. and you can follow right along with the lessons.

We will havea second place prize too...It will be this rug mat on monks cloth, but no wool (if you follow my tutorial you will have plenty of wool in no time).

The third place prize will be this pattern drawn on Red Dot Tracer ready to be trandsferred to the foundation of your choice.

So go, get yourself on over to Hungry Hook Primitives

get signed up for Margie's giveaway and read up on Rug Hooking.

 

psst....tell her I sent ya (won't do you any good but it'll get me more chances to win..hehe)

 

Blessings,

Traci

New Offerings

Two new offerings on my Selling Blog

Hop, Skip, Jump or Fly on over

to

........What's New.........

a whole lotta

NOTHING

I kind of like it that way sometimes!

but, I

Working on a couple of new Penny Rugs

been School Shopping

a little Blog Hopping

There are some great giveaways going on in blogland,

be sure to visit my Giveaway Page to check'em out!

My favorite participant in the Corn Festival Parade last weekend.

Isn't she cute, reminds me of the donkey from the first Nanny McPhee movie

she didn't dance though...

So anyway, I'm off to see what kind of mess I can make today

Blessings til next time,

Traci

Swap Share & Stuff

Good Friday Morning!

It's been one, a busy week that is.  Today I feel free, all caught up on orders, whew.

Thought I would share Maygan's Stitchery and hubby's Flutes that placed in the fair.

Here is May's little pillow

and ...these are DH's Flutes and they sound so pretty

when played

Michelle from Granny's Pantry and I recently did a swap.  Look at the wonderful goodies she sent my way!

A super prim fall penny rug, penny rug candle mat and a pattern book.  She's so sweet!

I think today, I just may find time to sit and thumb through the book for the first time.

A huge! Thank You Michelle !

I love my new goodies....

..x..x...x...x..x...x..x..x..x..

The Corn Festival is happening in town this weekend.

Parade, Food, Street Dances, Wagon Rides, Vendors and

of course, Sweet Corn a plenty

we will be taking in a bit of the action!

I think I will tend to my gardens a bit this morning,

my Sweet Annie is almost 5' tall and just starting to bud,

beans to pick and string into Leather Britches

so the question for the day is....

How many Beans could a Bean Stringer string,

if a Bean Stringer strings, String Beans?

Have a Blessed Day,

Traci

Black & White & Loved all Over

Sleeping Gary

Tuckered Out Spencer

Little Baxter Boy

Working on some orders today, still catching up around the homestead

trying to whittle down my To-Do List

Just listed a new Penny Rug on my selling blog that's been waiting for weeks to make an appearance

Blessings my friends,

Traci

Honey, I'm Home

Just a little recap of our Fair Week

lots to do, lots to see

~Tuesday Night Concert~

Barefoot Blue Jean Jake

Put on one heck of a show!

after the show

Entries

Maygan took a 1st on her stitchery

her dressed up "guitar" cucumber - 4th place

she also took a 5th on a painting she did

hubby got a 3rd place on his Native American Flute entry

I didn't enter anything this year...too busy

Midway Fun

A friendly family game at the Bingo Tent

Horse Shows everyday

my cousin Tim in the ring

Seneca Indian Dancers

Friday Nights Truck & Tractor Pull

Moon Lit Nights

bittersweet goodbyes at weeks end

brings a close to our summer in these parts

schools about to start, the leaves will be turning

you can feel the chill of fall in the night air

the barns stand empty, the grounds lay quiet

resting til next year

just a little glimpse of the great week we had, spent with Family & Friends

at the 2011 Warren County Fair

It's always good to come home!

Traci