Today has been a very r-a-i-n-y day here in the Shenandoah Valley (praise the Lord for this rain!), and we love these chilly fall days. The lights are twinkling in various rooms of the house, the candles in the windows are burning, Spicy Vegetable Soup is simmering for tonight's meal, and there are Christmas hymns playing softly as I open my trunk of craft treasures.
My mom found this trunk in an antique shop many years ago and had it refinished on the outside and covered with fabric on the inside. I love the black latches and placed a ceramic heart to hang from the center latch that says..."When life gives you scraps, make quilts!" This trunk has a bottom part and a separate sectional drawer that lifts out on top. It is loaded with lots of craft patterns, a ton of cross-stitch leaflets, aida cloth, quilt batting, and things I had forgotten I had! It is a heavy job to lift the drawer out to get to things below!
That's a log cabin quilt top that I must have begun back in the 80's lying across the drawer. I didn't remember that it was tucked down in the bottom of the trunk. I should make a list and come up with a plan to get all these unfinished projects completed!
Tom gave me the harvest angel on the window sill this past anniversary, and that's a white-steepled church birdhouse just making it into the picture bottom right. When the trunk lid is closed, a gigantic Christmas cactus sits on top.
I've been having fun rummaging through my trunk today. So how do you spend rainy days?
~Deb
Ya really wanna know how I spend my rainy days??? Just like any other day! LOL It rains SO much here in the Vancouver area that those rainy, cozy days come quite often. When it's an especially stormy day (raining hard and windy) I like to light candles and turn on some good music. Something yummy on the stove or in the crockpot is nice too, and I like to curl up with a blanket on the couch and read the afternoon away. I have to really be in the mood for those kinds of days, though, because so many of our days are rainy.
Posted by: Susan | Friday, October 26, 2007 at 07:58 PM
I also live in the Shenandoah valley. I live in Rockingham county. I was so thankful for the rain. It has been so very dry.I spent the day sitting my two little granddaughters. They are 3 and 18 months. We had a lot of fun playing together. When they took their nap I was thankful to be able to sit down and have a cup of coffee LOL! We had homemade chicken pot pie for supper. I love vanilla candles!I really enjoy your blog.
Posted by: Debbie | Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 09:38 AM
What a pretty trunk! I have a cedar chest that we bought at a yard sale for $5, stripped the black paint from it (!) and refinished. It is beautiful! It is cedar inside and out. I really do not know who would paint over such gorgeous wood--in black, no less!
I TRY to keep my unfinished crafts to a minimum. But it is so hard--because starting things is way more fun than finishing something! =)
Rainy days are meant for books! If I can read on a rainy day, I am very happy!
Posted by: Tammy | Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Our family has a tradition of giving the girls a Lane Cedar Chest for graduation. Mine is in our bedroom filled with baby books, special baby outfits, ALL the baby blankets we ever had including mine from when I was born, my husband's navy blues, just all kind of mementos. We like to go through it every now and then.
Posted by: Cindi | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 07:50 AM