hi!

i'm busy making and dyeing so i can stock the new shop here as soon as possible!  if you haven't gotten a chance to sign up for the new website newsletter you can do so here.  

i have so many ideas and plans it will take some time to follow through on it all but i'm feeling excited and inspired.

as i try to pull together my new site and shop i'm also enjoying autumn with outdoor time and seasonal adventures like a harvest festival, apple picking, baking.  and we're also busy at home rebuilding a chimney and installing a wood stove so we can be warm this year.  

xx

take care,

liane

back field

i'm really lucky right now to have a big field for a backyard.

there are fruit trees and turkey feathers.  

there's an old truck which was, long ago, used  

to bring fruits and vegetable to farmers' markets.

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and below a couple few little vintage finds for sale in the shop:

swiss cross lantern

i found these old swiss cross paper lanterns at the flea yesterday.  

i love them and can't find them anywhere else on the internets.

available HERE

also, i spent part of my weekend painting walls at my new place.  they were a shade of pale yellow which was not going to work for me.  the living room walls are now a white called "swiss coffee".  the kitchen will be the same.  i had some old semi-gloss paint kicking around in an almost black for the kitchen cabinets (a little added browny-grey to be true black) and in the next couple days when i find the time i'll finish painting in the kitchen.  then i'll take a few pictures for you.

x

triple trouble

a little post-move update:

i'm in the new place and the day before the move we found 3 black girl kittens in the barn at my old place.  we couldn't just leave them there!  and i put some new sweet dyed vintage textiles in the shop today HERE.

dive in and swim out deep

i'll be packing boxes and making moving arrangements the next several days.  i don't have a lot of belongings so it shouldn't be terribly tough.  i'm moving from a 2 room cottage to a 4 bedroom space in a 180 year old house out on a way back road.  i already have a clear mental picture of how i want the place to look.  that's just how i operate.  it's not as if i don't have several other pressing concerns running around in my head.  and to some i know it seems a funny almost indulgent activity.  but considering how the interior space around me will be is an automatic impulse, a calming creative activity.  it's how my brain works.  it's just who i am.

i can't go for that

it's gloomy and raining here today.  the garden is water-logged.  

the last image is a sample of the new scarf dye color which will be in the shop next week.

and here's a song for you:

x

liane

snow

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new in the shop

i must be in a good place now

the tote, cross cushion and pouch up there are new in the shop this morning!

HERE

i'm listening to vetiver today as i work:

listening to this, can you hear that summer bee buzz in your ear?  feel the breeze as it wooshes through the tall grass?

xo, my loves.

around here

around here i've been knitting, making soap, sewing, shipping, also mending a pile of things including a pillow case and that chenille bedspread up there.  

i've been thinking about things like happiness vs. fulfillment, energy efficiency vs. reducing energy growth and use.  i've also been thinking about little people and alternate realities.  

the soap making has been great.  my favorite thing about it aside from making something good to use is the smell that fills the house.  i made olive oil eucalyptus soap last night and olive oil lemon this morning.  i'll have some of both in the shop in a few weeks.

i'm about to go read and listen to this.  

at the enhabiten shop i'm offering the sale in the shop through the end of today.  if you want to take advantage of a 20% off discount use the coupon code FLIRT at checkout.

wink wink

x

they were the same hand

It Was Alive, Though Differently

BY HANNAH GAMBLE

It had a secret name

which in later years came to mean

I will continue to stand here.

 

It had a food mouth

and a shrieking mouth.

 

Popular wisdom indicated

that Its hands could heat stones

and that a man could cook

meat on those stones.

 

That being said,

It had a poverty hand

and a riches hand.

 

They were

the same hand.

 

A little ways above the hands

the mouths spoke together

but for two

different reasons,

like the music was behaving

but the orchestra was broken.

 

*

 

Even in less

benevolent moments,

It was known to use Its own

body as a tent and as the gifts

inside of the tent.

 

Early people said It had a mother hand

and a father hand, and that together

they made a clapping sound.

 

Its hands delivered the children

from madness.

 

The hands saw the riverbank sliding

into the river

to make

a more shallow river.

 

They scooped the mud up.

The hands were giving thanks.

 

*

 

The hands smelled like exodus.

The hands were the law.

 

One hand grew older, and the other

hand younger.

 

They said, fairly often,

We’d like to try that again.

 

Both were restless

and wanted rest.

 

One hand said, I will go where you go,

while the other hand continued

on alone.