OK, so what are we going to do this winter???

16 years ago

Fall has set in here, raining, cooler, wearing a jacket on the old walk....

I had so many yard projects I wanted to do yet, make a ladder trellis, paint my bench....

I don't have very much indoor craft space (since I'm a quilter too)

Of course I have enough quilts in mind to last a lifetime but sometimes I just miss the smell of silicone sealant.

So what will you all be doing this winter?

Jill

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nancyjeanmc
16 years ago
Well, to start, looking here for inspiration. One thing I really want to do, which doesn't take up too much space, is make something with one of my old windows. I even have shutters to complete "the look". I just have to decide what "the look" will be.
Nancy
grandmabarb
16 years ago
same here , have a old window that I want to do,make it look like a stained glass, to hang inside the house, but I have to reglaze it first
then am not sure what to do with it yet. If it turns out I will post a pic.
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craftylady-2006
16 years ago
You can find inspiration for old windows on the T2T forum - look for "Robolady"('s) posts, Margo. She's got a blog and has some wonderful stuff on there for old windows and other good stuff.

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primgal36
16 years ago
Nancy,
Have you any spot on your gate? I'm not sure if you have one, but you could hang your window on the gate, with the shutters on either side, and then have a window box underneath the window with some flowers in that. It would appear like you were looking out of the window as you approached the gate. I did this for my neighbor, it turned out real nice. Just thought I'd pass it along.
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nmgirl
16 years ago
Winter is my prime time for making fairy houses, glass bells and plant stands.
Hi, I'm NMGirl. I'm a garden junkaholic and am addicted to silicone fumes.
: ) oh wait, I wear glasses
8 ) there that's better
BTW: I love everyone's Fall decoration photos. We're still waiting for Fall around here.
quidam
16 years ago
nmgirl, that was sooooo funny. Fall is here faster and furious..er than ever before.

I plan to make a headboard bench or two and that is all I have planned....but, then again, I don't plan too much but something will come to me.

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goldenpond
16 years ago
Ahhhh winter in Florida means I can put in my veggie patch and work on my flower beds without dying of heat!
shawnee
16 years ago
Tear down the garage the tornado 'ate'....

Re-do the walk in refrigerator in the fruit room where we store apples for market, and to turn the rest of the room into a snack area for funnel cakes, apple cider slushies, etc.

The rest of the space on that side of the Morton building will be turned into a picnic table, snack area. We plan to put up 'walls' and a fake porch - thanks to our stormy spring we have plenty of windows and doors and barn siding. We also plan to poplulate the porch with pot people and critters! Pics will follow as we progress...
luvstocraft
16 years ago
Okay, I wanna come visit you Shawnee--you got my full attention at the mention of funnel cakes and apple cider slushies! LOL

I've been stashing items in the shed all summer--hopefully I will get some of them turned into treasures during the winter months. Summer was just too hot and uncomfortable to accomplish very much.

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scottymam
16 years ago
Shawnee, if I come help with your projects will you pay me in Apple Cider Slushies and Funnel Cakes?
Send directions quick, i'll gas up the car!

i'm in Texas, so winter means that I do can do my outside projects without dying in the heat.

I LIKE the cooler weather, (of course cooler is a relative term!)
Ellie
superiorgirl2
16 years ago
Shovel snow. Plow snow. Shovel more snow. We get up to 300".
The other thing I will do is make ice candles to put on my deck. Hopefully I will silicone up a bunch of totems as my craft room is overflowing with glass I've collect all summer.
shawnee
16 years ago
Oh those ice candles are sooooo cool. We had some one year when we lived in Red Cloud Nebraska and had ice/snow storm after storm. They started 'blooming' all over town! Seems everybody else loved em too!

Yeah, I'm located in the 'bellybutton' of Kansas - anybody want to be worked to death you're more than welcome! I warn you, hubby is a workaholic; I'm planning 'escape' routes for myself already....

All the pumpkin places we've been to have mazes, etc. We have only 14 acres, mostly trees apple/peach trees, 1/4 acre of asparagus and blackberry lanes. But none of those places offer funnel cakes, and we had apple cider slushies in Topeka at Rees's fruit farm and fell in love with em...

Luvstocraft we have something in common; while tearing down old barns and the double gambrel garage, we've set aside old stairs in ONE piece put together with pegs, old windows, screen doors, railings, old tables and hen accoutrements for our future plans. One corner of our morton building looks like a junk yard. We did discover somethings morning after the tornado we didn't know we had; bowling balls! They had been used by previous owner for his pigs to roll around with their snouts, and were dug up by the winds from the windbreaks and distributed all over the orchard and back yard...can't wait to take advantage of alllll the bb ideas on this site!!
luvstocraft
16 years ago
Shawnee, I am so sorry about all the tornado damage. I grew up in Mo. and lived in Wichita,Ks. for about 8 years, so I understand what you are talking about. Such a horrible destructive force. Sounds like you lost some really wonderful old buildings. Glad you were able to salvage some pieces for future projects. And you are gonna have so much fun with the bowling balls! They look good in the flower beds even just plain. Midwesterners are a tough breed and very stoic--they pick up the pieces and start working at rebuilding. Sounds like that is exactly what your family is doing. Your fruit trees sound nice, but what really caught my eye was the asparagus and blackberrys! Yum! So I gather that you operate one of the family friendly, come pick your own fruits or berries farms--we have a few of those near where I live here in Ca. too. Sure hope your plans all work out and that your sales are really good. God Bless. Luvs
kimarj
16 years ago
hello all-.this winter i plan on making a water feature from a large urn shaped lamp base curb shopped of course it is ceramic have not a clue how i will decorate it.and i wiil make stepping stones with broken cement that i will mosaic.and i will try to make a old window look like stained glass to hang on the porch. Kim
scottymam
16 years ago
What are the ice candles? I'm wondering if I know them by some other name since I've lived in several cold climates.
ruthinont
16 years ago
Superiorgirl2 ...Please tell me what is ice candle???They sound like something that I can make here in the north country.LOL
meadel
16 years ago
Oh you all have such wonderful plans! Want a helper?
I am an especially good funnel cake eater and slushie drinker!. I love all fruits and veggies too !! I can't even imagine a "winter garden" unless it's a snow ball patch. I have 2.5 bedrooms here and ( whining) gave up my craft room. ( which I called AC Meade..after AC Moore/the craft store) to make a private bedroom for my older teen son. I suppose I will spend my winter picking silicone off my bedspread.

Boohoohoo...poor me.
kimarj
16 years ago
hello all this is what i hpoe to complete this winter the lamp base will be part of a water feature:) i hope
shawnee
16 years ago
We filled our large ice cream plastic buckets w/water and let em freeze. We chiseled out a 'holder' in the middle and put a candle down deep out of the wind and lit it. When lit they glow. We stuck em outside along our front walk to the house, about 3' apart. Very cool at night.
shawnee
16 years ago
Oh yeah, our place is called Cain City Orchard: http://www.freewebs.com/caincity/. As I mentioned before, it isn't large only 14 acres, but it keeps us MORE than just busy, whether it is froze out or not. We have 2 greenhouses and rotate use of them. We fill one with early girl bush determinate tomatoes. They're ready by Father's day to sell. WE tried geraniums and wave petunias, but lost em all last year to tornado, and the year before to a fungus from the mix we used to start them in. The first year was our best year for em and folks would drive from all around to buy those flowers. Started the geraniums from seeds, as well as the wave petunias. Even had balcony petunias. Hard as heck to find, but mom saw them when she went to Germany and couldn't stop talking about em.

Visit our site sometime! We picked up most of the damage but the time we started the site, and photographed carefully to camaflauge as much as possible. So many folks got hit this year that it has been traumatic for them to see damage...we didn't want to be too off-putting for people...
nonacook
16 years ago
Shawnee, I did go to your site, and things look good, so the careful photography worked.
We know about storm damage here, too. The hurricanes of 2005 and 2006 did our damage, as well as some tornados in the area spawned by the hurricanes. The damage mentioned on 'my page' tho' was done by a Chevy van which drove through the garden.

http://member.cox.net/nonacook

OK, so what are we going to do this winter???

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