Since it was a lovely day yesterday, the BF and I decided to hop in the car and get out of town. Spur of the moment, we based the trip on the Patternworks store, in Center Harbor, NH. Yes, this entire trip was planned around a yarn store (though the Keepsake Quilting Store in the […]
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We finally managed to make it down to Hamilton House on Saturday, for the first time this season. And finally, we managed to pick a time when the house was actually open for tours. It was both like and unlike what I was expecting inside. The house itself was built in the late 1700s, but
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Here’s a small sampling of the flowers and some of the other plants from my trip to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. We stuck mostly the to the woodland areas, so many of these are woodland and shade plants.
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We spent a good part of the day at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, which is about an hour north of us in the town Boothbay. I tried to time the trip to correspond to the peak of the rhododendron bloom, but I forgot that they’re a bit cooler on that particular portion of the
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I’m back from a rather whirl wind trip Downeast for the weekend. The main reason for the trip was so that my father and I could attend a workshop at the Woodlawn Museum where we learned to make our own painted canvas floorclothes. Since I have pretty much no native artist ability, I chose to
