So I’ve been uber busy this last week. I’ve got a local show this weekend called Christmas in New Harmony. If you’re looking for an Old Fashioned Christmas experience weekend, this is the place to be. Read on 🙂
New Harmony is a serene and quaint little town and I’ve talked about it before. It offers visitors a cultural, artistic and shopping experience worthy of towns many times our size. With Normal Rockwell charm, there will FREE horse drawn carriage rides, a Christmas Parade, Breakfast and Photo with Santa, Artisan Market, Shopping/Open Houses Children Nutcracker Ballet, Craft Show, Sweet Shop and Live Music. The town will be all decked out. I hope to get photos to share this year. There are inns to stay at if you are interested then see www.newharmony.biz for more information.
About the photo above, I sometimes photograph my art in my greenhouse which is attached to my art studio. How’s that for a view? I love plants and it gives great filtered light unless the sun is just right. I just discovered I’ve got a little mouse living in there. I can’t bare to put out a trap and have considered giving it some seed. He is a cute little thing and I’ve been trying to get a picture of him. He can climb! I never knew how agile they were. Mocee, the studio cat, hasn’t noticed him yet. I keep the door to the greenhouse closed. I’ll update you more about my little house mouse.
Here are some of the new things I’ve been working on for the show. I call them miniatures. Tiny little canvases only 2×2 inches and some are 2×3.5. I’ve got more ideas up my sleeves, too.
I also wanted to share my Thanksgiving with you. I had my family over and I cooked. Everything turned out really great and delicious with the exception of some yeast rolls that I had bought as frozen dough. I had forgotten to get them out to rise. So about 30 minutes before dinner was ready, I get these frozen rolls out and read the directions. Crap. Oh well, luckily I had some Pillsbury Croissants and they saved the day. Pumpkin pie, cherry cheescake, big juicy turkey, home grown green beans and corn, candied yams, cheesy potatoes, cranberry sauce and stuffing oh my! Notice I list the dessert first 😉 I got priorities… haha
I hope that you had a wonderful holiday and if you are in a part of the world that doesn’t celebrate it, well I hope you had a good day. I’d love to hear how your holiday went. Did you get any fantastic Black Friday Deals?
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Jaime,
I use live traps and participate in my own mouse relocation program. Sounds like a lot of trouble, and it is. It is important to relocate the mouse or it will be right back where you caught it by the next day. A quarter mile or more should do it. Sadly I found a dried up mouse in one of my traps once, kind of defeating the purpose of the whole program, and creating a death worse than a snap trap, so it is important to check the traps every day.
Good and humane advice Bob, thanks. I believe all of God’s little creatures have just as much right to live as we do. I don’t plan on getting rid of my little friend just yet. He’s in a closed greenhouse but I think he can get in and out as he pleases without harm when the vents open. I spent some time in there today and didn’t see him. Maybe he’ll turn up again or maybe he’s gone to a different climate 😉 Thanks for commenting.
That event sounds lovely….the perfect way to usher in Seasonal Festivities 🙂
A greenhouse *swoon*….what a lucky girl! Easy to understand why a little mouse would want to cozy up in there with all the yummy homegrown goodness.
…And that feast, namely, the desserts….a girl after my own heart….haha! Wish I was at your place ;P
Hi Cameron! So happy to see you *waving*. I would love to have you over for all the yummies, the more the merrier. I wish I had a large family. Yes, that cute little guy is probably in seventh heaven living amongst the geraniums, ferns and begonias (among others). It’s where I’d want to be!
Looks like you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I love your mini paintings. So sweet! Christmas in New Harmony sounds like a beautiful and fun time! Wish I could go!
Your story about the little greenhouse mouse is so sweet. Mice are adorable, but can be a nuisance. Hope you and this little guy can live peacefully together.
Hi Anne! I wish you could come to New Harmony too! I’d love to show everyone around the cutest little town on the Wabash River. I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful as well.
I haven’t seen my little greenhouse mouse since I posted this. I wonder if he got out. I know they call be a nuisance, but I was just going to see. I’ve often thought of actually getting a set of little birds to keep in the greenhouse but haven’t fully committed to it. Might be more work than I care for 😉
Oh, the event sounds AMAZING! How I would love to be there. 🙂 Looks like you have some really great works in progress for it. Your Thanksgiving looked lovely. It’s so important this time of year to be with family. I made all the extras…cranberry cornbread, cranberry compote and a pumpkin tiramisu trifle to DIE for. As usual, too much food was consumed. But it was GOOD. I did nearly all of our shopping online from indie artisans. Just a few left over to purchase for. Now to get the decorations up!!!
Oh I wish you could come too Theresa! I’d love to show you around. Your extras sound devine! I think I remember reading about your famous pumpkin tiramisu trifle! Yummm-O!
I’ve been thinking of decorating the house soon, too. Lucky you with all your shopping done, and all indie artisans too! Awesome!
I’ve been watching the beautiful paintings progress on FB and now I get to see more plus a peek of your beautiful Thanksgiving….I always think of the desserts first too. Great minds and all that, right? I think you’re going to have a WONDERFUL (and well deserved) response!
xx
Stephanie
OOo I hope so Stephanie! I’ve been painting like crazy while juggling everything else in life. Just like you! Ha ha… oh and desserts are one of the things that makes life worth living! 😉 xx
Hi Jamie. Looks like it was a great Thanksgiving. That’s great. Happy Holidays to you in case I don’t see you. I like how you photograph your work. What kind of camera do you use, if I may ask. I needing a new one, but want the right one. Hey Jamie girl, have a good one. Take care and be well.
Hi Gloria! Sorry it’s taken a few days to answer. I just found you in my spam folder! I took care of that right away 😉
We had a really nice Thanksgiving, I hope you did too. And it tickles me pink that you like how I photograph my art. I use a Canon Rebel XTi. Here’s a link. It is a digital SLR camera. It is pretty old and I’d love to have a newer one but I can’t complain. I would recommend Canon or Nikon myself. I happend to buy this off a photographer who wanted to go bigger, so I paid about half of what a new one would cost. I bought an extra lens for it, a zoom lens (75-300mm) that turned out to be a waste of money. I never use it because it is not very sharp. If you buy used remember buyer beware. I got lucky and haven’t had any problem. Mine shoots 10.1 megapixels. That is just fine for mid – semi large prints and really overkill for internet photos, but if you are in the market for a new one, I’d look for the 14 megapixels one, or at least 12. But also be aware that just because they have that many pixels that doesn’t automatically make them a good camera. Do you research, you won’t regret it.
Good luck Gloria! Let me know what you get, thanks for stopping by 🙂