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Lavender stick horse heads on Esty

July 23, 2010 Lillian Davis 1 Comment

Lavender, Lavender, oh sweet Lavender…

wont you take her home?

Meet Lavender.

One of the many stick horse heads
I love to create and sell on Etsy.

(the last two I sold are headed to
Australia to become Aussie Ponies!)

Each horse comes to life on an old 1960’s Singer sewing machine that resides on my dining room table.

We picked it up at a garage sale in Bloomington IL
for $25 a few years back,
gave it a little oil and it’s run like a dream ever since

(this is my second old Singer.
My first one is the same age but bigger

with duel embroidery cams and a whole box of attachments ~

the one above has just one cam and fits better on the table).

It had a cabinet, but I like to spread out when I sew

and the dining room table had more room.

Anyway, I’ve always loved horses, and when my daughter wanted a stick horse (long, long, looong time ago…), instead of going out to buy her one- I decided to design and make her a special one. What I came up with was a black and white pinto with appliqued spots ~ which she still has.

it’s a little smudged now but it’s held up really well.

Click below to see the original horse and read my first post about my horse heads

http://lilsgarden.blogspot.com/2010/03/horse-head-tuesday.html

I’m happy I get to share these with you, and it really makes me happy to know that I’m making a whole new generation of girls horse crazy like me! 😉

flowers, Illinois

Climbing Nasturtiums

July 10, 2010 Lillian Davis 6 Comments

In a wild corner of my yard grows a wonderful little annual.

I religiously order seeds from one of my favorite catalogs~

“Pinetree Garden Seeds”

they don’t actually cling or wrap around but just sort of grow along anything that will support them.

I’ve had them reach close to twenty feet before the frost gets them here.

The seed catalog recommends that if you are ever in Boston, you must visit the Gardner Museum “to see the single minded, eclectic collection, listen to the music and see the old fashioned nasturtium baskets trailing their vines some fifty feet to the ground.”

I have yet to try them in hanging baskets (I will someday, I keep telling myself), but for now I’m just happy to watch them scamper carefree through the wild places in my yard.

blue sky, Illinois, Starved Rock State Park, summer

colors of summer

July 2, 2010 Lillian Davis Leave a comment

I just thought of something…

green and blue are my favorite colors…

throw a little white into the blue and

sprinkle little dots of color onto the green

and you have instant summer!

clouds, Illinois, summer

Before the Storm

June 21, 2010 Lillian Davis 2 Comments

Watching a storm build from the bleachers behind Ottawa Township High School

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