PFatt FRIDAY!!!

This shy little guy is for sale uber cheap on my etsy site!

Here is a happy-to-be-living in the country bird, "My Country home" is stitched to the side, as if done 200 years ago. Her wings are jointed with 100 yr old rusty overall buttons, the kind found on child's clothing.

The federal style house was stitched like so many were in days gone by, and you can see this house stitched into linen samplers in the book, "Girlhood Embroidery".

This sweet little bird is actually a pin, but you can hang her on the wall too.

The newest edition of PFATT Marketplace is up!

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Pin Keeps on eBay

Pin Keeps galore on eBay now! And a cute little old bear in my etsy shoppe!

Jenny Wren

Jenny Wren sits on her rusty wire nest, farm archaeology at its best, found object base with lots of rust and patina. I love using old objects. The character they have cannot be duplicated. They have an honest raw beauty. There is a pocket in my pin keeper, also a Fuzzibax invention which contains a genuine antique bird call! This pin keeper has a wire holder, in which I have tucked an antique photo of 2 school girls. It is really beautiful as a sculpture however you can use it to hold pins and needles. Wren spins on top. Overall height is 9 inches. From her humble nest she learned to fly....
This could be the most powerful statement made, nothing from nothing? No something from effort and innovation! Fly! See her in my Etsy shop. She was featured in Stuffed magazine's premiere issue.

Thunder has new wings and a tree

Thunder is now on eBay with a few revisions. He has new mohair jointed and wire armature wings, and a woolen twig.

Wednesday's thoughts and a score!

My "poulette" ( french for baby chicken ) went thrifting. This is what I found. Can you guess what it is? I will put all good guesses in a hat and pull a winner, who shall receive a prize! I thought it fitting to find a piece of Americana for the Fourth of July!

I just scored an antique heavy salt glaze pottery item at the thrift. I never get much at the thrift anymore, the new manager raised prices and got rid of the volunteers that used to give me deals! When something is old she knows it and marks it way up, mostly way more than it's worth. But this time she just knew it was old and put it in the case. For giggles I asked to see it. I about died. I kept looking at it in disbelief that it was what it was and how cheap! It has a modern simplistic circular design and is very heavy.

We had the 7 layer taco bell nachos. YUM! Last night Mr. Kingfisher kept telling me not to eat the mushrooms and forbade Leah from eating them. They are among the "safe 6" easily identifiable. I've not seen them here on the farm before. I'm still alive and gosh they were good! I'm going back out for more, there were some little ones coming up.

My horses always entertain me.
I made their pasture bigger the other night. Jezabelle is so smart. She saw me out pounding posts and started to get very excited and running around, she KNEW what I was doing! When I opened the gate and she and Kiddo flew by me. It was so fun. I hung all the laundry out to dry that day. The wind blew it dry in a jiffy. Today is cool. Good sleeping weather! We've had a scorching heat here in the Midwest, so it is a welcome respite. Happy Fourth Everyone!

Nature Nurture

Its about time for another wild mushroom post! I found these inky caps today. They are now in my stomach!
Here's what they look like before washing:

Here below is proof positive of inky caps. The water you soak them in turns to ink!
I soaked the mushrooms in salt water to rid them of the inhabitants.



Now here they are in the fry pan with butter, saute for 20 min.

They were absolutely delicious. Incidentally, the plant in the photo above is Burdock, whose root is also edible, as are the flower buds. For more information on foraging safely check out "Wildman" Steve Brill. He has a lovely vegetarian cookbook out. He was once arrested for eating a dandelion, and gives tours in parks to anyone who wishes to know how to forage. He's quite a character, having been interviewed by everyone from Al Roker (twice) to David Letterman.

At last

Some bears I made a few years ago.

My pink water lily is blooming again.

Today our regular internet came back on. We had to buy a new el cheapo(but what's cheap these days isn't really) computer to get MIFI internet from Verizon, which costs you by the minute like a cell phone. Of course this wasn't fully disclosed by the dealer (mega box store) since they just started carrying it a few days ago. Now Mr Kingfisher suggests we cancel that and take back the new hardware. But gee its so pretty. I think we should keep it and just delete Vista off of it and put all the stuff from our old computer on the new one. Anyone know how to do that??