Primitives from the Iowa Prairie

I am still so tired from this weekend. We moved 70 heavy sheets of plywood from our garage to a rental truck, drove the 4 hours to Clarinda...

I finished some of the colored eggs, still have the brown and whites to do. I bought the new Simple Life magazine at the Rug Cottage, it ...

Always a surprise when one looks in boxes at my house, I put things "out of the way" and promptly forget about them, then they rea...

Yesterday was spent getting ready for Anna to play for her guitar instructor's TV show, Toms Guitar Show, on our public access channel. ...

Despite the bitter cold Saturday, we went off to Kalona and cleaned out the shops. Barntiques came through with all the crocks I need to pai...

I have been rolling in Easter eggs this week, literally, the darn things pop right out of my hands when I'm painting them and I've s...

I am in garden mode this week, after all spring is bound to arrive eventually...This first is a collection I did with antique French seed la...