A Winner and Autumn Lights Garland Tutorial

Good Morning sweet ladies,

We have a winner, but we don't have an email addy. The name we drew from Random.org was.......

 Nancy M.

She said, 

We've gotten some rain here in southern Missouri and are so thankful. The jam sounds great -- I've never had that combination before.

Yahoo for Nancy M. ........you will have to email me! My email addy is up at the top right hand side along my side bar here on my blog.

I have to say.... every time I have a party and ask for a comment...... I get to know you all a little bit better. So do all of the rest of you ladies. I never dreamed that PFF would facilitate such sweetness among all of us! It is a precious thing and very precious to the Father.......I am sure!

Yesterday was a craftin' day for me..."ALL DAY LONG"......out in the Potter's Shed.......horses on one side and Willow on the other.......she would baa all day long as I would talk with her. I have to say it was one of my favorite days in a long time. The weather was beautiful. Not hot and just a light breeze. The morning doves were cooing as I did my work. I have a Momma and a Daddy that have been staying on the farm this whole summer. The sound is beautiful! I kept finding my self doing little shouts of praise to the Lord......it was my communion time with Him. Our girls were gone, my sweet man was working on papers in the house......so it was just me and the Lord. I was getting to do what I truly love.......designing......with a plan......to get the Potter's Shed for service. I kept hearing the Lord....all day......."don't just use this place of refuge for your friends"......."use it for those you don't know." I have a young couple at work, He has laid them on my heart......they don't know the Lord........I will be cooking for them.....asking the Lord to work that out! I have been praying......please pray with! 

I enjoy lighting a candle whenever I am craft working. I thought....."I can just take it outside"......it needed a little simple decoration. 

I started gathering my supplies......on my long farmhouse table......... that I keep in the Potter's Shed......it is old.....I like it a lot!!!!! I started organizing.......

.....the silk flowers, berry picks.....leaves.....and some of my bittersweet.........fall colored fabrics......and some ribbon.

100 mini CHRISTmas lights........ 

and brown floral tape.

I started first by wrapping the brown floral tape around the Christmas lights. This was going to make the lights have a branch look. 

I was working away and my sweet Momma Willow was baaing behind the Potter's Shed wall. Music to this farmgirl's ears!!!!!!! I climbed up in the trough and this what I saw........had to take a pic. She knows her name! I love her! Just sayin'. 

After I wrapped the CHRISTmas lights I took a leaf (at Hobby Lobby I found a candle holder with leaves that I liked a lot) and attached it to the lights by tying 1/4" brown check  ribbon into a small bow. Simple! I did that on each 10th light. 

On the other lights I tied  1" wide ripped fabrics. It would be pretty to do lots of fabrics in between each of the lights also, but with my time constraints I couldn't. It was looking very colorful.......I liked what I had seen in my mind!!!!! God the Master Designer shares!

I put the lights up along the wall's edge. For some reason there has always been this aged chicken wire on the boards along the whole wall. I have liked it and will never take it down....it has a story.....I just don't know what it is....and I would love to! The lights look so pretty against it, don't you think? I started adding some bittersweet and sticking it into the chicken wire. It added just the right touch! I will also be adding chicken feathers......just haven't done it yet. I will show when I do!

Hope you enjoyed the 

Prairie Flower Farm 
Autumn Lights Garland Tutorial. 

It was a sweet day for sure........there was only one thing missing.........

"All of YOU" 

What a precious day that would be! 

If you make one be sure to let me know......and it would be so nice if you emailed me a picture. Wink! 

I got to thinking maybe some might need some homespun fabric. If I had a kit of ripped fabric's......and chicken feathers..... would anyone be interested? Just let me know by emailing me......put in the subject line fall fabrics feathers. It would be about $5.00, $1.75 shipping. Sorry on the shipping.......it has become so expensive! Paypal, check or money order. 

May the God of the Universe who knit you in your Momma's womb.........touch your life this SONday. May He be ever so real in your LIFE as you go out and serve Him!

Linda