O'Savannah how I miss you...

Well hello there!  What ya doing?  Hopefully you are stitching away! I have been doing some stitching and in between there I have been working on the shop's Hog Herald and class schedule!  Finally DONE!  What a relief....

Two weekends ago I traveled with Josh down to Georgia. He played paintball with the guys and I went to see one of my bestie's Nicole, her husband Berry (my second brother) and KELLAN!  Sorry guys he is so darn cute I was excited to see you too!  My little nephew... Nicole and I may not be blood but in another life we were!  I had such a warm welcome and TRUE southern hospitality! They live in Bluffton, SC really close to Hilton Head Island...but then just about a half hour right over the bridge is my favorite place... SAVANNAH!  I tell people all the time it really was the best four years of my life... not counting the last few here in Ohio. If I am blessed enough someday to have a little girl I will tell her stories of what a magical place it is.  Savannah is the home of my Alma Mat re Savannah College of Art and Design!  So it holds a very special place in my heart.  When Josh got done doing guy stuff he met us in Savannah for Lady and Sons and the next couple days Josh and I explored.  There are so many great things down there.  We even visited Tybee Island and the ocean unfortunately it was very foggy.  Anyway on our long car trip I did a bunch of stitching!  I am doing a personal project this year... Sue Spargo's BOM!  I have the block done the only problem is I can't find my milliners needle to do all the stitches... I will find.  I want to stay ahead of the ball game and have a project done from the year I get married.  I know I am a cheese ball. 


Well friends I am going to go get the electronic Hog Herald out!  If you have a minute check out what's going on here at the shop on my website www.olivegracestudios.com... I think I may be tired in May!

2012

It's about time you blog Kori... I know but it always better to be late than never!

Happy New Year blogger friends... can you believe that it is 2012?  I am excited, nervous, excited, happy there are just so many words to describe how I feel!  The last time I blogged was back in October when we were in Atlanta for Country Living Fair as always that was quite a SUCCESS and I found my wedding dress when mom and I traveled to Houston for Quilt Market! November was busy as always Thanksgiving and our Holiday open house here at the farm and of course December was my favorite holiday... I made A LOT of cookies! I guess 3 days into January my list of what I have to do is growing very fast. I have a lot of fun things to share with you in the next few weeks like what I will be up to travel wise, wedding plans, and just normal everyday shop and sewing stuff!  I think that 2012 is going to be a very special year in both personal and business life...or at least I hope so.  I wish you all a very Happy New Year and will talk more soon... PROMISE Mom :)!

P.S. To my Aussie Auntie Elizabeth... mom and I miss you, where are you? Hope all is well :0)

Atlanta Bound...

Well hello there!  So it's October 15th where has October gone?  So since my last blog I have been getting ready for Country Living Fair South in Atlanta.. yes Georgia!  How I know this is the shop is a mess, there are stacks of boxes and crap laying everywhere, and the TO-Do list is so long I really don't know where to begin and I woke up with a migraine!  Life is GOOD!  No I mean really the migraine is a good sign it means that I am worried but for good reasons! The best part is this year I have GEORGIA pillows made (they need finishing) and Amy Barickman (http://amybarickman.com/blog/misc/country-living-fair/) will be back at the booth she is bringing some of her favorite patterns along with her book.  She is will be in and out of the booth through out CLF and she will be speaking on the main stage Friday and Saturday!

Dad is hauling pigs on Monday so that mean Monday evening we will be scrubbing that out and loading up all the goodies I have been working on.   We are leaving Tuesday morning and then we are on the road again for about 12 hours! My fav cousin Tiff will be joining me again to help and of course mom and dad.  Well I better get back to working on cutting or more important the GA pillows!  Hope to see you in Atlanta... oh the booth number is D22!

Country Living Fair 2011 Columbus Ohio PART 2

Hello Again!  Well today is part to of the Columbus Country Living Fair... It was as always absolutely great. I am still tired from last weekend.  Seems hard to believe that it was a week ago.  I wish I had more time to walk around and take pictures but at least I got a few!  The booth was always busy... without mom and dad I don't know what I would do!  My friend Judi came and helped and thank goodness and I can't forget about Josh!  He came on Friday to help out and we enjoyed BBQ for lunch.  All in all it was a great!  If you have never been to CLF you should really try to get to one they are pretty great.  I am excited I just got the fabric Little Apples from Aneela Hoey in and I plan on getting a quilt done for Atlanta along with some other fun stuff!  Hope you enjoyed the pictures and I promise to get a couple more blogs out before we depart for Atlanta.  I need to get products up on my new shopping site and somehow make time for a news letter!  We will see what happens... one thing at a time right!?

Josh Made this AWESOME Ribbon Rack!

Just need an "H"

Country Living Fair 2011 Columbus Ohio PART 1

So I was going through my pictures and decided to make this a two part blog!  The first group of pictures shows how crazy I have been and then the second part will show it all put together. I feel like I am a NASCAR driver put never get to stop... and if it was up to mom we wouldn't be sleeping now in the preparation to get ready for Atlanta... only about a month away... CRAZY!


Here are some of the pictures I took pre-show and the booth before it was pretty!  I had this thing about writing on my hand! These two quilt got finished and were very popular in the booth wait till you see them hanging up! 

It was such a whirlwind leading up to we got 2 quilts made and a slew of other things!  I just wanted to give you a sneak peek of what I did.  Then tomorrow I will reveal the booth and talk about what went down and what i am up to now!  Hope all is well... Kor

Pre CLF and a funny night!

So I haven't blogged in forever... I just slapped my hand!  I thought I would just let you know what was going on here!  I should be getting dressed the shop opens in about 15 minutes but this sounds more fun.  Anyway,  I am feeling like a chicken with my head cut off!  We leave for COLUMBUS for COUNTRY LIVING FAIR on WEDNESDAY!  I am so excited I have a bigger booth this year I will be in the same area so if your coming come see me.  Mom has a quilt top started I have a quilt top started and I need to get organized in the shop!  I have A LOT of new fabric to share with you guys and I will be selling my FIRST pattern at the show.  My real reason to blog is I have a funny story...

I have decided that my life is a litte nutty sometimes and without the nuttiness I don't think that it would be as much fun. So last night Josh picked me up for a dinner break we went to about 3 restaurants before choosing O'Charleys!  Well about half way through dinner Josh asks me if I would mind hitting the golf course before he took me home.  Just to let you all know Josh my fiance is a golf course superintendent! So back to the story: I figured that when we got there he had to do irrigation... well the next thing I know we are on the golf cart and have a large flashlight.  We were looking for those little rascally raccoons!  We didn't find any last night thank goodness, but it was fun.  The golf course is as beautiful at night as it is in the day!  Oh this story gets better.  So I stayed at my folks last night and I came home and started working again! At about midnight Dad says come help... so to the barn we go... to my surprise its breeding season here on the farm!  Well I helped dad maneuver the bore around to make the girls in the big barn happy!  The men in my life are very intriguing huh?  People used to ask me why would you move home and have this little shop you have been and lived in so many cool places.  Well last night are the kind of memories I will never forget.  It's nice to have dimension in our lives without it would be boring and plus being a farm girl is my roots and keeps me humble.  I am glad I moved back I get to see mom and dad everyday who are my two best friends in life and I happened to run into the man I am going to marry!  Makes for a good story...

Bride under Pressure!

Soooo in the last blog I mentioned that I got ENGAGED! I can't believe it but I am going to finally be a bride-to-be!   I really always thought that I would be a bridesmaid never a bride... but falling in love with Josh changed that I guess.  I don't know who giggles more about being a fiance me or him.  So the short proposal story is that he took me to the beach glass festival in Ashtubula Harbor, Ohio and then we went and had dinner at Ferrantes winery for a late birthday celebration.  The next thing I know he is opening the car door for me... I was like umm what's going on.  Then handing me my birthday gift that came in a necklace box and i was a little miffed cause it was heavy and I wanted to blurt out Josh why would you get me a necklace with a charm when I already had a charm all I needed was a chain.  Well he showed me I pulled that pretty silver chain out of the box and on the end was a little chandelier... and then "marry me"!  How about that for a proposal...

So since then I have had bride brain... trying to figure out a date and where to have it and all those little things that come along with a wedding! Although in the back of my mind I have a shop to run and COUNTRY LIVING FAIR!  OH and that is only 70 days away. You know though my angels and thank god for mom we found a venue and the photographer just yesterday.  Some of the pressure is off  I do have to call the pastor because we are saying our vowes in my parent front garden!  I have wanted to get married in the front yard since I was a little girl and guess that dream is coming true. Thanks mom and dad ... and Josh!

Well today has been a pretty COOL day... Country Living featured me as vendor of the day on facebook!  If you are a facebooker go over and LIKE Country Living Magazine and Olive Grace Studios!  So tomorrow will be 69 days till the fair and I have ALOT to do!  I may have to teach my future husband to either embroider or stuff my Ohio pillows this year. Either was I guess is all good pressure!

P.S. we are getting married next fall 2012!