by Sue Schlabach | Jun 29, 2012 | Color, Creativity, Design, Friendship, Summer, Travel
It is Summer Colour Week at Poppytalk (our Canadian friends spell color the British way) and I’ve been browsing my collection and shooting some images with color in mind. Today this favorite from last summer’s weekend in the Adirondacks made the cut for...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 28, 2012 | Family, Handmade, Summer
An early summer evening after heavy rain. The perfect night for vows to be shared, poems read, music heard. The scene: a renovated barn and its lush wooded grounds in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The wedding cake was whoopie pies. The feast specialized in vegetarian...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 27, 2012 | Creativity, Design, Family, Fashion, Handmade, In the Studio, Sewing
I spent the winter and spring on a labor of love which came into bloom a few weeks ago at the wedding of my brother-in-law Daryl, to the marvelous Deborah. Remember all those ruffles I was making in April? They turned into flowers. Dozens of raw silk flowers, that I...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 20, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
In six months the sun will be setting at 4 pm and I’ll be longing for this day. The first day of summer dawned with the promise of intense heat. There was barely dew on the grass when we went out to eat breakfast in the garden. The lambs got busy grazing,...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 5, 2012 | Family, Friendship, Garden, Summer
I’ve been on the road. And up to my eyeballs in work and life. It’s a fine savory stew, my life, with many ingredients I wouldn’t wish to remove. If only there were more hours in the day to do all the things I long to do. This weekend we witnessed a...
