My Farmer

This is my Farmer: My grandpa and grandma* on their wedding day. I meant to post this picture earlier when I posted the farmer that I made today. You will see that there really isn't any resemblance--we'll call it artistic licence.





I am getting ready to go to bed, but decided to post this picture. I am worrying tomorrow about what to do when the plumber comes. Many of you may think that this is a weird thing to worry about, but then maybe everyone worries about this kind of thing. I never know what to do when people are working in my house. I feel weird being idle, but I also feel weird doing stuff. I don't really feel like I can go about my day because there's some weird guy in the house, but then you don't want to lose the whole day either.





So, I am resolved to keep sewing my farm.**** Tomorrow I'm starting work on the barn yard. I am trying to incorporate several elements from the real farm in Herscher.** I know that I want to make the fenced in area for the cows, because I have so many memories revolving around those cows. I'm also planning to do a corn field, as I have figured out how to make stand up corn out of felt.*** After that I'm not sure... I have many good memories of the ponds, but the ponds are really far away from the barn, so it doesn't seem right to put them in front of it. I also liked the apple orchard, but try as I might, I can't figure out how to do a good felt apple tree. I think that I maxed out on felt corn. I also always liked the half-circle lane--not a driveway, it was a lane, but the lane was in front of the house, not the barn. Decisions...Decisions...





So, I guess I need to sleep on all of these ideas.





Wish me luck with the plumber tomorrow!!

*I love my grandma's Jackie O wedding dress!





**I always want to spell "Herscher" wrong. In fact, I just had to Google it to make sure that I was spelling it correctly. Google is like my online spell check feature. I wonder if the makers of Google ever thought that it would be used that way. I have a high school friend who works for Google now--if we were still in touch, I could ask him...If your wondering, the spell check feature on Blogger doesn't think that I'm spelling Herscher correctly.





***Perhaps I'll do a "felt corn tutorial," as I'm sure that many others are wanting to know how to do this.





****Out of order footnotes--did that mess you up? This one was added while I was revising. Anyway, I'm resolved to keep sewing, but am totally at a loss regarding my iPod. Do I use the speakers? Do I use the headphones? The headphones seem REALLY weird to use in my own house, however I'm in kind of a weird music place right now and don't really want the plumber to comment on that. You know what would be really cool--a ROBOT plumber who didn't interact with me at all and just sent an invoice when everything was done.