Chronicles of the Long Shot Farm

Holidays

Sewing for Christmas – Part 1

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This year’s holiday sewing projects were (as always) a lot of fun.  I made my first ever Christmas tree skirt, based on a relatively simple quilt pattern that used “thangles” paper to ensure perfect HSTs (half square triangles).  I found beautiful fabrics with gold on white patterns at the Smile Spinners sewing store in Perry County.  The entire project only took a few evenings of sewing as I machine quilted the tree skirt.

Happy New Year!

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Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year
filled with peace and joy! 
 
We are looking forward to a “fruitful” year, with additional plots of grapes, fruit trees and elderberry patches and possibly our first real harvest of blackberries and grapes.  While we are pouring over seed catalogs and dreaming of Spring, we are also enjoying peaceful winter scenes around our farm.
 

 

It’s Snowing!

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What a beautiful sight –  right at Christmas time too – snow falling softly, blanketing our farm in white.

Herbs in the snow
Leif’s first sledride

 



Snow Barn



Snowy Chambourcin


Snowy Neill Family
 
Snow-covered tree by pond

Merry Christmas – Fröhliche Weihnachten!

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Christmas Eve Dessert Buffet
  • Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake
  • Pumpkin Roll with Cream Cheese Filling
  • Italian Christmas Cookies
  • Peach Pie
  • Lemon Nut Rounds
  • Iced Sugar Cookie Cut-outs (made by Toben)
  • Pumpkin Spice Cookies
  • Banana Nut Bread
  • Chocolate Espresso Cookies
  • Ginger Snaps