Crafts At Blackberry Blossom FarmBlackberry Blossom Farm is a wonderful and creative place to live. Simple crafts like handmade quilts, twig furniture, candle and soap making, hooked and braided rugs, and hand painted artwork are all made and sold from our farm. Our children have learned & revived several lost arts from the Appalachian Mountain culture and put a little modern twist on them. Come take a peek and learn how you can do them too.
Handmade Prayer Quilts Prayer Quilting is a family ministry we started after realizing that so many people around us were hurting physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The only thing we could do for most of these friends and neighbors was to pray for their healing, and pray we do. But in this realization, something more tangible was forming in our quest to help the ones we care for. Blackberry Blossom Prayer Quilt Ministry was born. Here is our pattern and instructions for easy but beautiful homemade Prayer Quilts.
Twig Creations Being a family who uses what we have, Twig Furniture and Nature Crafts have always intrigued us. Just the idea of putting something useful together from the woods, beckons us to a simpler time when the nearest store was a days walk away by a mountain trail. We’ve made all manner of funky looking garden trellises and are just starting to venture into the world of arbors to hold up the grapes and wisteria. Furniture for our deck, yard and campground are our 2008 summer project goals, along with fashioning fences and gates from rhododendron. We also have dreams of styling a deck railing from the twisted knobby rhododendron branches. My sweet husband just laughs and shakes his head at my crooked creations, he's an engineer you know, all straight lines & such! Soon, you can take a look at our Twig Crafts and Creations and share our successes, as well as a few mistakes we’ve made along the way. Candles and Soap To Lye or not to Lye... Soap making can require only a basic melt & pour soap base or become very involved with add-ins and dangerous chemicals. We choose to keep it very simple. We use blackberry seeds and some herbs, but that's not really too fancy-shmancy. Hand dipping candles is a beautiful traditional craft. The smell of beeswax on a cold winter day and the glow of a homemade candle warms the heart. In our Moravian heritage, they use these in Love Feast services with a beautiful red paper frill at the base. I just love these! Coming soon, you can learn basics of hand dipped candles and soap making here. 
Moravian Candle and a framed picture of the Lovefeast Buns and Coffee The Moravian Blessing: "Come Lord Jesus, our guest to be, bless these gifts bestowed by thee. Keep us in they loving care, and bless our our loved ones everywhere. Amen"
Other artwork and crafty things from the beach... Before moving to the Mountains of Tennessee in 1999, I spent 30+ years of my life on the coast of North Carolina where I painted furniture, candle sticks, salt & pepper mills, floor cloths, canvases, paper mache fish, and many other eclectic things. Some of this artwork is for sale at a lovely gallery in my hometown of historic Southport. See pictures here of some Hand Painted Beach Art here. This is the website for the above mentioned gallery in Southport where you can see beautiful copper art produced by D. and Kendall, owners and artists of the gallery. Cape Fear Coppershop Art and Crafts Gallery home of fine handmade American art.
This will take you back to Blackberry Blossom Home Page Visit our Campground
|
