Away In the Woods blog

Bunny Rose on The Quilt Show

reHey everyone, a wonderful thing happened here in Groveland last February. Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims came for a surprise visit to our store and yurt classroom. Here are some pictures... check it out. By the way, all of these great pictures were taken by Gregory Case The Quilt Show official photographer. Not only does he do all the photos for The Quilt Show but he takes great pictures of what ever you want. He has done great photos of quilts for numerous books and magazines. To see more  of what Gregory does.. go to www.gregorycase.com.  you can see more of us on The Quilt Show a new internet quilt show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. Learn everything you ever wanted to learn about quilting. You will see great artists and their quilts.. and best of all, how they make everything look so great. This is sure to inspire you to do great things with fabric. Later for now.. enjoy!

Above... the gang arrives at the shop!

Showing Alex and Ricky my best quilting toy! My Die cutter from Accucut . Check out their website to get your own... better yet.. see the show to learn more!

Off to show them my log house! Want to see more about log homes? Go to Sierra Log Homes. They did a wonderful job helping me with my house. I'll show pictures soon!

Here I am with Justin, Alex and Ricky.. what a wonderful experience!

I'm Back!

Sorry I haven't been putting any new blogs on lately. I spent the last two nights tossing and turning with Restless Leg Syndrome... not fun. I maybe got 2 or 3 hours sleep. So blogging was not on the top of my list. Thankfully last night I got a good nights sleep so I'm ready to go again.
I just got back from a wonderful musical in Sonora at the Sonora Repertory Theater. It was called Alter Boys.. very cute. If you ever have a chance to see it.. go!
I thought you might like to meet another friend of mine. Her name is Karen and she owns "Seasons Gifts" here in Groveland. Here she is working hard.

My friend Sylvia Goodrich, Karen and Karen's mom make some very cute things for the store. Here are a few pictures to give you a look!

Karen has a partner.. her name is Ellen and she is the knitter in the group. Ellen has some wonderful yarns and amazingly enough I am learning to knit a sweater! I'll show more later. It doesn't look much like a sweater right now.

Here is Ellen hard at work too!

enjoy, later for now!

Farmers Market in Groveland!

I had a great time after work today. One of our wonderful businesses in Groveland is the  Mountain Sage and Coffee Shop  I can't say enough. It is of course so much more! Here are Regina and Rob the owners. It was a job to get them to stand still long enough for a picture. Rob is a incredible photographer.. I'm an amateur of course.

Just a little walk around. This doesn't even begin to show what a great place it is...

Look at what I found!
Here are my friends Sylvia and Art with homemade Jams, packaged nuts and trail mix (with cranberries! My favorite) and Art's homemade breads. Ok so you can't see them.. they were hiding.. but here is their great food.

Look at how colorful this fruit looks! I took some strawberries and peaches home... I can say they were very tasty!

Tomorrow is the Earth Festival... music, venders... lots of fun stuff to see!!

A Bad Day

Well, I had all the best intentions of a good day. However, because of the skunk smell in my house... I woke up with a terrible headache. So I left work at noon and tried to take some pictures of friends for today's blog. Didn't happen. My pictures were terrible. So, here is Moe Moe our terror of the house sleeping like a kitten. I wish my life could be so peaceful. Nothing like a cute cuddly sleeping kitty to make you feel all warm and fuzzy! See you tomorrow.

Fabric Postcards

Ok, I'm ready to be creative. I mentioned my son Ash wants to be a helicopter pilot. Well, it's expensive! So I decided a way to make a little money for his education. I' going to make fabric postcards and sell them on Etsy.com I figure that way I can make a little money for him and have it sent to him via Paypal. So I don't have my Etsy account set up yet. I still have to make a few million cards..(not really that many). But, just to give you a little taste. Here is my nicely arranged basket of fabrics I found today. Ok so the picture is sideways. I worked on this for 15 minutes. It looks ok on my computer but comes out like this here. Just tilt your head to the side...:)
   
Ok, and here are a few cards I'm still working on. I have lots left to do yet! What do you think? It's just a start anyway.
Great this picture turned out the way it's suppose to at least.

Hopefully I can make enough to make a dent. Helicopter school is about $200.00 an hour for flight time. At $8.00 a postcard and I don't know how many hours of flight time he needs.... this may take a while. But you know the saying "how do you eat an elephant... One bite at a time". Later for now.. I'm off making more postcards!!!

We got skunked!

Woke up this morning to a terrible skunk smell. I checked all the animals and no one got skunked directly. So I headed off to my Fabric Frenzy meeting smelling like a skunk all day. Speaking of the Mother Lode Fabric Frenzy.. what is that you say? Well there are 8 quilt shops and this year on September 5,6,and 7th we have a great shop hop. You go to each store and get a card stamped. This year we are also giving out little jewelry charms. Each store will have a different one. The stores start in Auburn and I am the last in line in Groveland. Yes, you can make it in one day if you work at it.

Tonight I'm working on Fabric Postcards. I should have some pictures for you tomorrow... see you then!

My Town Groveland, California

Ok, I'm still learning this blogging thing. Adding pictures is harder than I thought. This is my 4th attempt at this!
Ok, my first stop of the day: Coffee Time! MaryAnn is busy today. Summers are great for us here!

Here is Benita's Flowers, our local flower shoppe. Her and Bo have worked hard to make this a great place to get flower arrangements.

Here is Benita hard at work..

Next is Bunny Rose & Co. Yeah that's my place. Come on in!

A little peak at the front room. I'll show you more another day.

A great place to stay while in Groveland is the  The Hotel Charlotte. They also serve a wonderful dinner on Thursday through Monday nights. Yes Lynn, I have reservations!!

Meet Lynn, Victor and of course Goose, the owners of The Hotel Charlotte! My camera was not being nice so I had to chase them into one of the bedrooms for a good shot.

Last stop of the day is usually to see my favorite quilter. Dee Small is a long arm quilter and she does a wonderful job. She has quilts sent to her from as far away as Germany. Yes, she quilts all my quilts at the shop!

So there are a few of the sites of Groveland. After 4 tries I think I got the picture thing sort of down.  Hope to see you soon!

What's up with me!

Ok this is my 3rd attempt at this. I have erased my past entries. I'm feeling a bit old and not at all good at this. Ok here goes.
Hi, my name is Bunny Henningsen. I decided to start an online blog to get in touch with my higher internet self. I really should get the hang of the new tools available to us business owners.
First, I own a little gift and quilting store about 25 miles away from Yosemite National Park. Making a living in a small town is hard but living in the mountains is worth it. I live in a wonderful log house that my family and I built with 5 cats and 2 dogs and my youngest son. I have two sons, Ash is 25 and wants to fly helicopters, Jesse is 16 and is my rock and roller kid. He is getting very good at the guitar. I even heard him trying to learn Classical Gas the other day. Now where did he hear that?
Anyway, so far so good. I haven't lost this blog yet. Hopefully soon I will have pictures and lots of new info to share.