Meg Staley Handmade is moving...

TO A NEW ADDRESS!!!!! it's simpler: Megstaleyhandmade.com. That's it! come visit me now!!!

Staley/Gretzinger does the Red Carpet.

My brilliant hubby, Jerry Gretzinger, sewed up this fabulous area rug and when the finishing touches were complete today, it went right outside our front door. I love the new welcome mat with our goofy painted entry fence and pots. But if I leave it there, Clarence the lamb will eat it, no doubt, so back inside it goes.....

SOLD OUT

4th of July weekend wiped us out.

Moonset at the beach

The universe gives us gifts all the time, but rarely are we paying attention. Last night Mother Nature wouldn't let us ignore her. A wonderful dinner with new friends and old on the beach at Leland, Michigan yielded this photo and a forever moment. Every body, every morsel, every dappled view was perfect. Thankyou.

This is the end of our road

and beach days are finally here. My son, Lucky Gretzinger, took this photo a couple of years ago and I asked him if I could steal it for the blog, because it personifies summer in Leelanau County.

Our farm sits in the middle of Leelanau Peninsula which juts out into Lake Michigan. Most of the shoreline here is federally protected and managed as Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. Miles and miles of white sand beaches are available for all to enjoy. Just a bike ride away!!

Fireworks Finale!

Explosions of color going every which way, this tunic just made me smile! I hope someone at the Magic Jacket in Fish Creek, Wisconsin takes it home for a terrific 4th of July celebration...that's where this one-of-a-kind headed earlier in the week. (Good grief, can't these people at Meg Staley Handmade find a real model?)

Clarence the lamb arrives at Fake Rock Farm!!!

It's been a busy couple of days here at the farm. Our dear friends, Susan and Edgar (that's him wearing a hat in the background,) have been visiting from Maine and today Jerry and Edgar took delivery of Clarence, our new 3-month-old lamb. He's a little shell-shocked, missing his flock and wants to charge/play with Sugar, who can't decide if Clarence is a playmate or a terrorist. Even the turkeys seem to be curious about the newcomer, though when Jerry attempted to bed him down in the chicken coop, birds of all feathers went up in arms (wings?), and Clarence was retired to the old granary. Needless to say, a solar-powered fence has been ordered in a hurry and our neighbors are bequesting one of their baby boy goats to keep Clarence company during his stay with us.

Meg Staley Handmade has taken a back burner to all the 2- and 4-legged excitement. Sheep today, clothes tomorrow....