I’ve got quite a few projects in the works this week. Remember Purslane the Hedgehog? I had put out a general call to the blogosphere for some help finding hedgehog fur and my friend Teresa came through. She donated a fur stole from a coat that she was taking off and replacing with a better one.

I wasn’t sure it would work very well, but after I gave it a good haircut, I think it will be just fine for Colonel Purslane. Yes, I decided to keep his name and added the Colonel bit because I need him for my story. Author’s prerogative!

Those of you looking at this on the teeny tiny screens on your phones might have to enlarge the bit with Colonel Purslane since I put the knitted projects in the foreground. The colonel will look better when he’s done, but what do you think of the fur? Right now his ears look like weird little arms sticking out, so I’m hoping they’ll shape up as ears when I sew them on.

I recently came across the most darling pattern for knitted gnomes and purchased it in an impulsive gnome-frenzy moment. No regrets. Although I was somewhat surprised when I took a closer look that these aren’t as small as I thought. The biggest one is 9.5 inches tall!

How could anyone resist them? I started the large one, but haven’t gotten very far.

That’s it from Lynniebee’s Workshop!

I’ll probably see if I can get a gnome to work on deleting my posts in the morning.

My dad was a camp counselor at Camp Miller at Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota, in 1943. He was just 16 years old and had been hired to be the camp bugler, but soon after he arrived, one of the other counselors had to cancel out of his commitment, so Dad took on the extra responsibility of camp counselor as well. Here’s one of his stories:

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When you enter into someone’s home, you will soon see whether or not you are in the presence of a collector. They might have a collection of spoons hung on a wall, or perhaps a collection of Hummel figurines in a glass case. Maybe your collecting friend has chosen dolls, owls, or fowls and has them assembled on shelves. We visited someone recently who had an entire garage set aside for a collection of cars.

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