by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 23, 2022 | Project
“What are those designs on barns?” That’s how the conversation usually starts when tourists travel through our rural area and notice the “Barn Quilts”. And it is a talk we love to have. We have been involved in the Barn Quilt movement...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Apr 14, 2022 | Project
Scottish Heather Calluna vulgaris is one of those carefree plants that creates early Spring and Fall beauty. You can imagine the growing conditions this lovely little plant likes by it original home territory – The Scottish Moors. In our area of southwestern...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog, Project
The Goddess of the Corn This year, I created a Corn Queen in the warm days of early September at our business, Crazy 8 Barn & Garden. I had been mulling this project in my mind for a while. Each year as fall would approach I would search out the...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Aug 3, 2021 | Project
There are so many interesting details about the reconstruction project of our historic eight-sided timber frame barn in Palmyra, Ontario. If you would like to know more about the build details of Crazy 8 Barn, you can watch our...