by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog
A Depressing Book Store Visit Here’s how an annual positive event turned into a depressing book store visit. I received a gift card from Chapters for Christmas. I was thankful for it. It meant an annual pilgrimage to a store that has often brought alot of...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 10, 2024 | Project
Osage Oranges & Book New Year’s Eve Sometimes when you look back it is interesting how things like osage oranges & book, new year’s even can combine to make an interesting story. When I had a landscaping business from 1999 to 2013, I visited many...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 21, 2023 | About Us, About Us, Blog
It took 9 seconds to raise a cupola. I had worried for weeks, months, maybe years. It had taken nine years to arrive at that moment in 2012: the day when the cupola would be placed back on the top of our octagon barn. The Original Cupola The original cupola blew off...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 13, 2023
Enter the world of Barn Quilts – the rural art phenomenon that decorates the North American countryside. With Susanne Spence Wilkins – barn lover and barn quilt painter – you will ui Barn Quilt: discovering “fun” geometry and how colours...
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...
