The ultimate basket, the nest, inspires me in a view from a south window at South Union Shaker Village... and the robin's egg blue color may have inspired the Shaker craftspeople in their interior work as well. 

South Union interior, Shaker Village 

English Ironstone now used at Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky were once in the corner cabinet of Alma and Ted's kitchen. 

center island, sink 

closeup 

After constructing Shaker-style peg rail, the kitchen and south walls in the living room were lined with peg rail. Chairs and art rotate from the track. 

Center island counter top during repairs... 

view from rear entrance, during painting... 

kitchen, rear entrance to back porch on right top in photo, redirected plumbing to a new island and sink away from the rear window wall where the original sink stood just below the window. 

kitchen and bathroom areas are joined in a continuous ceramic tile surface, baseboard found in the garage, removed from a demolished house across the street that Ted and Alma owned, was used to surround the kitchen walls where tile and wall meet. 

restoring Alma and Ted's home 2002 

become a blogger 

bearded iris, April-May 

June in bloom 

at Morrison Gallery, Elizabethtown, KY until Feb 3, 2005 

pearl button mixed necklace, circa 1989 

quilts signed by Alma Wallace Lesch 

detail, friends signatures, Louisville artists 

detail, friends quilt, signatures 

Louisville friends of Alma quilt detail