Little Quilter

A view of quilt making from the perspective of one of our undocumented laborers.

Crop

These are Norland Reds. If you remove the first N and append an O, you get Orlando.

This is our cat Little in a bowl

If you visit Alna Goods you might see this creature.

Anna has a great camera...

...and she was kind enough to come over and take some nifty pictures with it.

Click on the pic to get the full effect.

Sculptural chair with quilt

My friend Dawn's brother made this wonderful chair!

View through the mallows

The perennials have loved this rainy summer.

Dog Benches will guide you

We are trying to get people to follow the dog benches to the shop.

The benches are replicas of a dog bench that Aaron made about 20 years ago.

We'll be selling them at Woofstock in Damariscotta on September 12

Click on the pic for a better look.

Another look at what's on display.

hey, we put a new picture in here, this is from August not July....but who would know?

Seasons

Two views of the shop (Kate's erstwhile studio) through the kitchen window.

Chair in Clover

Is the chair little or is the clover big?

Shop Interior

Here is a stack of Alna Stools with some little chairs.

Our first newspaper ad!
Guess we're open...

Directions:
Take Rt 1 to Wiscasset Maine. Take Rt 218 from Wiscasset center. Alna Goods is locate 6.5 miles down 218 on the left, next to the historic yellow meeting house.

For info call 207 350 8001

Red trees

Does the tree look like it is walking?

Aaron's game shelf

Now that Aaron has moved into his new building, called "The Barn" even though it has no farm animals in it, the board games have come out of the closet.

The bottom shelf contains games designed by
Aaron.

So who is this Wallace Nutting character?

This quirky, New England minister-turned-entrepreneur built a Martha Stewart-style enterprise in the early nineteen hundreds selling a vision of the past. His romantic—but not always accurate—notions persist today.

He is famous for claiming “everything new is bad.”

This post is pilfered from Accent Magazine.

Mount Tom Painting

Mount Tom is somewhere in Maine.

Waterfall

Which way is the water flowing?

12 by 12 inch oil painting by Kate.

One of the first paintings done following Kate's move into her new studio in the house.

Kate's erstwhile studio building is now a gallery space.

Mount Desert cove after Wallace Nutting

Kate and Wallace are enjoying working together.

More books with potential subjects.

4 tree 1 house

Yet another Nutting inspired painting

Three cloud tree

Aaron's favorite tree painting. The subject spends most of its time in Damariscotta Mills.

Lake painting

This oil painting (10 by 12 inches) is based on a photograph in Maine Beautiful, a 1924 travel guide by Wallace Nutting.

Trees and Stream

Also courtesy of Mr. Nutting. Thanks to our friend Byron for loaning me the book!

Lettuce report

Lettuce is up!

Kate at work

View from behind Kate's easel

Veggie garden pre plants

View through the snow pea trellis of the garden shed and the house. Nothing up yet.

Spoons

Spoons by Aaron and small oil painting by Kate.

Yet another apple tree!

This is the same tree as the one in the photo with the chickens.

Actual tree!

the above painting is of this tree...there are two chickens in this picture who don't appear in the painting!

March apple tree painting

Little tree and our house.

Snowy view of shop/studio from kitchen

Tough commute.

Winter Tree #1

This small oil painting by Kate is of our mystery apple tree with all the water sprouts.

mfa dragons!

Thirty of these wooden, hand painted dragons were delivered to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in late January. Six hundred individual pieces!
Aaron and helpers did the woodworking, Kate painted the pieces. They are "puzzle sculptures" that museum visitors can assemble in various configurations.