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Teacups planted with portulaca
This is one of the clever Crafts from our Bounty that will be featured at our First Annual Christmas Gathering at the D.D. Collins House...
Carolyn Welch
Dec 2, 2016


What Say You? ~ Part 3
Do you know her? It appears her name was Hattie Nelson. Are there any family stories you can share? She hand-stitched this beautiful...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 30, 2016


What Say You? ~ Part 2
Also stitched into the quilt is a ribbon that indicates that the Third Annual Re-Union of Madison County Soldiers and Sailors’ Veteran...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 29, 2016


What Say You? ~ Part 1
Recently, Lavadna received a package from Oregon. In it was a quilt that was being returned to Collinsville because it had apparently...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 28, 2016


It's Curtains! ~
Recently, Lavadna Hines, president of the Friends of the Collins House, and Friends/ Collinsville Garden Club member, Trisha Haislar,...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 27, 2016


What a Difference Two Years Make! ~
When the Collins House was on the Holiday House Tour, and it looked like this! A few greens decorated the mantles of the fireplaces in...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 26, 2016


A visit from world-renowned artist ~
The Friends of the D.D. Collins House was excited to have world renowned artist, Patricia Buckley Moss, visit the historic D.D. Collins...
Carolyn Welch
Nov 25, 2016