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By LISA CURRIE
Rappahannock Neva Staff Writer
Judy Armentrout of Woodville has recently opened her Sugar Plum Cottage, and inside it’s filled with frills and finery and all things nice.
Marking the tiny three room house on U.S. 211 just west of Sperryville is the beautifully striking stained-glass front door.
“I did it myself,” Mrs. Armentrout said, smoothing the glass with her hand as if to wipe invisible lint from the pink bulbs shaped against a black glass bordered with prisms and glass of many'colors.
She explained it was her first piece in stained glass — one panel taking nearly a month to complete. Each piece was cut and fitted by Mrs. Armentrout herself. “This panel alone has 90 pieces of glass in it,” she said, adding the second panel took just a week to complete. “It requires a little patience,” she said. Then adding with laughter, “It takes a great deal of patience,” she corrected herself.
“It is very easy to learn,” she said of stained-glass work, explaining she and her husband, Ed, took a class offered by Piedmont Community College in Charlottesville. “It is very expensive,” she said, adding for that reason, there is no price on the door. “It’s not for sale,” she laughed, adding many shop viators question its price.
The door is just the beginning of the delightful items that await inside.
The two panels lead way into a shop filled with craft items from around the nation — hand-blown glass oil lanterns made with ash from Mount St. Helen’s, solid oak tables from Tennessee, child-size chest of pine from Alabama, walnutstained pine cradles from Ohio, twisted and curved birch with dried and silk flowers from New Jersey, and perfect toll-painted wall decorations straight from Woodville - straight from Judy Armentrout’s own hand.
“Oh,” the propritor of Sperryville’s newest craft store said with modesty, “anyone can learn to do it. It’s easy.”
The curve of the pink ribbon around the birds, the tulips or the violets or any toll painted item adds a precise color and perfection to common enough wooden curio cabinets, candle holders, wooden boxes or small step stooles — making them somewhat unique and different.
“I don’t have time to do all the things I would like,” Mrs. Armemtrout said, adding retirement at the end of the year from the Department of Corrections in Culpeper may provide her with more time to pursue the things she eryoys. “I love
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