Reservations and News

Crow's Nest Cottage Availability for the 2025 season:

I prefer not to rent on a short stay basis, but for a week at a time, or as listed to accommodate the availability of my housekeepers and laundry services. 

These dates are available as of this writing:

Arrival Date                                              Departure Date                           

Wednesday, September 17, 2025          Sunday, September 21, 2025

Sunday, September 21, 2025                 Sunday, September 28, 2025 (stay for 4 or more days during this period)

Monday, September 29, 2025                Friday, October 3, 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025                       Friday, October 10, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025                        Tuesday, October 14, 2025

If you would like to reserve please email me letting me know how many people and children’s ages. Maximum occupancy is 4. I will respond within the day if I get your request before the evening. Thank you for your interest in a vacation at Dreaming of Maine. Crow's Nest Cottage is the cottage that is available during this time.

End of Season will be on October 14th, 2025.

Thank you so much for vacationing at Dreaming of Maine. It is always wonderful having you.

MY NEWS: I AM AN ARTIST

While I don't have an official Art Gallery of my own. I often sell my paintings to friends, guests, and the general public to benefit various local organizations.

Guests sometimes ask to buy a painting off the walls of a cottage. I can't necessarily do that right then as I may not have a good replacement. However, I may have something that soothes your soul, so please inquire. Or, I might have one in the works.

• I started this plein air oil painting in the late afternoon last fall. I finished this 12" x 24" (size of the canvas before the frame) painting during the winter. Blueberry Barrens in Fallow Year Looking Toward Blue Hill Bay and Long Island It will be for sale at the Brooksville Public Library July/August 2024 show. SOLD.
  
  

• I love going to the exposed ocean to see the surf. This day was foggy/drizzly and I was lucky to get photos. This was a composition of my sense of the scene. I did several studies for a larger painting last winter. Misty Surfside. This is one of the studies. Its oil on oil painting paper backed by archival foam core, 9" x 12" (size before the frame). It will be for sale at the Brooksville Public Library July/August 2024 show.
  
  

• I have sailed in Eggemoggin Reach many times. This pen and ink/watercolor was done in my studio from my own photo references. Pumpkin Island Lighthouse from the western side of the island. On cotton cold press watercolor paper.
  
  

• I started this plein air one morning in the summer of 2022. Oh! The tide came in so fast, it was soon at my feet. So I finished this 12: x 24" painting last winter. SOLD. I painted a small study too that is in my private collection (not pictured here). 
  
  
  

• I painted this 11 x 14 oil painting from a photo that I took at one of my husband, Jim Littlefield's, lobster picnics on the beach at Oakland House years ago. The Lobster Picnic. My photo was used, by my permission, by the Maine Tourism Association and the Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce for many years.  SOLD
  
  
  
  I started this en plein air last summer (2023) and finished it in my studio this winter. My own photo references. It's at Day's Early Light at Grindstone Neck with the sun shining off the pink granite chunks along the shore. It's a 12" x 24" canvas (before the frame). SOLD.
  
  
  
  
  I started this en plein air in August, 2022 and finished it in my studio this winter (2023). It's 12" x 24" without the frame. View from Caterpillar Hill Looking Southeast. The Deer Isle Bridge can be seen in the top right quadrant. MY PRIVATE COLLECTION.
  
  
  
  This I painted in my studio from photo references I took of the Marsh at Cape Elizabeth, ME. To benefit the Arts and Crafts sale at my church last December, 2023. SOLD
  
  
  
  This is the painting "A Maine Day-Lighthouse" that I did for the Blue Hill Public Library's Paint the Peninsula 2023 Benefit Event. It was used for all the promotional materials distributed by the Library for the 2024 Paint the Peninsula Event. SOLD.
  
  
  
  
  I painted this from the top of Caterpillar Hill in June 2024. It's for sale.
  
  
  

• There I am having a blast...painting en plein air. Photo by my friend Sara.

        

See mine and others' work on line on Facebook and/or Instagram @dreamingofmaine where I often post my art work.

I plan to paint en plein air all summer and in my studio in the winter. I expect to have more ready for new homes soon. Stay in touch. Sally Littlefield

FOR 2025 RESERVATIONS - WISH JAR:
 
If you'd like to make a reservation for next year my process is this: I collect guests’ Vacation Wishes in my “WISH JAR.” After the first of the Year, I start putting together my reservation board and contacting people about their preferred vacation times. The process will take several months as I figure my rates and the time slots that are available. I ask people to be as flexible as they can.  I try to make everyone happy and sometimes ask people if they can juggle things around. This method has worked pretty well for many years. I have some guests who have raised their children here in the summer and who now have grandchildren. However, I always have a few spaces for people for whom this will be their first experience at this historic property.

In order to provide a day of "grace" for my housekeeper and myself at times, I’ve left a day or two between departures and arrivals so that has meant that my stays do not always start on a Saturday and end on a Saturday. I prefer not to rent on a short stay basis, but for a week at a time. This has worked well in the past. Thanks.

If you would like I will add your name and information (preferred vacation times, how many guests, children’s ages etc.) to my WISH JAR and be in touch as I get things organized after the first of the year.