A little of this/A little of that

I haven't really had much free time since our Oct. 5th show

so I'll share some pictures with you.

We sold pretty much everything and what didn't sell was purchased by a customer in Florida.

What little is left really doesn't matter except there are 5 gourd garlands that will

probably be held over till next year now.

A dear dear friend always lets us come out to their property and get whatever we need to decorate with.
We always get lots of wonderful wild grapevines to weave in between the fence pickets.

Here's all that is left of 30 assorted gourd garlands

We had a drawing for one of my original 'face' pumpkins

And the winner was....JANINE OLDENBURG - Congratulations!

One reason I haven't been able to get a post done is because I've been teaching classes on

Wednesdays and Saturdays here at the house.

Two classes were for my framed Feather Tree punch needle

And the other was for my wool Christmas tree.

The end of October Doug and felt we needed a break after building up to the show,

then the show, then outside orders to get out so we took a short road trip.

First to Colonial Williamsburg. We never get tired of visiting there. Such and interesting place to visit.

Plus we went out to Jamestown Settlement and that in itself is awesome!

We were there over Halloween - while we were eating dinner that evening at the Sheilds Tavern

the kids were gathering outside for Trick-or-Treating in the village.

The kids started lining up at 5...this is just a smidgen amount of kids that came...it was amazing what CW did for these kids.  All dwellings along the main street gave out candy that was furnished by Mars candy.  Didn't get good pictures of the hoards of kids..these don't tell near the amount.

They estimated over 600 each evening (and it was for 2 nights).

The entire village was full of these fun spooky skeleton characters!

In front of each dwelling there was a burn pot filled with wood, 

when it got dark they lit them! 

Left there and headed north and stopped in Annapolis, MD for a bit.

Lots of great shops and wonderful eats to say nothing of the charm!

See the water at the end?  The Naval Academy is at the end of the block and around the corner.

When we left Annapolis we headed up to Lancaster, PA to a few wholesale shops and

to the October wholesale show in Oaks, PA...got lots of HANDMADE goodies

for next years home show to add to our handmades.

We got to spend a day and a half with our cousins that live there so that was enjoyable.

The colors were very pretty in Lancaster - not as brilliant as we had hoped but still very pretty.

One scene we never tire seeing are the Amish and the beautiful covered bridges

Well I know this was a long post and a picture overload but

I was behind a month in posting so you got it all at once.

Karen

P.S. We were honored again to have our home appear in the upcoming January 2020 issue of Country Sampler. We haven't seen the issue yet but several people have been messaging and emailing telling us they saw it...so sad our issues have not arrived yet. Soon though I hope!

The first time was May 2009 so we were so

humbled when they asked us to be in it again.