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.

THE END….

No…not the end of blogging…but the end of the vacation posts.
I am only going to share bits and pieces of the trip.
And it seems like that trip was months and months ago…so sad how fast time goes by isn’t it?

I started composing this post on Friday and it was a perfect Fall feeling kind of day – I only wish it was Fall for real - it can’t come soon enough for me.
I so want to get my Fall decor out but think it’s just a tad early.  Will have to wait until after Labor Day at least.

I first want to let you all know I put 2 new punch needle on my other blog
http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/
 

And as I was typing up this blog post and adding this picture an email popped up and IT SOLD!!!
Thanks Linda!

 

So – I have a purchase to share with you from the Brimfield antique show when on vacation.
I already showed you the butter churn from a shop in Maine, but this is from the antique show.
It’s an 1800’s 1 gallon cream crock by D. P. Shenfelder of Reading, PA.
It was our biggest purchase and with the butter churn, were the only purchases on this trip.

While we were in Sturbridge, Mass. we went into the Yankee Peddler shop and sitting on a shelf were some of my designs!
It was kind of surreal seeing them there.

I like the round one – they really changed out that design when they
reproduced it – I never made one with Pineapples all in a circle.

Well I haven’t shown you any vacation pictures have I?
There really aren’t many left that are interesting…but I’ll post a couple.

I’m kind of getting thing out of order  but I guess that won’t hurt anything.
So…lets back up to Lancaster, PA …
Before we left there to head north east we stopped at a gourd farm – last Fall we went to a different one and both are so wonderful and so many gourds it was hard to choose.

 
I’m going to make some gourd garlands to sell on my site and/or take them to the shop I consign at….either way they will be for sale.
 

Lots of nice tiny ones to work with…I think these will be strung on a garland for a mini-tree.

These larger ones will be used in displays
 
Doug got all the holes drilled in them and also cut my Indian corn into chunks to use.
I have been looking for  whole walnuts, lemon leaves and bay leaves to string with them but no one has them around here so I may have to order on line.
I guess I never thought about it but ‘whole walnuts’ can not be found until near the holidays – who knew.
All the grocery stores we went to said they don’t get them in until Fall. 
Pricing the garlands will be the trick – but then again pricing anything one ‘makes’ is hard to do isn’t it?

And also on our way home from the trip we stopped back in Lancaster because it was opening day of A.T. Imports in their new location.
Not sure why they opened when they did because it was LESS than half stocked.  Very little to choose from but I did actually find some of the ‘supplies’ I was needing.
When fully stocked their new location will be wonderful compared to what they did have in the old warehouse across the street.

So here I am jumping around again – I can’t seem to find a good flow…lol
We’re back at the Brimfield antique show and who was there signing autographs but Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) from the Munsters.
He has not changed…just got older.
Felt kind of bad for him though – there wasn’t a whole lot of people clamoring to get his autograph.

I think I will leave you now with just those photos…I am going to do a ‘page’ at the top of my blog with pictures of OLD STURDBRIDGE VILLAGE.
There are so many wonderful pictures and it would be too much to put into a post.
So when I get this posted I will try and get that ‘page’ going.

Thanks again everyone for your sweet and so kind response to my last post.
I seriously think I was having a bad day when I posted it.
I’m staying with blogging as it’s a release for me so thank you all who visit!
Karen