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And hung around all smiles and happy! These are so fun to make and real stash busters.  Jenn and I are cramming them in before the open house. For those of you that asked about the pie recipe. Here is the link. http://southernfood.about.com/od/pierecipes/r/r71128d.htm Enjoy!

Friday night had me making three butternut squash pies for a gathering on Saturday. Quite the mess, I finally got them done and the kitchen cleaned! Whew! Not a kitchen person, I was glad that was over for the weekend. Some got eaten, some were given away by JWS. Sunday, at church, our pastor asked where his pie was? Guess I forgot that when he GAVE me the squash last Sunday, I promised him a pie. So... this Sunday found me making three more butternut squash pies. At least this time, JWS was there to help keep the mess cleaned up. Crunch time for our Open House. I am finishing up things! One last owl pillow waiting to join his friends. Some homespun lapel flowers. And a bunch of snowmen ornaments and magnets. A few more magnets. Friday morning, these three were at work with us. It wasn't long until all four of us got kicked out of the shop and sent home. After lunch, we had h...

As a prequel to this story, I am going to start at Monday morning when on my morning walk I twisted my ankle. Bad. As in hobbling and swelling and ice and Advil, bad. Tuesday, had me driving to my Mother's quilt guild to teach a class on penny rugs. Standing. Wednesday work, and yesterday... Well this is the actual story. Yesterday was my DD Day. (that is Dialysis Driver for those of you that are not regulars here) Still hobbling, I dropped my MIL at the dialysis center, made a few deliveries and then hit my favorite thrift shops. One of them is closing...sad day, but off the subject. Found a few items for the camper project. For that see here. http://restoringavintagecamper.blogspot.com/ Now on with the story. I pick Kendall up at the babysitters. I used to bring her along on some dialysis days, but we had a few "bad" incidents after dialysis and I quit doing that. Didn't want to t...

At the Salvation Army in Butler, Pa I found these fat quarters. All of these for $8! And these old bowling pins... they are wood. In this cigar box, $5.00 at Butler Antiques in Butler, PA. Also in that box was this glass egg. JWS says it was used to put in with the chickens to get them to lay. There was also a freebie! You will have to visit here to see what that was!

The big accomplishment of the weekend was getting all of the open house stuff from the attic and pricing it.  My Open House is in less than two weeks. Usually, this happens the day before. How nice to have it all done. Logan's comment, "Gramma, what in the heck happened to our bedroom? and where are we going to sleep?"  He must have thought  this was permanent. Sunday had us on a hayride. A little cold but what fun! Tyler's comment of the weekend. "I have not been on a hayride like this since 1955!" Wyatt was not a big fan of sitting still, but managed to endure his first hayride! Logan and Kendall loved it! Logan picked one of the the biggest pumpkins in the patch! My camera went dead at this point. The kids all made these t-shirts. We printed a white design on white t-shirts, hung them on the clothesline and the kids sprayed them with dye. When they sprayed them, the design sh...

Clarion, Pennsylvania has an Autumn Leaf Festival every year. Homecoming at Clarion University, parade, car show and Friday morning... a huge craft show. While I have attended other events there over the years. I have never been to the craft show portion. Wow, there were tons of crafters, but sadly as most craft shows are going, there were also a  lot of manufactured items that people were swarming to buy. Honestly, do they really think that is hand made when there are at least 13 booths with the exact same items? But ok, I won't get on that soapbox this morning. I bought this piece of crockery. Loved the handmade look of it. There were lots of pottery places with cookie cutter pottery but this had charm. So tempted to get on that soapbox!!! It is also a farmer's market and I got these fresh grapes. These concord grapes locally grown are my absolute favorite grapes. Seeds and all...

Several months ago, JWS and I acquired a camper. I started a blog to document the restoration. http://restoringavintagecamper.blogspot.com/2012/10/trying-again.html But it turned out, the camper was not salvageable and had to meet it's untimely or timely depending on who is looking it at, demise. So, another camper has surfaced and we are trying again. Stop over and follow along! This one is staying!