Let the Holidays Begin

 

Casserole carriers and floral print leggings- These are a few of my favorite things!
Had a great holiday with the family! So much to be thankful for!

Emmy

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Fell off the blogging wagon

I have not had any blogging motivation or inspiration lately, I think it's because I have been so busy and have only been doing craft projects for selling instead of for my own personal enjoyment.

Since August I started teaching a class at our local community college, we put our house up for sale, I have had a craft show almost every weekend, along with other everyday life things. Those are the things that have been taking up most of my time. Now my camera is on the fritz, which severely limits my creativity, or at least the documentation thereof.

Don't you wish people got his excited to see you? My husband gets this kind of reception everyday, at least when he drives up in his truck!

 Now that it is cooler her in SW MO and I can wear my slippers and thermal shirts and drink my coffee, and the holidays are coming up I'm starting to feel more like cooking and decorating so I will have more to blog about.

Grandma got Huck a duck push toy at a local apple festival and he pushed it for miles! Too sweet.

Well, I think we are pretty caught up now, so I will try to keep it that way for a while.

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Updates

1. My sister left for the summer to go back to Boston. We're still recovering...
2. Who doesn't look like this after a good plate of spaghetti
3/4. cutest. vintage. dress. ever. (sorry for the bad pics)
5-9. Re Dirt Relics Roadshow Set up- The fall craft show season is officially in full swing now! Next show is Autumn Fest at the Ozark Empire Fair Grounds Sept 14-15th.

Off to have some Sunday Morning Coffee!
Emmy


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Summer Lovin'

Had me a blast, Happened so fast...

So long sweet summer

I'm wishing away summer, as great as it can be, it's no match for fall. 

Emmy

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Snapshots

4th of July is over, man I love that holiday! Now we have someone new to share the love with- he was pretty fond of the 4th of July parade!

Life is a whirlwind this week- God's gentle reminders that life is unpredictable are keeping me on my toes!
Last week was a great holiday week- I didn't have any babysitting to do, and Jim took off most of the week. We didn't do much, but it was fun. Over the weekend we went to KC to see my friend, went to the zoo and a Royals game. Which is where we discovered fountains and back-flipping polar bears!

   I started watching another kid this week, so far so good. You tell him it's nap time and he goes and lays down. What's up with that? Can I clone him?

I have made 20 sales in the last 30 days on the ole Etsy shop- that is so good for me! I am loving the new wave of views, favorites, sales, etc. I don't know exactly what has made business pick up, but it makes me super-duper happy!

Looking ahead to the tentative schedule of fall craft shows is really exciting- we are very motivated at this point and the schedule reflects that- once it is finalized I will share- but this is all that is finalized for now:

Red Dirt Roadshow Springfield, MO: August 22-23
2 Friends and Junk Joplin, MO Sept 28-29
2 Friends and Junk Springfield, MO November 15-16

Speaking of crafts, I made this bulletin board for my sister in law's soon to be farm/cowboy nursery. It isn't quite done- I think the frame needs some distressing still.

My birthday is in 15 days- I will be the big 2.7.
Yowsa! I had a little kid the other day guess that I was 18- I tip my hat to you, little kid.

Well that is all I know for now, I'm going to soak up some solitude before naps are over!

Emmy


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Farm to Table Dinner at Millsap Farms

Hello Monday, so nice to see you again...

This weekend was so nice. Today I'm going to share our date-afternoon with you. Saturday we spent the afternoon and evening at the Farmer's Market of the Ozarks farm tour and farm to table dinner. 

We toured 3 farms; Sunshine Valley Farms, an orchard and berry patch with an onsite restaurant in Rogersville, Mockingbird Gardens, a husband/wife pair that have a small scale commercial garden north of Springfield growing specialty vegetables to sell at FMO, and Millsap Farms, a family run farm that hosts a CSA and sells at FMO, and it is also where we had dinner. 

We learned quite a few gardening tricks for someday. Jim was bummed we didn't see any animal farming, but then we met some people that raise pigs and cattle and he got to chat with them and discuss raising grass fed beef, so he was happy after all (oh and he loves free beer!)

The whole day was very inspiring. Seeing people live lives filled with creativity and passion, and making a living doing so. Dinner was delicious! Date sauce and Feta pizza??? Oh and they gave out the recipe for the date pizza sauce!

Beautiful music, delicious food, and God's gorgeous green earth! What more could you ask for?

Happy Monday!
Emmy


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