Pumpkins.................

I love the shape of Pumpkins. I do not and have never celebrated Halloween but I love Harvest time and Autumn decorations. I began to "collect" Pumpkins one year when I visited Bier Gallery. I began by buying some of the "froggie" sculptures. One happened to be on a Pumpkin. I bought him plus a plain one to stand together.
I just love my froggies.

Anyway, not long after that we stopped at the Glass blowers in East Jordan. I was collecting glass balls at that time but saw a pumpkin one Autumn and could not resist. So this was my first.

The next year we took Tristen to see him work and I got another

Anyway, I think it's the shape and in these glass ones, it's how he forms the vines. We intended taking the boys this weekend but Tristen was sick so it was just Cooper this time. I had seen the Facebook page and saw a green Pumpkin I liked and so that was a good opportunity to get a 3rd one to make a set. I asked for a Ladybug to put on it and the man kindly did that for me.


I may like this green one best of all. Last time we went to Bier Gallery I got another froggie on a pumpkin, although this one is more like a gourd, I still count him in my Pumpkin collection.

I do put Pumpkins outside for Autumn decoration but we don't do carved ones. No devil associations here thank you.
I do love this one that I found a long time ago for Harvest Festival.

I decorate with flowers and gourds and love how pretty it can look. This next one is a patchwork Pumpkin

I want to make some knitted ones but I keep the ones I have inside all year around and don't want to get into another season of decorating the house inside. I have seen some great ideas for others too that are fabric and maybe some day I will get those done.


Cooper brought a real pumpkin home from school but they know we don't carve them so it sits on the porch. Today it had a leaf attached and look pretty cute I thought. The real one will eventually get eaten by Squirrels and Crows so will not go to waste. I will put it on the garden once it snows.

My friend Nancy made the little house, so I set it out with the pumpkins

It will soon be time to decorate for Winter and Christmas, but for now it's all nice and bright for this beautiful season.

Craft shows....................

Today there was a craft show just down the road from us. I wanted to go out to Gallagher's Farm to get some apples and bread. They have that awesome Pizza bread. I figured I would make spaghetti tonight and maybe some meatballs. Then tomorrow maybe Chili.... so I bought two pizza breads and a multi grain one so that if we polish off the pizza bread tonight we have that as backup. As I already ate some, well.....

It was raining and it turned to snow.......yes snow.'



While we were out I asked Gerry if we could stop at the craft show at the church. I knew Gerry probably would not want to go, but, he said he would wait in the car. Cooper and I went in. Boy that church is huge, has the school there so it's like a rabbit warren. We wound our way through the maize.
I bought a couple of angels because I thought I would like to make some myself. They look easy enough and would make nice gifts.


We looked around all the different rooms and I held onto Cooper so he didn't get lost.


I didn't want to really buy anything but I thought if I saw a night light I would claim it. Didn't find any. We did see some really cool stuff though. The picture above is something I would like to try. I saw a class last year when we were out and about and it looks easy enough. When the painting is done you put the small lights on the back and punch through to the front. It's a nice effect and I want one for outside on the porch. I have the canvas now so I really hope I get it done.


Craft shows are a great place to buy hand made gifts for Christmas. Not so expensive either.
I loved these beautiful little critters.

I resisted though. I too often buy things for no reason. Just because they are cute

I saw Petoskey stones and blue stones made into jewelry. Some that I really would have liked but I resisted.



I was wondering how successful people are at selling. I thought about giving it a try next year. I could do that. It's not that stressful really and I would not have to do a lot. I will ask Edna if she would like to go in with me haha..............I didn't see a lot of things like what I do so maybe I could do something unique. There are a lot of the same things. Something to think about I suppose, it does look like a lot of work for what? I mean really how much would we make?. Edna could do a lot of sewing and I can paint and do other things. I guess we will see next year. At this point I am sure not doing much other than my books.