Fawn Run November Opening: A Tale of Three Seasons!

Fawn Run Farm Mercantile 

November Opening

 

Open Halloween Friday, October 31 from 5 to 7 p.m.

 (Expect costumes  and ghoulishly good treats!)

Saturday and Sunday, November 1 & 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

( Though Thanksgiving is the next holiday and we WILL have a theme display,

Christmas goods and gifts are beginning to fill the remaining spaces!) 

Read the kiddos "The Night Before Christmas" from this beautifully photographed book! 

 Do YOU believe?

We'll help you "deck the halls!" 

 HO, HO, Ho!

 Santa with an antique sled.

 And the stocking were well hung! (Tee hee!)

 Put this beauty of a cabinet on your wish list for Santa!

(Be sure to tell him how GOOD you've been!)

 Signs of the season!

 Can "bearly" wait for Christmas!

 Let's not forget to be thankful!

 Set your Thanksgiving table!

 Happy Thanksgiving!

 Look for the "leaf" sale tags!

 Folk art Santa with his two little "baa baas."

YES! We have the Luminara battery candles!

 Great gift ideas!

 Love, love, love this new (old) dry sink!!!

 Come sit for a spell on this settle bench!

 One-of-a-kind folky angel!

 Perfect cabinet for your dining room!

Yes, I have a "thing" for pewter, do you?

Thank you soooooo much for your continued support!

Hope you can join us at the mercantile this weekend!~

Come on out to the farm!!!

Marcy

Gardening in the Gloaming;

The Good and the Good Grief!

By Marcy Dailey

June 2, 2014

From Wikipedia: Gloaming, or twilight, the time after sunset and before dark,

 celebrated in Harry Lauder's Roamin' In The Gloamin'

The Good:

#1 The approaching darkness lends a mystical feel to the plants and structures.

#2 One needn’t apply a half bottle of sunblock and don the requisite ugly sunhat in order to work outside.

#3 ‘Tis a joy to behold the shining moon and glittery stars in the cover of sky.

#4 To be able to glimpse a bat as it catches a bite to eat (fast food,) and to enjoy the frogs’ evening chorus (lullaby?) in the cool of the day.  

#5 Pondering the dating game of the fireflies with their on-again, off-again power surges.

The Good Grief!

#1 mosquitoes!

#2 Discovering one’s glasses are missing from one’s shirt pocket after bending forward while whacking back the ever-encroaching ‘Gro-Low’ Sumac. (One’s glasses were in said pocket since it was so dark out that they were no longer an asset to one’s sight enhancement.)

#3 MOSQUITOES!!

#4 Having to prune the viburnums by touch. (Hint: run your hand down the stem until you feel a joint/crotch, then snip while praying your fingers aren’t mistaken for a stem.)

#5 Did I mention MOSQUITOES?

Displays are Done!

Finished up displaying the shop tonight 

except to straighten up a bit on the porch~

 I must say, I'm not looking forward to freezing my nose

 or various other body parts out there!

 Think I had the wrong setting on my camera, 

so some of these seem out of focus;

 hope you can see enough to be enticed!

 Hope to see you this weekend!

Marcy 

A New Year~ Some New Decorating

Happy New Year~ I do hope all the sickness that passed through our family

 (and many other families) over the holidays is over with for a long time! I was too wiped out to decorate in our house for Christmas, so I guess I'm making up for lost time. You COULD say I'm getting a jump on spring cleaning, but from all the dust I'm uncovering,  I think it's spring of 2010 cleaning! LOL!

I purchased this pie safe (yes, ANOTHER pie safe!) after Christmas, picked it up on Friday, and got it washed and in to our dining room today. Below is the "before" decorating photo. The color isn't as bright red as it looks here; it's much darker and has dark green paint on the top and on the outside of one leg. There is screen on both sides, too. What is it about old screen cabinets- I am so enamored of them! Think this is number four for me!

 

Above is the filled cabinet with some of my pottery bowl collection, a few of my wooden bowls, and linens on the bottom. The tall legs afforded ample room for some taller crocks. 

 Inside view

The vignette on top. 

 Changed the top of my "cookbook cabinet". Moved some buckets from the family room and gathered them here for a change. Isn't it amazing how a little change makes a big difference? 

Put the little cow figurine next to two bells that resemble cow bells~ it plays well with the old (June 1925) magazine cover print of two farm children bringing the cows home.

Enough "playing" for today- need to get into my sewing room and get going on Valentine stock for my Coachman Antique Mall booth!

Best wishes to you all for a happy & HEALTHY 2014!