finding more for sale~~

We keep digging thru boxes in our back storeroom and found all these NEW beautiful silk flowers.  These all were bought from Tapscotts floral supply who by the way have the best quality and choices out there in silk flowers!!
Anyone interested?? GREAT PRICE!! plus travel expenses or pick up at the store this weekend!!
THANKS

silk flowers for sale!!

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First day of fall baking~

Today was the offical start of fall here in beautiful sw michigan it was gorgeous!!  The trees are just starting to show some colors and I cant wait til they all show their beauty.  Fall is my favo favo time of year!!  The colors, the sounds in the air, the smell around us and the fact that it is almost halloween!! my favo holiday to decorate for.

These are my butter crumb struesle topped zucchini muffins

plain ol zucchini muffins

butter crumb walnut struesle topped apple bread

Apple pie cakes, with butter crumb topping

these look and smell yummy, they are in the oven right now

I love how tall these muffins got!  and soooooooooo yummo!

nekked punkin cookies

nekked sugar cookie leaves

they will have some yellow and reddish color frosting on them.

I also made some white chili, stuffed peppers, potato corn chowder soup, my glazed pistachio bread and some banana muffins and mango passion fruit filled thumbprint cookies.   And some peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, lavander shortbread flowers and some chocolate chip brownies.    A few other cookies and I am ready for market tomorrow.    We have a 60% chance of rain and storms tomorrow sunday and monday  and tuesday but wed and thurs look gorgeous!!!  I will be decorating for fall tomorrow after market so hope it doesnt rain tooo much1!
Hope yall have a wonderful weekend!!  Talk to yall soon!!
HUGS
Darlene

 ~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Wild wed

What a great baking day!!  We got so much done for market tomorrow I am very pleased and tired....LOL
so a couple of newbies to the baking family
One being a 6inch cheesecake that is topped with some homemade apricot preserves and fresh blueberries

I am so tempted to cut into one tonight but I will be good!  LOL  the crust on it is crushed toasted almonds and pate' brisee.  Basically a nice and light and flaky buttery crust with almonds.

Lemon buttermilk cakes with blueberries and a nice lemon glaze

More hamb/sandwich buns

My choc dipped coconut macaroons, so yummy! 

Another newbie: I decided to some mini pies since I didnt have alot of pie dough left, diced up peaches and a bit of an oatmeal crisp topping and these little gems are good to go.  And yummy! I had one stick in the pan and didnt look very pretty after gettin it out so had to welllllllllllll sample it!! Quality assurance at it's best here!!

Banana bread, banana strawberry bread and also my zucchini pineapple breads done

Another new flavor of shortbread:  chocolate chip orange with at touch of grand marnier in it!  Note to self: next time add 3 tbsp grand marnier

Plenty of muffins

These were the almond crusts for the cheesecakes

So along with all that we got some of my peanut butter cookie pies done, cookies and some baguette bread too.

Tomorrow is Allegan Market so hope to see ya there.

Have a super night!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Spring banner

HAPPY WED YALL!!

Well it was raining when I let the boys outside and an hour later now it is realllllyyyy snowin!! the ground is all white again!!    I think I heard we may see just a couple of inches today.??  that is ok!!  we had so much rain and melting snow lately we dont need any more rain!!  In fact I will post pics of our road a couple of miles north of us, the southbound lane is completely gone!  there is a creek that runs under it and goes out to the lake well over the years the erosion has been so bad we been wondering when this might hapen and it did now.  I am glad noone got hurt the last time a couple of years ago we had some really bad storms and heavy heavy downpours that the whole road was gone in the middle of the night! 2 people lost their lives while  delivering the morning paper and didnt see or realyze the road was gone.  That was really horrific we felt so bad fo those people and their families.  Very tragic and so sad.   I am thankful this is just one lane and like I said noone was injured!!

I started out cutting out the circles from an old hymnal book and then distressed the edges and also inked the edges with some Tim Holtz's distressing ink in green.

The letters are cut with my cricut from some My Minds Eye green paper, they needed something a bit more so with Tim's green ink I stamped a flowery image over the letter.  It gives nice dimension to it. 

Then made little rosettes for the bottom of each one, added a flower and gem and some fibers.    I did distress each of the banner pieces with antiquing medium and also used a mini flourish stamp on the left corner of each one too.  

This was made for a friend and is on it's way to her now!

And here is our road situation.

I never tire of looking at this beautiful lake.  Each and every day it changes so much and the colors are so vivd around it.  Not too many icebergs left now so we are nearing spring!!  YEAH!! 

So hope yall have a wondeful wed and be safe!! 

I did want to take a minute to mention the FENNVILLE BLACKHAWKS boys basketball team and how incredibly proud we are of each and everyone of you guys!  GREAT JOB LAST NIGHT again another win!! WOO HOO!!  Great bunch of guys we have in our town!

GOOD LUCK on friday at another game!!

SATURDAY GLENN MARKET 9-2

at the Glenn Community Center  114th Ave

HUGS

Darlene

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Our holiday open house

I am back from our holiday open house this weekend.  Next year we have decided to do only friday and sat no sunday!! YIPPEE!! sunday was 10-3 and it was very very quiet.  Overall we did about 1/2 of what we did last year which is ok since we had a very good busy show last year and things are different this year as we all are aware of!  So here are some pics of our offerings.  My friend Laura does all the hypertufa leaves and stones and they all look amazing!! 

I did have about 15 altered books I got done and also some altered frames. 

Here is her waterfall and I just love this one!! 

We offer some grubby candles in all sizes and some very cool candle holders.

grubby votives that smell amazing!

My mom and brother and I made up some fresh pine centerpieces with and without candles.

And my friend Bonnie had a few antiquey pieces like this old chair.

homemade rugs

all natural soaps and lotions

some fixins and essential oils

more of my signs

lots of candles, pip berries and refill bulbs

one of my bake shoppe tables

A snowman in a basket filled with twigs, berries, and pods and some cones. 

I have to say as much fun as it is I am so so SO so glad to be back home with my guys!!  It was great today I packed up all the fall decorations around, started  decorating outside for xmas.  I put some pine branches around the farmstand, filled some window boxes with pines, cones and some red ornaments and made a couple of pine swags to hang around.  It really was almost 50 outside today and a perfect day for it now all i have yet is to put lights around and then can sit back and enjoy the white shimmering lights.   As much as I love colored c9 lights I absolutely love all white!!  I have lots of ideas of some new things I would like to make next year for our show and am for NOTHING doing a show the weekend before ours!!  LOL i say that now!! 

So this week is gonna be a bit crazy!!!  Thursday I am at Allegan market in the am with Dave from Young Earth Farm, South Haven in the afternoon and then off to Douglas to Everyday People Cafe to do their evening open house of artists!! Friday is Bronson Market then Saturday is Saugatuck Green Market I am in and then Sunday is the artists show at Saugatuck Brewery!!  So BUSY week ahead of me so it was nice to slack around a bit today and not do alot!!  even though I have to do double time tomorrow and wed!! 

Well have a great week I will try to get back on here and take pics of the cookies for my cookie boxes I will be makin this week!! 

HUGS

Darlene

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