Resort Desert at DAR Meeting

The first meeting of the Daughter's of the American Revolution, Lt. George Farragut Chapter, for this year got off to a bang with a delicious luncheon at the famed Coeur d' Alene Resort. For you MaryJanesFarm followers, it is across the street from the CdA Resort Mall where MaryJanes new store is.
The desert we were served at the was a warm chocolate pudding filled brownie sided by vanilla ice cream, drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce. Very rich and filling. I think the ladies at my table thought I was a bit 'buggy' for taking a photo of my lunch...but you bloggers understand, right?

DAR Lunch

We were served Chicken Pot Pie, salad, a roll and the desert, of course.

DAR Cones

I was asked to decorate for our first DAR meeting of the year last week. So I used so old bedsprings, added paper cones and filled them with excelsior American flags, a bell, small pinecone, pepperberries, and a stick of cinnamon. They turned out quite fun, if I do say so myself.

Door Knocker

This door knocker adds a rustic touch to the front porch, but rarely does anyone use it. I love the strong and ornamental feel of it.

Porch Barrel

This old wood barrel is falling apart, but still manages to hold together rough to hold a bouquet of fall flowers and keep the front porch festive.

A Little Bit of Halloween

I am not a huge fan of Halloween...but I do enjoy the vintage pieces as they remind me of my childhood...of which we did not celebrate Halloween. That may make no sense, but at school we did Halloween projects and crafts, then at home we did a Harvest celebration. My daddy being a preacher...he felt that Halloween, as many still do, was too pagan. So we had church events on Halloween night where people did dress up, ate caramel apples, bobbed for apples, maybe had a campfire, gunnysack races and more. Now, don't feel sorry for me as the parties were every bit as fun as trick or treating...now that I look back at it. I am not so sure I felt that way as a kid...my mom did let us go around to a few neighbors houses to get our candy before we left for the party. I am sure we begged her, so before dad came home she indulged us in the early evening and let us go for a bit. I still get a tad of excitement when this time of year comes around, as if I were eight again, by the thought of it all. Silly, huh?
Anyhoo...the doll under glass is a Nicole Sayre creation, the paper black cat was given to me by Melissa Neufeld (Country Living contributor). The felt penny styled decoration with cats and pumpkins was found at a country gift store and is not new, but has a very vintage feel to it. Normally I would make this myself, but it was only $10.00 and it would have taken me several hours to make it...so I just bought it. The book is vintage and is about two crows.

Enamelware Bowl and Pitcher

...house these autumn beauties. The colors are so fibrant.

Olde Basket...

is now the home of some of summers bounty. Ths basket sits on a trunk I have had for about 30 years now. The trunk holds some treasured family keepsakes, such as a few of my grandmother, O'Delphia's clothing.

Flowers & trunk parts

Yeah, the wood pieces in this enamelware pitcher are from an old trunk I tore apart. I am saving them to be used somewhere, someday. The flowers came into the thrift shop and I thought they looked very realistic and so they are now a part of my fall decor.

Hoosier Shelf Decor

A little bit of fall

Touches of pumpkins and gourds here and there to add that festive fall feel in our home.

Summer's Bounty

Check out these huge momma's...not sure what kind of squash they are...but we will cook 'em up and eat "em.

Fall tablescape

Center of the tablescape

I like these dark green pumpkins...much prefer them to the orange ones.

Some of the silver

that is on the table.

Dining Room Tablescape

Collection of silver, pumkins, lamps gather on our dining room table. We do not use this table unless we have company, so it gives me more freedom to get a little more spread out...I like that!

Pumkin Varieties

A sampling of three pumkins are on the far end of the mantel, along with a Civil War era tintype and a lamp with orange bulb. The orange bulbs look great in the evening, they bring a warm glow to the room.

More Harvest

Can you guess which of the pumpkins on the mantel are real? Hard to tell these days as they are making such good fakes!
Well, this is one end of the mantel in our living room.

Drying Cherrry Tomatoes

I had a huge bowl of cherry tomatoes that I knew we could not eat up, so I decided to get out the dehydrator and try drying them. They came out great! So I will be doing more of this. My tomato plants did not do that well this year, so we have been able to get just enough for salads and sandwiches for Tim and I. We got the cherry tomatoes at a neighbors who moved away and left them. I have never seen such a huge amount of cherry tomatoes on so few plants...they are in clusters like grapes!

Waiting to enter the Antique Sale...

The line of people waiting to get in to the Vintage Barn Antique Sale went all the way down to the parking lot this AM. We were barraged with customers all morning...which was great. It was a beautiful day for an outdoor sale.

Bird Nests Galore

This booth featured birds nests in every imaginable container. It was actually very cool looking. She used lots of wire...which is my favorite.

Amazing Mannequin

Geri saw this mannequin as it was being brought in the gate by a Montana vendor as we were setting up. She saw it right away and bought it on the spot. I did not see it until this morning at the beginning of the show. It is wonderfully old and oozes charm. I was trying to talk her out of it(buy it off of her)...but she did not go for it!

Prairie Flyer

This has to be my favorite band...Prairie Flyer...the lead singer, Jim, (center) has the most amazing voice. It is so perfectly blue grass. To me he sounds like he is singing in some high mountain hallow in Kentucky. Reminds me of the singing I heard as a kid...of course most of that was gospel. I have six CD's of theirs and listen to them often in my truck.
They did some strolling around and played for people. I thought this was nice, as we were pretty much stuck in our booth all day. Our booth is to the right in this photo.
Thanks, Prairie Flyer...great job!

New Friends

This is Geri and Kari from Enchanted Farms. They are quite the characters!

Some of my Handmades

I whipped these up one day this last week. Many people 'ohhd' and 'ahhd' head over them, but I think I only sold two or three. No surprise, people were at the antique show to buy "antiques." I think they will sell as Christmas gifts this fall. I had a price of $5.00 on them. They are made from thin pieces of wood.