The Pumpkin Patch

A recent visit to Rick's Produce made me pumpkin patch happy.

Every year people around here make a pilgrimage out Whiskey Road to choose mums, corn stalks, and PUMPKINS!



Not really a pilgrimage - about four miles from my house.

Tiny little orange ones - I passed these by - used them last year.

Baby boos!

Yes, I'll take a bag full of these.

Last year as you may remember I bought a pink mosaic. (HERE)

However while I was waiting for them to be unloaded, my eye was attracted to the BLUE pumpkins.






And the blue-green turban pumpkins.

I still have to decide.

They are selling out quickly.

Pink or blue?

What would you do?

Of course the Charlotte Sisters are quite taken by the creamy white baby boos. 

Sister seemed to attract dirt as she picked her pumpkins.

See y'all!

Fine Feathered Fellow

 

Outside looks like this - blue and orange.


Finally a cold snap.

Finally feels like fall.

Finally finished this little fellow.




 

1950's era small stool.

Very well built - not a wiggle in him.

Sanded .

Cleaned.






 

Painted with my "happy" blue oops paint.

The same as Miss Citron's drawers.

READ HERE! 

Pull out my giant feather stencil.

Centered the middle one and taped off the rest.

Couple of coats of white.

Tip for the lazy: Don't clean the paint off your stencil each time?

Cover the dried paint with blue tape.

Rub hard.

Peel off.

Most of the time the old paint comes off too!



 

Heavily sanded with a sanding block.

Three coats of a satin spray varnish.

Perfect for a pumpkin display.

This fine feathered fellow finished for fall.








See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Amaze Me Monday #187

A Night At The Fair

Love a good fair in the fall.

Chucks and I took off for Columbia to the South Carolina State Fair Monday night.

The first sight you see is the Ferris Wheel and the Rocket.

Everyone meets at the Rocket.

Lost adults and kids are asked to go to the Rocket.

"Meet me at the Rocket" is a phrase most of us have known for decades.

The announcement that always gets a laugh is "Jane meet your husband at the Rocket".

Yes, you can find a wife or a husband at the Rocket! 

Who needs computer dating services?

There is a Grandstand show broadcast throughout the fairgrounds.

Many smaller acts perform along the midway.

This is Marc Dobson and his son Cavin.

We really enjoyed their performance.

You can see him HERE. 

It was eighty degrees so we first visited the exhibition halls where there was air conditioning.





The excitement builds once the sun sets and the neon glows.

The gondola crosses the fair from one end to the other.













 

The view from the gondola is quite spectacular.

Williams-Brice Stadium where the University of South Carolina Gamecocks play in the background.  On Saturday there will be over 150,000 people in this area as a noon football game collides with Saturday at the fair.

The midways extend out in four directions.

Not too crowded on a Monday night.

Besides the gondola, we have to ride the Ferris Wheel.

It is my favorite ride.

Chucks wondering if he will ever set foot on terra firma again.

 Numerous rides.

Numerous food stands.

I promise we only had lemonade.

Good-bye until next October!

Wish I had bought some vinegar fries!




See y'all!


 

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Quickies

A slightly different take on the brown and orange theme for autumn.

Directions for the Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins can be found HERE.

Using fabric from a storage sale.

Some torn into ribbons.

Some cut into rectangles.

One change: in places where rubber bands are used, I tied twine around the rubber band for extra strength.

One Pleasingly Plump Pumpkin.

Three Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins.

(Three are easily made in less than an hour.)









 

A whole basket filled with Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins.

The leaves are from a cheap inexpensive bag of fifty or more.

Thirty Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins in all.

For sale in Booth C-23, Riverfront Antique Mall, North Augusta, South Carolina.

$8!

The ones I made three years ago are still in use on the mantel.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Shabbilicious Friday

Friday Finds

This week my Friday finds post is quite different as I did NOT shop this past week.

Yes, you heard right - no shopping.

Instead I pulled several bins of fall decor out of the deep, dark reaches of the attic spaces.

And drastically downsized Horror Monster, my beloved craft stash, holiday decoration section.

These three jack o' lanterns - the very last of a series of painted gourds, I plan to keep.

This small copper student art - reminded me of a Day of the Dead piece...

Sent to the booth. 

 

There were bags of gourds - both cleaned and in the natural state.

The clean ones - well, I confess to keeping a few for old times sake.

Over a twenty year span I painted hundreds of pumpkins, Santa's, snowmen, and elves.

No more!

I had collected dozens of market baskets in graduated sizes.

Kept one set and sent the rest to the booth.

 My giant fake acorns - a deal several years ago from Hobby Lobby - I decided to hang onto for a while.

It's hard to beat twenty-five cent nuts.

Of the numerous fall arrange- ments, I kept two and donated the rest to the thrift shop or sent to the booth.

Thrown in the donation pile - two large trash bags of fall leaf garland.

We are talking at least a hundred yards of the stuff!

I might keep these gourds.

Old habits die hard.

This once was a favorite of mine, but has lived in the attic the last three years.

I need to find a new home for this vintage box of COOKY Cutters.

The inside of the box is just as amusing as the front.

It can be found in Booth W-10.






 

Hunting will be limited this weekend because of a family reunion.

Also I continue to clean out the Horror Monster attics.

No telling what I might discover.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED