Can't believe it's fall already!  Where does the time go?  Must admit that I feel a great sense of relief at having the hot weather behind us.

Three of my sisters and myself took off last week and drove to Door County, Wisconsin.  We love it there and it didn't let us down this time either.  We stay in a lovely home with a fireplace and just relax.  Of course, there is some antiquing done both during the trip and while in Door County.

It's so much fun to antique where they have sleds, skates, snow shoes, cranberry buckets, and items more difficult to find around here.  Again, we had not one spare inch of space coming home.  We've all gone to smaller cars so we're going to have to figure out something.

Now that I'm home, I'm trying to make some Christmas things for resale.  I worked on a few things in the car as we drove.

I know....they don't look like much now but they will when I'm finished.

My front porch....

Fall is definitely here.....

The leaves are gorgeous in Missouri and falling like crazy.  Perfect time for an antique show at Dry Creek Cabins just outside of Dixon, Mo.  It was a beautiful day but cool.  They always have a fire going and a big black pot of chili cooking.  Just a wonderful place to spend a fall afternoon.

 

It's so much fun and such an escape to visit this wonderful place.

I've been trying to work on all the things I've gathered for Leola's Holiday Open House....

Seems like we just did this!

Check out my sweet annie tree.....

Love these chairs!  After a good cleaning and an oil finish rubbed in, they turned out so good I kind of hate to part with them.

This is what it looks like out my front door this morning.  The leaves are changing so fast and dropping even quicker.....

Well, it's back to work for me.  Hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Picture-perfect day......

It is the most beautiful day in the Ozarks.  Sitting on my backporch, sipping coffee and catching up on all the blogs.  We decided to come home a day early from our adventure in Tennessee and so glad we did.....there's no place like home.

We left on Thursday to go to the City Farmhouse pop-up Barn Sale right outside of Franklin.  We had early tickets on Friday morning for breakfast and early shopping.  What a gorgeous place it was.....

That's sisters, Judy & Jean, coming from the barn.

We could hardly keep from buying pumpkins and gourds there but hated to take up our precious space with these when hopefully, we can find them here.  We just don't have those wonderful roadside markets that they had there.  Never understood that but will check with our farmer's mkt.

Luckily, Judy had remembered her shopping cart because I walked right off without mine.  We had to make a few trips to the Suburban.  We were also fortunate to get a front row parking space with our early bird tickets.  Here's my first purchase from When Pigs Fly Again.

 I could have cleared her area out.....amazing.  Check out her FB page too.  She loves what she does and it shows.

 This was Judy Hill's area and she came here from Round Top with the help of her husband.  This is hard work but when you love what you do, it's not as difficult.  Her bedding is gorgeous.

 Lost track of who's areas these were.  It was hard for me to remember to take pictures because I was so into the shopping.

It was a fun, beautiful show and so worth the trip.  I'll try to post later this week about the rest of the trip.  We went to another little town down the road from Franklin called Lieper's Fork where they were having a city-wide sale.  That's where Mike from The Pickers lives and they were set up there.  I'll try to get my pictures ready and maybe get my treasures unpacked.....can't wait! 

Have a great Sunday!

Fall is definitely in the air!  I've even noticed leaves beginning to fall so decided if I wanted some hydrangeas to dry, I'd better get it done.  A friend of mine has beautiful hydrangeas of several different varieties and she's nice enough to let me cut them.  Aren't they gorgeous.....

 

 

They dried enough that I could take some to Leola's.  Love them in this primitive basket.



 Bought this wonderful European wash stand from a friend and took it to the shop also.  Almost kept it!

 



It's supposed to be a cool weekend and I soooooo hope that's true.  The heat makes me so lazy and non-productive and I have so many projects awaiting me in the garage.  My nice neighbor who sometimes helps me is working on a table.  I found a wonderful old table top and then found four great legs.  Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Last weekend my sisters and I went to a big auction in Sarcoxie, MO.  It was the widow of Gene Taylor's auction and he was a U.S. senator from Missouri many years ago.  We lived in LaRussell before he became a senator and my dad bought his Ford pickups from Mr. Taylor.  Anyway, it was a wonderful auction and I found several treasures.  I always concentrate on primitives and was lucky enough to find some crocks, a really nice early beveled mirror, a few silver pieces and a great shelf.  A great sale!

Have 3 grandkids with me tonight and they need to get to bed.  No school tomorrow so they're staying up a little later.  Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Great photo shoot.....

Such a fun and busy weekend.  We spent Saturday afternoon stageing Kelli's front porch for a photo shoot with Vintage Style magazine.  Then Judy and I got up at the crack of dawn (& 28 degree temps.), went to Krispy Kreme (the hot light was on....how could we resist) and picked up a dozen and we were off to the farm.  It was a beautiful morning and the perfect time for a photo session.

We loved the way it turned out but we were lucky to have Kelli's front porch to work with.

We'll be reminding you next year when it comes out.  This week we start on Leola's....redecorating for Christmas Open House.  It's going to be amazing.

Have a great week and don't forget to say a prayer for all our friends in the way of this hurricane.

Fall weekends......

I think I could have named my blog "fall weekends" because I love them almost as much as I love summer Sundays.  This was (and is) a beautiful one.  We did have some bad storms in our area last night but thankfully, we were spared the high winds.....just lots of rain.  Today, it is nice and cool and partly sunny.  The leaves are quickly turning and falling.

Sisters, Judy and Jean, and I went for a long drive yesterday back to a beautiful part of Missouri that so often gets overlooked.  It's in the area around Waynesville and Crocker.  Dry Creek Cabin is located in the country near Dixon.  This area has deep ravines and valleys with beautiful green rolling hills and limestone bluffs that hang over the rivers and creeks.  Land that has never been touched my man.  Almost every house has huge woodpiles ready for winter. 

Dry Creek Cabin had a fire going with a huge iron pot full of soup hanging over it.  There are lots of outbuildings and they're preparing to build a couple more.  Hopefully, by their Christmas open house that they have in December.

 

This is the cabin they live in and it's open for touring.  It's amazing!



This is the cabin for the shop.  Love the chicken nests on the side of the cabin.

This is a corn crib that they built.....they actually build and deliver them.  They also do a small outhouse.

Took so many pictures that I'll have to post the rest another day. 

Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday and the week ahead will be happy and peaceful.