It's a frosty day at the farmette. The roof of the barn and the garage are white. There's a definite chill in the air and winter is giving us a preview.
For me, it's not quite Christmas time yet. Aside from my knitting projects, I don't festoon the farmette until early December. Don't want to rush the season.
I did, however, visit the Neustadt Christmas Craft sale yesterday. Wow. I think the village population quintupled. There were so many cars, I had to park out on the highway and walk into the community centre (about three blocks, so not too bad).
At 10:30 a.m. the place was packed.
There were knitted hats, mitts, scarves and gloves, wooden furniture, candles, evergreen centrepieces and everything else you can imagine. I, of course, went straight to the baked goods and got gigantic blueberry scones from this lovely lady from Harriston.
One of my favourite vendors is the lady who owns Kilts to Kushions. She upcycles material (sometimes tartans) into these wonderful throw pillows and she's a fixture at all the local craft shows. I've bought a few things over the years and couldn't resist the whimsical sheep pattern on these, so I got them for the new second floor recreational room. Cripes it's actually been more than a year since we got that renovation done. Time flies.
I also finally got the painting framed that I bought a few weeks ago when Rob and I went on the Art Studio Tour.
Here it is in situ in the same room.
I put it behind the rocking chair we bought at an auction in eastern Ontario donkey's years ago. I think we were actually still living in Toronto, so that's gotta be in the early 1990s. Yikes.
We also got the steam punk prints framed that I got on line this summer after we met the artist in Stratford.
We took all of them to the talented Tim Dyck, who owns the Colour Jar in Durham.
I just love the wee penguin with the metal flipper and the cat (of course) with the purple ascot and aviator glasses.
It's fun to (slowly) decorate the room with odd bits that we find while out on the road. They are reminders of the great people we meet along the way. Until next week.
Gratuitous cat photo courtesy of Fred, who managed to sprawl on his favourite scratch pad while parking his butt in his favourite tunnel.
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