Plum Creek Market Festival

If you are going to be anywhere near Seward, Nebraska tomorrow - you won't want to miss this! The Plum Creek Literacy Festival is going on at Concordia University - amazing event, but even more fun is the Plum Creek Market Festival going on at the Liberty House (corner of 4th and Moffitt). There will be antiques, my stuff, Miss Leah's stuff , and much more! If it's as windy tomorrow as it is today, you won't even have to get out of your car - just open your windows and things will blow in! It will, of course, be more fun to get out and shop. The best part for me? I get to hang out with Leah all day! She is an amazing vortex of clever creativity and wit. Come see us!!

Other events in Seward that day: a Cat Show, a Husker Chop Dinner, a Car Boot Sale, a motorcycle rally, a pumpkin patch.... contact the Chamber for more information 402-643-4189.

I Love Fall

I just took Rumple for a little walk - he needs to burn off some energy since I just discovered that he took half the clothes off the clothesline and was swinging them around and running through the yard with them....tons of room to run and play and he chooses the clothesline.

Anyway...the trees are changing - it's a beautiful fall day - and the spiders are out scaring the holy beejeebers out of me.

Go Bulldogs - and more...

Tomorrow is Concordia University's Homecoming Game. Before the game the University has invited some of us local alumni to set up our wares along side some of the Student Groups. So - if you are an Alumni or would just like to look like one, I've made a bunch of Concordia University Alumni {or Bulldog} charms! See you there...
...a sneak peek at the new ornament style for this year...

How cool are these personalized charms? Special order with monograms. Love them!

Celebrate Your Friends

When I lived in Dallas I met the most wonderful person at an SMU party. Neither of us were from SMU, and we started chatting and found that we had a lot in common. Kathy and I became great friends and had some wild adventures. We each left Dallas to pursue other lives and kept in touch at Christmas - Kathy always being better at it than me. This weekend Kathy came to Two Dog Pond for a visit. She's still the same amazing person - we picked up right where we left off 15 years ago...except this time nothing we did could have landed us in jail!! {I just threw that in to see if you are still reading this....}

Those t-shirts? I made them. Me and my Soft Scrub. If I can find the photos, I'll post the ones of us in Dallas in the sweatshirts I made back then - Kathy was always a good sport about being a model with me while our friend Monty pretended he was a photographer....

FOUND THEM!!

...Matt, Mark, Jonathon - your moms were dorks. But we had fun!!!

If you lived through the 80's - you're probably singing "what a feeling" from FlashDance about now...

Fall Harvest Festival at Geo Spencer Vineyard

Gladys and Barb, the Vineyard Goddesses who make these events happen, wearing lovely grapewreath crowns were greeting people as they arrived.
My space was in corner of the Big White Tent - I was thankful for the protection from the wild winds that were blowing.

Two Dog Pond wares.

...there were horse drawn carriage rides - {my apologies to Walter the Horse for cutting off his head}

....Grape stomping contests and much more.

Round Charms Are Coming

I am so excited! The round Swiss Made Glass Watch Crystals I ordered arrived today. The first thing I made was - what else? - little map earrings. If you go to the Fall Harvest Festival at the Vineyard in Gibbon tomorrow, I'll be the one wearing these. Next week I'll make more and you can wear them too! Who needs GPS?

front and back

I know it isn't round, but this is my new favorite necklace I'm making..."Bless this cowgirl ~ and the horse she rode in on" and just look at that cute pewter horseshoe and saint charm! So now you are thinking "She is so clever!" or "That woman is going straight to hell".

Fall Harvest Festival This Weekend

See the poster on the right side of your screen? The one from Geo Spencer Vineyard with the fun art on it? This Sunday is the Fall Harvest Festival - it will be a grape stomping~cork tossing~craft fair shopping~wine tasting~jazz playing~good time!! Come see me there. I'll be in the big white tent with my friend Shelley {if I can talk her into coming along - "I'll buy you wine"} It's really beautiful out there - for more information on the festival, go here: Geo Spencer Vineyard.

Zen Jelly

YUM! and look at that color!

...and now I'm going to go pick the rest of the wild plums and make wine out of it!

***From now on - when I go to the Farmer's Market and buy a jar of jelly that is marked $3.75, I will give the vendor $25.00 and tell her she is just not charging enough!***

Open Houses, Jellies, Bucket Head

This morning I had my third Open House this week - Thank you to Becky and to Dawn who opened their homes and let me put trays and trays of soldered charms about. AND - to Pat at the Liberty House who let me set up for a wonderful group of Quilters from "Out West" to shop. Thanks especially to all the wonderful people I met this week and for supporting my habit!

The above picture is part of my display at Liberty House this morning.... When I got home I decided to catch up on a few things and to learn how to make JELLY. I don't even eat jelly, but would like to know how to make it. These are some wild plums I picked from the wild plum thickets on the North part of our acreage. {We call that area Widow's Point because when Tim spontaneously combusts, I'm going to build a log cabin on that 3 acres, move the chickens up there and sell everything else. Outrageous since we all know that Tim will probably outlive me by 50 years...} anyway - IF the jelly turns out, I'll share a picture of it. If it doesn't...just imagine how pretty it would have been.

After cutting up the plums and throwing the weird pieces in the 'scratch bucket', Rumple and I took them out for Cocky Rocky, Crazy White Chick, Mildred and the rest of the girls to enjoy. Rumple's job is to carry the bucket back to the house. He takes this very seriously and is quite proud of himself when he gets there without getting his head stuck in it.

Giving it 100%

What a good day! There were a dozen eggs! That means the chickens each laid an egg today - it's the first time that's happened and I am proud. AND - I just got the mail and there was a card from my son - that's a million times better than a dozen eggs! The large pear shaped egg is a pear. Some days are just better than others, aren't they?

Hightened Security at USB Ports Will Do it Everytime

OK - I got it figured out finally. I swear I just lost two days of work trying to figure out why my scanner, my card reader and my jump drive wouldn't work. Then this morning when it took 2 hours to print one document, I knew I had to take action. blah blah blah....now it's fixed. So - in celebration I played with the scanner and printer and other things that hadn't been working and look what I did:

This is my friend Pat when she was quite little

This is my friend Pat when I was done with her...

Now she just needs a Crown, some sparkles, and she's ready to play!

Double Ding-Dang It

It's not that I don't want to blog...it's just that my computer is on the fritz...Six USB ports and none of them seem to be working.

I'll just keep on soldering and canning and starting fires. Hope you're all having a lovely fall so far - it's beautiful weather here at Two Dog Pond.