All is calm

We wish you a Merry Christmas ...
and a Happy New Year !

Finishing Touches !

We are rushing around like chickens with their heads .....
no, no, wait!

Not so appropriate for our
2009 Yuletide Celebration
Holiday Market in the Barn
with the theme "All Creatures Great & Small" !!!

Let's just say we are busy bees at The Farm.

Wreaths are hung, and tree trimmings are on display.
The goal is to provide a warm and festive setting
for the wares of our Artisans and Antiques Dealers,
all perfect and wonderful,
remarkable and staggering,
meritorious and commendable, and ....swell!

It's this Saturday!
December 5, 2009
9 am to 4 pm

Now where did I put the snow goose with
the little Christmas greens in his mouth . . .

Bee Tree Pottery

We are profiling
Bee Tree Pottery today.

Tom's wonderful cabin studio in southern Indiana
brims with his redware pottery.
To visit is a gift in itself, as Tom and Ruth welcome guests
to their "heritage" farm, passed through Ruth's family.
As the recipient of one of Tom's beautiful platters, I can confirm that
his work makes a statement in my home.
I am so proud to know both Tom and Ruth
and to have such fine craftsmanship at our show
is truly a blessing.

A recent email from Tom says . . .
" I have created a special 16 inch platter based on Genesis,
the fifth day of Creation;
when creatures swarm from the seas and birds fill the heavens.
It is a redware platter, 18th century style,
with sgraffito, feathering and marbeling decoration.
It will be 'borned' to the world this Thursday, just in time
for the 'All Creatures Great and Small'
Yuletide Celebration."

Visit Tom on the web at
www.beetreepottery.com

Don't miss Bee Tree Pottery, and all our other
fine artisans and dealers this
Saturday, December 5, 2009
9 am to 4 pm.

Vendor Profile

As we count down our days until The Yuletide Celebration Holiday Market in the Barn, we begin our vendor profiles with a personal favorite of mine - a mother couldn't be prouder of her daughter!

Nice Girls Jewelry Company

www.nicegirlsjewelry.blogspot.com

This holiday season, Nice Girls Jewelry Co. will be bringing you a new line of vibrant polymer clay jewelry along with our hand crafted lampwork jewelry, and new mixed media hand-dyed wool roving felted pieces. Gretchen and Benni juggle day jobs and motherhood, but sneak creative moments to design their ever increasing line of bangles, baubles, and beads which they debut twice a year at select shows around the Midwest.

See them along with our other fine vendors . . .
Saturday, December 5, 2009
9 am to 4 pm

The List!!!!!

Not this List !

But this list . . . the one with our

2009 Yuletide Celebration
Holiday Market in the Barn
artisans and vendors!

Antiques
Tim Cosper Antiques
Ugly Dog Collectibles
Widows Dowry
Winterberry

Textiles
Stacy Nash Primitives
The Red Saltbox
Nan Talley Felt

Fine Gift
Carrie Maddock Photography
Nice Girls Jewelry Company

Artisan Reproductions
A CommonCloth
Bee Tree Pottery
Lily Richter Theorems
Sweitzer & Sweitzer
Wax Portraits

Vendor details upcoming.
This is such a fine and intimate show,
and one our area is so lucky to have!

At this time of careful decision making,
choosing to support our local and regional artists, artisans, and dealers
by keeping our dollars closer to home, makes more sense than ever before.

Join us!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
9 am to 5 pm.

Indian Summer

So still and quiet - except for the eerie dancing shadows of the nearby towering hardwoods that cast late day images to the west.
It is a peaceful time, private somehow.

The pots on the window ledge in our Red Barn bloom bright red
as they stand watch over our beloved Farmhouse at Sycamore Farm.

The patio pots bloom on - surely the last of this Indian Summer!

This is a good time . . . to reflect, to be thankful, and to look to the future.
Soon we will be busy with plans and preparations for our

3rd Annual Yuletide Celebration
Holiday Market in the Barn.

We have old friends and new . . . and several surprises in store!
It is a gift - this Market - from us to you!
This year, more than ever, we look forward to welcoming you.
It is our best time of the year!

Quiet November

Autumn has given us one last taste of sun and warmth!
Outside my window, the willow tree sways ever gently in a warm breeze.

It is quiet on the Farm . . . a lone traveler has checked in for the night.

Though my battery is threatening to give out, I dashed out
to the garden for some last sunny pictures.

White radishes and turnips still lay beneath the cool soil.
Sage and rosemary continue to flourish.