Vintage Gathering and Barn House Fall Finalie

Vintage Gathering and Barn House are the highlights for this weekend, Saturday the 25th. The line up for both of these sales will be at the top for both of these sales. Vintage Gathering starts at 8:00am and then you can go onto Barn House. Check out their sites on my sidebar for directions and more information. These photos were taken at Vintage Gathering at their last sale in July, just to entice you to go and check them out.
How about a little red for the cowgirl in all of us?
I missed this treasure last time, darn.

You might even see one of these girls strutting around.

A romantic setting here, with the chandelier and a make shift bench.
Some great sewing notions have been known to be a great find.
Some roses make this table setting so special.
Kathy from Vintage Gathering and the hostess for this sale, makes these signs, she can do custom signs for you.
How can these Raggedy Ann's not be happy. I have a great collection of these Raggedy Ann and Andy's, some dating way back. I have a church pew full of them, they are there for my grandchildren to drag around and love.
Enjoy the weekend, with the Vintage Gathering and The Barn House Fall Sales upon us this coming weekend, on Saturday, you can't go wrong checking out all the treasures to be found. I will miss this sale, as I am going up to Mt Hood to stay in a cabin in the woods, I am sure there will be lots of stories to be told when I come back from this adventure. In the meantime have a great weekend, do something you LOVE!

Sunflower Celebrations for The Farm Girls

Farm Girls Katy, Erin, myself and Robin gathered on August 28th 2010 to have a Sunflower Birthday celebration. Erin was our host and our project was sunflower pincushions, that I brought to show the girls how to make. I bought a kit last year at Buggy Barn Quilt shop in Rearden, Washington, then we took it from there, creating our own take on this great happy pincushion to enjoy all year long. These pincushions were made from wool scraps and then were perched on an old bed spring.
Loved this yellow that Erin had to make her petals with, it was a very Happy Sunflower Yellow Pincushion, I am thinking.
I have a new love, this Feather weight sewing machine, wow, I have had her for awhile and decided it was time to get her out and use her, what have I been waiting for? She is so sturdy and sews like a charm.
As you can see this was a beautiful sunny day as you look out this window and see our example of a sunflower. Erin sent us each home with a bouquet of sunflowers to adorn our homes. Thank you Erin.
Robin working on her sunflower, like us all this little machine proved to be a jewel to work with.
If you have a Feather Weight sewing machine, drag it out and use it, it so worth the effort.
Our lunch was so very inviting, Erin used yellows and blues to adorn the table. Aprons tied around our chairs was a great touch to our table setting.
Our menu included a variety of quiches to choose from provide by Erin and I brought this tossed salad with day lily petals and rose petals to entice our taste buds.
This bread was a sweet potato, blueberry bread that Katy brought, it was very moist and yummy!
This fruit tart was absolutely beautiful and delicious all in one. What a better way to end the summer, than to have fresh fruit.
Blackberry crisp was provided by Robin, she said the recipe came from on line through the Smith Berry Farm website. It was very delicious.
Our custom is start our gathering sharing our journal pages and apron stories and whatever else we might want to share. Here Katy is sharing her recipe of Watermelon Limeade that came out of Organic Gardening Magazine. It proved to be very refreshing.
Farm Girl Robin gifted us with wooden carriers that her husband Mark built, Robin then made a cloth holder to wrap around our neck to hold the hillock while we picked our berries, pretty clever I might say.
Katy sharing her apron story, we always share something about the apron we are wearing, as we know just like every quilt has a story, so does an apron. Katy's apron belonged to her grandma, her mom told her that her grandma used to wear this apron for canning.
Robin and I showing off my latest quilt that I almost finished, as I write this I have since put the binding on it during my current visit to Montana. That post will soon come.
I shared with everyone some Lavender syrup, wrapped in these linen dish towels with a zinc label.
We made these sweet little sunflower pins, using twigs from nature.
This sunflower turned out pretty nice, don't you think?
A finished sunflower, a wonderful looking vintage sunflower oil can , some watermelon limeade, and our own Farm Girl raspberry jam. Don't forget Uncovered Ruby is having their anniversary sale this Saturday, you won't want to miss it.

Molly Mo's Summer Antique Fair

Queen Anne's Lace and Aqua blue go hand in hand with summer, along with the summer show at Molly Mo's on Saturday, August 21st. Diane has put together a great group of vendors for this show. My choice for this day was to make the trek to Sublimity, Oregon to this fun sale. I was not disappointed.
This is Carol and myself, I met Carol last year at Molly Mo's sale, we instantly hit it off. I ran into Carol at the Mary Jane Store in Courde'lane Idaho last June, she introduced herself as my "blogger" stocker, with my daughter standing there, you can only imagine what Heather thought at first, until we explained what the conversation was about, then Heather was OK with it. Carol is not a blogger but follows many of our blogs. I feel blessed to have met her.
Some of Carol's creations, she is a beautiful sewer and a great new friend from this last year.
Love these sunflowers and these primitive buckets, just with the right amount of ageing.
Here is Martha of Vintage Trifles, what a creative lady, and she is one of the sweetest people I have gotten to know this last year.
Love these chandeliers, the options are endless as to what you can hang from them. What would you hang from one, if you had one?
Summer flower bouquets are such a joy to indulge in, especially in white pitchers or any vintage containers, wouldn't you agree?
Don't you just love those aqua blue canning jars? Well I sure do, they are so multi purposing.
Joy and Betty enjoying some time catching up. We have missed not seeing Betty.
Joy's inviting setting, doesn't this make you want to take a little rest? Or to purchase so you can create this in your own setting.
A collection of some of Joy's necklaces, all unique in their own way.
Diane of Molly Mo's had these great light fixtures from old funnels, what a great idea.
This ruffled tierd apron certainly captured my eyes.
Traveling the back roads home to the 205, I catch a glimpses of a field of yellow and blue, I make a decision to turn around and go back to see if I could get some kind of photo, well the road I decided to turn around at took me to this surprise. I felt like I had hit the "mother lode" with ah in my heart I felt so blessed to see such a sight. It all conjured up all kinds of memories from the past.
Stay tuned to my next post as the Farm Girls create their own sunflowers.

Barn House Flea Market cont.

These happy flowers were such a welcoming site. The Barn House Flea Market was the best. Their next show is in September, the 25th, be sure and mark your calenders. Also they have a online site for buying through out the year, so check it out.
Those Barn House Boys sure know how to create a setting. Don't you think? I just want to take it all home.
How is this for contrast of texture, a beautiful glass chandelier against that tin roof.
I thought this was a great shot of these ladies, Timi on left and Heather third from the left, the other ladies I do not know. Timi runs a tour bus to all these great sales, and has her own sale coming up in October. Heather Bullard we all know is a beautiful person, as well as a very talented lady.
This galvanized water can was so awesome, look at the initial "M" right up my alley don't you think? With a last name Muma, how could I go wrong? Debi and Lauri of Worthy Goods provided this great piece.
I think this basket of bread, rosemary would be a great addition to some one's dinner, don't you?
This bed warmer was a great vase for this hydrangea, Sue from Bella Shabby had these, what a great find. One did come home with me.
These sunflowers were sure happy with the weather this day.
This was a cool picture I captured, without getting any one in it.
Now how cool is this cool egg container? I have never seen anything like this before, now I am seeing them every where. Um!
These cute little pouches were provided by Liz of Seabold, one came home for me. I love her booth it is so clean and crisp.
This cotton gown that was on this dress form was so tempting for me.
Closer view of these wonderful necklaces.
Deb from Retreat Designs, always looking so beautiful. This is one very creative lady.
One of my favorite colors (blue) soft blue that is. To me it is so refreshing and cool.
Any one for a a bike ride?
The setting was perfect for an outdoor relaxing complete with music.
Katherine's cupcake was worth every indulgent I partook of. A special treat for me. Also her chicken skewers and Greek salad was so delicious. Any way this weekend don't forget Worthy Goods Vintage Fair in Camas, Washington. A lot of great vendors will be there.