Oh The Weather Outside Is?

I keep wanting to use the word frightful.Yes,with Christmas Thursday it is frightful. Stockings are still need to be stuffed,food bought and all that other mania that accompanies the season.Though I am enjoying the beauty of the snow and the quiet that it brings. It is kinda like natures ultimate screen saver outside. Everyone drive careful and happy junken trails with chains of course.

The Most Wonderful (Busy) Time of The Year

That is how that song should go. Is it just me or does the school decides "We need at least two concerts in December" Then the bosses go lets have a Christmas party! Oh wait let me fit that in with all the decorating,cooking,Post Office runs and the dreaded shopping.Now I am always up for hardcore junken, but put me in at the Mall(the regular kind or Wal-Mart)and I turn into a Guppy,yes I feel like I am ready to go belly-up. Give me a garage door to wait at anytime,not those box stores with their slick floors and canned Music.Thank God I have friends and family that like gifts from LE E'COUTER! Happy Junken Trails.

Blackberry Christmas

The Historic Fairmount Grange is dressed for a Blackberry Christmas. Lites twinkle,primitive country hand-made goods await new homes to be treasured in.We have experimented with new colors and styles to keep it unexpected. Painted ornaments even a 5 foot tall jester to keep it fun. Mandy is back with her coffee and great food. So what a great place to go and get away from the mundane. Hope to see you there. Happy Junken Trails, it ends next Saturday!

Life Interruped

 
Every thing some times gets outta focus. Then there is an event that brings you back to stop and remember the important stuff. Thanks Susan for the bench. It was perfect.My mother-in-law,Violet was so full of life and will sorely be missed. She came from the "old country". She had to learn English before she could go to school. She taught all of her brothers and sisters to speak English. She was a farmers daughter,worked in the shipyards as a welder,was a PBX operator at the Greyhound bus station. Then ferried the troops from one base to another.A telephone operator for 35 years. Mother of three boys. I am glad I knew her and loved her.

Oddfellows

 
Halloween is one of my favorite things to display the riot of color, the black cats,smiling Jacko'Lanterns and well just the plain weird stuff. So when I was getting out my mantle display stuff I found this old image. It is of a Odd Fellow "float", so I had asked the person I had purchased it from about it and was told that one of the duties of the Odd Fellows was to provide Christian burials for those that couldn't afford one. Which I thought was a pretty kind thing.
So it has been added to my stash of "odd stuff". I'll post the finished display soon. Happy Junken Trails!

A Bunch of Flowers

 

Blackberry Junction this Fall was a bunch of flowers! Lots of great folks coming by to say hello and take a treasure home with them. Its the best part of the biz to know someone is going to value your merchandise and in a small way incorporate a part of the show into their home and history. Hopefully to be handed down and cherished by someone else. Thanks to all the great vendors and designers. A big hug to Larena and Jason for being sooo cool. Happy Junken Trails

In the Mags this Month

 
While leafing thru my new Country Home I saw one of the spoon Chandliers like we have at Blackberry Junction. Which I thought was pretty cool. So I thought I would share the picture with you. Happy Junken Trails too You!