End of the Growing Season

Tomatoes are finished, Autumn is here and out spring the mums in just the right Fall colors!

Don't ya just love the colors of the season?

Autumn Begins!

My favorite time of year!

Let the fun begin!

 Hang out the decorations:

Paperbag Art by pruittcreations

 Spruce up the table:

Table Runner  by pruittcreations

and . . .

I think I'll go make a pie!

Friday Fence Post #3 - Blustery Day

Autumn Wordless Wednesday

Reminiscing about Yesteryear and Apples

Abby rose from her nap a little hungry,

"Working the fields yesterday wore me out! Guess I'm not a young as I used to be."

She reached for a apple from the fruit bowl on the kitchen counter. She always had a fruit bowl filled with bananas, apples, oranges, kiwi, and clementines or whatever was in season. She laughed,

"I remember this fruit bowl when my boys were growing up. They were always hungry. Three teen aged boys at the same time. Whew! I was tired of them going thru a whole box of cereal at one sitting or carving off of the ham in the refrig before I got home from work to bake it! So I told them if they had to eat between meals, they must chose FRUIT! Just fruit!"

She took a bite of her apple and pleasantly smiled.

"This is good! I'll buy this one again!"

She'd bought a new apple at the store, one that she had not tried before. It was a Jazz apple. A little research revealed that is was a new apple cultivated first in New Zealand from a Breaburn and a Gala.

"I've always loved apples. I remember, as a kid, eating an apple every day, if my mom had them. The old saying was: An apple a day keeps the doctor away! I'd grab one and head out the back door to play. I'd eat it, throw the core in the 55 gallon drum barrel at the far back of the yard, and run off to play some more! No sitting around for me! But back then we only had a few choices. Delicious, which I really didn't like, Jonathans and McIntosh and "green" apples as we called them. My mom told me the green ones were Pippins and that they were the very best for making pies. My sister and I knew when we saw our mom buy green apples at the store that a pie was in the making!! My mom still makes the best apple pie that any of us have every tasted."

Pippins are an 'old' apple variety. The Newtown Pippin is from the 1700's and was made famous by none other than Thomas Jefferson, who grew them in his orchard at Monticello. One of the first US apple exports to the UK which originated in Newtown, Long Island, NY. Sometimes known as Albemarle Pippins. The well-known Yellow Newtown Pippin is a close relative.

"I wondered if Suz has any Pippins? I know she found a supplier on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River. Or did she find them at the Hood River Fruit Loop? I'll ask her, I feel like a pie . . . ."

(An earlier post was about autumn on a Sauvie Island farm.)

http://pruitthandcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/10/weekend-fun.html

Holiday Plans????

Well, it's the 15th of August and summer is gone here--today it is only 65 degrees outside! I know there will be a few more hot days of summer, but school will be starting soon and then the holiday season will quickly follow! It's caused me to start thinking about my holiday plans!

So . . . I got out my little note book and started jotting down some plans. Some of them involve the family and holiday celebrations; but, of course, some of the plans are of a business nature. I considered doing some cute little lampwork zipper pulls for back to school, but with the CPSIA thing, I have decide to do some more research on the project. For more info on this check out this thread in the etsy forum:

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6249839

So, I decided to do some zipper pulls for adults! (See them in my design shop.)

Soon I will be posting several of my autumn quilted wall hangings and I am making some autumn table runners.

As for Christmas, I haven't decided if I want to do more items or just list the ones I already have. With the economy like it is, it is hard to make these decisions! Any suggestions? What are you doing with your inventory, if you have an etsy shop?????