Bell Buckle Day 2 2013

This is the start of the second day of the Bell Buckle Craft Show. It was very chilly hat and gloves weather and very very foggy you couldn't see the car in front of you  but when the sun came out it warmed up nicely and the fog lifted away and set the day for another  Beautiful  show day !

Sunday we had to be there by 7;30 a.m. and the sun didn't start to show through until about 10 a.m. By that time the last of the fog was burning off and we all started peeling of the layers of cloths and it turned out to be another FANTASTIC Day !

As I was walking around in the morning taking these pictures I spotted a couple of houses that caught my eye they were just very quaint looking and I guess I just thought they were kinda  cool !

These are some Beautiful hand crafted wood furniture.

This is my son Chace just before we packed up to end another Fantastic weekend in Bell Buckle Tennessee at our Maple Street Craft Fair ! God and Mother nature Blessed us with 3 BEAUTIFUL days and lots of  

This is Art & Jackie they own Jackie's Korner

To close off the day Chace & I went and looked up a fellow crafter that usually are in our group but wasn't sure they were going to make it this year so they were located a couple of rows over & we all really missed them ! Next year we are looking forward to see them across from us !

 

Well sorry it took a while for part two. I hope to be able to jump right back on my blog and get into blogging a lot more often !

 

Hope Y'all Have A Great Thanksgiving !

Cheryl

 

Bell Buckle Tenn 2013 Another GREAT Show Day ! !!

This sign says it all for me and that's exactly what this craft show was all about  ! I would say that about 90 % of the whole show which really  consists of three shows in Bell Buckle Tennessee every year in October  the downtown show , the Webb School show and the Maple Street Show & at a rough guess I would say that there is probably 600 or so craft booths it's a GREAT show !!

Then there is this sign Buy American !! Yes to this sign also !

Downtown Bell Buckle TN

My parking permit

This is Friday October 18 th set up day for everybody. The boy in the orange shirt was another crafters son who was helping my son put up our tent. He was such a big help for us Thank You ! And Thank You Jack for the use of your step stool we forgot ours and he & his wife run the food truck next to us . Jack said he normally doesn't leave it out so he must have known I would need it that's why it was out !

 

All the tents were starting to come together and all the spaces were being taken up in a blink of an eye.

This is one of the side streets between the Webb side and the Maple street side and both sides of the street were packed full of tents.

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This is the row of tents off maple street that we were on, I  am facing the road and there is like a food truck and 8 more tents behind me.

This is my  son Chace he goes on every craft show with me and helps. He is  sitting here while I go walk around and take pictures,

Here's our row of tents opened up on Saturday morning. We got up at 4;30 a.m. because we needed to be there by 6;00 a.m. so we could park before they blocked off the streets. These first few pictures were taken early on Saturday morning just as all the action was beginning to get off to a Great start.

This is a set of craft tents behind us there are just rows of craft tents all over and no it really isn't crowded it's just a very big show !

These tents in this picture below are over across the street on the Webb side and over there is also where theres like a food court alley and where the set up for the music.

my tent towards evening with the lights on.

The craft goers were starting to wander around, once they started coming they started really coming it was a fantastic day !!

This spot here that you are looking at is where they put on all the shows there's a small stage and all the craft goers sit on the bales of hay and all over the ground.

This picture is where I am standing back looking down towards my tent it's the first white tent on the right.

These people here are sitting on the hay bales waiting for the music to start and I suppose eating and relaxing after all there are so many craft tents to look at.

Just more pictures of people enjoying their day and what a Beautiful day it was  a little chilly in the morning but then what a Great day !!!



Well this is at the end of the day on Saturday everybody was closing down for the evening after all tomorrow is another day and hopefully it will be just as beautiful and full of craft goers again. I hope you enjoyed looking at the Bell Buckle Craft Show Part ! or should I say Day's 1 & 2 . I will post about Sunday of the Bell Buckle Craft Show Part 2

 

any comments please post !

 

Until The Next Time !

 

Cheryl

What My Garden ??

Look what I found in my garden, isn't he pretty ? He or she was actually in my big garden, I did start a Butterfly Garden this year but it's to young  to attract them yet.

Wow it's been a long time since I have posted on my blog I'm Sorry this summer has really kept me busy! This was the first year since we have lived here that we put in a vegetable garden along with my gourd garden. We completely moved the garden to another spot in our yard, actually we put it outside of our fenced yard in a different area which yep meant we had to rototill and work the ground then put up fencing  to hopefully keep the unwanted critters out! Well we thought the fence was doing a good job NOT we started finding half eaten tomatoes, the lettuce and spinach was disappearing and yes that good looking strawberry in the picture above gone the next day when I went to go pick it never got one strawberry! When I came out to pick it I saw about 5 bunnies scattering through the garden! So off to the farm co-op and we bought some small chicken wire and wrapped the entire fence around the garden in hopes this would keep the rabbits out. It seemed to be working .

The garden was looking really good, lots of new garden growth, new buds, and the gourds were flowering like crazy .We thought we had conquered the invasion of the bunnies....WRONG even though the holes in the chicken wire were only 1inch the wire is so flexible they were able to squeeze in between it. I had read somewhere of many ways to prevent rabbits from invading your gardens like soak some corn Cobb's in vinegar and spread them in different parts of the garden or put clumps of hair around the garden. But we didn't try any of this maybe next year if needed.

 

Yes my dog Kaiden likes to keep a good watch of my gardens ( I think ) or maybe it's just a Good watch on those bunny rabbits ! At least when he's out in the yard the bunnies are no where to be found !

We've been really happy that the gardens did really good this summer and although they need some improvement which we learned this year, next year we hope to make some changes .I thought I would post some pictures of my garden and it's growth through out this summer.

Kaiden watching over the gardens !

These are just some of the harvest of vegetables from our garden this year  !

This seems to be the way my gourds like to grow in the garden up and all over the fence ! They do grow on the ground also but the fence seems to be the way they like best !

The martin house gourds are on the big side fence and the apples are growing up on the back fence.

As you can see from this picture they do grow very nicely on the fence and it makes for a great arbor and support for them.

These pictures I took a couple of weeks ago as the garden was  at the end of it's growing season. The gourds are beautiful we are really happy with the way they turned out this year !

The gourds even took over our fenced storage!

Here they are hanging on the fence after all the vines started dying off which is a good thing.

There was still a little part of the gourd garden which wasn't quite ready to give up and this part decided to take up home on my husbands panel van ! They grew all over the back & top and when we took a look the gourds on this vine were of very good size, the picture below is one of the gourds that was hanging off the back bumper nice ! 

Here's a close up of a few more that are hanging from the back doors of the panel van, my husband wasn't to happy but it made for another GREAT growing spot for the gourds, not real good for the van ! And you can betcha next year the panel van will be moved to another spot in the yard away from the garden !

Yep Kaiden wanted another picture taken !!

This is the gourd haul from my garden this year about 40 martins & 20 apples. So here they will sit all winter so they can dry out and cure , so next year they will be ready for me to start creating on my gourd canvas !

I hope you enjoyed looking at my summer garden! Right now I am painting and creating I have a big craft show coming up at the end of the month it's the Big Bell Buckle Show here in Middle Tennessee

 

Until the next time ( hopefully sooner than later )

 

Cheryl