Turkey Day and the Football Game

After a morning spent partaking in the traditional Easton/Phillipsburg High School football game at Lafayette College, we all (Momma and Poppa Jones were in town) came back to the house to cook-up a Thanksgiving feast.

The Golden Pumpkin Contest and Masquerade Extraveganza!

Jack and Lindsay, winners of Most Creative Pumpkin and the Golden Pumpkin.

Karen Johnson as Super Scarecrow!!

Winner of the Prettiest Pumpkin Award

Winner of the Most Creative Pumpkin award.

Winner of the Scariest Pumpkin Award.

Farmer's Market and Flowers

It's hard to believe that six months have passed by and we're at the end of the 2009 Easton Farmer's Market season. Here's a snapshot of the booth and a few close-ups of our autumnal floral arrangements of dahlias, burning bush, zinnias, and maple.

Garden Update - Late Fall

A Baby Shower for Sassafras

Our dear friends Jessica and Chris are expecting their first baby in early January. We hosted a vegan baby shower, played a modified version of Scrabble (using only possible baby names and nicknames), and had an all around grand time. The chocolate buttercream cake above was AMAZING and made by Vegan Treats in Bethehem, PA - out of this world!!

The Sidewalk Pumpkin Patch

As part of our Seasonal Sidewalk project, for the month of October there will be a Sidewalk Pumpkin Patch in front of our Mercantile Home store in Easton. Today, was day number 1. Christmas Trees, garland, and wreaths will follow in November and December.

Pumpkin Patch Prius

Ron and I went up to the farm this afternoon and selected a car load of pumpkins, squashes, and gourds for the Great Pumpkin Party and our seasonal sidewalk displays and sales which start tomorrow at Mercantile Home.

Sweet Sacks for the Market

It's been a very full and fantastic week, but we always find time for creative play. This afternoon we made Sweet Sack Totes out of old t-shirts that we hand dyed and then painted and sewed into bags. Great market backs, trick-or-treat sacks, or whatever. Anyway, we had fun!

The SURPRISE!

Misty Saturday Morning

Today was a beautiful cold, wet, misty and grey morning which provided a very dramatic backdrop to the incredibly vivid flowers that we brought inside (top) and then arranged (below) with Teddy's help for the Easton Farmers Market.

Glory in the Morning

f&c NYC Sneak Peek

Ron and I spent yesterday afternoon installing the first wave of artwork we've curated for the new foley&cox showroom space in NYC. It's all still "in-progress" with more superb examples of antique furniture and contemporary art on the way, but, as a teaser, here's a gorgeous little corner with a photographic work by J.T. Kirkland.