Installing The 10,000 Snowflake Project

The Easton community is mounting a community-wide campaign to cut 10,000 paper snowflakes and paint the town white! The goal is to fill all the windows of Northampton and Third Streets (both occupied and vacant) with these symbols of community spirit by January 22nd. Hand cut snowflakes of all shapes and sizes will showcase our wonderful businesses AND highlight the available properties awaiting potential businesses. The best part about the program is that the entire community is getting involved and working together to help build our downtown.

We've actually already surged past our goal and are at 18,000 snowflakes and still counting. Here are a few pics of some vacant property windows I helped install today. I can't wait to see the entire downtown covered in snowflakes!

Vogue Knitting in the New Year

Happy New Year! Wow! I can't believe how fast November and December flew by. Life has been great but super busy lately, and I'm afraid I've fallen behind with the blog. I have lots to post, and hope to get everything caught up in the next few days (pics from Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, the new exhibit...).

In the meantime, I wanted to post a few pics (click to see them larger) of one of our note cards of a hand-drawn ball of yarn (by the masterful Ron Morris, of course) that's featured in the Winter 2010 Vogue Knitting magazine among several "note cards for knitters". It's beyond cool, and we're so excited!!

Art for Change

This year's Art for Change fundraiser of $35.00 art benefited Easton's Safe Harbor, a transitional homeless shelter for single men and women. With over 50 submissions and a great turn-out, a brilliant time was had! In fact, the pieces went so fast, we didn't get a chance to take a pic of the installation before the began flying out the door!
To see available pieces, click here.

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!