Wimot Community Association Holiday Craft Fair

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WCA HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR

Saturday, December 7th  9 AM – 3 PM

Location:  New London Outing Club Indoor Center (former middle school gym)  

                                                 114 Cougar Court, New London

More than 65 crafters featuring:

* Baked Goods     * Baskets     * Bat Houses     * Doll clothes & furniture

* Hand-sewn items     * Jewelry     * Knits, woven & felted items

* Ornaments     * Pottery     * Raffle and much more!

 * Famous Wilmot Ladies Aid Cookie Walk   * Hot Lunch, Beverages & Treats

http://www.wilmotcommunityassoc.com/holiday-craft-fair-vendors/

Anne Mitts and I will be setting up Friday night. We hope for a good show, and great sales this year. It is SO much better having us all under one roof!!! And, I think it is well worth the $100, plus a donation for the raffle, for a 10x10' booth in New London!!!

5th Annual Green Mountain Fiber Fesival

https://greenmountainfiberfestival.com/

http://www.greenmountainfiberfestival.com/vendors.html    She has a very nice picture of Christopher as a 6 month old for our vendor info.

I need to go load the car for the festival, and get a Shetland fleece washed, and pack & price some Icelandic fleeces. So, I am out of here!!

Have a wonderful Thursday all and hope to see you at the Festival!!!

Thinking of next year's garden

This blog has some wonderful ideas that I may incorporate in the my gardens!

http://chiotsrun.com/2009/03/19/square-foot-gardening-templates/

I love her raised beds, but I don't want to waste what little space I have been given for gardens. The rest of the land is for the animals. So I get creative using every square inch I have with companion planting. My favorite book is Carrots Love Tomatoes. This is the one I have-
http://www.amazon.com/Carrots-Love-Tomatoes-Companion-Successful/dp/0882660640/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385048479&sr=8-3&keywords=carrots+love+tomatoes .
But, Amazon has plenty of others like it.
 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=carrots%20love%20tomatoes&sprefix=Carrots+Love+T%2Caps%2C295&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acarrots%20love%20tomatoes

And, if you don't want to buy a book, you can go to this web site for a list of companion plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants

Now, if I could get rid of the front lawn, it would look like this!
http://www.thegardenglove.com/easy-steps-to-square-foot-garden-success/

Another interesting site.
http://www.squarefootgardeningtips.com/

Trying Craigslist one more time.

http://nh.craigslist.org/grd/4204133168.html

I have had good success with buying, but not so much with selling. A scammer tried to part me with my money, never mind the sheep, twice. I am willing to try one last time.

We are trying to sell Monster, a 90% Dorset X 10% Border Leicester/Jacob ram lamb for sale. His mother is the cross and his father is 100% Horned Dorset. He was born in February and has been handled enough to keep him friendly, but not aggressively friendly.


I'd like to keep him, but when it comes to breeding time, I don't have space to have 3 rams at once breeding. Not with all of the lambs we kept and the old ladies that are in with the lambs.

This is one of the things that we do here on the farm

From Grit magazine-

http://www.grit.com/animals/natural-fibers-zksz13zgou.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=GRIT%20eNews&utm_campaign=11.01.13%20GRT

Christmas Countdown

Thanksgiving Countdown

Random farm pictures

 The 3 old girls and 11 lambs out on 'new pasture'.

 Foraging in the brush

 The pigs are getting big.

Even Valery's runt caught up with the 2 big boys!

 Jack Black is not so sure about snow on his back...

 Jack says, 'Hurry up and let me in!'

Psycho says, 'No!'

A large number of the girls waiting at the gate for their treat of bread.

Monster

Born February 2013.

90% Dorset, 10% Border Leicester/Jacol

$150

Full ram. Friendly, but not overly friendly!

Yarn giveaway

 Since we hit 300 likes on our Face Book page, we decided to have a yarn giveaway.

Go to our farm page, like the page and then tell us in the comments which yarn you'd

like to try to win. Jerry will pick the winner Halloween night at 6 pm EST.

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ewe-I-Farm/208179205917180

 Left to right-

Romney double twist, 240 yards

Wool with mohair, sock yarn, 400 yards

Wool with nylon, sock yarn, 400 yards

Horned Dorset, worsted

Horned Dorset,  fingering

And, at the very end of the post is the Wool with llama, fingering

Do you like oatmeal?

http://1840farm.com/2013/10/oatmeal-bread/

Wool Arts Tour

A HUGE thank you to all who came out this weekend and purchased from us. We will continue to have $10 adult fleeces and $15 lamb fleeces on sale until they are all gone. All of our fleeces will continue to be 20% off until they are gone. I will work this week getting them up on the fleece blog.

Pictures will be coming as soon as the truck is unpacked and the bag with the camera is located!!

TTFN

https://www.facebook.com/TheWoolArtsTour

http://www.woolartstournh.com/locations/SpinnerFarm.htm

VT Sheep and Wool festival

Friday-

 Behind the seat of the truck was full, as was the back!

 Before we setup!

 The horse trailer was 1/2 full!

 Saturday-

 Still setting up and working out some 'bugs'

 We were 'good to go' by 10 am opening!

 

 I like our setup under the overhang!

 Sunday-

 This was the 2nd time this weekend that we saw the goats

pulling the cart through the festival. I believe they were Cashmere.

 Jerry waiting for customers. Or closing time?

 Myself and Kathie Bryant at our booth.

 This was our backdrop this year.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_oil_plant

 On the way home Sunday afternoon-

We had a wonderful weekend in Tunbridge, VT this year. The sun was out in all its glory and the temperature hovered around 70-75. Despite the nice weather people came out and shopped. The yard work will be there next weekend!!

Next up is the Wool Arts Tour Columbus Day weekend. Hope to see you there!

http://www.woolartstournh.com/

http://www.woolartstournh.com/locations/SpinnerFarm.htm