From The Patch

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope that your Thanksgiving is filled with fun, love, and laughter this year!  The holidays (ALL of them) are such a great time to spend with friends and family.  Take some time and remember what's important!

Click here to watch Ben say Happy Thanksgiving on our YouTube channel,
or watch the embedded version above!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

A Photo Look at Fall & Halloween 2011

The store has been converted to Fall and Halloween - there's still so much coming, and lots more to do, but you may never notice that with everything that's out and up to look at!  We have more Fall and Halloween then we have had for a very long time - if ever - and it's already selling out!  Here's some photos we snapped so that you can see it all!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Little Bit of Falloween at The Weed Patch for 2010

Yep.  Pretty much the title says it all, I think.  These are some photos of the store - well, mostly Fall and Halloween displays, with a couple of new Park Designs displays thrown in.  We really have some great product, and the photos just can't seem to convey the magical feeling you get when you visit the store - but hopefully, for those of our fantastic customers that don't live in the area, this will still be interesting and fun. :)

                                     

Pumpkin Cookies to DIE for!

From the kitchen of Esther Cunningham, these Pumpkin Spice cookies are simply to die for.  Good thing it’s Halloween Season!

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
1 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, and salt.

In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.  Add pumpkin, egg, and 1 tsp vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy.  Mix in dry ingredients.  Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls, flatten slightly.

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes in preheated 350F oven.  Cool cookies, then drizzle glaze with fork.

Glaze: Combine confectioners’ sugar, milk, butter, and vanilla.  Add milk as needed to achieve drizzling consistency.

PLEASE NOTE:  These ARE the cookies that we had at the Harvest Festival this last year - the ones that we went through 300+ in a day and a half (and that's only 'cause we brought the second batch in the next day.... Enjoy!

Autumn Splendor

The prospect of raking it isn't so bad when you see how pretty it all really is...

Loving the October days....

Halloween by ESC Trading Company!

Our Fall & Halloween order has arrived from ESC Trading Company!  We opening boxes as fast as we can, which honestly has been so fun because the characters are just so jolly, silly, and adorable.  I only got through two boxes before I went home sick, so I only have a few pictures to share so far.  Here are a few:

Pumpkin Gent, by Lori Mitchell

Mr. Bo Jangles, by Lori Mitchell

Indian Guide, by Lori Mitchell

Indian Princess, by Lori Mitchell

Pumpkin Lad & Lass by Lori Mitchell

All About the Candy

Lil Halloween Boos

Check out our complete Halloween line here, and all Lori Mitchell here!  More to come!!

Fall is Coming!

Just a quick note to say that after many requests, tonight I started putting out our Fall, in small preview display.  The photos aren't great, I know, but it was late and there wasn't much in the way of lighting.

The display practically put itself together, it was so much fun.  You come around the corner to this spot and just BAM! you're hit with color.  I'm so excited for fall and Halloween this year, but of course I say that every year.  But this year it feels different (I say that every year too).  I guess life is just like that, there's always new experiences to enjoy, especially now with Ben being two, plenty old enough to really take joy in the festivities of the harvest season.  Seeing all these things come out makes me think of baking, picking pumpkins, burning yummy spicy candles and reading good books under wooly blankies...  Sigh!!!  I just can't wait.

Blossom Bucket Fall is Here!!

I know a lot of you have been waiting anxiously for our ever popular Blossom Bucket to arrive, and I'm happy to announce that it is finally here!  About 90% of our fall, Halloween, and thanksgiving Blossom Bucket order arrived just this last Friday, and it has been like Christmas at the house opening it all.  For those of you with preorders, we'll get those out to you this coming weekend.  For the rest of you, I recommend getting your orders early, because it is already selling fast, and once its one, its usually gone! 

P.S.  For those of you local folks, this stuff won't go out until August, so you won't find it in the store.  However, feel free to place an order online, we'll pull it together for you, and you can come pick it up!

Here are some photos....

This is just a sampling of all the fantastic designs of artists such as Barbara Lloyd, Suzi Skoglund, Heather Myers, and more!  Click here to see our complete offering of Blossom Bucket figurines!

Studio Bakeshop

Oh my yes, are we cooking up some great things in the artsy-fartsy studio bakeshop!  Sneak peeks just for you....

Great things to come!  Ooooo, I can't wait...

Pumpkin Picking

Chris and I find traditions very important.  There are just certain things you do at certain times.  We are not dogmatic or regimented about them – we simply love traditions because they are fun and provide a fantastic excuse to take a break and go do something together as a family. 

Last Saturday we packed up Benjamin and headed over to Craven Farm in our beloved Snohomish so that Benjamin could having his first experience with picking out the all-important Halloween pumpkin. 

 

We had no illusions that he would actually know what Halloween was, or care about a pumpkin as anything more than one of about a billion toys covering the whole festival area, but we knew the experience itself would be great fun for him, and memorable at the very least for us.  We were not disappointed. 

Craven Farm is nestled in Snohomish’s farmlands (being a farm, this of course makes sense), and with the day being right in line with most of this fall so far (weather-wise), the place absolutely sparkled.  You walk into a clean open area surrounded by various barn-like outbuildings, with wood chips underfoot, and pumpkins and gourds of every size, shape, and color strewn all about the yard, along with chrysanthemums, a couple fair-food stands, and plenty of contraptions for kids to crawl into and over while parents snap endless photos.  We of course were among them.  

I think at first when we put down, he was incredulous that he could run free, relatively uninhibited, and was shy at first. 

That lasted about five minutes.  And then he was everywhere, which was Ok because they place is extremely kid friendly. 

They even have a little petting zoo, so Ben got to see kittens, bunnies, goats, geese, chickens, and ducks, all of which he joyfully named “wa-wa’s”.  (That’s Ben-ese for cat, and really any other pet-like animal).

  

 

We never did get a pumpkin, which we expected – by the time Ben had enjoyed every toy there, he was exhausted and never would have lasted in the line, even though it moved pretty quickly.  We packed him back up in the car and he was asleep inside two minutes.  We picked up a pumpkin at the local farm stand by our house, and he just slept.

A very good recipe for a successful nap, if you ask me!