5 BEAUTIFUL Thanksgiving products to make your table perfectly festive.

Thanksgiving is still between now and Christmas, and we have some absolutely beautiful decor for the remainder of the Fall season. And yes - if you're like us, we completely expect that you probably have your tree up while you're eating at a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner table! Please allow us to highlight just a few of the products we have that we love for Thanksgiving:

Number 1.

First up is this absolutely beautiful turkey. We have only a couple of these left in stock at the time of this blog post. I personally love this turkey - it's elegant and understated, and brings a level of sophistication to the table. It is beautifully detailed, with a mottled finish and a shiny glaze - so when someone splashes gravy on it, it's super easy to wipe off - which means it can sit right in the middle of everything, urging your feast-goers to eat just one more helping!

Number 2.

Secondly, we have only 2 of these amazing salt and pepper sets available. They're so elegant and beautiful, and they just feel great in your hand when you use them. They would pair very, very nicely with the ceramic turkey in number 1... just sayin'.

Number 3.

Third, we've got the perfect serving tray for your Thanksgiving feast... Whether you serve the turkey, a monster veggie platter, or the most epic snack tray you've ever put together - it will not only taste great, it will LOOK fantastic. This platter is beyond stunning - the photos just don't do it justice - the paint is an iridescent, full autumn color gradient, and it just shines.

Number 4.

Fourth, if you're going all out on your Thanksgiving table (and really, who doesn't?), you should consider some of these understated Fall Scatter Leaves for your table. They're so light - both literally, and visually - they add a touch of color and maintain the elegance of the table. Simply take them and scatter them around the table to bring the entire display all together!

Number 5.

Fifth (and finally!), we know you all LOVE spreaders and dip bowls, so take a gander at these beautiful Thanksgiving spreaders. We have three choices for your table - a turkey, a sunflower, or a leaf. These will go absolutely perfectly with that cheeseball that you make every year!

We hope you loved our little list, and that it gives you inspiration for your Thanksgiving table! Head on over to our website for these, and so many more wonderful treasures!

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K & K Arrows for Fall & Christmas - Available now!

Folks, that small window of time has arrived - we have our first run of K & K Arrow Replacements for Fall & Christmas available for special order now!  Only a few designs of each are available, and as is typical for this supplier, we have no clue when and if they'll be available again, so if you're thinking of getting one for the season, I highly recommend not waiting!  There aren't many things I will say that about, as I don't like to add any pressure to your shopping experience.  I make the exception for K & K Arrows, because the supplier is notoriously unpredictable with their stock availability - I can't recall the last time we actually had a number of seasonal arrows available AT THE TIME of the actual season!

Here are a few example of what's available now:

Family and Friends LED Rustic Pumpkin Arrow Replacement - This one is extra fun because it lights up!  The neutral colors are really great for the farm house fall look.

Scarecrow Arrow Replacement - The scarecrow is a popular choice, as you can put it out now at the end of summer, and keep it up all through fall until Christmas.

Turkey Arrow Replacement - I will say it is very rare to find the turkey available in the fall.  This guy is really pretty and vintage looking.


Orange Pumpkin Arrow Replacement - This is for the Orange version of the pumpkin (there's a mustard one as well, though not available yet this year), which is the most popular in our experience.

Illuminating Jack-O-Lantern Arrow Replacement - This Jack o'Lantern was new a few years ago, and was super popular - we didn't realize it at the time (the face is cute in and of itself!), but the box opens up and there's a candle cup inside for you to put an LED taper candle for some spooky lighting!

Snowman Birdhouse Arrow Replacement - There are some Christmas arrows available right now, I'm highlighting this snowman as it is a new one for us.  He doubles as a little birdhouse!


Snowflake Arrow Replacement - This snowflake has been around for a while, but with aaaaallllll the Christmas choices, this has always been the most popular.  It is simple, pretty, elegant, goes with just about any decorating style, and it can stay up past Christmas until the late winter holidays begin.

Pineapple Arrow Replacement - I know, I know, this one isn't a fall or Christmas design.  I am including it in this announcement however, because it has been super popular this year.  Every time it becomes available, it is oversold (and in fact a few of you have been waiting patiently for yours - yay, it will be here soon!).  If you've had your eye on a pineapple, now is your moment!

 

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We also currently have available all 3 choices of the arrow portion itself - the original black, the white version for those of you that prefer something lighter in your home, and the newer barnwood option, which looks great in a modern country farmhouse style home.

A quick note on shipping - it's a little tricky with these.  The arrows are oversized, and most of them are quite heavy.  Shipping cost is based on box dimensions, weight, and how far away it is shipping from us here in western Washington state.  Shipping is set based on the purchase of a single arrow, so if you purchase multiple arrows, you'll probably see a refund of the shipping difference after we pack and ship your box, especially if you live closer to where we are.  We do refund shipping overages on these arrows.

 

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Shop all K & K Arrow Replacements here.

Let us know if you have any questions about our K & K Arrow Replacements, and happy shopping! :)

14 Adorable Fall and Halloween Blossom Bucket figurines

Shop Blossom Bucket at The Weed Patch

For years and years, Blossom Bucket figurines have been a Fall and Halloween favorite of our customers. Here's 14 fun, creepy, and adorable pieces that you can put on a shelf to welcome the season into your home!

Grace or Harvest Block with Pumpkins

Sheep with Harvest Wagon

Candy or Wicked Plaque with Witch Hat

Creepy With Spider

Crow with Pumpkin Wagon

Favorite Time of Year Scarecrow

Halloween Pirate Boy With Full Treat Bag

I Love Mummy Blocks

Act Like a Monster

Monster Siblings Plaques

No Ghouls Allowed Blocks

Spooky Halloween Cat on Tombstone

Little Witches - Striped Hat with Bat and Star

Trick or Treat Pirate Boy

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Winter’s Light Series - Hand-Poured Soy Candles (Pumpkin Pie)

Continuing with our Winter’s Light Series (read about it here), today I am introducing our next Soy Candle fragrance…. Pumpkin Pie!

Pumpkin Pie is hand-down our best seller for the autumn season, but also remains consistently popular year-round.  This pumpkin pie fragrance is buttery, butterscotch-y, and very VERY fragrant!  NOT a spiced fragrance, this scent mimics the pie itself rather than the spices – think pumpkin custard, strong and buttery, with notes of ginger and nutmeg.  When we had our physical storefront, we never bothered displaying these candles.  People would walk in the door and instantly ask for whatever that delicious smell was, so we just left these on the counter – we’d go through an entire batch of them per day some months!

If you didn’t catch the earlier post explaining all about our hand-poured soy candles, here is a recap:

We have been making these for quite a few years now, hand-pouring them in beautiful Union, WA on Hood Canal.  We use 100% soy wax, not a wax blend.  Why soy?  Oh so many reasons.  First off, it makes a wonderful candle.  The wax burns at a lower temperature, so you get a longer burn time with soy over paraffin.  It will also withstand a heavier load of fragrance oil, so they are very highly scented.  We’ve had a single votive candle sitting in our car as an air freshener for going on 5 years now, and it still smells wonderful!  Soy is grown right here in America, so by choosing soy you are supporting American farmers, not to mention using a renewable resource, as paraffin is a petroleum product and not renewable.  If that isn’t enough, you can remove any leftover wax residue in your candles cups with soap and water!  What’s not to love here?

Currently, we are pouring standard-size votives, tealights, and an 8 ounce jar.  We do not use dyes in our wax, so the naturally creamy white color of the wax won’t compete with whatever your decorating palette you may have.  The votives fit in a standard-sized votive cup and will burn 10-15+ hours depending on how long it burns each time you light it (seems to burn longer overall if you keep it lit for a long time).  Tealights come in a clear plastic candle cup which can be placed out by themselves, or within larger hurricane candle holders or jars.  One tiny tealight will scent a whole room, and burn for about 6 hours!

Our jar candles have a classy, vintage-style look with their amber glass and black lids, reminiscent of antique apothecary containers.  Again, total burn time depends on how you light it, but our test candles burn for at least 70 hours (our tests burn on average 75-80 hours, but we say 70 to play it safe!).  Once you’ve burned the candle, the glass jar and lid are reusable for home storage!  Use for craft storage, cotton balls, herbs, vitamins, oil blends or creams, flavored sauces, bath salts, notions – whatever!  If you don’t want to reuse the jar, then please recycle. :)

Pumpkin Pie tealights, votives, and jars are in stock now.  Tune in tomorrow for the last fragrance! :)

Perfect Pumpkin Bread

We LOVE the Autumn season here at The Weed Patch. The crisp, cooler air (although geez, not yet so much this year - it was 70 yesterday!), the changing colors, and the baking! Every year you know that fall is on its way when Chris starts making pumpkin bread (although he has been known to make it in July ... just because). Everybody seems to agree, this is a yummy treat!

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 3/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1 can (16 oz) pumpkin puree
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease and flour two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans.
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Mix well.
4. In a seperate bowl, stir together the pumpkin and oil.
5. Beat the eggs in to the liquid, one at a time, beating well after each.
6. Make a “well” in the center of the dry ingredients.
7. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, in the “well”
8. Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.
9. Pour batter into pans.
10. Bake at 350F for 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
11. Makes 2 loaves.

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Primitive Halloween Painted Plates

Our primitive painted plates by The Hearthside Collection are among our most popular collections, and we have a great assortment for Halloween!  Here are a few:

 
An Old Witch Plate, by The Hearthside Collection

BOO Burlap Halloween Plate, a Michelle Kildow design for The Hearthside Collection


Hand Over the Candy Plate, by The Hearthside Collection


Hat Collection Rectangle Tray, by The Hearthside Collection


Humble Prayer Hanging Paddle, by The Hearthside Collection


Lil Pumpkin Plate, by The Hearthside Collection

Smiling Jacks Plates, by The Hearthside Collection

See our complete collection of over 600 country primitive style plates, signs, candles and more by The Hearthside Collection here, or check out all our FALL and HALLOWEEN items today!

New Hand-Painted Barn Stars

Last week, I added some freshly painted barn stars to the shop.  As fall is officially started according to the calendar, we thought it was time for some autumn colors!

Antiqued Mustard Wall Star - 8 inch

These metal stars are hand-painted right here in Mill Creek, WA.  This ones are a little different than the others released earlier this year, as they been distressed and antiqued for a more rustic look fitting with the harvest season.

Antiqued Orange Wall Star - 8 inch

As with all our stars, they have been painted with high quality water-based paints and coated with an indoor/outdoor sealer, however they are intended for indoor use, or limited outdoor use under protected cover.  The backs are unfinished, and will rust if wet or left outside in dewy weather for a period of time.  Your front door area should be OK if it is protected, as long as you bring it back in when the weather gets bad.

Tuscan Red Wall Star - 5 inch

These are the sizes we have made and ready to ship right now, but I have several other sizes of stars on hand if you need a custom collection painted for you.  A decent supply of 8 inch and 18 inch are in my studio right now, and I'm fairly certain there's some 5 inch, 12 inch, and a couple 24 inch somewhere in there too.  Feel free to give us a call with whatever you might need! :)  800-876-5230

Teal Blue Wall Star - 5 inch

(You can check out all our other Hand-Painted in the USA Barn Stars Here)

Happy fall! :)

Fall Signs from Primitives by Kathy

Looking for a door hanger, shelf sign, or wall plaque for your Thanksgiving decor?  We have a wide variety of fall signs at The Weed Patch - below is a listing of our offerings by Primitives by Kathy.  We have box signs, wood plaques, ornaments, tin signs, and some fun shaped ones too.

 

Our Family's a Hoot Hang Up

Bountiful Blessings Sign

Fall Hoodies Box Sign

Fall Ornaments Set

Thankful for a Family That Drinks Box Sign

Free Leaves Sign

Give thanks Box Sign

Give Thanks for Family Box Sign

Give Thanks Tin Sign

Go Jump In the Leaves Box Sign with Burlap

Go Jumpin the Leaves Sign

Hoodies & Hot Chocolate Box Sign

Hot Chocolate Sign

Love Lives Here Box Sign

Nuts Welcome Squirrel Sign

Pumpkin Kisses Tin Sign

Pumpkin Patch wood & tin Sign

Take Time to Watch The Leaves Sign

Thank you Box Sign

We're All Nuts Squirrel Ornament

All of these are currently in stock and ready to ship, so you have have before Thanksgiving!  We have a ton for Christmas too, so I'll post those soon as well.  Enjoy! :)

Pumpkin Painting 2014

Earlier this Fall we were able to have an epic day. It started with a trip to Craven Farms down in Snohomish. Then we made the trek up to The Plant Farm, a local nursery that we've loved that is closing its doors (*sad*). When we got home, Ben was crazy excited to get started painting his pumpkins.

Before we got to Craven, we explained that we were not going to be purchasing every single pumpkin that we found. Ben insisted that he NEEDED to paint one of every Angry Bird. So we settled on a compromise - he could get the mini pumpkins, and he could get 10 of them. He and Janene dug through the entire field of mini pumpkins and found the perfect ones.

As soon as we got home, Ben vanished to put on some painting clothes, and he set himself up at Janene's art desk. This year was a great learning experience for him, as we covered some technique that gave him better results - he's learning to be patient and to do the job right, instead of rushing through to have a finished "product" that isn't up to par.... *grin*

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Craven Farms Annual Day at the Pumpkin Patch 2014

One of the big reasons we made the decision to close our physical storefront and make the move to become an online exclusive retailer is the kids. During the busy season it is always an impossible struggle to simply be there for them - it was not uncommon for us to put in 90-110 hrs / week at the shop, from September through January.

Despite that, each year we've managed to establish a couple of traditions that we hold very near and dear to our hearts. In the Fall, we go to Craven Farms, not far from us in Snohomish, Washington. We all bundle up and head down to trek through the fields, pose for pictures, check out the animals, and generally make some memories.

This year, we actually managed to make it down early (but yes, the blog is pretty late in coming...). It was a spectacularly beautiful day, the kids were super excited and happy, and the memories were stellar. If you saw our "homemade pizza post" - that was how we ended the day that day. Tomorrow's post will show you Ben painting his pumpkins... all the same day. It was a good, good day - and it reaffirmed our reasons for the decisions we've made.

We hope you have some traditions of your own, and that this upcoming Christmas season can be a time for making some great memories.

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