We’re having a mild winter, but still cold enough to need mittens and hats. I always have a large inventory available. Sizes 1 year to adult large. Sports items in team colors are popular. Personalization available. I am starting to book my shows for the year. I will make a separate post listing those. 
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I will have the trailer at the following events
June 10 & 11 Bigfork Wilderness Days
June 14 Little Blessings Cook 11-5
June 17 Bear River Farm Fresh Market 9-12
June 21 Little Blessings Cook 11-5
June 28 Little Blessings Cook 11-5
July 1 Burton Park Buhl Celebration 2pm
July 3 Orr Celebration old Legion 9-3
July 22 Hoyt Lakes Arena, Hoyt Lakes Water Carnival 9am
August 5 Bear River Farm Fresh Market 9-12
August 12 & 13 Koochiching County Fair Northome
August 19 Resurrectors Reunion Big Falls
August 24-26 Bass Pro I’Falls
September 16 Bear River Farm Fresh Market 9-12
October 7 Bear River Farm Fresh Market 9-12
November 4 Iron Trail Event Center indoor 9-4
November 11 Up North Shop Cook indoor 9-3
November 17 & 18 St Mary’s Cook
November 24 & 25 Bear River Bazaar
December 2 Weihnatchfest Biwabik
Mitten season is here! My favorite season and not so favorite season. Every year I tell myself to sew some every week, so I have an abundance
By the time I’m done in Dec, I will be seven Saturdays in a row at an event. I think January I will hibernate and clean the sewing room, it’s gonna need it!
August 18, 3-7, I will be celebrating Side Lake! Cook’s Country Connection will have a petting zoo, kids games and crafts, vendors and food trucks. Lots happening close to home.
August 20, 11-3, will find me in Bigfalls at the Rat Rod Reunion. I love to see all the fun old cars! And of course sample the food trucks!
August 25-27, International Falls Bass Pro tournament is always a good time!
August 31 is the last Wednesday of August and I will be setup in Cook at Little Blessings Gift Shop.
I get a short break, then fall shows start! I love what I do!
I’m setup in Bigfork at my first festival of the summer. Today June 10th until 6pm. Saturday June 11, 9-6. I am setup on Main Street across from the Cenex. It feels good to be back out, I love visiting with the people who stop by trailer! There are 29 plus vendors, most are setup today. Some will setup tonight and be open tomorrow. It’s a beautiful day for a drive, and Bigfork is a fun, friendly town!
God promises there is an eternal place for us when it’s our time to leave this world. I held onto that HOPE as Mom lived her final days here on earth.
Mom gained her angel wings yesterday morning around 11. She was 98 years and 58 days. She lived a very full and blessed life. I am so thankful for the time we had together, now she can be at peace and no pain or suffering.
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Mom taught me to sew before I started school, and who would have thought it would become my greatest passion. I would make potholders, then I went to pillowcases. By the time I was in junior high, I was sewing clothing. Mom was a beautiful seamstress, she sewed dresses, shirts, jackets and suits. She was very particular how the fabric should be cut and how perfect your seams should be. She taught me to blind hem by hand. When I was younger, I envied her small tight stitches. With plenty of practice, I mastered her technique, that's when I finally felt I had passed the test! Over the years I have appreciated her talent being passed to me. I can loose myself in the sewing room, I think that's where I will be the next few weeks. It is my happy place and where the stress of life stays away.
As a kid growing up, I didn’t appreciate what my parents went through to give us a stable life and firm foundation to build on. Our life wasn’t always warm and fuzzy, some days it was downright tough! We were expected to pull our share of the weight. As kids we learned to cook, clean, plant and tend the garden, drive tractors, throw hay bales, feed the animals and everything else that went with being a farm kid! But when I look back, we had a great life! What I didn't appreciate then was what my parents gave up and did without to provide for us. Growing up during the Great Depression and WW2 taught them, that material things weren’t what was important, family is important. They instilled in us a very strong work ethic and to always be honest and trustworthy. They shared in the raising of the nine of us. Dad ran the farm, cooked, washed dishes and changed diapers when needed. Mom took care of the house, but could drive a tractor and milk cows if she was needed outside. Theirs was a true partnership! They were married 54 years when Dad passed in 2001. But Mom continued to celebrate their anniversary, May 25,1946. Last year when it would have been their 75th, I went to visit her. She said “I had a good life with your Dad and sometimes I don’t think I told him that enough”. But I’m sure he knew. Now they are together again, which makes my heart happy!
Be thankful and appreciate the people in your life while they are here. Tell them you love them, take the time to visit them. Life is not always easy, happy or perfect; you can cry about and be mad/sad or you can be thankful for what and who you have in your life.
