Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

A Shabby White Wednesday



Do you ever want to try a simple little project,
but for whatever reason it just never comes together?




Well, everything fell into place last Sunday
 when I had found a perfect old lampshade.





My crystal prisms were within easy reach,
the French Crinkle ribbon from Polly was in the cupboard,




and a beautiful crystal lamp
was just waiting for it's shining moment.




With a few minutes inspiration
I had what I'd been waiting for...



My little Shabby Lampshade!

And here she is dressed for Fall
in some Bittersweet. 



I'm enjoying having her in my studio these Fall Evenings.
Her reflection in the mirror,
maximizes her cozy glow.


Sometimes things in our lives "sit on the shelf",
Until God's perfect timing brings them all together...
at just the right time.



Then all the elements find their synchronicity
And a thing of beauty emerges.

Have a Wonderful White Wednesday, dear friends.

Love,
Debra

The sights and sounds of OKTOBERFEST

Marionberry Cottage

ah yes, it's time for Oktoberfest in Mt. Angel, Oregon, and we are lucky to live only 17 miles from this little town, so we celebrate every year. I forgot my camera, so the pics you see here are from the official Oktoberfest website

This German celebration has been a tradition in Mt Angel for over 40 years.
Why September some ask...

Oktoberfest is a generic word meaning a HARVEST CELEBRATION. In Germany most fall festivals come at the end of the harvest when the crops are in and everything sits in the lager house. It is time to celebrate the year's hard work and praise the Creator’s bounty with a grand harvest festival. Few harvest festivals in Germany are called OKTOBERFEST. All however, are harvest celebrations. In Mount Angel, Oktoberfest always starts the second Thursday after Labor Day – about when the hop harvest is in.




Webentanz – Mount Angel school children perform a German weavers (May pole) dance and other Bavarian folk dances each day at noon


oh my the FOOD--that is the main reason this event can't be missed!

So much shopping to be done--and things you find only at a German Harvest festival!

If you love to dance polka, this the place!

And it would not be Oktoberfest without the Biergarten!
..they have a weingarten too...
Until next year!
Danke
(thank you)

Debbi
Marionberry Cottage
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