What a great day I had yesterday... We started out at the Fall Festival in Van Buren... there were a tons of vendors there with all their wares out for us to oooh & ahhh over. The most wonderful thing was I met Kristen of Kristen's Creations, her mom and her son Chase.. He was just so cute and polite... a perfect little gentleman and Kristen's a beautiful young woman that just brightens up the world with her smile... I was so excited meeting one of my bloggin buddies... Go visit her blog it is lovely... Here we are together at the festival... Double click on the festival picture to get a better view of the vendor tents....
There was a lot of Craft vendors, entertainers and food vendors not to mention all the cute little stores up & down the street... My favorite being this great candle shop called Spencer's Candles... Hundreds of great scents and they made them right in the basement of the store... The scent that I chose was Autumn Leaves... Isn't it pretty
A nice petting zoo for the children with lots of animals but my 2 favorite was the miniature horse and the 2 kissing goats... Ok it look like they wanted to kiss... Maybe they were just necking or something...
That is Jennifer & Alyssah petting the little horse (OK not little everywhere) LOL
That is Jennifer & Alyssah petting the little horse (OK not little everywhere) LOL
and my 2 little goats being cozy
There were people walking around that dressed for the occasion.. This woman was the cutest little lady and then there was a frontier man... You know I love those outdoor rugged types..
I saw a couple of booths that were selling the clothes from the late 1800's and then there was this booth selling the neatest metal rods (look at picture on left) that you could put things on and make really beautiful decorations... I was crazy about them. You just drilled a hole in the bottom(on the side) of whatever you wanted to put on it and slipped them on the rod...
Just look at some of the nifty things you could do... I loved the clay pots for herbs...
This is the courthouse in Van Buren built before the civil war and Alyssah (my granddaughter) sitting at the fountain with the statue of Hebe the greek goddess of youth and happiness....
In this small building Albert Pike noted lawyer, poet and mason taught school in 1832. Here is my Daughter Jennifer, her husband Eric and the girls Hannah & Alyssah..
I am sad to say I didn't make it to Paint the Park Pink... It upset me but we had to move on so we went to dinner at Olive Garden... YUMO!!!! That did ease the pain of it somewhat...
Listen to the band that was playing when we were leaving... They were really good and I was sorry I didn't record more...
Until Later
