The Little Gold Farm Stand

01/01/2026

Old image, but it fits.

Who knew we'd have a New Year's Snow Day!

Wishing you and yours cozy comfort and peaceful times today and each day of 2026!

If anything is needed, please send word. We'll do our best.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/26/2025

This morning.

Rather Good Morning.

I had wanted to post yesterday, but felt it was best to give space and peace.

An apology is owed, too. Once I posted the last post, every bit of creativity went p**f! No other ornaments were created.

Perhaps being too structured annoyed the creative whispers. Perhaps there were just enough ornaments for Merry Days. Perhaps ...other.

And so, my heartfelt apologies for the silence and any possible misleading words/ideas.

In the meantime, rest was demanded by my body and a daughter went through my old images. She basically told me I needed to shoot more.

With that, you have today's image. Leftover muffins from yesterday's breakfast. A Christmas toffee gift. Tea and its steam which was the inspiration for this photo.

What might not be clear is that nearly every item came from the community in one form or another.

The table was from Buy Nothing. The muffins were from a mysterious community Santa. The tea cup was from the Swap Shack.

Here's to hoping that our heartfelt thanks for our community is somehow lived and shared, for it is truly felt.

If anything is needed, please send word.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

May 2026 be kind to all.

12/09/2025

Ornament 7

Last night I gathered and planned colors for the next six ornaments. This morning, the super soft, once holey lambswool brown called out.

When I opened it up, I found the four colors I had chosen last night. I remembered the story, but it didn't feel right. A color needed to leave. (It was blue.)

At the same time, the three colors felt like they were misding something. So I dug into a slightly messy bag, prayed, and yep...there was the pale pink. It would work a-okay.

Before this year, I had never done two-colored flowers on these. This year, it's kind of fun...if it works.

In a twist, it looks like Ornament 7 and Ornament 8 will likely blend...kind of. Ornament 8 is not yet done.

In total, I'm thinking there will be 12 Merry Days ornaments this year. That includes one for the knocking person and one for our tree at the very end.

Thank you for being with me on this journey.

Ornament 7 just makes my heart sing. It's really about flowers emerging from the dirt. I know it's not even Winter yet, but I'm dreaming of flowers, of planting them, of putting in swamp milkweed and butterfly milkweed plants (from seed), of seeing butterflies linger in our yard.

And so...there you have it... Ornament 7.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/08/2025

Ornament 6

This morning before everyone was awake, I headed to the basement to fold cloth napkins that were dried on the drying racks.

There's a hum to folding them that I enjoy. There's a wonder of how to stack them just so. Of how many can I safely carry upstairs before they possibly tumble. Of how many will smash into the drawers.

(We have two full drawers of cloth napkins. Most were sewn from scrap fabric by me. Some were thrifted for literal pennies. Some have been gifted from Buy Nothing/other places. Cloth napkins are a serious gig in our home.)

Anyhow, as I was folding them I thought of the honor and joy of sitting down to create an ornament. The wonder of which colors would emerge. The hope of watching and feeling the flowers emerge, petal by petal. Flower by flower.

After a few years of feeling creative ick and sorrow, it was such a gift to feel the spark of creating again.

To all of you who have read in silence, offered a kind word, and watched this journey...please know my heartfelt thanks is sent to you, wherever you may be.

Ornament 6 was bursting in bright, traditional colors. It sparked an idea for future ones, too.

Hopefully it will find the right home for it.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/06/2025

Ornament 5

The other day there was a knock on our door and then a car drove off. Upon looking around, we discovered the reason for the knock in the dark hours.

This ornament is for that person. The person likely wouldn't expect it, but the person does what the person does...and we do what we do.

(Note- the ornament just got finished. The person has read here before. The ornament has not yet been delivered. It's about right for vague-posting.)

Anyhow... I wanted to create a Fall-like one. Hebron. The Maple Festival. Hebron means "friendship."

You know...all the things.

So this ornament is in the heart of friendship. Fall flowers of gratitude for a very special person who reads, knocks, and drives off silently...leaving the marks of warmth.

It's Fall-colored flowers on a blue sky with green-leaf stitching.

In short, thank you to each and everyone who makes Hebron so very special.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/05/2025

Ornament 4.

This was created based on what I thought someone would like, but it didn't quite work out. The person preferred a different one.

While that might sound "ho hum," it's quite the opposite. I was given freedom to create based on a color palette. Enjoyment was has working with these colors. The person chose the one best for themself.

The beauty of creative choice was quite a gift.

This one was designed with "old Victorian garden" in mind. Truly, I don't know if the color palette is accurate to that time period. It was just what went through my eyes and fingers as I worked to keep those eight dots in an inner circle while the petals didn't get messy.

And so... it is available if anyone finds it calls out.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/02/2025

Ornament 3.

I wanted to try the 8 flowers again. After about 2, they mostly emerged from memory. It's definitely a work in patience and grace.

Grace to honor them just as they emerge versus some other version in my head.

Also, like the gnomes...the colors just called out. I listen and do my best to keep my head out of the way.

As always, if anything is needed, please send word. We'll do our best.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

12/01/2025

Ornament 2.

The flow started to return with this one. I was reminded that flower circles are imperfect and perfect...

and so each ornament will be just so.

I'm not sure if I'll ever get them as tight (8 flowers versus 6) as they once were...

due to older-creating hands.

However, the joy of working with these little flowers in a circle in their own colors/personality is exactly what I had hoped for Merry Days this year.

Rather, it's what I felt was best to share.

Thank you for being on this journey with me.

Peace to you and yours from all of us.

12/01/2025

Merry Days.

What is there to say? A lot, so please be patient with me (and my words).

This morning I walked outside, saw a frosted leaf, rejoiced in its beauty, and realized that's what I've been missing.

Joy. Sheer beauty and joy. Making the time for it. Honoring it. Creating with it.

So let me do something and crack my metaphorical shell. Please hang with me as I explain the goo.

The goo. The non-joy. Some not-so-long ago, someone told me that I spent too much time creating. That I didn't spend enough time doing *other stuff.*

I took those words to heart, abandoned creating, and quite frankly...have been miserable for way too long.

This morning my egg shell cracked open. I need joy. I need to create. I need to share. Regardless of anything else...within all safey/moral bits of course.

It's quite fitting that it happened on the first day of Merry Days.

And so...I offer you Ornament 1. It's imperfect. It's not refined like others that I've made.

Yet, it's the start. The start of finding joy. In that regard, it's perfect (to me).

When I wrote of an idea in the last post, it was this ornament (but I didn't know the colors).

And so... I will make them and share them here for Merry Days. Due to the Little Gold Farm Stand being used for other things (a bottles/cans drop off place for returning those for money for HIHS Food Pantry)...

If you'd like an ornament, please send word. I'll have it in a bag with your name on it. Just let me know which day works for picking it up. As the Little Gold Farm Stand will be closed, all you have to do is open it, take your item, and close it.

I know it's not like it was with whimsy and wonder of the past (aka the Little Gold Farm Stand being open every day). However, it's the best compromise I have for now.

I could hide joy or work with it as I have, as I know in the moment.

Also, it's always Take What You Need...Leave What You Can.

And, if anything is needed, please send word.

Cheers (even the tiniest of ones) to the gift of Joy and honoring it.

Peace to you and yours from all of us

PS Sorry for the not-so great image. Yes, we have a stuffed monkey (from Buy Nothing) named George on our fire place mantle.

11/27/2025

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from all of us.

If anything is needed, please send word.

Peace

PS There are some things we're pondering for the future. The first whispers are gentle and we'd like to give them the time they need. (Just a wee of wee updates from our hearts.)

11/04/2025

Good Afternoon.

It's been a long time, no write... but our hearts have been here and at the Little Gold Farm Stand daily.

A few tiny tidbits...

*I'm pondering opening for Merry Days with just gnomes. It seems ehhh to not have gnomes for Merry Days and to be closed. Yet, part of me is still, "nah...not quite yet.." on re-opening the Little Gold Farm Stand as it has been.

*If there's a desire for gnomes, please send word. Full respect on any perspectives, ideas, thoughts, other.

*As some of you may have seen in the local Hebron groups, our girls are collecting cans/bottles for HIHS Food Pantry. It's a simple bit as simple bits can often help the most.

Any bottles/cans are welcome to be dropped off at/near the Little Gold Farm Stand or in our driveway. Likewise, we're happy to pick up.

The girls sort and help with returning them. The money goes back to the community and the awesome work that HIHS does.

Finally... if anything is needed, please just send word. We'll do our best.

(We've had a few discussions about where we see the Little Gold Farm Stand going and what our hopes for it are. It might take some time, but those hopes are rooted deep and wide like an oak's roots.

We're incredibly grateful for our community and we hope to simply do the right thing. Even if, for now, that means just being.)

Peace to you and yours from all of us

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09/29/2025

We've been quiet, but we are here.

If anything is needed, please just send word.

We are forever grateful to our community and the wonders that exist.

(Image is from this morning right near the Little Gold Farm Stand. It just wanted to be shared.)

Peace to you and yours from all of us