Bittersweet News

No worries, it is all sweet news, not bitter!

The bittersweet is cut! I am currently (but with blogging in between) taking the leaves off and bundling them up for you to take home and add to your fall display. Whether you lay it around pumpkins and gourds on the floor in front of the fireplace, tie it to indian corn and hang it on the door or put it in a milk can, it is sure to add the orange punch to your decorating!

Also, I have a huge order of fall floral just in, with wreaths, candle rings, floral picks and garlands. When I go out to the shop, I am working on what I call "fluffing" them and getting them out on the floor.

Here are a few ideas to try with fall floral:

Candle rings are versitle: Have fun using them as small wreaths attached to a patio door on a suction cup hook, or hooked over your curtains or valances with an "S" hook, as well as under a bowl of fall colored m&m's!!! I would show you a picture, but I ate them...lol. In the above photo, I have a garland under the pumpkin on the table. (Sorry, McCalls candles no longer available, but I have three other wonderful lines!~Cheerful Giver, 1803, and a few Crossroads)

Garlands are wonderful twined around a large bowl to hold candy. Buy assorted bags of miniature candy bars like Snickers, Twix, and Hersheys for a fall color combo to have for guests to grab!

They are also fun to wind along a stairway, on top of your cupboards, around fall pictures, in bay windows, around baskets and along the nails below your shelves!

Upcoming Event:

Bittersweet Farm

Harvest Open House

September 29, 30, October 1,2

(Wednesday 10-4/ Thursday 12-6

/ Friday and Saturday 10-4)

Seasons Change...

It is official.
September... School started... Cooling down...Drying plants... Leaves turning...  What is hardest for me to believe, is that on September 15th ~that is only two weeks away~it will be Bittersweet Farm's 6th anniversary! It has been such a privilege to have my business at home and to have meet so many wonderful people. So THANK YOU to those of you who have visited me and purchased gifts and decor' for your homes.

In the next two weeks I will send out a post card /email to my mailing list with the following special (and annual) events at the shop: (I hope you are as excited as I am...September and October are my favorite months!)

***6th Anniversary Celebration: September 15-19***

This is Fall Festival week in Amery, extend your visit North of town to the farm for in-store specials. Maybe the bittersweet will be ready by then!

***Harvest Open House***

Come out for a cup of hot cider, and browse for your favorite season...pumpkins, bittersweet, table runners, towels, fall fragrance, lighted branches, lighted pumpkins etc.

Now for a little preview of Fall Merchandise!!

These light up!Garlands and floral are wonderful mixed with twigs in a milk can or pail in your entryway! Add some new lighted twigs and make your entryway or porch a glowing welcome!

Oh Fall!

Oh Fall,

We are looking forward to you this year...we are tired of rain (though we are thankful Lord, for you watering our earth), we are tired of humidity (Lord, I know we do get tired easy of things that go on and on, forgive us!) we are tired of mowing the yard so much...(okay, thankful for our mowers, lawns, gas and the ability to mow!)...but we are so READY for fall!

I put a few fall things out in the store today, and  guess what? They went! I haven't run out yet though ;) Fall floral, wool rug hooked wall hangings and pillows with pumpkins/ crows. Tomorrow I will add more floral, a few autumn plates, and pumpkins. Next week will bring a better variety.

If you come tomorrow (Saturday, August 14th) you can get summer merchandise for 25% off. I still have a few wood flowers left...popular as they have been, sometimes they go unseen...

Check back next week for photos! Have a super nice (free from humidity~!!!! weekend!!!)

In The Heat of Summer

When it is this HOT and HUMID, it might seem odd to think about bittersweet, pumpkins, gourds and scarecrows, but just around the calendar corner, they will be visible parts of our landscape!

How thankful I am for air conditioning these last few days of "extreme" summer, and yet I have noticed that the corn is tassled, the blackbirds are hovering, the garden looks like an absolute jungle, and autumn merchandise is arriving at Bittersweet Farm. Actually, within the next two weeks you may see some of it show up in the shop!

(Photo from 2008)

I know it has been awhile since I posted, but things have been a bit crazy around here with all the rain. The yard is a hayfield and like I said, the gardens are a jungle.... and  I~the major care-taker here since my guys are keeping so busy at work! BUT, keep your eyes open for new photos, late summer and fall events in the coming weeks!

And stop for a visit to the shop!

Wed 10-4/ Thurs 12-6/ Fri 10-4/ Sat 10-4

Mid Summer

Summer...is for enjoyment! I hope yours is going well!

It is officially mid-summer according to school calendars, and that means having fall in mind for the shop owner. I am usually behind others in putting out the next season's merchandise because I realllllly like to enjoy the one I am in. I have been getting better at this after having been asked in July so often, "When will you have your fall stuff out?"...

So with an eye toward autumn merchandise coming in,

(which is arriving slowly)

and in honor of "mid-summer"

and all the gorgeous blooms in my yard... 

Bittersweet Farm is offering all items with

a flower/ flowers/ or American flags for

20% off  tomorrow, Saturday July17th!

Saturday Hours: 10-4

~4th of July Weekend~

If you have lake plans this weekend, consider yourself BLESSED! I long for a lake some days, but the Lord has planted me on a farm, (and I do love it, but it would be even better if it had a lake!)

Maybe you are like me, and staying around home...

Either way, you might want to get out one afternoon for a little browsing at Bittersweet Farm.

After returning from my shopping trip to Madison Monday, I have been straining to get the goods priced and displayed. Many of the things I brought home were for fall and Christmas, so I had to find hiding places for them until their season...

So here is a few photos of the "now" things I brought back that are in their places...(I am still working on the piles behind my desk~little by little.)

A little floral, some country fragrance (Log Cabin is a pine and the Cranberry Nut Bread is to die for!), alot of plaid and check table accessories, and you have a cozy home. Or cabin as the case may be.  

I wont caption the photos because for some reason blogger is a bugger today. But if you have questions email me at btrsweetfarm@hotmail.com ...it comes into my phone so I wont miss it!

HOPE TO SEE YOU!!! AND HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!!!

Flowers Are In

They are finally here! All the flowers that were on back order finally came in today! The Shelf-sitting words are "Relax" in burgudy w/ flower, "Friends" in burgundy w/ flower and "Family" in black~no flower... for more flower photos click here.


They seem go go well together in a display. Several women have gotten a word and three flowers to display in a bay window or on a shelf. They are great on a windowsill or thick trim as well.

Garlands with flowers are popular also. We are weaving them around a porch post, a wreath, a shelf with a quilt bar or nails underneath or hung over a valance to bring a little summer inside!

These flowers on spindles sold out on day one last time they came in...come check them out! Get one for a friend and give a smile!...