Happy Thanksgiving...We are so blessed !! Remember each day to count your blessings.

Friday and Saturday,shop the homeplace and save 10% storewide. (excludes consignments and clearance) If your decorating this weekend, we have a lot of neat ornaments and greens available. Also great signs and many gift ideas! Stop by... and save.

What a great week-end for Decatur's Christmas Open House! We appreciate all of you who stopped by. The town was a buzz with people visiting each shoppe, riding the carriage, taking a break at the coffee shoppes and having lunch at our restaurants unique to Decatur! Of course Santa was making his rounds. We have a great selection of gifts and decorating accents and will continue to get more through Christmas! Friday & Saturday Nov. 27 and 28 we will have 10% off storewide...
and then weekly sales till Christmas.

Ritter's Flowers and Gifts will be participating as well this week-end with many floral and gift ideas. They will have live music Friday 2-5 and 5-8 as well as Saturday 10-2. Watch demonstrations on florals throughout the day!

If you are wanting Christmas Pictures at a great price- Check this out-Sacred Images Photography will be taking Quick-takes this week-end for $39.95, which includes the session fee and package! Also, awesome custom made Christmas cards are available.

http://www.sacredimagesstudio.com/

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Visit the homeplace for the holidays and see the sights, sounds, and scents of Thanksgiving and Christmas! We are ready for our Open House this Friday 10-8 and Saturday 10-5. Load up your friends and family for a great shopping experience in Decatur- many shoppes are participating!
There will be carriage rides, carolers, and Santa. Many will be selling cookies for$1.00/3 to earn money for the Decatur SBA who organizes the citywide Open Houses.

We appreciate your business, stop by soon!

Well it's that time of year (even though it doesn't feel like it). Coming up this week-end is our annual Christmas Open House and Special it will be. Among many participants you'll want to visit
THE GRAINERY where they will have Wind and Willow sampling. Also Friday 6-8 they will have live music by Jackie Sanderson & Sydney.

October is over half way over and where did it go? Our SPOOKTACULAR SALE starts next Tuesday thru Sat. Oct. 31. We will have all FALL Accessories 20-30% off! We still have some nice decorations available if you are planning a fall event or hosting the big Thanksgiving get-together!

Also our new Gooseberry Patch Cookbooklets, reg. $4.95 will be $3.50.

DECORATING TIP: you don't have to put candles on your candle sticks-use them to display mini pumpkins or apples- or use pretty goblets for votive holders and tie ribbons around the stem- Be creative!

FALL FEST 2009 - Here's Joyce demonstrating decorating ideas. The favorite which anyone can do is carving out apples to set a tealite in and then light and float in a bucket. We are showing you some pictures that we took at our Fall Demonstrations

Freeze water in plastic gloves and use as ice in your punch at Halloween!

Here is a picture of the fantastic foods that Vicki made and demonstrated from our new GOOSEBERRY PATCH cookbooklets -only $4.95 - not only do they have recipes but also decorating ideas with cute pictures!

If you are looking for a good dip try this PUMPKIN DIP

2 -8 oz cream cheese softened

15 oz can pumpkin

1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

16 oz. pkg powdered sugar

Blend cream cheese with an elettric mixer until smooth. Stir in pumpkin and spices; fold in powdered sugar. Chill before serving. Makes 6 cups.

Make sure you stop by and check out all our Fall accessories.

Cooler weather means spending more time inside and makes for great candle burning! We have carried the Warm Glow Cake Candles which burn and smell awesome and we now have some of their fragrances in sprays, melts, diffusers and air fresheners! Our most popular has been the Nutmeg and Cream, the Cinnamon Bun and Evening Mocha. I took home and tried the Funfetti Atomizer (spray) last night and it smelled so yummy and it even lingered in the air for a long while! Worth trying!

Where did summer go? Today is actually the 1st day of Fall, my favorite season. Not complaining but it is a little warm and humid. Inside it is looking a lot like fall-we just had our annual fall fest where here at the homeplace we had Joyce show us some decorating ideas and Vicki made some great fall recipes out of our new Gooseberry Patch cookbooks! We have a lot of great decorating items to help you in your fall decorating. Pumpkins (the kind that last) florals, baskets, small straw bales, berries, signs and more. I will post pictures when I recieve them from my daughter 'the professional photographer'.