Prairie Emporium

Bead Soup arrival

2012-02-01T12:31:00.001-06:00

My bead soup from Heidi of Ex Post Facto Jewelry

She sent some very lovely vintage components.

I am so lucky, she gave them up to send to me! I love vintage, but I have trouble using the pieces I find. I always think I will never find that piece again, so I just hoard them.

I will have so much fun working with some of Heidi's vintage stash, Thank you Heidi.

Please hop on over to Lori’s blog to see the list of all bead soup blogs.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Slide show fun

2011-09-25T22:35:00.003-05:00

Some of my new jewelry for the week
Hope you like the little show I made.

Create a digital slideshow

Bead Soup Blog Party #4

2011-09-17T01:01:00.067-05:00

Bead Soup headquarters: Lori's blog http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/

My bead partner Christine Hendrickson of The Clay Chick, sent me a fun assortment of beads.

The dark brown ceramic ones Christine made herself.

I added very few beads to what she sent. I did add some brass beads for a mix of silver and brass and a silk ribbon of recycled silk. I made a brass hook for the necklace and used the silver toggle Christina sent in the bracelet. I didn't use the coin shaped shell beads from my soup but have a few ideas of what I am going to do with them.

Please stop by The Clay Chick to see what Christine made with the mix I sent her.

You are also invited to stop by my jewelry blog, it was being moved to a new host at the time of the sign up so was down for a while.http://www.prairieemporium.com/ My farm and family blog is glad you are here and have a great weekend of blog hopping.

The official Bead Soup Blog Party link: http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/

You can find all the bead soup blogs here.

Meet Angel

2011-09-16T16:41:00.001-05:00

Meet Angel, one of the girls 5 kittens.

I will add pictures later of Jeffery, Frederick, Diamond and Nudge.

My dragonfly pictures for last weeks "I heart Macro" but didn't get them posted.

Time for next week, almost.

Be sure to stop by on Saturday for the 4th bead soup blog party reveal.

i heart macro

2011-08-20T21:11:00.009-05:00

I haven't been on the computer much this summer and have missed I heart macro for a few weeks (or more). Took this picture the middle of June and just now showing you all.

I thought he was a cute little guy.

If you heart macro too, please go to Loris blog Studio Waterstone by clicking on the button below.

Bead Soup Blog Party #4

2011-08-18T21:49:00.011-05:00

My Bead Soup partner this time is Christine Hendrickson of The Clay Chick.
She sent me a very nice assortment of beads, they will be lots of fun to work with.

The dark brown ceramic beads she made herself.

She had them in cute little bundles So much fun!!

I also have some summer pictures to add.
I have been so caught up in all the good old summer stuff just haven't taken time to blog.

Kiowa County 4-H Fair

Kelvie and her Grand Champion Pig

Ellery and her Reserved Champion Pig

Farm Bureau Watermelon feed at the Fair

More summer photos later.

Memorial Day

2011-05-30T17:40:00.003-05:00

Greensburg Kansas Cemetery

a photo by Debbie / Prairie Emporium on Flickr.

My little red barn.

i heart macro may 29th

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I heart macro

2011-05-21T22:16:00.004-05:00

Mr. Rooster

had something to crow about

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I heart macro

2011-05-14T20:16:00.004-05:00

Mrs Guinea was looking in my livingroom window.

Isn't she a beauty??

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New Photos--Farm and Fun

2011-03-19T23:32:00.002-05:00

Bead soupe #3

2011-02-26T01:00:00.000-06:00

Please stop by my jewelry blog to see the Bead Soup post.

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80th Birthday weekend

2011-02-14T22:11:00.012-06:00

My Dad's 80th Birthday Party

We all drove 10 to 14 hours to have a great big birthday weekend with my Daddy

It was a great time with lots of fun.
Monica took lots of pictures (thanks Monica).

So here we go

Playing out back of our condo

The Birthday Party

Around the condo

The crew at the beach

More beach pictures

Pat and Donna--------------Daddy and Elaine

Monica, Taylor and Gary-------- Steve and Debbie

Dee, Kim, Kelvie and Ellie-------- Greg, Cindy and Laina

We had a great time!!!!

Awesome Weekend

2010-10-31T23:13:00.006-05:00

The weather was great

Had fun with family Worked on some wedding jewelry

And

Had two of the best little

tricksters

Saturday Pictures

2010-09-25T11:53:00.006-05:00

Beautiful Monarch Butterflies!!!

Not as many as last year but still awesome.

The little Guineas are growing, soon they will be out of the pen ( if the bobcats will leave)

I have two limes on my little tree.

Lilly is tormenting Callie, she is not happy

Haviland Antique Engine and Thresher show

2010-08-28T22:37:00.006-05:00

Farm Bureau sponsored the Pedal Pull at the Haviland Antique Engine and Thresher show today.

I think the kids all had a great time!!

Some more pictures of the show.

Kiowa County Fair

2010-07-28T22:53:00.008-05:00

McKelvie's art work

Ellery's art work

McKelvie's recycled tote

McFaddens at the watermelon feed

Farm Bureau Watermelon Feed

Farm Bureau Pedal Pull

Looking over the prizes

Some Saturday Pictures

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Great 4th of July weekend

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Be sure and have a look at my Bead Soup necklace on my Jewelry blog

www.prairieemporium.com

5.90" of Rain

2010-06-13T22:16:00.003-05:00

This creek is usually dry

The pond only had a small amount of water in the bottom before last night.

Same view as the last post.

Late Spring Photos

2010-06-11T19:05:00.003-05:00

Memorial Day Picture

2010-06-06T11:53:00.001-05:00

Memorial Day Picture
Originally uploaded by Debbie / Prairie Emporium

We had a great weekend with family!!! Just way to short.

This Weeks Fun

2010-03-13T22:01:00.002-06:00

The girls are both doing a great job on there embroidering.

Kelvie's working on Tulips and Ellie on a butterfly

Saturday-- Play Day

2010-03-07T22:44:00.005-06:00

New baby

We had wonderful weather for one day, and oh what fun we had.

A few snow pictures

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Lilly had a play date with her sister.

My road home on Fri. about noon.

Lilly and Saturday Pictures

2010-01-23T22:23:00.005-06:00

Our Lilly is growing so fast.
She and Twinkle are making friends.

Farm photos I took today
It was beautiful outside, I even put jeans on the line.

Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Christmas puppy

2009-12-24T22:55:00.006-06:00

Steven got a puppy for Christmas, her name is Lilly

We have not had a dog here on the farm as of August 17th, when our Annie dog had a stroke and passed away very unexpectedly. Annie was the best dog in the world so we have had a hard time even thinking about getting a new one. To see the Annie store and pictures.

We would not have Lilly now, but my brother took matters into his hands.

He got us the cutest puppy ever.

Merry Christmas To All

Sunset and Snow Pictures

2009-12-18T12:33:00.003-06:00

Yesterdays sunset -- how beautiful it was

Snow pictures from last week.

2009-11-21T19:25:00.002-06:00

These are the programs I made (using Calligrafun and Martha's ideas) for the Farm Bureau annual meeting. I did the original on white paper and used a parchment type paper for the copies. Then put them all together with brads. I quite like the way they looked.

Saturday's pictures on Wednesday

2009-11-11T10:37:00.006-06:00

I did take pictures on Saturday just ran out of time to put on the blog. The weather was wonderful on the weekend.

Frederick is getting his feathers back.

Georgie loves the sun.

You can tell it is fall in the country, the hay has been put into bales and the grass is all brown.

Halloween morning walk

2009-10-31T12:17:00.007-05:00

Wheat fields are so pretty this time of year.

Mama and new baby, she had her last night.

Happy Halloween from Twinkle.

Kiowa County Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

2009-10-28T14:42:00.004-05:00

Kiowa County Farm Bureau Annual meeting was Saturday October 24th.

The program being the recognition of four Century Farm Families.

Each family gave part of the program, with interesting facts about the land their heritage. John and Janice Haney: John's Great Grandparents W.C. and Emma Mitchell purchased the farm in Kiowa county in 1901 and 1908.
Jim and Joyce Keith: Joyce's Grandmother Addie Johnson Hubert original purchase of the land was 1895

Ki and Kim Gamble family: Ki's Great Grandfather Mose Gamble originally purchased the land in 1909.

Leonard and Helen Schwarm family: Leonard's Grandfather Fritz Schwarm originally purchased the land in 1899.

Fall and Fun photos

2009-10-23T00:03:00.006-05:00

Taylor and Grandma baking a cake.

Taylor and Grandma acting.

Back to baking the cake.

If you would like to look at larger photos please go to my flickr photostream

Hawk

2009-10-06T23:18:00.002-05:00

Hawk
Originally uploaded by Debbie / Prairie Emporium

Mr. Hawk -- This is what I saw Saturday afternoon when I arrived home. Mr. Hawk has become very brave and the guineas seem to think he is a friend. What goes on when I am not here? Mr. Hawk has picked off 3 guineas this week and it is only Tuesday. Why have my birds become so friendly with him?

See more photos on Flickr

Flowers, Family and Fun

2009-09-24T23:05:00.006-05:00

One of my pots of flowers, the colors are beautiful now.

Twinkle found a small snake--It didn't have a chance of getting away.

Sedum

Laina and her tennis partner with metals at the Pratt meet.

What could be better than having fun with your cousins?

Ellie and I played in the park.

Fun Fun Fun

2009-09-12T11:30:00.007-05:00

We have been so busy and having so much fun no time for bogs. I think I have been on a blog vacation.
My friend Linda and her son Sam came to visit over the Labor Day weekend. We made jewelry components all day for 2 days, in between playing with the kids. I think Sam had a great time playing on the farm, when he got home and told his Dad what a good time he had Alan was sorry he didn't visit the farm also.

Just before Linda left Okla. I had the idea Sam should bring his bike, and it was a good one. He went everywhere on the bike and had it all fixed up with peacock feathers. Most of the time he was going so fast I couldn't even get a photo.

Laina, Kelvie and Ellie came over on Sat. to play, they all had a great time.

Sam collected 16 toads and the morning they left he had to let them go.

Small toad in mid flight.

I will be posting some pictures of our jewelry projects on my Jewelry blog soon.

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Pedal Pull Saturday

2009-08-22T21:36:00.007-05:00

The Kiowa County Farm Bureau Association

sponsored the Pedal pull at the

Haviland Antique Engine and Thresher Show

The kids all had fun and Laina made sure everyone got there prizes and snacks.

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Then we looked around at the show.

It was a very colorful place.

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The following are pictures the girls and I took last week.

This kitten is one Ellie named Star. We can't get close to him so I had to zoom in for the photo.

And our Twinkle. She has the wildest eyes, always.

Chickens do like watermelon

2009-08-15T12:19:00.005-05:00

Yes the young chickens and the old hens did love the watermelon

Is this a chickens head?

This white chicken has green looking legs

The chickens are only about half grown but are starting to look like adults.

We really do have some different looking chickens, I just hope about half are hens and not all roosters.

Update picture of the little peacock, still with the mother and growing.

The peacocks ain't strutting much these days. Almost all the tail feathers are gone.

A black long hair Momma farm cat had 3 babies.

I knew where she had them when they were little, but

she moved them. This week is the first time I had seen them for a few weeks.

Windmills

2009-08-15T05:23:00.004-05:00

Steve was fixing fence on one side of the road and I was playing with the camera taking pictures. We have cattle in this pasture in the summer, its about 10 or 12 miles from home. Very beautiful county! The windmills are just across the road from each other.

Windy August Saturday

2009-08-08T12:02:00.004-05:00

Today is not a good picture day!!!

The wind is so strong everything is blowing away, including my jeans on the line
Our poor trees.
The ice storm in 2008 broke off lots of branches and after trimming this is how they look.

Saturday Pictures

2009-08-01T22:15:00.007-05:00

We had a busy week and here are some of the highlights.

July 25th lighting

McKelvie at the Kiowa County Fair

Pedal Pull

After we got home from the fair Laina and Taylor made little cherry pies.

And ate them

Some of the vegetables we picked while my sister was here.

The garden has done really well.

Saturday pictures

2009-07-25T12:00:00.005-05:00

This morning I took a walk down the tree row, where old equipment from years gone by has gone to rest. Old hay trailer, combine and other old farm equipment (some horse drawn) belonging to my Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather.

Twinkle
What a look

Big Boy and a gold fish

I don't think I have ever seen a dragonfly just like this one before.

Ivy Geranium, I love this color.

Saturday Pictures

2009-07-18T11:43:00.005-05:00

Mama white peacock hatched out 2 babies, aren't they cute?

Week in Review

2009-07-17T13:46:00.028-05:00

First of all we had a 6 year old girls birthday party to attend. With a lot of cousins, family and friends. It was a bowling party and what fun the kids had.

Have you seen the neon bowling shoes?

This is Sam and his little brother Ace.

Ace is 6 mo. old now, he weighted 3 lb and 2oz at birth and now 12 lb.

He is doing just great. Donna got hold of him and kept him the whole evening.

Pictures I took on the way home from work the other night. The clouds were so pretty in the sky and the windmill on the prairie just caught my eye.

Update on the chicks: I couldn't get them to spread out, when I put the camera in to take a picture they bunch up. But you can get an idea of how they have grown. We have moved them twice into bigger pens.

Last night we had a little cookout at our house and I don't know how it got around to the guys showing the kids how to witch or dowse for water. But all the cousins had to try.

Saturday Pictures

2009-07-11T10:54:00.004-05:00

A Little Party

2009-07-09T18:27:00.012-05:00

We had a little party on Sunday the 5th of July.

The weather was so nice, and the flies weren't to bad till we started eating.

It was just a wonderful evening.

I haven't set down at the computer for a week, so I am a little behind on everything. I had a jewelry trunk show last night and haven't taken time to do anything but organize for it.

Happy 4th of July

2009-07-04T09:44:00.014-05:00

My Saturday morning walk around the farm.

We hope you all have a very happy 4th of July.

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Last night the Kiowa County Farm Bureau sponsored the ice cream social at the Mullinville 4th of July celebration. I am adding a few photos of everyone enjoying the ice cream.

New Chicks

2009-07-01T20:01:00.006-05:00

Look what I got in the mail Monday. They are so cute!!! I ordered 25 chicks, assorted breeds.

We have had so much fun with them, Ellie has held every one (or had me hold them so she could touch)

This is my 1st public post the the Farm and Family part of my blogging, hope it works.

Thanks for stopping by.

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My main blog is www.prairieemporium.com

2009-06-18T11:32:00.003-05:00

Maria at Endless Sunner added my Thai silver and Coral earrings to her Treasury, Sedona Sunset. Isn't it beautiful? The colors!!! You can go to the treasury link to view till Friday the 19th at 3:25 http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=65098

2009-05-30T09:06:00.002-05:00

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Please have a look.

Debbie

2009-05-29T16:11:00.006-05:00

First of all I would like to show off the collage from Laura Pace of Found Memories.

I signed up on her blog for the Get Excited and Make Things. I received in the mail the color block collage and a cute card with a recipe. I don't know Marion but I think I have a lot in common with her. Thanks Laura, It is so much fun to get art from others and see what they are working on .

Now for Croutons

Yes Croutons

We have lots of lettuce and spinach in the garden, it has been salad everyday.

I have been making my own croutons so thought I would give you the recipe.

This is the fast method for a small portion

Cut 4 slices of bread in cubes

put in a microwave safe bowl

cut 3 1 Tablespoon slices of butter or margarine and spread out on top

sprinkle about 2 Tablespoons of Parmesan cheese on top

sprinkle about 1 Tablespoon Italian season on top

Now put in the microwave for 1 min.

take out and mix

microwave for 1 more min. and mix

now microwave for 1 more min.

let set for a few min. and you should have a nice crunchy crouton.

If your microwave does not cook as hot as mine you may need to put back in for 1 more min.

My Internet at home is not working, so I will not be getting e-mail or be able to respond to anyone this weekend. Have a good one!!!!

Leather Jewelry

2009-05-14T18:41:00.005-05:00

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Hilltribe Thai Silver Necklace

2009-05-11T19:39:00.008-05:00

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Special Order Thai Silver Necklace

I made a bracelet and earrings a while back , the girl who bought then ask if I could make her a necklace to go with. Hear is a picture of what I made; Thai silver , sterling silver and a hand forged hook and eye to finish the look.

I feel like I have been gone a while so will try to get caught up and post some photos of graduation and Mothers day soon.

Get Excited

2009-05-07T12:56:00.007-05:00

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I am so EXCITED!!!! look what I got in the mail today.

My get excited exchange from Renate. I love it !!!!!!!!!! And it is perfect colors for me.

Thank You so much Renate

Fancy Quartz necklace

2009-05-06T22:08:00.002-05:00

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Fancy Quartz and Smoky Quartz

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