LaurieAnna's At Canton TX Trade Days

Just a reminder to all local Texans that Canton's "1st Monday - Trade Days" is this weekend.

Here's the latest photo from LaurieAnna's shop in Canton...

Laurieanna's

LaurieAnna's shop is broken up into different type rooms. This bedroom setting is in the entry room of LaurieAnna's. Their Kitchen Rooms and Dining Rooms are always my favorite rooms to walk through and pick things up for our house. 

LaurieAnna's shop will be decorating for fall soon, my favorite time of year in their shop.  I'll be impatiently waiting to go there even if it's just to look around and get ideas on how to use the fall decor I already have.

Speaking of fall decor...this mustard colored spray was new at the Frisco Mercantile shop the other day. The vendor was just setting them out so I plucked one out of the box to try at home. Love them!

The Kitchen Pig got this fall sprig to replace the pansies he's been sporting since spring. He does seem to smile a little more since his mini-makeover!

The colors of fall go well with our house since it's a blend of browns, yellowish golds, and such. 

How about you? Do the fall colors make you happy the heat is almost over...or sad because summer is coming to an end?

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Why Monday Trade Days Are Never On Monday

Texas has a long held tradition of holding gatherings called Monday Trade Days. 

I'm a transplanted native Californian who married a native Texan from an old Texas family. 

When I first moved to Texas in 2005, I was somewhat confused since Monday Trade Days are held on the weekend and are never held on a Monday!

I've learned back in the olden days of Texas, farm and ranch families often lived far out of town and made monthly trips into town in their wagons to buy dry goods (flours, sugar, fabric) and to sell or trade their farm produce, along with ranch animals and such. 

In these Texas communities, the people waited for the "circuit" judge and "circuit" minister to come to their town at a set time period. 

The two would ride a circuit, arriving in town to conduct weddings and church on Sunday, and then court business on Monday, before riding on to the next town. 

One town would be given the first Monday of the month to conduct court business, another town some riding distance away would be assigned the second Monday, another town the third Monday, and another the fourth.  

In Canton Texas, the town was assigned the first Monday of the month. First Monday Trade Days is still held in Canton on the Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday prior to the first Monday of the month.

Since next Monday is the first Monday in June, Canton's First Monday Trade Days for June will actually start this Thursday (May 31st) and go through the weekend.

In McKinney Texas, where my husband's family is from, the town was assigned the third Monday of the month. 

McKinney still carries on the tradition and holds monthly Third Monday Trade Days on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday before the third Monday of the month.

According to my in-laws (ages 92 and 95), McKinney held a dance on the Saturday night of Monday Trade Days, as most Texas towns did. 

When I first moved to Texas, I was surprised at how much Texans love to dance, especially the men! 

The Texas Two-Step is the dance of choice here, and you'd better be wearing your boots 'cuz you can't dance The Texas Two-Step without them.

My father-in-law remembers from the time he was a young boy, his father had a Boot and Saddle Shop in McKinney (in this building in the picture below), played a mean fiddle, and "called" the dances at the Saturday night events. 

Now you know why Texas' Monday Trade Days are never held on Monday. 

This week I'm joining the Share Your Cup party at Have A Cup Of Mrs. Olson's and the Vintage Charm Party at My Thrift Store Addictions. Hope you'll join these parties too.

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Fruitcake...Yea Or Nay?

One thing about fruitcake...you either really love it or really hate it. 

For those of us who hate it, this sign is an oxymoron.

I'm proud to say I'm in the "Really Hate It" camp. 

I'm a single hold-out here in Texas though where my husband, mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law all love it to death. 

But they only like the fruitcake from a place here in Texas called COLLIN STREET BAKERY. The bakery was started in 1896 in Corsicana Texas and has operated continually since then. 

Luckily, they've branched out and there's a bakery shop in Greenville, Texas, which we pass by on our way down to Trade Days in Canton TX, which is the home of my favorite Texas store... LaurieAnna's.

I do love to stop by the Collin Street Bakery shops though. The decor is why I stop. Here's the lights, which are made out of rolling pins. We were there for Christmas season, and I loved all the Christmas decorations. See the two large Nutcrackers standing guard over the room?

The bread boxes were incredibly cute too. It is with deep regret that I left without one. Especially since they were on sale for $19.95

The fruitcakes were priced around $26 each and were eaten within a few weeks despite getting one for each person so they didn't even have to share. 

How about you...Would 25% off sound like Heaven-In-A-Cake-Tin to you?

Me? I'm more of a chocolate gal. This whole cold case was calling my name! They don't call me Sugar for nothing...

Next time we go down to the Canton 1st Monday Trade Days, held the last weekend of each month, I'll be stopping by for everything anything in this glass case and a nice hot cup of tea. 

Oh yeah...one of those breadboxes too please.

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Talking Pansies

One of my favorite flowers to plant is

the pansy. They're hardier than they look

and they don't require much fussing...

 especially if you buy them dried and framed.

 This was a purchase at Laurieanna's shop down

in Canton Texas. Recently I recommended you

buy "smalls" in pairs, not singles. I bought this

framed picture before I learned that lesson.

 It says:

Pansy: Viola

Used as a bedding plant in Victorian gardens.

They bloom profusely in spring and fall plantings.

Edible. Evokes faithfulness and modesty in

the language of flowers.

 Are you old enough to remember when we all

put flowers between newspaper or book pages

to dry them? 

Wild Bill's cousin created a sweet framed

dried floral arrangement back in 1994.

Not as colorful as the one from Laurieanna's,

but sweet and pretty just the same. 

 I found it in a box of family stuff in the garage.

I think it will look good on the wall with

a few other framed floral pieces.

 

How about you? Do you have any dried floral

masterpieces from you childhood?

 

 

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LaurieAnna's Shopping

LaurieAnna's shop in Canton Texas has

these interesting papers, along with a whole

new room of ribbon, papers and such.

I bought three of these large ones, which could

be laminated and used as place mats.

 I plan to put them in old frames and hang them

on the wall, especially this one with a chalkboard

background.

The shop is featuring their new paper room on their

blog right now.

You can see the new room at the link below.

 

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