Winter Wonderland Pics.......the Blizzard of 2010

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........baby it's COLD outside! This has been one of the worst winters since we opened our doors some 10 years ago. So here are some pics for you to enjoy of our winter wonderland.


Our shoppe sign covered in wet snow!


This gorgeous pic was taken by Molly Metzger-Tevis out at our cemetery of the monument and church.


Looking towards the square from our front door. This was the day after the blizzard.

The gazebo and snow covered trees directly across the street from the shoppe.

Our town hall located on the square diagonally from the downtown.


Here's to warm weather days ahead!

Spring Open House at Village Gift Shoppe.......

Some of you may not be aware of this, but I also sell on eBay as Village Gift Shoppe and I also have a Village Gift Shoppe Blog. We are located at 106 N. Walnut St. in downtown historical Gnadenhutten, OH. Our shoppe phone number is 740-254-9530. Please feel free to call us if you have any questions or need directions.

We're having our annual Spring Open House on Saturday March 28th from 10:00am-6:00pm and Sunday March 29th from 12noon-5:00pm.

We have over 20 consignment artists and they all donate a door prize. We also have free refreshments such as cookies, punch and coffee. We have a wonderful little cafe 4 doors down where you can go have lunch after you browse the shoppe.

We call ourselves "The Best Kept Secret in Tuscarawas County". We hope that you will stop by if you are in the area!

This Past Weekend's Show Display.............

I thought I would share some pics of our set up in the hallway from this past weekend's show. We were set up in the hallway outside of the cafeteria. So we really got to spread out. We kept our display right up against the lockers so our customers could see easier and with it all spread out, they had more room to view things without having people standing in their way.


Some little prim dollies in our black cradle........


Our awesome podium that we take to shows. A special thank you to Stacey or Tattered 'n Torn Prims and her hubby for custom making this for us several years back. I purchased the vintage ceiling tin tile off of eBay. It came from a saloon in Montana! See Joycee's Mischief black cat sitting up there for all to admire?


There's Penelope standing there! Lots of people bought tickets for a chance to win her at the show..........


Prim goodies, Mercantile Gatherings magazines in the fall basket and Laura's stacked pumpkin blocks. Those little block sayings in the bowl were a hit! They have the cutest sayings on them!


You can see how long our dispay was in this pic...........


A special THank You to Joycee, Memo, Laura, Lincoln and Riley for helping us haul in, set up, and tear down! We got it all done in record time!! YEAH!!!


Our Ohio State Buckeyes section was very popular with the shoppers there.......


Our black Halloween tree with little prim ornies. Best comment of the show overheard by Memo...."Oh.....it's a black tree.........Oh, it's a halloween tree................Oh, that's wrong............that's just all wrong." Some people just don't get it! I should write a book on all the overheard comments made at shows.........LOL!


Our vintage door with our ceiling tin tile star. We also use vintage shutters to hang things from. Why is it that everyone always wants to by our display pieces? LOL


Joycee's newest style dolls are sitting on top of the cupboard. They are paper clay over cloth and I'm trying to talk her into listing at least one on eBay. Leave your comments on this post to try to convince her too. She thinks people won't like them because they are different than her other dolls. Let's all convince her otherwise............


Show sales were down from last year, but we expected that with everything that is going on with the economy and this being election year too.

Wish you all could have came to see us! Remember that our Village Gift Shoppe Fall Open House is this weekend too! We hope you have time to stop by and see us at 106 N. Walnut Street in historical Gnadenhutten, OH. We'll have free door prizes and refreshments for all!



And don't forget to sign up for a chance to win Miss Penelope pumpkin. Tickets are 50 cents each or 3 for $1.00. We'll draw the lucky winners name on Sunday October 19th at the end of the day when we draw the door prize winners names..........

Hanging Out at Pioneer Days..........

A couple of weekends ago, we headed out to Pioneer Days in Gnadenhutten. It's held the first weekend in August out at the historical museum and the grounds there. I used to do the craft show out there several years ago. So we headed out to watch the crock auction and wonder through the encampment. Homemade beansoup is made in a big black kettle over and open fire but I didn't eat any this year. Jadyn was amazed by the fox pelt hanging in front of one of the encampments and I loved the hanging lantern........





Barry Lentz of Whitewoman pottery located in Coshocton, OH has been making the crocks for the crock auction since 1995. Every year they make 10 limited edition crocks that are auctioned off to raise money for the museum. I was the one responsible for asking him to make the crocks and this has become a very good fundraiser for the Historical Society. All proceeds go back to the museum so it's for a very good cause. =D Here's one of the former Pioneer Days princesses holding the #1 crock..........



The memorial monument out there has been repaired and cleaned this past summer too! I almost didn't recognize it when i saw it! It used to be grey and dark and now it's a light cream and clean! lol I have a picture of my daughter standing in front of it when she was little, so I just had to take a picture of my granddaughter standing in front of it too.............flashback!


Inside the museum are many old artifacts and documents. I just love looking at the way that they used to write. Their penmanship was amazing.....


And then there's this lifesize replica of David Zeisberger that sits inside the museum. This guy has scared several visitors because he looks so darn real sitting there! LOL There are also two lifesize Indians, but there was no way that Jadyn would stand beside them because she was scared to death of them.....she thought they were real!

Let's Celebrate! HaPpY 4th of July!

Well, this past weekend was a busy one for me. I help with our community 4th of July Festival and we had events held on the 3rd, 4th and 5th. Our fireworks were on the 5th and we had a huge crowd on hand to view them! We let off our fireworks in time to music, so it really makes them special to see them and listen to the songs that are picked out especially to go with them. This year was bittersweet, as the man who has let off our fireworks for the past 30 years passed away unexpectedly this past spring, along with another man that had helped him for many years. We also lost another man that has been a part of our parade with his group, the Ohio horse drawn wagon train, for as long as I can remember. So, we weren't sure what we were going to do after losing all these great men, but we all pulled together and made this happen. We did it especially for them and to celebrate the 4th of July and their lives too! The food out there was so yummy!!!! I could have had one of everything there! Jadyn had to get the ice cream on a stick with sprinkles.....of course!


She was still too little to go on the rides and the huge inflatable slide and the inflatable jumping tent...maybe next year. She loved the playing on the parks equipment though, especially the spiral slide.



She must have went down that thing at least two dozen times. My niece Hallie is the one that you can see with the cast on her arm. She just loves Jadyn and went with her every time to make sure she didn't fall and get hurt with all the kids that were playing on there.


The fireworks were another story.....she is scared to death of them. As soon as the first one went off....she started screaming at the top of her lungs............"Take me home mommmy! Hold me, don't put me down!" I sure hope she likes them next year and I'm buying her some earplugs to wear.............LOL! Here's two short videos that I made of part of the grand finale.........ENJOY!