Silent Auction

    Seeds collected from my garden, family and friends for the gr.3 Silent Auction Gift Basket

The Winter Fair is this Saturday at the children's school and  creative hands are in overdrive sewing little gnomes for the children's store and baking pies. This will be my second year of running candle dipping so I am pretty confident about that but I also took on the gr.3 gift basket for the silent auction. In keeping with the farming and gardening part of their curriculum I thought it would be fun to make the theme , A 4x4 Garden. Lee Valley has been slightly instrumental in making this basket presentation so beautiful. The glass containers, the wooden plant markers, the seed starters, the books, the shovel and children's tools all came from Lee Valley.
Since September I have been collecting seeds from my home but mostly it came from my Mother's garden and her collection of envelopes filled with seeds from friends. But the biggest prize didn't cost a cent and that is the garden journal I had the children create. Each child was given the task of drawing some element of the garden and had to include a recipe, or a story,or remedy or an activity or planting instructions. I don't know if I can part with it. One child gave instructions on a sundial, another provided recipes from Israel, while another provided the actual 4x4 garden plan. It really is a treasure for whoever wins the bid!

Drawings from the garden journal. The book and paper are made from recycled material.
Below is a photo of marzipan acorns that someone suggested I make for the fair. I would so love to buy these acorns that I actually asked for the recipe- was I dreaming?!

Comments

[Katherine]

The basket is wonderful - what a prize! That journal alone! And if you make those acorns, please blog it (with pictures!). ; )

[sue]

I feel trapped in Florida as I am unable to attend your winter fair! But I will have Linden bidding for me for sure! Have a lovely, profitable day. How exactly do you make those acorns????

[sue]

FYI- I meant to tell you that I have pounds and pounds of beeswax in the garage. It needs to be cleaned though,(I don't know how to) but remember that for candle dipping next year....:)