Avalon and other stuff

Things are going great with us. We had two appointments to show Avalon on Sunday and one appointment to book our 7th wedding for next year! Yeah! This week so far we have three appointments to show Avalon and several other inquiries that may become appointments. This is one of our busiest weeks for appointments out at Avalon. No complaints from us :)

We are working on a new flower bed out at Avalon right now. We are adding dirt and will put plants in soon. We will add rock later when the funds become available. The plants and flowers are really looking good out at Avalon right now. Everything is enjoying the cooler weather including Darrin and I as we work out there. It is amazing to look at pictures from May and see how much the plants have grown in just 5 months. Some have more than quadrupled in size. The wildflower field is in its fall mode with waving grass and feathery weeds. It actually looks quite nice this time of year.

We had a large wedding on October 11th out at Avalon. They did a really nice job decorating and everything looked very nice. We did the photography at the wedding and enjoyed working with the couple and families. One interesting thing....we don't allow people to use confetti at Avalon for the obvious reason that it would be in our flowerbeds and grass for years. So two weddings so far have found a "confetti" of sorts that is biodegradeable. It basically disappears after it gets wet. Vanessa's confetti was little white hearts and looked very pretty when the threw it.

Hope all is well! Be blessed this week!

Near the end of the craziness...

We are near the end of our crazy month! Yeah! We started with Hurricane Ike and the time put in at work to help evacuees and the other counties without power in our region.

Then we had to get ready for the Bridal Show on September 21st. We had two tables--one for Studio One and one for Avalon. We did the normal large pictures and albums for the studio. For Avalon, we put out a silver tea set and flowing fabric and flowers to hopefully make people think of garden tea parties and pretty landscapes. We never take pictures of our booths (we should) or I would post some here.

Then we headed down to San Antonio early on September 27th to sell birds. We made a little money but Darrin traded a lot of birds and got many many new ones. One funny story from that weekend: We traded for some more Green Singers. They are a pretty bird that is similar to a canary. They are yellow with grayish stripes on the head and back. We got a pair before and they have just been sitting in the cage staring at us. We got home Sunday evening and started unloading the cages from the car. We put the cage in the bird house that had the three new pairs of Green Singers and as soon as one made a noise, the male we had started flying like crazy around the cage and singing at the top of his lungs. He sounded like a much bigger bird--it was really loud but it was pretty. His female friend seemed to get jealous and started chasing him around the cage trying to peck him. It was pretty funny. We have put them all in a large cage together so maybe they can find more suitable mates.

Then to on October 4th we had a wedding here in College Station. Everything went very smoothly for it.

On October 9th we had a booth at the Meeting Planners Showcase here in College Station. It is basically a trade show where people who plan events come and see what vendors have to offer them to help with their events. We had a 8 ft x 10 ft booth and we put in a table with china place settings and a large centerpiece with flowers. We also had some garden furniture and two large urns with flowers. We wanted it to be pretty and standout among all the other booths with the black drape and tablecloths. People said it was pretty.

We have a wedding out at Avalon tomorrow (Oct 11th) and that will be the end of our craziness for a little while.

We did manage to go to Round Top Antique Fair twice in that crazy time. We found an aluminum decorative bench with two chairs and a table and a cast iron table with two matching chairs for Avalon. We will use them to continue adding more garden sitting areas and flower beds. We want guests to be able to stop and enjoy the landscaped flowerbeds and other garden areas of Avalon.

I hope you each have a wonderful weekend! Be blessed!