Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
Do you cut down a tree from your farm at Christmas? They all look like green soldiers protecting the farm. Idaho is the home of so many beautiful evergreen varieties.
Meg and Lucas went to the very site of today’s photo (a local tree farm) to bring home and decorate a tree last weekend. Yes, I walk out my door to find something, smaller and smaller every year–I let the kids do big trees.
Our local Christmas trees here in Florida are mostly Southern Red Cedar. They have very light branches that can’t take much weight. Plus, they have a terrible sticker type foliage that means you have to put heavy work gloves on the do anything with the tree. Other types of local trees include a southern Pine that can be pruned at tree farms. They have that sweet pine smell but rapidly turn brown and die once they are cut so they won’t last long. I have used that tree several times when my children were small since we could go and cut one down locally. But then everyone decided that only a Frasier Fir would do and then it was three against one. If it were up to me, I would do the local pine and select one that was small enough to make into a table top tree. I’m with you, small is best!
I have 2 kitties who treat a real tree as a big plaything. In fact this year with BB King my new now 8 month kitten, I am not doing a big tree at all. Even the ” forest ” of smaller trees I put out that have real wood with bark trunks are too much of a temptation for him. Ah well , the house looks festive anyway and the really good glass ornaments are on a reproduction German feather tree.
Today I will go buy pine roping for the front porch of my whlte farmhouse.. And go to my “secret” 3 story high ancient holly tree to cut branches that are just overwhelmed with red berries.