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A Calendar Update

St Edwards Feast Day Festival 2021

We hope you all are enjoying the weather lately. Here in the Houston area we expect some storms overnight but the weekend’s weather looks great! Will be great to get outside with you all. I wanted to share our remaining calendar for 2022 here on the blog for those of you who’d asked for it. It’s not a complete list as we still have applications pending but we’ll post another calendar update as those confirmations come in. We’re looking at a wrapping up our farmer’s markets, a few special events, deadlines for custom holiday labels, and a little more fun along the way. Thanks for being along with us for the ride!

Handmade black and white gift bag with bars
Handmade black and white gift bag with bars

November 2022

  • Nov 5th- Lone Star First Saturday Market (Montgomery)
  • Nov 6th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Nov 12th- St. Christopher’s Bazaar (Blalock Rd) & Huntsville Holiday Market
  • Nov 13th- Huntsville Holiday Market (Walker County Fairgrounds)
  • Nov 19th- Washington on the Brazos’ Christmas Market & Christmas in Crockett
  • Nov 20th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Nov 24th- closed for Thanksgiving
  • Nov 26th- Hallettsville Festival of Lights
  • Nov 27th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Nov 28th- Custom label order deadline for 2022 Holiday season
Santa visited the TPC booth at Magnolia market
Santa visited the TPC booth at Magnolia market

December 2022

  • Dec 3rd-Wunderlich Old Fashioned Christmas, Lone Star 1st Saturday Market, and Jersey Village’s Holiday in the Village Market
  • Dec 4th-Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Dec 10th-St. Christopher’s Christmas Bazaar (Blalock Rd) & Christmas in Historic Montgomery
  • Dec 11th-Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Dec 17th- Deadline for shipping USPS to arrive by Dec 25th. All orders after would require priority/expedited shipping or local delivery.
  • Dec 18th-Christmas Extravaganza Market (Magnolia) and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Dec 23rd- Soap room closes until Jan 2023 for annual family recovery time!

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be with us at the Christmas Extravaganza in Magnolia for pictures. We’re co-sponsoring that event along with GreenLite Services again this year. Pictures are free and the whole family, including your fur babies, can smile for the camera! We’ll keep posting pictures to the site here and also on our Facebook page of the fun.

As you can see, we are going to be pretty easy to find for the rest of the year. It’s always fun visiting with you all in the booth, at the markets, and around town. We hope to see you at some of these events and that posting these updates helps your schedule too! If you have any questions, comments, or events you’d like us to consider please let us know. Need GPS info to get to one of these events? We’ve got links to many of them on our Where to Find Us page and our Facebook page too. Wants to be a vendor at any of these? Send me an email and I’ll gladly help you get in touch with the organizers. Or stop by the booth to ask for details. We’ve been a little short staffed this fall due to staff commitments to scouting. This weekend is the last of those and we will be back to full staff. Thanks for your patience, understanding, and support all these years!

See you out there!

-Dorothy

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Markets and festivals update

Decorating the booth with our flowers

Many of you reminded us that we are due to give you a new update from our market calendar. Below is the list of dates that we have confirmed as of August 19, 2022, but you know how the weather and public health rules can throw a wrench in things! We will post updates here and on our Facebook page when things change. Please remember that more dates and events will be added into our calendar as they are confirmed so stop back by again soon for more information. Once again, we are amazed at how fast the year passed us by. It has been great sharing it with everyone and we always appreciate the support you’ve shown our family in our adventure. Thanks to everyone who has come out join us at the shows and especially those of you who brave these summer time temps with us in the outdoor markets!

TPC Market Schedule Fall 2022

8/21-     Ingenious Brewing Art Market

                Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

8/27-     Wunderlich Market

9/3-        Lone Star 1st Saturday Market (Montgomery)

                Jersey Village Farmers Market

9/10-     St Christopher’s Bazaar (Houston)

                Kolache Festival (Caldwell)

9/17-     Washington on the Brazos Farmer’s Market

9/18-     Ingenious Brewing Art Market

                Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

9/24-     Wunderlich Market

10/1-     Lone Star 1st Saturday Market (Montgomery)

10/2-     Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

                Jersey Village Farmers Market

10/8-     Scarecrow Festival (Chappell Hill)

                St Christopher’s Bazaar (Houston)

10/9-     Scarecrow Festival (Chappell Hill)

10/15-   Washington on the Brazos Farmer’s Market

                St Francis Wolf Sanctuary’s Festival of the Wolves

10/16-   Ingenious Brewing Art Market

                Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

10/29-   Wunderlich Market

10/30-   Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

11/5-     Lone Star 1st Saturday Market (Montgomery)

11/6-     Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

                Jersey Village Farmers Market

11/12-   St Christopher’s Bazaar (Houston)

                Huntsville Holiday Show

11/13-   Huntsville Holiday Show

11/19-   Christmas at Washington on the Brazos

11/20-   Ingenious Brewing Art Market

                Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

12/3-     Wunderlich Farm’s Old Fashioned Christmas

                Lone Star 1st Saturday Christmas Market

12/4-     Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market

                Jersey Village Christmas Farmers Market

12/10-   St Christopher’s Christmas Bazaar (Houston)

                Holiday in the Gardens (Mercer Arboretum)

12/18-   Ingenious Brewing Christmas Market

                Magnolia Farmers and Artisans Market Christmas Extravaganza

If you are interested in becoming a vendor at any of these events, we are keeping links on our page here that will help connect you to the organizers and/or events websites. We hope that this helps everyone. Make sure you follow us for more market and calendar updates here on the website and on our Facebook page, if you haven’t already.

Thanks again for all of your support and encouragement! We hope to see you out with us at one of these events.

-Dorothy

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Pictures from last year’s Schulenburg Festival

All work and no play…… not here! And we found pictures on Dorothy’s phone to prove it.

TPC playing at the Schulenburg Festival 2019
TPC playing at the Schulenburg Festival 2019

While we admit that we do work pretty hard around here and pull long hours as needed, we all love a good laugh and like to play around a little too.  It’s good for the soul and makes life a little better.  But part of the reality of our chosen path has us in the booth for a good part of our time. Schulenburg Festival, for example, is a three day show with multiple 12+ hour days. It can be especially tough to get down time when we’re working those kind of schedules.  That’s another reason we love to go work events with a group of friends who also handcraft their products.  You get someone to laugh with, help each other out, and actually get a lunch or potty break once in a while!

TPC and Artisan Woodworks of Magnolia staff taking a break
TPC and Artisan Woodworks of Magnolia staff taking a break to play at Schulenburg Festival 2019

We found a few pictures in our files from last year’s Schulenburg Festival. They were of our team having some game time fun with Artisan Woodworks of Magnolia.  We had a great time playing off and on all weekend while we were there.  There were contests between our own TPC team members, Texas Pioneer Creations vs. Artisan Woodworks of Magnolia, and our younger crew played with festival attendees too.  It was a lot of fun for all of us and the pictures still make us smile. We had a few heated battles, spectacular crashes, and more than a few laughs. Not a single one of us could beat one young man’s high score that was set that weekend.  He got 27 levels high!  And as far as we’re aware, that’s still the high score to beat.   We’ve enjoyed watching many people try to come close.

TPC Staff taking a break at Schulenburg Festival 2019
TPC Staff taking a break at Schulenburg Festival 2019

Once all of the COVID related situation is under control, we should get to have Artisan Woodworks of Magnolia join us at markets again.  Make sure you stop by their booth and try out the game for yourself.  It really was fun and the oversized blocks were great. Who knows, we might even get a break and have a chance to play with you too.  If you want to contact Artisan Woodworks before they can come back to the market, feel free to send them a message through their Facebook page.  Don’s been busy building and they’ve been good about trying to post pictures of what he’s been up to on their page.  We understand they are open for delivery only until COVID restrictions change.

Until next time, keep washing your hands and make sure to get some sunshine!  We’ll try to get more pictures of the garden up soon and a sneak peek of Dorothy’s liquid soap progress.  She has two batches just about ready to go on the website and a third one started. If you haven’t already, make sure to subscribe so you get notified when those blog posts go live. Have an idea or question you’d like us to discuss in a post? Drop us a comment below or send us an email and we’ll see what we can do for you.

Happy Washing!