1st Annual Florida Farm Girl Meet-Up

Last year I planned a meet-up with the ladies I have been doing swaps with on MaryJane's Farm forum.  These swaps literally helped me heal through my ordeal with Lyme disease.  The farm girls showed me so much kindness and understanding which I really needed in a very dark time of my life. 
I joined the forum years ago after reading the MaryJane's Farm magazine.  It is about living your life around organic products and in a simple way like our Great Grandparents did. 
Today, we meet up at a lovely little B&B in Holly Hill, FL called River Lily Inn.  I highly recommend her tea to anyone that is planning a special day out with friends or family.

Winnie Red Tractor Girl was there and little did I know she is Farm Girl of the Year!  What a treat to spend some special time with this farm girl friend!  Congrats!  Winnie for receiving such an honor!
Farm Girl at heart fun facts!
Winnie drove over 2 hours for our 1st Annual Farm Girl Meet-Up.  She loves canning, embroidery and knitting.

Karla Hoosiercountry is one of my favorite farm girls to do swaps with.  We did our first swap together a few years back for the Tea Party swap.  She brought her lovely daughter, Lindsey and 2 neighbors.  Carol and Pamela with her sweet daughter Sofia. 
Farm Girl Fun Facts!
Karla lives on a farm and drove over 3 hours to come meet me, her first swap partner on Mary Jane's Farm forum.  She loves to garden and take care of her animals.

No farm girl would be fully dressed without her apron and Karla made sure that we all had our aprons on so we could Tie One On! 
Farm Girl Facts!
Lindsey is Karla's daughter so she also came the 3 plus hours to our little Farm Girl Meet-Up.  She also loves animals and using essential oils in her soap making.

Pamela and her daughter Sofia are the nicest two farm girls you could meet.  It was like talking with old friends.
Fun Farm Girl Facts!
Pamela and Sofia are another one of Karla's neighbors and Pamela was their driver.  She loves gardening and working with horses. 

Carol was so thoughtful and sweet and really made me feel right at home. She is a special farm girl friend now to me too!
Farm Girl Fun Facts!
Carol is one of Karla's neighbors who was along for the 3 hour ride to our Fun Farm Girl Meet-up.  She loves to cook, can and do yard work.

My husband Rafael had a nice time getting to know my farm girl friends.  He is looking forward to doing this again with me and our daughter next year.  Somehow, I did not get any pictures of my sweetie pie Kayla, Dumplin on Mary Jane's Farm.  I'm Marjean on the forum. 
Farm Girl Fun Facts!
My family and I drove a little under 1 hour to our 1st Annual Farm Girl Meet-up.  My favorite farm girl hobby's are gardening, making anything useful and beautiful with my hands, collecting anything to do with tea parties and butterfly's!

This lovely apron was made by another farm girl friend CeeJay.  It fit perfectly and was very well made!

                                         Some goodies that my farm girl friends brought me.

Kayla's basket of goodies!  She was delighted!  Now we have 2 new tea cups to add to our collection!
Fun Farm Girl Facts!
Kayla loves the outdoors.  She is a budding photographer and artist!  You'll find her lovely artwork note cards in my Etsy shop Markets of Sunshine FL.  Click here to see her work!

        This was the lovely table set and prepared with scrumptious food for all the farm girls!  They had chicken sandwich with hot soup.  Tea sandwiches and desserts along with a yummy hot tea!
See you all next year!  Love you all!  Hugs and Love from my family to yours!
Tune in next week for the continuation of my New Year New You series week four of seven.  If you missed the first three you can start by clicking here.

Get this cute note card set in our Etsy shop, click here!
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Florida Vendor Events: Lyme Disease Awareness, Foster Care, Sustainable Living!

Markets of Sunshine vendor events is about educating the community in three categories.  Lyme disease, foster care and sustainable living.  Why Lyme disease?  I have chronic Lyme and know first hand how it turns your life upside down overnight.

The first 3 years of your treatment make you wish you were dead.  Then suddenly you see the light at the end of the tunnel.  You're not going to die, you are going to live!  And, better yet, you want to live!

I have a mission to help people with Lyme to learn how to think positive and find true happiness!

If you live in Florida and want to join my Facebook group of families and get support for surviving and thriving with Lyme disease,

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Markets of Sunshine supports the local foster community called Community Partnership for Children.  Join them on Sept. 27th for their fishing tournament! click here  

Sustainable living became my passion over 15 years ago!  Not long after I converted to this healthy lifestyle I found Mary Jane's Farm Magazine, shown above! 

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Win A Mary Jane's Farm Mag Sub & Four Placemats

Hello Dear Reader's!
I love surprises don't you?  I have a real special treat for you this week.  It will be something really fun and we will continue to bring this new addition to you each week for the rest of this year.  We are calling it our "Sunshine Cliffhanger" by Markets of Sunshine Artists.

 "Spring is For Handmade from the Heart!"
Written by the Markets of Sunshine Artists
                                We hope you enjoy this heartfelt springtime story!

Tweet, tweet!  Tawill! Tawilll! 
Jean awakened to the sound of birds singing and thought "what a lovely way to start my day", too bad spring is not here yet!"
Crreeek!.....door opening......foot steps.......chiiish.....chair sliding on tile floor.......flop.....sits in chair!

While sitting at the table eating her breakfast Jean noticed how drab the table looked. What could brighten up this table, said Jean. "I know a pretty Springtime centerpiece with one of my fabric flower brooch's would really perk things up!"


Pink Floral and Lace Flower Brooch
After setting the flower on the table it looked so small. "That just won't do"! I know, I'll get my friends from the Markets of Sunshine to help me fill up this spot with something they've made to turn this into a unique and lovely centerpiece just in time for Spring decorarting"!
 She decided to look at her journal where she'd sketched ideas and had included photos of home decorating ideas that she liked.
 Journal set green handmade paper "season quote"



 While drinking her cup of tea, she had her tea cup kitchen hand towel ready to wipe up any spills.

  Embroidered tea cup kitchen towel

Ah, tea is so soothing!  Sip!  while sipping her tea, she decided to set the table with her matching set of table runner, placemats and napkins. 

  Four piece set Table runner, placemats and napkins

After having her tea and setting the table, she decided to make home made pasta for dinner using her pasta machine.
Vintage Pasta Machine

I would love to have a few friends over for dinner this weekend and show off my beautiful table and centerpiece display. I'll use those pretty note cards I bought from Delecto Art to invite them.

  Morning Glory drawing Note Card

 Then I'll set the table and add a playful touch by tying on the place cards to teacups with this rickrack ribbon from WoodstreamPapery.

  Kiwi Green Rick-Rack Ribbon

 Once we've enjoyed our meal, I plan to surprise each of my dear friends with an eco-friendly flower from WoodstreamDream!

Upcycled Flower Pin One-of-a-kind
Jean decided to make sure she had all of the lasagna ingredients. As she crossed the kitchen and passed her craft room door, she was suddenly distracted when, out of the corner of her eye she saw something that looked like it was crawling on the floor!! Shocked and a little scared, she edged into the craft room, broom in hand and ready for battle, to see what had caught her eye. Whatever it had been was near her sewing table and so she slowly creeped her way there. Bending over, the broom held in front of her, she quickly moved the chair out of the way, expecting a creature out of her nightmares to attack. Instead, she just doubled over and started to laugh and laugh and laugh. How silly she felt! Here she was with a broom held out like she was about to be in a knock-down drag-out fight for her life and what she found was a...dust bunny!
After wiping the tears of her laughter and blowing her nose, she got the dust pan out of the pantry and started sweeping her craft room. As she went to toss the family of bunnies and the thread and the strands of loose yarn into the trash, she was bummed out to see that her little can was full. She took the mess to the kitchen to dispose of it. She returned her trusty dragon-slaying broom to the pantry and reached into her gorgeous grocery bag holder to get a new bag for her little can.

  Shabby Chic French Country Grocery Bag Holder

 "Man, these grocery bags really come in handy when I need a trash can liner," she thought. "I'm low and I need to get some more. Good thing I'm going to the store later!"

Jean now turns on the her CD player and puts on her favorite oldies music and sits down on her comfy sofa and begins to write out her invitations, she pours another cup of tea, sipping and humming to the soft tunes of Frank Sanatra and Dean Martin.

We hope you enjoyed our cliffhanger story.  Tune in next week to find out what Jean gets in her mailbox!

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