December 7, 2025
On Saturday (December 6), Bruce dropped me off at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art for the Winter Art Market in Tuscumbia, AL. He went off to do Bruce things. While Bruce enjoys art fairs, he doesn’t enjoy them as much as I do. I almost always want to look at the art and crafts longer than he does. If it is kinetic art, he will spend more time than me! He was being very thoughtful by dropping me off since he didn’t want me to feel rushed.
The Winter Art Market is a curated display. The artists booths were inside the museum. I enjoyed walking around looking at the displays.
The handmade buttons were fun to look at.
There were beautiful scarfs, knitted hats, lots of pretty jewelry, wooden bowls, paintings, baskets, woven art made from kudzu, pottery, and fabric art. There was also jam and candies.
While I was admiring some paintings, I struck up a conversation with a nice lady about the art we were admiring. Her husband came up and we all had a fun conversation talking about hobbies.
Here is my haul, minus the print of Possy the ‘Possum. The print is going to Tom (and Reiko) from https://reikos-journey.blog/ and I want it to be a surprise for him (and her).
I bought jams (No corn syrup, so Bruce can eat them.), buttons for my sweater, and a sewing needle holder. I brought the card for “Dinosaur World Live” so Bruce could see what I was talking about. I want to go!
Bruce’s Bruce things included a trip to the RV to turn on the recently filled 40-pound tank. Then a trip to Lowe’s to find a pack of different-sized metal screws. He didn’t have much luck. He texted me he was on his way just as I was paying. I sat outside in the sunshine. It has been cloudy so much, having some sunshine was a treat. I saw the front of a red truck pull in and thought it was Cliff the Big Red Truck. I walked over there and realized it was a Ford 150. I quickly turned around while laughing at myself. Cliff the Big Red Truck is a RAM dually.
Bruce arrived a short time later. He asked what I purchased. I told him and started to pull everything out of the bag. He said that was alright, he didn’t need to see it all.
He then asked if I wanted to stop at Rural King. I said sure. We spent a pleasant hour or so looking around Rural King, eating the free popcorn and Bruce drinking the free coffee.
Nox was happy to see us when we got home.
We had a pretty sunset to end the day.
Blackberry Homestead 
Sounds like a good day! When I go to a thrift shop or an art and crafts fair or a flea market, I just as soon go with a girlfriend or by myself. It’s all good!
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It was a delightful day! I really enjoyed myself. I agree with your sentiment.
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That sounds like a wonderful day! I love buttons–have since I was a child playing in my mother’s button tin! These were really pretty and I enjoyed seeing the art as well. I even worked on art today!
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I love buttons and I too enjoyed playing with my mother’s buttons. I enjoyed how fun and pretty these handmade buttons were.
I hope you had a lot of fun working on art!
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It looks like that art fair had some really nice things for sale. I always feel good when supporting local artists while also finding gifts for people. We have a white Ford 150. More than once I have started to open the door to 1 in a parking lot, and then realized it was not ours!
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Back when I was in college (40 years ago), there was a news story about a a common model car. A friend 1 borrowed a car from friend 2. Friend 1 walked up to the car, unlocked it and was using the car for her errands. When Friend 1 returned, she found the car had been reported stolen. It turned out there were only a limited number of locks made and the Friend 2’s car was the same color and had the same locks as another person. After the police confirmed this, they let Friend 1 go and didn’t charge her.
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Do you have plans for the buttons?
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I do. I have a sweater with ugly buttons and I lost one of the ugly buttons. I am going to replace all the buttons on the sweater.
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Wow! I have heard that many keys for RV’s are the same. We hoped for that once when we locked ourselves out of ours, but that did not work at the time! Instead we used a ladder and I climbed into the open window in the bedroom.
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Climbing into the bedroom through a window couldn’t have been fun!
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