As I previously mentioned, I went home this past weekend and I purposely scheduled my visit to land on the same weekend as the annual Hilton Apple Festival! I hadn’t been to the Apple Fest for a few years and since I grew up with it taking place basically in my backyard, I had to make it this year! The Apple Fest is a huge craft festival complete with amazing artists, delicious food(lots of apples) and live music. I have many great memories of attending the Apple Fest with my mom and sister, so that is just what I did again this year!
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That’s my sister and I and her handsome corgi Samson.
I decided I should show you all my favorite hometown festival and also what kind of great finds they had this year.
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One of the first booths we hit, that I wanted to share, is a local artist from Hilton! Her name is Barbara A. Palmer, she is a folk artist who also writes and illustrates her own children’s books. Her art is colorful and also whimsical, my favorite was her seasons paintings.
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Even the wood frames are such high quality.
This next artist unfortunately was out of business cards and I was unable to get more information on her work. I did however want to show you her adorable decorative pumpkins.
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She also had these cute country style ladders…
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Here is another artist that I did not get the name of, but I know the business is called Bulletin Boards Etc. and you can contact them at bulletinboardsetc@yahoo.com. Now why do I want to show you these bulletin boards? Because they are dog themed of course!
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Here is a yellow lab one…
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And only $5.95. Woot woot! Here is one more that caught my eye…
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I wanted to take one home, but I couldn’t think of a good place for it, so it stayed at the fest of apples.
We also ran into our friend Rachel who was working the apple crisp booth! Hey Rach!
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Did I mention I come from a small home town? We are bound to run into people we know.
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Next up we stopped at the booth shown above. I fell in love with this booth immediately, look at all those succulents. I do not have a green thumb so these are pretty much the only plant I am able to keep alive. Wahoo for succulents! These folks own a place called Tranquility Hill Greenhouse in Clifton Springs, NY. They make all of there own pots shown above out of a very light cement product. I was shocked when I went to pick up one of the planters, I almost threw it because I used a little too much muscle. Also they grow all of their own succulents and they are BEAUTIFUL….
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They have such a variety.
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I was planning to take one home with me since they were so light, I figured I would just carry it on my flight home. We were suppose to head back and pick a couple up on our way out, but we forgot! Shame on us, I can’t tell you how disappointed we were once we remembered. Shucks!
This next booth was full of chainsaw art. I mean does it get cooler than that?
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Here are some cute little owls that were $10 a pop, not too bad!
Also here is a cute little doe that I fell for…
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If you wanna check out more of this art, it is done by a guy named Rick Latson from Springwater, NY and he can be contacted at rlatson@frontiernet.net.
Samson was really into the next booth…
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We had to stop in to Hands and Paws Cookies and Treats! This is a little business from Cheektowaga, NY. They had some fun snack choices for dogs like fish fry, hamburger and fries or even surf and turf!
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Sam got a couple treats and I picked up one of these…
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They made a variety of pet products including treats, bandannas, collars and leashes. Can you guess which one I purchased? Well I have a model to show you…
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Yup, I got the Sabres one! Char Man loves it or maybe I love it and he tolerates it! Who knows?
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Back to the Apple Fest…
These glass flowers caught my eye. I specifically liked the little mushrooms that you can see near the ground next to these ginormous flowers.
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If these flowers were a little too big for your liking they also had these mini ones…
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I loved that you could mix and match the flower color and reattach them to whichever pot you were in to. I unfortunately did not get this artists information, these were just quick walk by photos.
We also stopped at Nanny’s Naturals Goat Milk Soap booth where Jessica purchased some soaps.
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Did I also mention that Samson was a hit at the apple fest?
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He’s such a friendly dog.
Next up we stopped into Elijiah Smith‘s booth where he was selling his hand blown glass pieces.
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That little green guy came home with me. I thought these little pumpkins were so unique. Check out this multi colored one…
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We had a lot of fun and came home with a couple things too!
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We also ran into my sister’s sister in law Melissa and her son Troy! Hope you read this one Meliss!