CARLTON, Mont. - We love our pumpkins this time of the year, and two Montanans channeled their passion for pumpkins by making them from scratch and turning them into a
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Entering Iowa from the south on Highway 81 out of Missouri, the first road sign you see is not “Welcome to Iowa,” but “Welcome to Van Buren County.” How fitting. Of the many treasures, secrets and beauties of Van Buren County, west on County Road J-40 out of Keosauqua, is the farm and artisan retreat of Tim and Kim Blair, also known as The Bloom and Bark Farm–bloom for the blooms of their flowers and trees and bark for the bark on the trees or the friendly bark of their three welcoming rescue dogs. The locals know, but visitors to Van Buren County, like Ginnie and me, have no idea that the mild mannered, pony-tailed glass blower, Tim Blair, was once a well-known medical doctor. Ask any of the neighbors or the many Amish and they will tell you, “Oh, yes. He delivered a lot of babies.”
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is linked to the museum of decorative arts. as it is of the there we were commissioned twice to decorate their windows both projects that were really close to our hearts because we were a part of a specific place and we had to create works the connected with that place. of experience. are those are expanding their repertoire to include neon like they outsource the creation of the to your glass blower their signature figure is of course included in. the liner elements come in different form. somewhere shorter and wider than this. more and we have others that are much larger. than the biggest we have measures one hundred fifty centimeters. with christmas just around the corner so she and frederick are busy making and shipping off lamps and other paper figures to clients