RubyLemons: Christmas at Monches Farm

Let's go on a field trip!

I'd like to show you my favorite shop for the last 20+ years

decked out in all it's annual Christmas finery...

Monches Farm

Ten miles down the road and past Lake Five on a cold, clear, crisp day,
I head out with my mother and sister.

We arrive at Monches Farm in Colgate, Wisconsin.

Scott Sieckman purchased Monches Farm

29 years ago and began creating the wonderland it is today.

Zannah, gave me permission to take photos for RubyLemons blog.
Click here to visit the Monches Farm website.

There are so many reasons to love Monches Farm. Artsy touches and unexpected surprises are everywhere. Here's a giant metal rooster sculpture. In warmer weather, real chickens and roosters roam nearby. As a gardener and former interior design major, Monches Farm satisfies my every wish for a creative and inspiring shopping experience. Today's only problem is that there is so much to see and so many pictures to take. Will my blog hold them all???

An antique sleigh filled with wrapped presents.

Someone's got a gift for creating beautiful vignettes with poetic imagination.

The statuary for sale is graceful and ethereal.

The gift shop entrance is surrounded by naturals of all kinds

including boxwood wreaths, mini evergreen trees and bunches of mistletoe.

The large window display at the entrance holds wonderful treasures.

I hope my pictures capture that irresistible and inspiring ambiance

Monches Farm has created in their shop.

A metal tree holds cute wool owls and sheep while

underneath lay boiled wool fingerless gloves.

Monches Farm is primarily a perennial farm featuring all kinds of flowers and plants. I love finding buckets of real winterberry and holly in the shop... sends the gardener's imagination soaring. After seeing all the beautiful naturals, I'm thinking the boxwood bushes in front of my house need a trim so I can make a wreath... maybe throw some of that winterberry or holly in...

Absolutely love, love, love this box of small Mercury glass ornaments.

Can't stop thinking about them.

Ornament on a gold feather tree... monkey? cat? dog?

Spun cotton originals

So many of the gifts in the shop have a nature theme.

Natural wooden birdies. So sweet.

Very antique looking clip-on tree candles.

More goodies upstairs

Primitive style stockings and pillows

Large table top sheep. Love them.

A wondrous display of glittery mica houses, trees,

and churches can be found upstairs.

I'm awed by the detail in the church on the right.

See the tiny mushrooms in front of the deer?

More mica buildings

Father Christmas contemplates the domed tree.

My interior designer side loves the many unusual and beautiful light fixtures Monches Farms offers for sale. This one is soooo cool silhouetted against the winter sky showing through the huge palladian window.