All Hail Queen Carol

What a fantastic Spooktacular Open House we had this weekend!

The one thing we couldn't wait to do, was to announce the winner of our Porch & Patio Contest on Sunday....

Congratulations go out to Carol Phillips of Gibsonburg!

Carol's back porch received the most votes from our judges...

thank you judges for your input!

They loved how Carol's porch made you feel at home, really comfortable!

Do enlarge the photos to really have a good look at all of the goodies that Carol used to decorate her porch with!

who wouldn't want to spend some time outside with a porch like this?!!

Look how cozy this eating area is....

Congratulations Queen Carol...

2010 Porch & Patio Winner!

A special thank you to all of our judges and all of the ladies that entered!

Long Live the Queen

...the Queen of the 2009 Porch & Patio Contest!

Congratulations go out to Mary Hetrick of Port Clinton, as she is this year's reigning queen of our Annual Porch & Patio Contest!

A big Thank You goes out to all of you that entered! It was so hard this year ~ and our three judges had their work cut out for them. In the end, they all agreed that Mary had the winning entry!

So....would you like to see her beautiful patio?

{Now that's a stupid question...isn't it?!!}

Want to see the past winner's entries?

2008 Kathy Stahl

2007 Sandy Shoup

Congratulations go out to........

...our 2008 Porch & Patio Contest Winner: Kathy Stahl!

Thanks to all the ladies who came out tonight to attend the winning reception to view the entries of this year's contest! We will have the contestants as well as Kathy's entry on display in the store until the end of the month. Take a look at Kathy's entry - and see why the judges picked her as having the "most welcoming porch or patio"!











A big thanks goes out to everyone who entered! The judges had quite a job trying to pick out the winner (Karrie & I were glad it wasn't on our shoulders!!)



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For all of our blog friends - we will be posting next Wednesday, August 20th some of our favorite porches and patios - if you'd like to play along - go ahead a email is with your link and we can have a virtual porch and patio party!!

2nd Annual Porch & Patio Contest

July 1st - August 12th

Do you have the most welcoming porch or patio (We'll enter Deck along with that!!!)?

Enter by submitting 3-6 pictures of your porch or patio by dropping them off at the store, or by emailing them to us at summerkitchen@sbcglobal.net
Sandy Shoup was our winner last year - check out her beautiful porch!
Now...who will it be this year? We can't wait to see the winning porch for this year!

The winner will win a $100 gift certificate to the store and a feature of their porch or patio on the blog.
We will announce the winner on Thursday, August 15th at a "Winning Reception" at the store from 6pm-8pm. We will have all the entries on view - don't miss out on an easy way to make $100!!

Best of Luck!!
Karla & Karrie

***Blogger Friends - we will have our own time to "show off" or favorite Porch and Patios....get them ready for the beginning of August & we can all link up to show our favorites!!

Christmas In July Giveaway will end on July 31st - keep the comments coming!

And the winner is......

Sandy Shoup of Helena Ohio - - - Congratulations! Sandy won a $100 gift certificate to the store - and is very pleased! Thank you to everyone who sent their pictures in! We had several entries, as well as four people who emailed pictures after the contest was over just for us to take a look. Karrie and I had a hard time picking - everyone did such a lovely job! Keep it up - the contest response went well, so we will do this again next year! We will have a display board up next week of Sandy's winning entry (hopefully) and we will get some of the other pictures up on a board for everyone to check things out - there's a lot of clever ideas out there!!
Just to let you know, Karrie will be on vacation next week, so I will be very bored and need a lot of people to talk to.......do I need to say anymore???? Stop on in and see all of the cool new fall stuff! SOOOOOOOOOOOO cute! We have these new screen art pieces that are so neat! It's such an original idea - you'll have to have them! Pumpkins, witches and black cats (with orange and black polka dotted bows) I'll get some pictures, and you'll see that you'll need to get in here and "get 'em before their gone!"