Costume Contest Winners and Photos

Well even though the weather wasn't great yesterday we had a great turn out for our costume contest. A big thanks to all those that participated!

The winners are listed as follows:

5 and Under
1st Place Barell of Monkeys, Taylor and Adriana from Cranford
2nd Place Dalmation in Basket, Georgia from Mountainside
3rd Place Butterfly, Stephanie from Fanwood

6-12
1st Place Dracula in Coffin, Shawn from Scotch Plains
2nd Place Dorito, Nicole from Fanwood
3rd Place Cotton Candy, Allie from Scotch Plains

Adult
1st Place Jersey Fresh Tomato, Jessica from Mountainside
2nd Place Shark Mike from Scotch Plains
3rd Place Snowman

You can see all of the pictures that Linda from our staff took here.

You can also see the pictures that Greg took here (I think you need to be a facebook user to see these).

New Events for this Weekend!

As of Yet Unannounced Events.

It's been an exciting week. We've been working on making this weekend Special and have added a few events to our calender.

We will have a few of the crew at Ice Age to help us this weekend. As part of a nationwide initiative, Fox will be hosting Family Fun Days this Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25. We will have a professional pumpkin carving artist on Saturday (he just dropped these two pumpkins off). There will be movie giveaways and we will have a craft table set up on both days.

You will have the chance to win prizes including DVD copies of the first two installments of the Ice Age trilogy, and all kids will receive a branded Ice Age glow stick to keep Halloween night fun and safe.

Child Safety Day

We have partnered with New York Life this Saturday to help keep your child safe. They will be here from 10am-4pm giving free fingerprint and photo ID cards. These cards can be an important tool in an emergency. They will also be providing information on safe trick or treating.

Win at our 18th annual Costume Contest

This Saturday October 24th at 2 P.M.

Please arrive early

There will be 3 age categories:
5 years & under
6-12 years
adults (age disclosure not required).
Prizes will be awarded for First place winners for both the 5 and under, and the 6-12 year olds and adults. First prize is a $50 Gift Card, Second prize is a $25 Gift Card, and third is a $10 Gift Card.

Shown is last years 5 and under winner Georgia from Mountainside as Charlie McCarthy.

See the other pics from Last Year.

Cider Donuts
We will have cider donuts both Saturday and Sunday. Donuts arrive fresh around 10:30. We will also have plenty of Cider and more apples.

Don't let the Rain keep you inside. Lots to do, and lots undercover.

Hours

We are open 9am-6pm 7 days a week weather permitting.

Hayrides
Hayrides will probably not be running on Saturday because of the rain, but we will keep the status updated on our blog.

Remember events are weather permitting, and you can get event status by following williamsnursery on Twitter, or by visiting our blog williamsnursery.blogspot.com.

See you Soon!
-Dave Williams
Williams Nursery

Dry Pumpkins Under Cover!

I know its raining this weekend, and the weather has messed up your decorating plans. Greg has moved tons of pumpkins inside to the greenhouse, so you can pick out the best for carving and decorating and not get wet. We also have hundreds of mums that just arrived with flowers starting to open and they're nice and dry.

You can even get a head start on carving this weekend. I had found a product called Dr Frybrain's Pumpkin embalmer at the Halloween show this year. One jar is enough to do all of your pumpkins. (and yes we have it in stock) Your carved pumpkins will last for 3 weeks with a treatment. It will also make your pumpkins squirel resistant, since the squirrels only attack the pumpkins looking for the seeds.

So don't let the rain let you down. Stop in grab a pumpkin and some tools, to take home and start carving. If you get a gallon of cider this weekend, we will even throw in a package of mulling spices to help warm you up.

Here's a few peeks from our slightly scary hayride

I just love how easy Animoto makes it to put a video together from pictures. They even have a great iphone application.

For those that don't have flash click here to see the video.

Sun, October 4th - hayrides opperating 10-5pm

A beautiful fall day! Stop in for a hayride, pumpkin picking. Jersey fresh apples.


-- Post From My iPhone

Fall is for Decorating Fun!

I put this animoto video together to showcase some of our new fall items. It is a great time to get the family to start decorating. Everything shown is available now.

This Years Halloween Costume Contest Photos 2008

Thanks to everyone that braved the misty weather!
Lots of great costumes this year...Being the Geek that I am, I was very happy to see a bit of Sci Fi make its way into the contest this year. Three Cheers to R2-D2 and the Borg...(for those that don't know who they are...hint...my Mom and Sister....R2 is the dome looking kid, and the Borg is a human machine cyborg...resistance is futile)

Below is the link to the photo library and the second is a slideshow of the event. If anyone wants these pictures at hi-res let me know and I can send it.

I was glad to have two cameras taking photos today. One of them's pictures was completely blurry. So I apologize if I've missed anyone.

halloween costume contest 2008

Wooden Pumpkins

My sister and brother-in-law have a friend who stopped in this week
with some large wooden pumpkins that have he carved out of giant
blocks of wood. Sizes range from 12 inches to 30 inches across.
They're very cool and you don't have to worry about the squirells
eating them.

These are only here for a few days on consignment.

Nostalgic Costume Review

After my last post, I started to reminisce of previous costume contests.
Unfortunately I've only had a digital camera since 2003. Hard to believe its only been five years.
Here are the pictures from 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Click on any slide show to see it bigger, and see the photos individually.
2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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Costume Contest - Saturday Oct 25th 2pm

I really can't believe we've been having a costume contest for sixteen years!

Wow...It's still one of my favorite events.

Here's the press release from the paper:
Win at Williams’s 16th annual Costume Contest
Williams Nursery at 524 Springfield Ave. in Westfield will have its 16th annual Halloween Costume Contest on Saturday October 25th at 2 P.M. Please arrive early
There will be 3 age categories:
5 years & under, 6-12 years, and adults (age disclosure not required).
Prizes will be awarded for First place winners for both the 5 and under, and the 6-12 year olds and adults. First prize is a $50 Gift Card, Second prize is a $25 Gift Card, and third is a $10 Gift Card
Call (908) 232-4076 for directions or further information.

Here is the slide show of last years contest:

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Scarecrow Contest Entries - 2008

Here are the entries to this years scarecrow contest. Stop in and fill out a ballet casting your favorite!

Note...if you click on the little box with the four arrows, you can watch the slideshow fullscreen.

Spooktacular Gifts

For those that have never seen our giftshop. (It's in the large brick building adjacent to the parking lot). I've created a new photosynth of the giftshop. Take a peak. My sister Denise, who is the gift shop manager has really outdone herself with some great new displays.

Unfortunately for those that can only access the internet via the mac, photosynths won't run on your computer. I do get a chuckle about this post from microsoft regarding it not being mac worthy:
Originally Posted by Microsoft Photosynth
Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows. Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site.