Gayle's Wreath
Encana brought back the Gayle McMurry Kinnison wreath. They redecorated the wagon wheel with evergreen boughs, pine cones, red winter berries, gold and red ball ornaments, and a pretty red and gold bow. Whomever buys this wreath agrees to keep it during the year, then redecorate it and bring it back for the auction next year.
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Looking at the wreaths
Everyone had a chance to socialize and look at all the wreaths before the live auction started.
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Wreath auction
(L to R): Sublette County Historical Society Board members Ron Wilson (spotting), Jay Fear (auctioneer), and J.D. "Sam" Drucker (holding Peggy Bryant's wreath).
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Sage & Snow Garden Club
The Sage & Snow Garden Club created this living plant creation. Hen & chick succulents are given a holiday look with sagebrush sprigs, cinnamon sticks, red berries, and dried seed pods. This wreath won the most stars for people's choice.
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Big crowd
A big crowd showed up to enjoy the fun, see all the unique wreaths, and help support the Museum. This event is the major fundraiser of the year for the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. All of the wreaths in the auction are donated by community members for this cause.
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Bridger Mechanical wreath
Note the antlers entwined in the wreath and the lantern hanging from the center.
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Reed's Ready Mix
The background for this wreath was a hand-made tree skirt. The ornaments were made of beeswax (the wax was from Farson). The skirt and ornaments were made by Collette Ziegler.
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Detail of Reed's Ready Mix
Close-up of wax ornaments.
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Sublette Communications wreath
Sublette Communications made a lighted wreath out of antennas. This wreath was one of the fan favorites.
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Refreshments
First Bank of Pinedale sponsored the wreath auction and refreshments.
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Wind River Brewing
Richie Strom (L) and Mark Johnson, from Wind River Brewing in Pinedale, sponsored the brew for the wreath auction.
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Shell elk antler wreath
This beautiful, and heavy, wreath by Shell Exploration & Production, was made using elk antlers. This wreath was a fan favorite.
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Putting on a star
Anyone who got a bidding number was given a star sticker to place on their favorite wreath. The wreaths with the most stars were the "fan favorites". Most of the favorites were bought for high dollar by generous bidders, then given back to be resold once or even twice more to raise maximum money for the Museum and still allow people to obtain a wreath at a good price.
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Richie Strom Christmas tree
Richie Strom donated a live Douglas Fir Christmas tree from Oregon to the auction. It smelled wonderful!
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Green River Valley Museum wreath
This wreath combines a cowboy hat and cowboy rope with sagebrush boughs and red berries.
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Chocolate Auction
The chocolate goodies were part of the Silent Auction.
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Ann and Jay Fear wreath
Ann Fear Appraisals and Jay Fear Real Estate donated this unique arrangement. It has a wooden fence/barb wire backdrop, evergreens, sagebrush, red and silver berries, and a grouse, and license-plate bird house. The focal point was an 1847 John Deere tractor seat.
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Ann and Jay's wreath
Some of the creations were quite elaborate and took two people to hold them. Here, Sublette County Historical Society Board members Sam Drucker (L) and Clint Gilchrist (R) hold the wreath which was made and donated by Jay Fear (far R) and his wife, Ann.
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Annette Pape
Annette Pape manned the table selling books and gifts from the Museum Trading Post (gift shop). All proceeds from the auction go towards the Museum's 2011 programs.
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SubletteOpoly SAFV
Sublette County Historical Society Board member Clint Gilchrist holds up the SAFV wreath during the auction, which came with a copy of their new board game, "SubletteOpoly".
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LaMere Concrete display
LaMere Concrete donated a lovely display which used Fremont Lake driftwood, an antler shed, dried fall color flowers and leaves, and pheasant feathers. A fan favorite, this display was made by Laurie LaMere.
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Nikki and Jeff's wreath
This wreath by Nikki Mann and Jeff Wohl with NOLS Three Peaks Ranch had hanging cookies that were edible, and came with a bucket of even more holiday cookies to enjoy.
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Edible cookies
NOLS wreath detail. Enjoy the wreath and eat the cookies!
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Wind River Pizza wreath
Wind River Pizza wove evergreen boughs, red berries and gold ribbon into entwined branches, and added an old fashioned Santa decoration.
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Pinedale Chiropractic
This wreath combined horseshoes, spurs, and horses made out of bells.
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Horseshoe wreath detail
Detail of Pinedale Chiropractic's horseshoe wreath with bell horse ornaments.
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Ultra Resources wreath
The base for Ultra Resources's wreath was a wonderful old weathered wagon wheel. They richly decorated it evergreen boughs, different kinds of pine cones, red berries, and glittery red ball ornaments. Placed around the wreath were elk, moose and deer ornaments.
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Pinedale Preschool wreath
Pinedale Preschool created a lighted evergreen bough wreath. They frosted some of the greenery with snow-like highlights, added in glittery silver bows and cute little penguin and snowflake ornaments.
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Sandy Anderson wreath
Sandy Anderson used a cowboy lariat as the base for her unique wreath. She then wrapped part of it with barbed wire and extended the wire into the middle of the wreath and bent it into the shape of a cross. She added silk sunflowers and raffia.
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Julie Early's Saddle wreath
Julie Early always amazes us with her creative wreaths. This year, she used an old saddle which is believed to have come from the David Ranch in the Upper Green. She added juniper greenery, pine cones, glittery red ornaments, and red holly berries, and topped it with a glittery red and poinsettia flower. This beautiful creation was donated back to be auctioned off a second time to help the Museum.
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Saddle detail
Detail of Julie Early's saddle "wreath". This creation was one of the fan favorites.
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Rosemary's chocolates
Rosemary Brewer made delicious chocolate treats for the chocolate auction.
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Sam's candlesticks
Fishing enthusiast, Sam Drucker, decordated this set of candles with holiday greenery, adding a variety of fishing flies for decorations. Sam is on the Board of Directors of the Sublette County Historical Society, the parent organization of the Museum of the Mountain Man.
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The Barn Door wreath
The Barn Door wove evergreen boughs with oak and maple leaves, acorns, pine cones and berry boughs into their wreath, then decorated it with wine bottle corks. The finishing touches were to add two wine goblets and a bottle of wine!
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Encana-Jennifer Gibson wreath
Jennifer Gibson made this wreath on behalf of Encana Oil & Gas. She used evergreen boughs, pinecones and red holly berries for the base, then decorated it with blue and black ball ornaments, bells and ribbons, adding in a couple of peacock feather accents.
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High Mountain wreath
Ron Wilson, from High Mountain Real Estate, made this unique cowboy boot wreath. It has (at least) 14 boots of various colors and designs, and is topped with a sagebrush swig bow tied with a red scarf with silver slide. This wreath was one of the fan favorites.
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Cowboy Boot wreath
Ron Wilson (L) from High Mountain Real Estate, helps hold the cowboy boot wreath he made. Clint Gilchrist (R) holds the other side. Jay Fear, (far R), conducts the auction for this wreath.
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James Duran bids
James Duran, from Shell, laughs as he particpates in the bidding exchange for the cowboy boot wreath.
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Encana-Jennifer wreath
Jennifer Gibson made this wreath on behalf of Encana. She used evergreen boughs and decorated it with silver and black ribbons, adding gold and black ornaments.
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Encana's Chocolate Cake
Encana donated a whole chocolate cake to the chocolate auction. This was a silent auction, with people writing down their bids to try to get the treat they wanted.
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Clean Wash Laundry wreath
Clean Wash Laundry made an evergreen bough wreath and decorated it with little silver and blue glittery packages, adding a pretty blue bow and sprig of branches with shiny silve leaves.
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Tegeler & Associates wreath
Tegeler & Associates created a unique wreath using a variety of green and copper-colored holiday ornament balls, entwined with a copper-colored see-through fabric ribbon.
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Sam Drucker wreath
Sam Drucker also made a wreath for the auction. He used pine boughs with holly berries and pine cones, and added in fishing flies and peacock and pheasant feathers for added decorations for the fishing enthusiast.
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McKenzie Meningitis fence
McKenzie Meningitis organization used a section of wooden picket fence as the base for their creation. Across the top, they added fir evergreen boughs mixed with sprigs and red berries. They added cute moose ornaments for the final touch.
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McKenzie Meningitis wreath
Museum of the Mountain Man Director, Laurie Hartwig, helps hold the wreath she donated on behalf of the McKenzie Meningitis Foundation. Sublette County Historical Society Board member Clint Gilchrist holds the other end. SCHS Board President Jay Fear (L) conducts the auction.
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Big J's wreath
Big J's used a grapevine wreath and added evergreen boughs, pinecones, winter berry, maple leaves and floral sprigs for a lovely holiday wreath.
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Big J's wreath detail
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Ridley's wreath
Ridley's contributed a pretty wreath with pine and fir evergreen boughs decorated with pinecones, glittery apples, pears, flowers and red winter berries, with an entwined red ribbon.
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Shell wreath
This large wreath, donated by Shell Exploration & Production, uses a grapevine base wrapped with silver-blue ribbon and glittery silver fronds, adorned with fir and pine boughs, silver flowers, and a silver angel. Three silver and gold Christmas ornament balls dangle on silver ribbons from the center.
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Shell wreath
Sam Drucker (L) holds the Shell wreath while Jay Fear conducts the auction.
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Lakeside Lodge wreath
This wreath is made of evergreen boughs decorated with pine cones and white, green and red berries and a pretty red snowflake bow. Little Santa ornaments, including one of Santa stuck with his legs sticking out of a chimney, complete the decorations.
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Sublette Center wreath
This is a evergreen wreath donated by the Sublette Center has pine cones, snow flakes, and a brown & green striped bow.
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Shell antler wreath
Shell donated this lovely wreath that is decorated on a moose atler. The greenery has white, green and red berries, hydrangea type flowers, a red poinnsettia, evergreens and gold bells.
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Shell wreath detail
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Ridley's wreath
Ridley's decorated this evergreen wreath with pine boughs, sprigs, green ball ornaments and white poinsettia flowers.
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Library wreath
The Pinedale branch of the Sublette County Library created this unique wreath with rolled up sheets of Christmas music, entwined with red holly berries. A holly bow adds the final touch.
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Library wreath detail
Detail of the Library wreath.
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Peggy Bryant's wreath
Peggy Bryant took a grapevine wreath and intertwined strings of multi-colored beads, antler, leather, and a sun/moon pin. Peggy is on the Board of Directors of the Sublette County Historical Society.
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Detail of Peggy's wreath
Detail of Peggy Bryant's bead and antler wreath.
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Children's Discovery Center
The wooden blocks in this wreath spell out "Childrens Discovery Center". A toy car, truck, plane, mouse, and rabbit are decorations.
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Digger Lewis-Encana wreath
Digger Lewis made this wreath for Encana. It uses juniper and sagebrush boughs, pine cones and mistle toe with a pretty red bow.
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Wolfs Pinedale Dodge
Wolf's Pinedale Dodge made a lighted wreath with evergreen boughs, pine cones, red berries, with cowboy and horse ornaments.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters created a wreath of white and red poinsettia flowers, decorated with a glittery red butterfly.
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Karen Olsen-Encana wreath
Karen Olsen made this swag on behalf of Encana. It has a wire rope with metal stars. The swag has vines with red and white berries large bells. A red plaid bow completes the decoration.
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Wyoming Land Trust
Wyoming Land Trust made a sagebrush wreath and wrapped it with a horseshoe lights and a bucking bronco ornament.
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Rio Verde Engineering wreath
Rio Verde Engineering made a twig wreath decorated with sagebrush sprigs and red berries. Two deer antler sheds are worked into the design.
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Tammy Bradley
Tammy Bradley made an evergreen wreath around a moose antler. Decorations include pheasant and peacock and feathers, gold ball ornaments, white flowers, red berries, lotus pods, and gold sprigs.
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Rosemarie's wreath
Rosemarie Brewer donated this lighted evergreen wreath. It has pine cones and gold flowers, leaves and bows.
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Annette & Millie's wreath
Annette & Millie Pape made this lighted evergreen wreath. It has pine cones, red berries and silver sprigs. A happy snow man decorates the center.
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SAFV wreath
The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Task Force donated this lighted evergren wreath. It has red berries, gold ornaments and a red bow. A white dove and the words "PEACE" are added decorations.
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Dennis Trucking wreath
This evergreen wreath has holly sprigs and red berries, and pheasant feathers. An old fashioned Santa is the centerpiece.
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Childrens Learning Center
The Children's Learning Center donated this holiday centerpiece. It has evergreens and pine cones, with a red plaid ribbon. A holiday moose adorns the center.
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Moose Country Quilting
Moose Country Quilting made an avian basket wreath. Evergreen boughs, red poinsettias and a gold ribbon adorn the center. 38 little birds perch on the crossbars on the basket.
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Bird closeup
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Shrimp
First Bank of Pinedale was the wreath auction sponsor, providing a wonderful selection of refreshments.
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Fan Favorite
The tags with the most stars became the "fan favorites". People received a star when they got a bidding number, then put the star on their favorite choice after going around the room and looking at all the wreaths.
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Hang on. Sam
Sam's arms got a work out holding up the wreaths during the auction. Here he holds the elk antler wreath made by Bridger Mechanical, while Jay Fear takes the bids behind him. Note the lantern in the center of this wreath. The card says, "Light in the Window on Christmas - Taken from the Irish and continued in the Old West, placing a light in the window on Christmas Eve is a tradition meant to welcome the Holy Family and any strangers passing by."
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Millie Pape
Museum of the Mountain Man Business Manager, Millie Pape, kept track of the bids during the auction.
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Keeping track
(L to R) Emma Lee Hecox, Angie Thomas, Janet Montgomery help keep track of the wreaths during the auction. Hecox and Thomas work at the Museum of the Mountain Man. Montgomery is on the Sublette County Historical Society Board of Directors.
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Sublette Communications wreath
There were many very unique and creative wreaths in this year's auction. Sublette Communications deals with radio and other communications, so the antenna wreath was perfect as their creation! Clint Gilchrist holds the wreath while Jay Fear takes the bids.
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Museum books
The Museum of the Mountain Man has an impressive collection of books they have published. Some of the books were available for sale at the wreath auction. During the winter, while the Museum is closed, these books are available for purchase online from their website. These make great Christmas gifts for anyone who enjoys local area history.
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