A Vintage French Chicken Feeder, Apples, & Tiny Tapers.....An Autumn Centerpiece... Grain Sack Dog Beds, and more....

Hello!

I hope you had a great week....

Just a warning this is a very random post.... 

I recently found this vintage french chicken feeder....

It will make it's way to the shop sometime next week : (

I knew I wanted to create fall centerpiece with it using apple votives when I found it....

I have shown on my blog two different ways to use apple votives for fall.....

This ended up looking a little different then I intended, when the kids and I got started making these we realized we didn't have tealight candles.... So we used tiny tapers....

All we did was set the candle on the apple to figure out the diameter of the base of the apple....

We used a Martha Stewart Craft Knife and cut some of the apple out from the core of the apple...

We made sure to keep the hole the same diameter as the candle or your candle will not stay in place.

We made our holes about one inch and a half deep....

My favorite candles to use during this time of year are Williams and Sonoma's tiny tapers....

Next week I will share images of how I have used these tiny tapers in the past along with images of 

different ways to use apple votives....

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I wanted to share a few images I recently shot of our dog beds/floor pillows that my sister Liz designed and made last spring..... 

We will be offering these in the shop the first week of November.....

I think they are so cute, and I love the way my sister designed them....

The dog beds are machine washable : )

The grain sacks are made from hemp linen, which is a very forgiving fabric to use around the house....

They clean up really nice.....

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I am sponsoring a giveaway over at My Sweet Savannah's blog..... 

I am giving away....

1 vintage french linen sheet....

Two stand pillow cases made with vintage french linen....

The winner also gets to choose a market basket from our shop.....

I wanted to share a few ways I use the vintage french linens.....

I use them to cover our comforters in our home, instead of duvets.....

I also use them to cover our white couches....

It makes it easier to just throw the sheets in the wash vs. the slipcovers....

I have also become obsessed with using the sheets for making our standard pillow slips....

They are so nice to sleep on....

Here I used a vintage french sheet to recover this ottoman....

(I had this done I do no know how to recover furniture myself)

My mom made this lampshade using a portion of a vintage french linen sheet....

I loved the monogram on this particular sheet and sent my mom the scraps to use to make a lampshade....

These are examples of the market baskets we have in the shop.....

French Market Basket with short handles

French market basket with double handles......

I have one of these at each door to catch all the shoes : )

I should say some of the shoes....

To enter the giveaway you can visit

My Sweet Savannah's blog here.....

Thank you Melaine!

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I recently was lucky enough to get to photograph this sweet little girl picking vegetables in their beautiful garden.....

The Nicolazzi's are from Italy and live on a horse ranch in Grass Valley, they train reining and working cow horses....

They have created a beautiful place to live.....

I can't wait to share more images from this shoot with you.....

I will also be adding this market basket that Aurora is holding to my shop next week.....

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The kids and I are headed to Burbank tomorrow to watch my husband compete in a 

National Reining Horse Association Horse Show this weekend....

I thought I would share a few images I shot of my husband showing horses this summer....

My husband is one of those people that truly has a gift with training horses.....

Thad grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana, we lived only 20 minutes from each other and went to the same school....

He has a special touch with animals and is very humble about his God given talents.....

He even worked on training our pet bison to ride : )

(Unfortunately we no longer have Leonard.....)

We won't be back until Monday, so I won't be able to ship out any shop orders until Tuesday, I am sorry for the inconvenience.....

I have so many fun french farmhouse products to list in the shop.....

I can't wait to share them with you....

I will be listing everything the first week of November.....

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care,

Maria 

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