Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint and an Online Auction for a Friend

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This last month I have been working on photographing Miss Mustard Seed's beautiful Milk Paint colors......

I have fallen in love with the colors.....

One of my favorite colors is French Enamel.....

I had an old French zinc pitcher that I decided to paint using the French Enamel color.....

French Enamel is very close to the same color as my mirror I have in my entryway.....

My mirror has the original paint color so I haven't ever been able to tell anyone a paint color as I often get asked what color of paint was used on this particular mirror....

I now have a paint color I can recommend......

Miss Mustard Seed's French Enamel Milk Paint

I wanted to put a room together using as many of the Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint colors as I could....

One of my favorite things about decorating with white is adding pops of color to a room, and Miss Mustard Seed has such beautiful colors that will help liven up any room...

In this room I used six pieces that I had painted using the Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint.

The door is painted Grain Sack....

The zinc pitcher is painted French Enamel...

The crate is painted Linen.

I painted the bistro chairs Mustard Seed Yellow, Kitchen Scale, and Luckett's Green...

I LOVE the packaging!  

In the above image the pitcher is painted French Enamel, the door is painted Grain Sack, and the jar is painted Ironstone....

My friend Aimee who has a shop called the Antique Gardener let me borrow her beautiful kitchen scale for a few product shots..... 

I will share more pictures of  Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint in the future.....

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Becky Hanson, a good friend of ours, had a rare spinal tumor removed and was recently diagnosed with having a grade 4 glioblastoma tumor...... Becky and her husband Dave are both well respected horse trainers in our community.....

Mike and Barbi Boyle have put together a silent auction that is being held at the High Roller Classic in Vegas this week.  

The auction will be open until Friday night during the dinner on September 13th.

The auction is also available online....

You don't have to be in Vegas at the horse show to bid on the items....

I donated a 20" x 40" canvas of an image I shot on the ranch....

I printed the image using Richard Photo Lab....

It is available to be bid on online, and also available at the auction....

There are so many wonderful items to bid on, if you would like to check out the auction you can visit  site here......

All proceeds will go directly to the Hanson family to help with all the expenses they have incurred over the past three months.

There also has been an online site set up for donations......

You can read more about Becky's story on a page that was set up for Becky on facebook....

Becky's Little Tumor Adventure as Becky calls it.....

Becky has been such an inspiration to me and so many others, and is really one of the most courageous women I know.....

Keep fighting Becky!

Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

Take Care,

Maria 

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T. Waterbury Wrap Bracelets, Brooklyn Cruiser, Vintage French Bike Basket, Vintage French Breadboards, Anthropologie India Sun Hat, Tartine Bakery

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I hope you are all enjoying your week.....

I recently have been working on photographing some French Farmhouse finds I purchased for the shop as well as photographing a few lifestyle images for Teresa Waterbury's wrap bracelet line, T. Waterbury....

I found this vintage French bike basket awhile ago and have been holding onto it as I have been looking for a vintage bike to photograph it on for the shop.... 

It ended up fitting perfectly on my daughter's Brooklyn Cruiser....

I will be listing the bike basket in the shop this week along with some other fun items....

I also wanted to share with you where my daughter's hat came from....

It is the India Sun Hat from Anthropologie....

One of the reasons we love it is because it has a built in wire around the brim of the hat.....

Nicole is also wearing the  T. Waterbury Sunset Wrap bracelet.....

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The T. Waterbury wrap bracelets are now available in my shop.....

Teresa Waterbury hand makes all of the bracelets using natural stones and genuine leather...

Teresa is also my sister who lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Damian and eight boys.....

I had so much fun shooting the lifestyle images for the bracelets....

The Polynesia Wrap bracelet is one of my favorites....

I will be sharing a full feature of the bracelets in the near future.....

You can find all the bracelets in my shop here.....

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On a final note.....

The girls and I recently made a trip to San Francisco and we got to stop in at the Tartine Bakery for the first time.....

The loaves of bread were still warm when we purchased them.....

We managed not to devour the bread on our three hour drive home.....

I managed to take a picture of their bread on an antique French bread board I recently found.... I was lucky and found a few of these french bread boards for the shop and will also be listing them in the shop soon....

I will announce on facebook when the items will be available in the shop....

I will give one days notice prior to listing the items.....

Hope you all have a great week!

Take Care, 

Maria 

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A Vintage French Watercolor, Senior Portraits, A Jersey Cow Named Annabelle, An Auction for the Children in Africa

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I scored this vintage French watercolor for a few dollars a couple of years ago.....

It sat in a drawer, until this last year,

I decided to hang it from my vintage French barn door....

The door that can't seem to find a permanent spot in my home : )

I used our dutch Nautical twine and a vintage French clothespin to hang the painting.....

I just tucked the twine behind the door.....

An easy way to hang paintings from doors without putting a hole in your door......

I decided this might make a great area to take a few portraits of the kids....

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I recently shot a few senior portraits of my daughter, Nicole....

We have lived on this ranch for almost 10 years, and the kids have spent many summers swimming in the ponds on the ranch..... 

Time goes by way too fast!

I thought it was fun to capture Nicole in a location that holds a lot of childhood memories.....

We have an equestrian inspired shoot that we are working on at the moment : ).  

We are hoping it turns out like we have planned....

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I also wanted to share a picture of our little Annabelle....

A jersey cow that we will soon be milking....

Our boss generously allows us to run so many cows on his ranch....

I was so excited to add a jersey cow to our small herd....

She is so beautiful.....

We purchased her from Ryan and Amber Dias.....

The Dias family is the sweetest family that has the most beautiful herd of Jersey Cows.....

They gave us a tour of their dairy, we were all in Jersey Cow heaven....

I will be sharing lots more images with you of Annabelle in the future : )

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On a final note....

Kimberly Taylor is holding an online auction Monday June 17 at 8 a.m. PST and will run until June 19th at 6 pm PST on her website Kimberly Taylor Images to raise money to help benefit children in Africa....

Kimberly's Mom, Barb has built a home for children in Africa and is doing amazing things for these children.....

You can visit Barb's blog Jaaja Barb's Home of Angels and read more about this amazing woman and what she is doing for these children......

The online auction will help raise money for supplies they need to purchase for their home they have built in Africa....

Here are a few items that you will be able to bid on.....

One of my blue striped grain sack dog beds : )

 A beautiful Jeanne Oliver handbag......

Beautiful cuffs.....

This is just a sampling of what you will find listed in the online auction.....

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Hope you all have a great weekend!

Take Care,

Maria 

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Hungarian Zinc Tubs, Hydrangeas, Good Housekeeping, a Favorite Cookbook

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I wanted to share a few images of these vintage Hungarian zinc tubs I 

recently listed in the shop......

They are great for bringing inside or would be fun to use as a planter box outdoors.....

Here I filled the tubs with hydrangeas from my garden.....

I will be listing a slightly larger size then the one shown in the picture.....

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I thought I would also share a few images of my hydrangeas I planted over six years ago..... 

They have grown larger then I had expected them to grow : )......

I do not prune them and we only use compost for fertilizer....

We have to water every day during the hot summer months.....

I planted them on the side of the house that gets morning sun.....However the outer layer of blooms gets  sun until 1:00 p.m.... Ideally they shouldn't get sun after 11:00 a.m. 

Unfortunately the outer layer of blooms eventually get burned from the sun during the hot summer months.

I actually leave the burned heads attached because the inside layers of blooms are then protected from the sun and I have plenty of blooms up until the middle of fall.....

If you want to learn more about growing hydrangeas a great site to check out is hydrangeas hydrangeas......

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I have a major cookbook obsession.....

As you can see my cupboard is overflowing with cookbooks ; )....

I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite cookbooks with you when I post.

I recently bought Gwyneth Paltrow's book It's All Good when I was in GA visiting my sister and I haven't been able to put it down since buying it..... I have been trying hard to make lifestyle changes in the way we eat around here, and this book has been a big inspiration in helping accomplish that goal.....

The images are so beautiful in the book and I love that Gwyneth Paltrow writes a little story with each recipe.....

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I recently had an inspiring get together with the incredibly talented and creative Yasmine McGrane of Maison Reve at her Victorian farmhouse in Sausalito, CA.....

Yasmine will be a vendor at the Remnants of the Past show this weekend....

Yasmine is working on developing a vintage product line for Maison Reve that will inspire others to live a simple and more enjoyable life.....

You will be able to find out more about her vintage line at the show.....

Yasmine will be in booth 54-55......

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My sister, Teresa Waterbury, makes wrap bracelets using genuine stones and leather.....

I have talked her into letting me sell her beautiful bracelets in my shop......

Here is a peek at a few lifestyle images I recently shot....

The above image I shot of my beautiful niece Bernadette, while we were in Charleston, SC......

I will share more images with you in the near future....

I will be listing the bracelets in next couple of weeks....

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On a final note.....

I wanted to say thank you to Good Housekeeping for featuring our home in the House Proud section!

We are featured in the June issue that is out on stands now.....

Hope you all have a great weekend!

We are going to try and make a trip down to the Remnants of the Past show this weekend.....

Hope to see you there!

Take Care,

Maria 

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