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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Montana Farmhouse Soaps Coming Soon..... Antique Ceiling Tin Memory Board

Hello!

I wanted to tell you about a soap line I will soon be carrying in the shop.....

I was born and raised in Montana, and luckily grew up in a large family of 10 children.....

My brother, Merle lives in Manhattain, Montana with his wife, Nancy, and two daughters Katie and Amelia....

My nieces Katie and Amelia raise nubian goats and show their goats at the county fair every year....

Nancy and the girls have been working on developing an all natural soap line using their

goat's milk....

I have been using her soap and love it....

My entire family loves it as well....

Nancy is getting ready to launch her line, Montana Farmhouse Soaps soon.....

You will be able to purchase her soaps in my shop....

The above pictures are of my daughter Bethany and our nubian goat, Dolly.

Dolly has been apart of our family for 11 years and is well loved....

On another note....

I wanted to show you a quick way to make a memory board out of an antique ceiling tin.....

My sister actually makes the prettiest pictures frames using antique tin tiles....

Since I am not that handy I decided to use clothes pins to hold the pictures in place....

All you need is a ceiling tin....

A couple of clothes pins...

I was lucky and found some vintage french clothes pins....

This is a 12" x 12" square so I only clipped on two pictures of my adorable niece....

Prop the tin up on a shelf and you have a unique memory board...

I added a few of these to my shop and will be adding more tiles tonight.

I also wanted to Congratulate Sara Duckett, Sara will be on the Nate Show tomorrow, February 3rd!

Be sure and watch tomorrow's show....

Sara also designed my blog and website....

I will be sharing an interview with Sara in the near future along with a fun giveaway!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

I am unfortunately headed back to the Apple Store today.... : (

Take Care,

Maria

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Kids Only Parents Keep Out

Hello,

I have unfortunately been experiencing a lot of computer and internet issues the past couple of weeks.

I think everything is back in order again!

I wanted to share this picture I recently took at Maison Reve....

Yasmine had created a space just for kids in her shop...

I love the

Kids Only Parents Keep Out sign....

and the kids loved it as well....

We also made a trip to Petaluma....

The below image of my girls was taken in Petaluma....

This is a neat historic town you should make sure you stop and visit if you are ever in Northern California and like to go antiquing....

There are a lot of great antique stores in Petaluma.....

Now that my computer is running again I will be loading more products to my shop over the next week and will be able to start blogging again!

I have lots to share with you!

Enjoy your day!

Hopefully I will be back tomorrow morning.

Take Care,

Maria

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Friday, January 13, 2012

A Slightly Late Christmas Post

Hello!

I am finally going to share some images of what little Christmas decorating I was able to get done this year....

We usually only decorate the living rooms and the dining room....

This year I barely got one room decorated....

We got our tree from Aimee Peterson, who

owns a shop called the Antique Gardener.

Aimee invited us to her parents' Christmas tree farm this year, they have the prettiest tree farm!

The kids and I got to pick out our tree....It reminded me of when we were kids...

We would always cut our own tree down, and a lot of times would have a Charlie Brown tree that we covered with a lot of tinsel...

I shot the above image of Emma, Aimee's daughter, while we were there...

Thank you Aimee!

I have posted about Aimee's shop before on my blog.....

We picked out a beautiful White Fir Tree.....

We had intended to decorate it : )....

However we ended up leaving the tree bare....

We wrapped an antique french ticking duvet around the tree to cover the tree stand....

I thought the tree did look pretty just left natural.....

My sister Liz, made this stocking from a scrap piece of antique french linen and a grain sack scrap.....

I will have some of these available in my shop

I hung my wreath from an antique french door.

I hung it using dutch butcher twine, and then tied the ribbon at the bottom of the wreath.....

Lately I have become obsessed with vintage french cheese boards....

I added a red striped European grain sack to the top of the table and then added the cheese board....

My son, Trent, sprinkled juniper berries on top of the cheese board....

I kind of got carried away this year with throwing juniper berries around the house....

They smell so good....

I added some pears, hazelnuts, and juniper berries to my mantle.....

I made the kids stockings the week before Christmas...

I really liked the one my sister made, so I made some more like it...

The grain sack cuffs remind me of candy canes ; )

The kids loved their new stockings....

The pears help add a pop of color to my mantle....

I had received a beautiful gift from KT Merry, I displayed her beautiful Christmas card on my mantle and her box of bath salts on my stool.....I also tied a red and white ribbon around a pair of pillow slips made from antique french linen and topped the box with a bundle of mistletoe made from wool felt....