Hooray for Club Little House~ Miss Amy over at Inspire Co. is such a sweet and is beyond creative. I am super excited to be a member of club little house. My contribution, a Birthday party theme. Included will be a gift, pinata, banner and party hat. Here is a picture of the pinata and banner, still needs some finishing touches. Amy had a couple spots still available if anyone is interested. Hurry over to her place before there gone.
We just celebrated Griffin's birthday on Tuesday, it was the big boy 5 birthday~ We had my Mom over for dinner and cake. Griffin asked for quite a variety to eat, chicken, steak, boneheads (his name for wings) apples and mac and cheese. The grown ups added wild rice and sauteed asparagus and mushrooms. And for dessert our usual 8" round cake from our favorite bakery the Cookie Jar. This year was a baseball theme, Griffin asked for all new big boy baseball equipment. The celebrating continues with a sleep over at MeMe's Saturday with all his cousins, he can hardly wait. I just can't believe he is 5!
I am not a huge jewelry person. But what I do have I like to keep out on my dresser. I can easily sift through to find what I want to wear and it doubles as a nice vignette. I used one of my grandmother's platter and added little pieces that are special to me. How do you display your jewelry? If you keep your pieces tucked away try putting together your own personal vignette~
This Little farm house sits on acres of farm fields. The size is not grandiose and the design is quite simple. But in my mind it is grandiose and quite magnificent. I can picture my Dad running through the fields with his sister, my great grandfather working in his print shop and my great grandmother sitting on the porch. My Dad lived a short drive down the road but spent a lot of his time here. It is my heritage and my Dad instilled that in us. The farm has become a visual point to remember my Dad. He passed away very suddenly in April 2007. The blog and shop were started from this memory and fittingly named after this beautiful farm.
I have been thinking lately about these reasons why I started the blog and store. I worry so often how many or who is going to comment on blog or if anyone will purchase from my shop. These are not the reasons why I first started. It is very important for me to be authentic and to use this as a creative outlet . So we are getting back to basics, back to the drawing board. When I first started "the little shop" I put a lot of what I thought "should" be there instead of what I "wanted" there. So in the weeks to come we will be CHANGING THINGS UP just a bit.
And for the whole reason I am here, the blog. We have neglected it just a bit and I miss it. So we have changed the name up a bit you can see above. Weekly we will be bringing you Farm Fresh Ideas including decorating and craft pics, recipes, family pics I adore and a little shop talk. So for me it is very important to be genuine to myself and that is what I am off to do. Stay tuned for some Farm Fresh Ideas~
Bristol
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We are adding a new product to "the little shop". Package embellishments should be added by next week. These sweet ribbons came from my love of Vintage horse ribbons. The vintage rosette is trimmed with beautiful ribbons and embellishments. The one pictured below is trimmed with le paquet (package in french), german glass glitter and buttons. These can be added to any package and then kept for memories~
Don't forget to sign up for a $25 dollar gift certificate to Honey Bend Vintage. All you have to do is post a comment by Monday Oct. 7th. We will post the winner on Tuesday. The winner will need to supply their email address and we will send you the certificate code.
The "the little shop"is OPEN. We are offering a giveaway~ On Monday October 7th we will giveaway a $25 dollar gift certificate. Remember to leave a comment by Monday.
We added some new vintage horse ribbons and some new goods. Please stop by and take a look!
Well I am back from my break~ My to do list has gotten shorter and I feel as if I have gotten some things accomplished. One hundred and seventy little goody bags for all you sweet Silver Bella gals are complete. I was also able to start on some Fall decorating. I painted a few pumpkins black and white, I like how they turned out. They are a quick project for fall decorating. Be sure to pick out a firm pumpkin. When cleaning them up be sure not to get the stem or bottom wet. I chose spray paint this time and it worked out well~
Wow things are busy here at 125 Grant St. Between career,family,"little shop",projects, etc. That is what makes everything fun right~ I will be away from the blog for awhile. I need to focus my attention on work, family and the "little shop". I have some fun projects to complete. First is my package for the Sweet and Sinister swap. Kim is my partner and it has been a wonderful treat to get to know her~ I need to finish putting together 175 goody bags for Silver Bella, these will be advertising Honey Bend Vintage. Starting Monday morning I have a to do list and blogging is not on it for a few weeks. One of the things on my list is Fall decorating. I love these ideas fromthe Home Companion magazine~ See y'all soon!
If you have not been by "the little shop" please stop by. Our site has been redesigned and I am so happy with it. I purchased pre made template when I started the shop and I finally had it redesigned to mirror my style. The focus for me is the farmhouse at the top of the page and the name. The house pictured was at my great grandparents farm in Honey Bend, Illinois. Honey Bend is a small farm community in Illinois, if you blink you miss it. It was so important to my Dad, it is now his resting place. When I opened the shop a name was no problem, Honey Bend Vintage was the perfect fit~
If you have a chance stop by we have added a little of this and a little of that~
