September 2009

Free Red Yarn e-book

Posted on September 18, 2009 at 2:56 am in

This winter I am going to attempt to learn how to knit. As a young child I would sit in my grandparent’s t.v. room and watch my grandmother knit all types of things. She would knit so fast, it just amazed me! Before she got alziehmers disease, she tried to teach me but my young hands just wouldn’t cooperate!

Now that I’m an adult, I’d like to give it another try! If you have any pointers, suggestions, resources for a beginning knitter! You can even leave you business URL :)

Here’s the freebie information:

FREE RED YARN E-BOOK OFFER

Free Craft eBook: Crochet and Knitting Patterns from Red Heart Yarn
featuring 19 unique patterns for clothing, gifts and home decorating.

God Bless,

Stephanie Fish

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Welcoming Porches

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 8:28 am in

I love seeing decorated porches, whether its a back porch, side porch or front porch, there’s just something warm and inviting when you walk up to a decorated porch.

My front porch is a half-wrapped type of porch, so there’s actually 2 doors. At each holiday I decorate each door (3 altogether) very similarly. For instance, at Christmas I have faux pine wrapping up all 5 pillars, draped around the tops of the doors and assorted Christmas tree ornaments spread through-out the pine.

One thing that makes my front porch welcoming is have grape vine wreaths on each door (decorated for that specific season), 1 double seat glider, 1 antique rocking chair and a wooden white bench for two.

My child and their friends love to sit out there and talk for hours, playing board games and laughing.

What can you do to spruce up your front entrance?

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Bowl Fillers?

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 4:01 am in

I was introduced to primitive bowl fillers while surfing my favorite primitive forum. At first I didn’t understand why anyone would want to fill a bowl with cute ornaments…then it happened! I saw what the finished product looked like, they showed a description of what the bowl fillers were and then showed a picture of the setting.

The bowl filler had miniature hand-stitched ornies with rosehips and putka pods all nestled in a primitive wooden bowl. The great thing is you can have this setting anywhere in your house (just be careful if you have young un’s, dogs, cats, ect) just keep out of the reach of anything, human or non-human, that may try to eat the things!

You can change the hand stitched ornies for every season and holiday, you can even scent the fixins’!

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Making a House a Home

Posted on September 13, 2009 at 10:27 am in

Through-out my life I’ve lived in many different houses: upstairs apartment, miniature house, extremely large house..you get the picture..and each house has been decorated in a variety of ways. I’ve come to notice that it isn’t the size of the house, but the contents inside the house, that make it feel like “home”.

Have you ever had the experience of visiting a variety of homes in every shape and size? What made one house stand out more than the next? The house that stands out in my memory wasn’t the mansion, but the small one…the one that had shoes in the closet, hand stitched pillows on the chairs and sofa’s, and primitive dolls sitting in a variety of areas.

There was one particular house that really felt like “home” to me, it  had mismatched furniture, a basket of sewing supplies next to an antique rocking chair.

So, don’t fret if your house isn’t the biggest or if your furniture doesn’t match, just take the time to create an atmosphere that is welcoming, calming and comfortable!

God Bless,

Stephanie Fish

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