We LOVE all of the beautiful feminine clothes that are available right now!! They are so very comfortable and perfect for your spring and summer wardrobe!
So needless to say we decided to start carrying them on our website and are having alot of fun shopping for them and wearing them too!
Make sure and stop by because we add something new a couple times a week! Stop by our facebook page or sign up on our mailing list for upcoming specials :)
I am so excited to announce my husband's new ebook, "10 Tips for Improving Your Photography Today"
If you sign up for his newsletter it is free!
Click on the ebook to sign up today ~
My hubby is a landscape and portrait photographer; his passion is teaching others how to improve their photography. Take a second and check out his website ~
Part of blogging for me is so that we can not only share inspirational ideas but also so you can get to know us too :)
If you don't already know I have two daughters, Kristin and Stephanie,who also are part of Katies Rose Cottage ~
They both have babies and this was our first adventure on an airplane with them ~ Their daddies got to go too so that was fun!
Alot of our family lives on the central coast of California so that is one of our very favorite places and where we headed ~
They were excited to have the babies visit the beach since it is one of all of our favorite places to be ~ The weather was chilly but it was still a beautiful and sunny day! We went to Avila Beach which we love!
Ellie thought it was just the best thing ever! The swings were great... The sand was great!
Isaac pretty much didn't like it at all! We are definitely going to have to teach him that it is fun! Mommies arms were great!
This is my mom and I with Ellie ~
My son in law James took the following pictures ~ It is awesome having a photographer along :)
Ellie loved swinging!
Isaac loved hiking!
This is my most favorite picture of all .... My mom and dad with their great grandbabies!! What a beautiful and precious picture!! I adore it!
It was fun and there is so much more family and pictures but this is just a glimpse of our time there ~
We love the farmhouse look of vintage enamelware ~ Since Christmas is right around the corner, we thought we would show you an easy decorating idea using enamelware for the holidays ~
All the fun things we found at the flea market ~
First, we drilled holes in the bottom of a bucket ~
Then added soil from our garden ~
And planted holiday plants such as rosemary which we can use in our Christmas cooking ~
The finished project is an easy, colorful addition to your vintage decorating ~
We have lots of enamelware on sale here so you can create your own farmhouse decor ~
My husband and I got to spend a week at the central coast of California visiting with family ~ That is where we are from so it is going home for us ~
When I go back I often am amazed at what I took for granted when we lived there ~ I just LOVE the beach and LOVE the mountains that you have to drive over to get to the beach ~
This is Avila Beach where I spent so many days in the summers~ I want to come spend a week just here now ❤
Who would have thought that swinging on the beach could be the most fun ever!!
I LOVE my mom and dad's house that is on a mountain that overlooks 3 towns ~
I LOVE driving the winding roads seeing the beautiful wineries and vineyards that are everywhere ~
Spending time in California with my family that lives there is just some of our best times!
This is my sister, Kim and I in Morro Bay~
Thankfully we get to go back a few times a year which is a blessing for sure!
We are so excited to start the Creatively Made Home e-course and wanted to share it with you!!
Creatively Made Home is an all new e-course about creating a home that reflects your heart in everyday living. It is about inspiring and encouraging you to create and style a home that you and your family love to live in...
This five week online course is hosted by 5 friends who want to help you to define your decorating style so that it is a true reflection of your heart.
Creatively Made Home is hosted by:
Tracey Leber
Sara Duckett
Kimberly Taylor
Jennifer Rizzo
and.....Jeanne Oliver
Here is the jam-packed schedule for the course:
* Each week you will have amazing truthful videos from not only the five teachers but other creative women.
* Each week we will take a room from one of YOU and all five women will give their suggestions telling you how they would transform the room with their style.
* There will be 50+ project videos. These will be incredible videos that include everything from gardening, cooking, gift giving and decorating.
* There will be written tips from each woman telling you how she starts a room, picks paint, fabrics, etc. You will learn where to start when putting your own home together.
* Tons of beautiful house photos from each of the five women.
* Videos that truly reflect what life is like in each of their homes. The stuff that life is really about.
* Each woman will share their own truthful journey about how they started making their home a reflection of their hearts.
* Each person registered will get an easy entertaining e-book to download.
It will contain go to recipes for beautiful and easy entertaining (they do go together), photos of table settings that take the stress out of having people over, favorite drinks and so much more (and their funniest entertaining story).
* There will be a private Facebook group to connect with other class members.
* There will be a once a week live discussion with one of the teachers!
* You will get printables and pdfs to keep and use again and again.
This course is about loving your home, loving your family and blessing those around you....and having fun doing it.
This course will lavish you with ideas, beauty, inspiration, joy and encouragement! Come and play house with us.
Class begins October 22. Registration is now open!
We love to create things with vintage lace from Canton and other flea markets, but what if you don't have access to flea markets?
{this is part of our vintage stash }
We decided to see what we could find at local thrift stores and made a fun shopping day out of it!
Digging through all the old clothes was such fun and we found some great dresses and shirts to create lace and ruffles ~
This full lace dress was only $1.99!
Isaac was worn out from all our shopping :)
Here are some of our finds ~
Next, we made black tea and tea dyed the white lace and dresses ~
Just hang them in the sun to dry ~
Once they were dry, we cut up the dresses to get the fabric we needed for our project ~
We used a tea dyed muslin drawstring bag ~
We pinned the lace to the bag and cut and gathered the skirt fabric to make a ruffle for the bottom of the bag. We then sewed the lace and the ruffle to the bag ~
Afterwards, we chose buttons, a tattered rose, and lace to embellish the bag. This is where you want to get creative! *Click here for the rose tutorial ~
Here is the final project!
And another bag from a baby girl dress we found ~
We had so much fun today! Go to your thrift store for inspiration :)
Congratulations to Sares from Loveleigh Treasures!! You won our giveaway to Heather's shop! We used a random number generator ~
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I am so very excited to be able to host a giveaway for Heather at Post Road Vintage!
Her blog and shop are absolutely gorgeous!!
Heather is a soon to be mom to six children and she is a wonderfully talented gal!
This is a little bit from Heather's blog about her ~
"I believe when we create a home for our story to shine, our souls to rest, and our families to come together, life is simpler… and better. I am inspired to help you create this warm and safe spot in your own heart and home. My goal is to help you find joy and creativity in life’s perfect imperfections and to inspire you to create a home that is a reflection of you. {Beautiful + Unique }" ~
These are some of the beautiful products on her website ~
You can receive a $50 gift certificate for anything in her shop by winning this giveaway!
You get an entry for each of the following ~
* Signing up for her free beautiful online magazine "Homebound" ~
I have been making these burlap totes for quite awhile and just finished another one for my shop ~
The other day someone purchased one to use as a bag for the money dance at her vintage country wedding ~
I LOVE that idea and they are just the perfect size!
I am loving all the burlap and rustic things being used at weddings right now ❤
You can find these totes on our website ~
We create things for Save on Crafts which has great wedding decorations ~
We are in the process of making these bags for them which will be for sale soon ~
They are perfect for alot of different wedding and shower ideas ~ I love them as flower holders for the end of pews,they can be hung on the backs of chairs or ladders or use as gift bags ~
It is only a few days later and my hydrangeas are already dry ~ I decided to put them in vases and go pick another bundle~
Truly I cannot say which "stage" of flower on the bush dried the best because they all literally dried differently ~
They did not keep their color very well but I like them anyway ~
The real dark pink ones dried a darker purple which is so interesting to me ~ Here are pictures of how they look now ~
I am not thinking I learned a whole lot about when to pick the flowers and where to dry them but at least some of them are not all shriveled up and I have bouquets all over my house ~ ❤
Who needs curtains when you have a valance of hydrangeas ?
I am totally on a mission this year to figure out how to dry hydrangeas~ This is my attempt today ~ Actually these bouquets are cut at different times of the bloom to see which timing is the best ~
I LOVE how the colors are all so different ~ The bright pink are from a completely different plant but all the others are from the same one ~ Next year I am going to have some blue ones ~
This picture is some I dryed in a vase of water ~ They were bright pink when I cut them and they dried kind of shriveled and not really how I want them ~
These are some I cut at a later time of the bloom and put in water to see if that makes a difference ~ So far they are not dry but I am curious how they turn out in comparison to the hanging ones ~
Pretty soon every curtain rod in my living room is going have hydrangeas hanging from them ~ I am thinking I kind of love them!! I hope they keep the different colors ~
Today is another creating day waiting for Isaac's arrival ~ In our anticipation, we dug out some vintage medicine bottles and created these place card holders! We love them :)
I am loving these vintage farmhouse tools! As I was packing up shipping boxes today, my mom rediscovered these amazing vintage tools in the depths of our workshop. What an awesome find!
It is so much fun to find treasures, but it is even more rewarding to discover them for a second time!
I have to admit, it was tempting to keep these for my own house! But, I couldn't keep these treasures to myself, they are just too vintage not to share. I hope you love them as much as we do!
I am really excited to have my daughter Kristin join me at Katies Rose Cottage!
From Kristin.....
I am so excited to be starting this adventure with my mom :) It is a joy to be able to work with her, learn from her, and get to indulge in all things vintage! Here's a little about me~
My husband James and I have been married for 5 years and we have a little baby boy on the way (due less a couple of weeks from now!). We are so excited and blessed to be parents and I cannot wait to share our little family with you as we grow! I love to travel, so having a pilot for a dad and a travel photographer for a husband works out perfectly ;) I adore cooking, creating, and all things vintage! I've been praying about God's direction for my job for about three years and with a little one on the way, I knew I had to make a change and start doing something that will spark my passions . While I've always wanted to own my own business as so many member's of my family do, the opportunity just never presented itself. However, going on all of my mom's shopping adventures, rummaging through her office to create new treasures, and seeing the joy she has in her job made me secretly want to work alongside her. Then, as I watched her grow in her business, God did an amazing work! He opened the door for me to partner with my mom so I can finally do what I am so passionate about :) I am thrilled and blessed to have the opprtunity to work along side of a godly, creative, and beautiful woman, my mom :)
Do you ever have those "project fail" days ? Oh my gosh I totally had one today!
I got the bright idea to precut 40 yards of muslin to use for ruffles for some things ~ I love the washed look so I stuck it in the washer with lots of fabric softener ~
It came out in a HUGE ball of a tangled unraveled scrunched up mess!!
Sooooo I am going to make a gazillion rolled roses ~ There are going to be rolled roses on everything I am thinking :)
