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Cottage Kitchen Candle
Our new ‘Cottage Kitchen’ Candles have been hand poured, cured and batch tested. simply for you to enjoy the soft fragrance of a warm apple cake fresh from the oven…..reminding me of the scent of Aunt Martha’s summer cottage kitchen… Continue reading
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Cottage Potatoes
This recipe for ‘Cottage Potatoes‘, will have your family asking for it again and again. Comfort food does that. It is a compromise in our home ~ for my husband likes baked potatoes and I love mashed potatoes. This twice… Continue reading
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Inspired Creative Living ~ May 2022
It’s May 2022 ~ really!?!?!?! We have been continuing on with our organizing projects started last year at home and in the Studio (here) ~ and we are at the fine tuning stage, along with our life-style too. Continue reading
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Twill Tape Packaging & New Twine Holder
It’s no secret that I love to create ~ all things homespun and pretty packaging too. Twill Tape has become a ‘staple’ in the craft closet along side of the scissors, paintbrushes, scrapbooking paper and piles of wool waiting to… Continue reading
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A Designing Collab ~ from Painting to Punch Needle
Countless times over the last 35 years, I have been reminded of how awesome this creative journey is with the friendships made along the way. And countless times, looking back, I see how God’s Plan is perfectly laid out ~… Continue reading
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‘Happier Than’ ~ ‘Little Maker’ Art Lesson
What makes you Happier than a Bird with a French Fry? Could it be creating Art together? If you haven’t heard, we have a fun-thing-going-on thru the Artfully Connected FaceBook Group called ‘Watch-Learn-Create‘ (click here)! It is a gathering of… Continue reading
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Inspired Creative Living – April 2022
I felt like a winner this past Sunday night….mid-night to be exact. One of my favorite Bloggers, Liz Marie of Liz Marie Blog (here), launched a decor line thru QVC and it was going live at mid-night. During one of… Continue reading
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Beef Sandwich & Pub Fries
Do you ever have a craving for food that you can only find at a local pub & eatery ?…..you know the food ~ the juicy burgers and crisp golden fries. yeah, those cravings. well, I was determined to make… Continue reading
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Designer Original Art…. and a little bit about ‘art boards’
As an Artist it is a scary thing to put your Art ‘out there‘. All the ‘what ifs’ start to filter into your mind….it might be the same for a Chef with a new dish, a Baker with a wedding… Continue reading
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An Easter Table Place Setting & a Single Serve Charcuterie
If you are a collector of pretty dishes or even inherited your Nana’s china ~ we all seem to have our fancy dishes, our everyday dishes and a few mis-matched other dinnerware scattered thru-out our cabinets, side-boards and hutches. Continue reading
Classic Amy Joanne….my cottage life
Creating Art, Home, and a Cottage Life
all things to warm your home and melt your heart
