Porch Magazine is Here

Can you see me? I'm the crazy redhead at the farmhouse jumping up and down!!

Our new issue of Porch Magazine is ready and believe me this is the one to get! Bloggers all across the country have pitched in to provide photos of some of the great Fall antique shows...

Marburger/Warrenton

Leftovers

Barn House

Vintage Home Lifestyle

Queen of Tarte

Molly Mo's

Petaluma

Summer Cottage Antiques

La Maison Rustique

Funky Junk Sisters

Wait until you see all the vendors that are included, all the amazing displays, all the shows that we dream about visiting! It's Flea Market heaven... Junker's heaven... OH you just gotta see it!

GO THERE NOW

Aroma

I don't drink coffee.

I'm a straight Diet Pepsi girl but I love the smell of coffee! I think it must remind me of my childhood home. My parents always had coffee brewing or a cup cooling. Last week I was working on some rosehip filled sachets for the holiday season and decided to fill a few burlap sachets with coffee - just to try it out. Oh My! I had no idea how the scent would fill the house. No idea how this common scent would entice feelings of home and family. Like how the smell of a newborn makes moms remember their own sweet babies. Like the smell of old books... Like the smell of rain... Funny how a simple scent can represent so much.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ...

Tree Hair

Now here's an interesting way to dress up a dead tree!

This tree sits at the corner of a very busy intersection on the corner of someone's lawn. I think it was struck by lightning years ago and now it's just a very tall tree stump. Every couple of weeks it gets a new hairdo, some amazing adornment. Makes me wish I had a dead tree in my front yard!

Puddles

We are in the midst of selling puppies. The kids are crying puddles with each goodbye but the puppy puddles make me press on. We made homemade treats to send in their doggie-bags (along with other yummy things like deworming meds) and we give each puppy lots of goodbye hugs but still I have a 6 year old sobbing at the door. It's a good thing that I can divert the kids attention with talk of Christmas. By the way, do you want a puppy for Christmas?

Harvesting Blessings

We don't do Halloween at the Blessing farmhouse but we definitely do apple orchards, pumpkin patches, apple cider donuts, pumpkin soup and woodfires with family all around. As bloggers, it's a great time to celebrate how God made us in His likeness.

God the artist

Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. (Psalms 67:6) All the colors we use in our art, God created them.

God the chef

Mary Jane's Farm has the neatest article about how various foods look like our organs and how they promote health for those organs. A walnut looks like brain and helps develop neurontransmitters for brain function. Sweet potatoes - pancreas. Sliced Carrots - eyes. Tomato - chambers of the heart. Kidney beans - the kidneys. Avacados - a woman's womb.

God the decorator

In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2)

As you prepare the treats for tonight, remember to delight in the treats God has given to inspire and nurture your art, your hobby, your home, your health.

Harvest His Blessings.