AROUND THE HOME
A Quick and Easy Christmas Centerpiece
Need a cute and colorful centerpiece in a hurry? Simply fill a mixing bowl with your favorite drugstore candies, arrange candles in the candy, and you're all set! Image by the super wonderful Samantha Cabrera. MEET SERENA! Stay-at-home mom, Serena Thompson, dreamed...
Our Farmhouse Basement Construction
Last week the radiant floor heating tubes were installed in the basement. We've grown to love radiant heat, which, simply put, warms the floors in your home, and performs as the heat source. The tubes are installed over insulation and are then encased in...
Breaking Ground
The work on our new farmhouse on GreenBluff has just begun! They started cutting in the driveway yesterday and will be adding the driveway fabric and rock today. We've been working with a landscape designer to design the placement of the driveway and future...
Easter Platters
Adding an Easter egg-themed touch to your dinner table is really simple. Simply take platters and cut colorful paper napkins in the shape of an egg to line the platter. Use for serving rolls or other dry items. To use for serving veggies, simply cover the paper napkin...
Easter Place Settings
Cute little place settings are such a fun addition to the Easter table. For these little egg cup markers, I simply filled each one with rice, topped them with moss and poked little handmade toothpick flags in with each person's name. MEET SERENA! Stay-at-home mom,...
Re-Covering My Kitchen Table in Oilcloth
So many of you have contacted me in regards to the covering on my kitchen table. My table, featured on page 140 of The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen, has been in our home since Colin and I were married. And after many years of use, it began to show some wear. But...
Christmas Cookie Wreath Centerpiece
I love any decorations that involve cookies or give me an excuse to bake. I've been dreaming of making a cookie wreath and was so happy to create such a fun project. I decided to make the wreath and cookies out of gingerbread cookie dough so that it would smell...
How to Make Cute Recipe Box Dividers
Mr. Blue Sky (aka Lukie) went to make some cookies last night and was a little surprised at the state of the recipe box. "How do you find anything in here?", he asked. It needed a fix-up. But I was tired of the boring little dividers and thought that I should make...
How to Host a Tiny Party!
I had a tiny party with my nieces, Chloe and Annie and their mom (my sis-in-law) Alison this weekend. Everything was tiny - except the fun. We made tiny aprons for all their dolls and tiny dishtowels too. And then we packaged it all up in tiny little bags for the...
IT'S ME, SERENA!
I bounced through the first years of my life in a hippie gypsy wagon, hand-built by my father, wandering the back roads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. My family eventually settled into a tiny cabin in the woods on property that was once inhabited by Native American Indians.
I spent my childhood days searching for arrowheads, teaching myself to sew on a treadle sewing machine and to bake in a wood-burning stove, with no running water, refrigeration, or electricity in our home. My family lived frugally and early on, inspired by my parent’s thriftiness and style, I gained a knack for thrifty creativity and turning ordinary objects into something useful. And I dreamed of the home I would create for my own family someday.
Now I’m married to my husband, Colin, and our children are all grown. After 24 years of producing The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair, I'm spending time visiting other markets around the world. You can watch episodes of Serena Goes to Market here.
I share more about my life story from time to time, here on my blog. You can also find me on Instagram, and Facebook.
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THE FARM CHICKS
P.O. BOX 9866
SPOKANE, WA 99209