STYLE

Barrettes are Back in Style!

Barrettes are Back in Style!

It's another fun style season and I love that barrettes are back in style! They've slowly been showing up here and there over the last year, but really came to the forefront recently at New York Fashion Week. Everything from decorative bobby pins to simple clips,...

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Adding Rainbows to your Wardrobe

Adding Rainbows to your Wardrobe

There's some point every winter where I feel like I need a sudden infusion of color. It's kind of like a  substitute pop of sun when the sun's not willing to shine through the clouds. I have always adored everything rainbow but as an adult, it's kind of hard to pull...

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What You Found! Toby’s Vintage Embroidered Top

What You Found! Toby’s Vintage Embroidered Top

Toby was out visiting her favorite vintage shops in Spokane and perusing the racks of vintage clothing at Boulevard Mercantile when she happened upon this darling top. The hand embroidered names were so charming she knew she had to have it! Today I'm sharing the first...

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What to Pack for Visiting Europe’s Christmas Markets

What to Pack for Visiting Europe’s Christmas Markets

I just returned from a VikingChristmas Market River Cruise on the Danube River traveling through Hungary, Austria, and Germany. I thought I'd share my recommendations on what clothing and accessories to pack for visiting the markets in winter while on a river cruise....

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How to Curate Your Wardrobe

How to Curate Your Wardrobe

Tuesday I was talking about curating in generaland how you can use that practice to really make a difference in your home. But curating applies to other areas of your life, like your wardrobe for example. Around the end of February, I start dreaming about cute outfits...

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A Farm Chicks Style Wedding

A Farm Chicks Style Wedding

A serene little Idaho farm was the scene for a summer's early afternoon, joy-filled Farm Chicks Style wedding we created for a full chapter feature in the book, Stylish Weddings. We decided on a breakfast themed barn wedding on a farm with a natural yellow and green...

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Farm Meets Woodland Wedding

Farm Meets Woodland Wedding

Heidi and Morgan's outdoor wedding was so lovely, filled with the sweetest natural elements, natural floral arrangements and bouquets, and an underlying farm-meets-woodlands feel that pulled everything together in the prettiest way. Colin and I started our day with...

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Modernizing Granny Fashion Pieces

Modernizing Granny Fashion Pieces

With the return of some granny fashion elements, it's easy to make some fashion mistakes. The goal is to take the granny pieces and modernize them. Take these cute little granny sneakers, for example. My fashion DON"T would be pairing the granny sneakers with ordinary...

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Drink-O-Rama!

Drink-O-Rama!

I love collecting great old pop bottles to fill with special drinks for guests.  Like these I filled with vanilla chai tea I'd brewed the day before.  Delicious juices work really well too!  To seal, I use new corks that we purchase from home improvement stores like...

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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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