Barn House Marketplace

Our favorite boys of Barn House are at it again! The grand opening of their online store starts at midnight tonight!!! You can link to the store at midnight if you go here...

http://www.barnhousemarket.com/

Congratulations Joe and Jermonne

The bh boys have invited some very talented friends to join them for the Grand Opening

Along with Barn House you will find treasures from these talented vendors

Sparrow

Little Cottage

Bella

Annie Fannie & Abigail

But that's not all...

Barn House is featured in the current issue of Somerset Life Magazine

The article was written and photographed by the very talented Robin Laws of Bird Tweets you can find out more about her work here...

Go grab yourself a cup of coffee, put on your best pair of slippers and come see what all the fuss is about!!!

Happy shopping,

Laurie

Monticello Facelift

Debbie and I gave our little space at Monticello a face lift...

Come by and say "hi"...

Patches and Projects...

The weekend was kind and spared a little free time to put ideas to cloth and offered a perfect backdrop for a quote from Patches of Godlight...

Looking forward to the week ahead...

Laurie

A View From the Coop

I was at my computer earlier this morning and happened to look out the window. There was a tinge of pink reflecting off the pond. With the realization that it had to be actual sunshine I grabbed my camera and ran to the front of the house. This is what greeted me...

Kind of makes me long for this...

What a beautiful way to start the day!

Patches of Godlight

The Mitford Books by Jan Karon are one of my all time favorite series. I'll tell you why...

The story is told from the perspective of Father Tim Kavanaugh who lives in the little town of Mitford. The books are filled with humor and life lessons. Often you will find yourself laughing or welling up with tears, but mostly, for me, I always feel like a better person after I've read a chapter or two.

Patches of Godlight is a little book filled with the favorite quotes of Father Tim. When a particular passage would strike him, he would jot it down in this "quote book". The book is filled with the wisdom of poets, humorists, clerics and philosophers.

As the back cover states, For words that Speak to the heart, and thinking that opens the windows of the soul, you too will cherish this book...

If you don't have the book or aren't a big reader, not to worry! I will be sharing quotes from his book with you. Yes you! Right here on this little blog!!!

The first quote is this, enjoy...

We-or at least I-shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have "tasted and seen."

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are "patches of god light" in the woods of experience.

C.S. Lewis,
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Happy New Year!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Make the most of every opportunity that comes your way and your book will begin to write itself! Wishing you a wonderful 2010!!!

Laurie