I Heart Fresh

WHEW! The transformation (tornado as I often refer to it) is mostly complete!!! Christmas is OVER in the shop and HEARTS are happening at Bittersweet Farm!

My very large black bookcase sold on Saturday last weekend, and Sunday I was headed down to Madison for my tri-yearly shopping trip. It was good timing because I didn't have any back up display pieces for such a large area. Sadly the guy I usually buy furniture from was not there!!! But I found a few pieces that I like as well, and packed up the truck and came home Monday.

Tuesday I was prepping for a meeting I have on Sunday, and working on my books, so I didn't get to "tornado" until Wednesday, and Thursday. It was a BIG job for two days and only two hands...oops! I had four hands for a few minutes after I called my sister to help me move out another large shelf that we had sold on our auction~I am so thankful for my sister living close! Some of you got to meet her back in November when she watched the shop for me so I could go to a wedding.

Here are a few photos from the Heart Fresh look:

Isn't this cupboard great? The doors on bottom are wainscot

the door on top is a glass window.

The pieces are seperate...the top could be screwed right to the wall

as a wall cupboard, and the height of the bottom is

like a pie safe, just not quite as wide!

 I heart these wood trays for a candle on your coffee table

or kitchen island, or...

The lamp needs no words, LOVE IT!

 Aren't the wool tulips wonderfully pretty? I heart them!

 The heart candles burn totally down center so the light shines through the heart.

They are covered in glittter~lovely!

Plus you can use a tealight inside when the wax is burned down!

 Chenille hearts!

 This is a very spacious storage box. It would look awesome on a bench

at the foot of the bed or on an end table to raise the height of a lamp!

The ceramic "vase" is acutally a wine bottle chiller,

but it can be used forflowers in summer

or these awesome berries and rusty stars all year!

Looks great with the berry vine placemat with the

 red check edge, doesn't it?

I managed to find some fun primitive

candle holders in different styles.

This is a sample of a few new necklaces I have. Handmade in USA!

I will be getting more jewelry in a few weeks...

So check back!

Winter hours:

Friday 10-5

Saturday 10-4

See you soon! :)

Ever popular...lighted twigs are in too!

*SALE TIME*

I hope you are staying motivated with your resolutions if you are the

resolution-making type.

If you are not, I hope you are remembering to write

2011

instead of 2010

on your checks and letters!

It always takes me half of January to remember!!!

Now that most of you probably have your

Christmas decorations

put away...

(I don't... I like them up until mid January

~hey, maybe that is why it takes me

so long to remember to change the year!)

While Christmas is still fresh in your mind...

You might want to check out the sale at

Bittersweet Farm

this weekend!!!

Friday, January 7th 

& Saturday January 8th

All Christmas merchandise is

30% off!

*Glittery snowmen included!*

Wreaths

Garlands

Ornaments

Christmas linens

(placemats & runners)

After Saturday I will be

taking it all down to

make room for

NEW MERCHANDISE!

*stay tuned for new news!*

*other than glittery snowmen not included in the sale*

Before And Now

Like most of the country, the weather around here is...weird.

I was thrilled when Chirstmas day was 24 degrees...I didn't have to hold my breath

on the way out to the car like past years when it was 0.

I like snow.

I don't like cold.

I don't like freezing rain.

Not. At. All.

But that is what we have here tonight and forecast for tomorrow...

The first two photos are before...

These next two are Now.

That's right,

 RAIN in December in Wisconsin!

 I'm not sure you can tell from the night photo, but the driveway is

GLARE ICE!

So....

We are not sure what tomorrow will bring,

but the shop will be open for business 10-5

with 25% off.

We just may have to have you walk in by a

shoveled path through the yard...

So wear your boots...my boys are home

so they can help you if we need them to...

And if I don't see you because the roads are glare ice too..

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

and I will see you next week for the 30% off Christmas sale!

...and just for kicks...here is my kitchen tree...

Which I leave up well into January

because I love it's glow.

And I am slow to undo Christmas.



What Happens After Christmas?

Greetings from Bittersweet Farm!

I hope you enjoyed your Christmas celebrations

and the lazy (or not so much) after-days...

and that oh-so-special feeling of fullness.

And wanting to eat only lettuce for the next week.

But seriously...

As the new year approaches,

as in former years, our hours will be ruduced,

and I will be having an after-Christmas SALE!

If you want to add to your linen collection for next year,

or change it... now would be a great time!

I also still have the lighted twigs.

White battery-operated ones that would be

great for Easter as well... :) OR

Electric brown ones that work great in a crock

or a basket with greens or berries.

*Ornaments*Garlands*Wreaths*Electric Lights*

Come out this Friday...

New Years Eve day (December 31):

 ****25% off*** 10-4

*excludes furniture

Closed New Year’s Day

Regular winter hours start January 7th:

Friday 10-5…Saturday 10-4

After Christmas Sale:

30% off Christmas items January 7, 8

Be sure to connect with me on facebook...

you can see my little grandson, Bennett!  ;)

One Week Left!

Christmas greetings from

Bittersweet Farm!

Did you know that there is only one

full week of shopping left before Christmas!

As a “thank you” for your business, I will be having

10% off everything in the store

(excludes special orders)

from now until Christmas!

Regular Hours this week:

*Wed *Fri *Sat 10-4/ *Thursday 12-6

Please note our Holiday Hours:

Christmas week: Wednesday and Thursday 10-5

Closed Christmas Eve, and Christmas day…

New Years Eve day (December 31): ****25% off*** 10-4

Closed New Year’s Day

Regular winter hours start January 7th:

Friday 10-5…Saturday 10-4

After Christmas Sale: 30% off Christmas items January 7, 8

Snow*Snow*Snow

We had the most beautiful snowfall overnight!... My guess is that on the farm we had about 4 inches of fluffy, powdery snow!

Snow+Christmas Music+Pine Boughs=Heartwarming memories of past Christmases...

When we five girls (the first of us 12 Leroux kids were girls), and our cousins would bundle up in our croched scarves and mittens that we received from Grandma, and put on our crispy nylon jackets and snowpants, we would pull out our sleds and trudge through deep snow out to the pasture where the cliffs hovered over the creek. We spent hours sliding, jumping over drifts and sailing down those big hills. Up and down, up and down we would go...breathing into our dampened scarves that we kept pulling up over our noses, but to no avail, as they seemed to always slouch down soon after the hoisting up. Then our exposed wet face would  be all the frostier from the frigid air.

By the time we got back to the house we were delightfully frozen from our nose to our soggy-socked toes. How we loved it! How we looked forward to it!

After Christmas, during the long winter months, mom would invite all the neighbor girls (and a few cousins) over for skating parties. The creek just below our house has a wide bend. Here we made snow angels and attempted "figure eights". Feeling like we were mastering the craft if we glided any distance without falling down!

Those are the sweet memories that Christmassy snow brings...

Those sweet memories serve as a catalyst for my Christmas preparation enthusiasm today. I was lacking a bit of that enthusiasm this year since my nest has emptied, and Dale works out of town alot...But as the snow falls...I find a resurgence of child-like zeal for celebrating. Now, where did I leave my sled?...

DOE ON THE GO

Two days of

***FUN*FUN*FUN***

Some hunt for bucks

Some save 2 bucks!

Friday and Saturday at Bittersweet Farm

Bring a girlfriend...get TWO BUCKS OFF

your purchase of $10.00 or more!










Snowman made by local artist
"Primitively"~Great addition to your s
nowman collection!







Lighted twigs come in battery
or electric! Indoor/Outdoor







Tea~dyed quilted placemats

 in a variety of Christmas prints!








 New!! Star electric light...
votive jar w/ potpourri



 Christmas fragrance! 1803 melts for
your tart warmers, potpourri reresher oil...
wonderful greenery!



Primitively gingerbread...

complete with recipe

Ready to sit in a pottery bowl
of greens on your stove!





New!!! Tartwarmers for flameless fragrance!!!





Check out this new lantern lamp!
Also the electric snowman candle...



Remember to keep the main thing
 the main thing this Christmas!
Merry Christmas
and
Happy Birthday Jesus!

Battery tapers...wonderful flickering
glow with two "AA" batteries.
LONG LASTING!

 Another frosty
creation by Primitively!

 Stacking snowman boxes...hogscraper candle
....mini rice lights