"beautiful girl" SOMETHING every girl needs to hear!

"beautiful girl
         you can do amazing things"

Isn't this JUST the message you want your daughters to hear? Or your own heart to hear?

We simply must encourage our girls from day one!

Building our girls up takes compliments, encouragements, and once in a while a little push, right?

There's never a need to put your girl down.  NO NEED.  Don't let those negative words out of your mouth, instead, think of a POSITIVE way to give your message to her!   And start with, "beautiful girl..."

Don't forget to always include, "I love you!".

Blessings,
   ~Heidi

FARMERS MARKET Signs and More!

These signs are all 6" wide by 48" long!

All are available in my Etsy store:

"Everyday Cookies".

I love to paint custom signs, too! Just ask!

(This one resides in a beautiful home in Washington state.)

FARMERS MARKET sign

(This is our "Sweet Woodruff Acres" home sign!)

SWEET WOODRUFF ACRES sign (custom)

(This one hangs in our little "Sweet Woodruff Cove" cabin, where our canoe resides for summer. This one is shown in RED, but I can paint it in any color.)

CANOE RENTALS sign

(This one is sold via my Etsy shop, as well in a couple local home and decor/gift shops:  Truffles, Coos Bay and The Chicken Coup, Florence.)

FARMERS MARKET sign

(You can find the "Truffles" Facebook page here.)

(You can find Brenda's Facebook page here, she sells as
"The Olde Harbour Saltbox"https://www.facebook.com/Olde-Harbour-Saltbox-127721290586398/ in The Chicken Coup store.

(This is a buyer's home photo.)

FARMERS MARKET sign

(This one was finished in a grayish tone.)

FARMERS MARKET sign

(This is a buyer's home photo.)

FARMERS MARKET sign

(This "PLAYROOM" sign color is Navy Blue. 

It is in my Etsy shop here.)

PLAYROOM sign

(This one is sold via my Etsy shop, as well in a couple local home and decor/gift shops:  Truffles, Coos Bay and The Chicken Coup, Florence.)

MERCANTILE sign

(This one is sold via my Etsy shop, as well in a couple local home and decor/gift shops:  Truffles, Coos Bay and The Chicken Coup, Florence.)

COTTAGE BY THE SEA sign

(Have you named your home yet?  It's a wonderful thing to do! Then ask me to paint a sign for you!)

SWEET WOORDRUFF ACRES sign

(This one is sold via my Etsy shop, as well in a couple local home and decor/gift shops:  Truffles, Coos Bay and The Chicken Coup, Florence.)

FARM FRESH sign

(This one is sold via my Etsy shop, as well in a couple local home and decor/gift shops:  Truffles, Coos Bay and The Chicken Coup, Florence.)

PLAYROOM sign

(This was a custom sign for a buyer.)

KLOUD NINE sign 

(This "FARMERS MARKET" sign is sold here in my Etsy shop.)

Thanks for visiting me today!  

Blessings,

~Heidi

Marshfield Vintage Market ~ Coos Bay Oregon ~ 2014

We just finished up the 1st Annual "Marshfield Vintage Market", here in Coos Bay, Oregon! My daughter and I had a blast! We thank our families, friends and even neighbors who helped us.

Here's just a few fun photos for now...

 (Melissa and I at the show)

 

I have a dress form I dolled up for the event. I was inspired in part by the Junk Gypsies.  This was a two day event, and on day one I had a beautiful metal crown to top her off. Our neighbor/fellow vendor, Fox Hollow Cottage, (Shannon) bought the crown on day one:

So for Day Two I brought a red cowgirl hat:

I had a pair of boots at her base, painted pink! Someone bought the boots within the first two hours:

 

You should see me in my cowboy boots...

 

I had various signs set out, I think every last one of them sold!

 

Coos Bay wanted and needed an event like this!  The organizer, Thea Synder, owns Haven Décor in downtown Coos Bay. If you live here, or come to visit, please visit her store and say "Hi"!

 

(Outside the grand entrance of the show...

showing off a couple of our vintage trunks...

Jessica helped us with the one on the bottom.)

 

Life is Good! 

And I thank God for His blessings!

~Heidi

It is well with my soul SIGN

One of our daughters often tells me, "I just keep swimming, keep swimming..."  I always laugh, because I'm on the other end of the phone doing the same thing! Like mother-like daughter! (By the way, our other daughter is exactly like me in so many ways, too! It's funny to have two of me walking around out there....).

I just keep painting, keep painting....... 

I have variety of signs that I do paint, which is what keeps me from being board.  I paint a lot of signs for weddings; I paint a lot of signs for children's rooms; I paint a lot of custom family name signs; and more.  And, for fun I paint whatever I want, and put these signs up for sale on local sales boards, or give away as gifts.

Here's one I had recently painted, then made 2 or 3 more for orders. 

(this measures 14" by 24")

One buyer said she remembers sitting at her at the feet of her grandmother, who sat in a rocker and sang the old hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul".  I enjoyed hearing her memories.

I nailed together thin boards to give it a sort of rustic-mini-pallet look.  What I'd like to do now is make more, and use various phrases from well loved hymns, such as "Amazing Grace", or "Be Thou My Vision".     *Be sure to leave a commit with your favorite well-loved hymn, I may use it next!*

Spring, spring, spring!  Hang in there friends, spring.is.on.the.way!

We had a major wind storm pass through last night and this morning, so when it cleared up this afternoon, somewhat, I made a quick run out to the gardens to cut some camellias.  Our camellia tree is pretty large, about 23 years old, and full of bloom right now.  But that wind storm sure knocked off a lot of blooms!  I brought in a bunch and set them in one of my ironstone soup tureens, ah...springs!

Thanks for visiting today!
          Blessings, Heidi

Featured Artist of the Week on CAST Blog

What a delight to be the Featured Artist on the "Christian Artist Street Team" blog today!  (You can find this member's of this group of artist on Etsy by searching for CAST.)

They interview various artist from the group weekly, and these are then featured on Wednesdays. 

As a thank you to the readers and friends, I will be giving a way a FREE sign (your choice of any of my signs) from my Etsy store.  To enter this drawing you MUST do two things:
1) Go "LIKE" my Everyday Cookies FACEBOOK page
AND
2) Leave a comment on that page (so I can find you!).

Everyday Cookies Custom and Handpainted Signs Facebook page

Hope to see you there!

Blessings,

~Heidi

PS You can find my Etsy shop here; go ahead look for a sign now in case you win!

Romantic Chic Wedding

Weddings are wonderful, aren't they? We recently attended one of my niece's wedding, which was held at a beautiful California golf course.  The setting was lovely, nothing like the setting sun for an outdoor wedding!  The reception, held inside the golf club, was romantic chic and you know how I love that combination!  To top it off, the bride let me paint a few signs to use; my pleasure.

presenting....Mr. and Mrs!

presenting....our daughter, Jessica on the right

and another of our nieces on the left (there were 8 attendants each)

presenting....our family

presenting....grab a treat, candy!

("Love is Sweet   So Grab a Treat" sign)

presenting....a lovely romantic cake!

I loved the pink swirls and roses.

presenting...each table had cupcakes as centerpieces

presenting...Happily Ever After Starts Here

presenting....Mr. and Mrs!

This one is my VERY FAVORITE photo! 

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Ray!  It was an honor to witness your marriage ceremony and then celebrate at your reception. May God bless you as you begin you journey down the road of life together.

Blessings & hugs, Heidi

Another Really Good Cookie and Another Really Fun Sign

"Another really good cookie" means trouble here.  It means Mark and I can't stop eating them!  I do love to share cookies, but sometimes I'm not fast enough to get them out of the house.  A couple days ago I made the "Spiced Apple Cookie", which I found via Pinterest.  I loved them. 

Then Mark said, could you make an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie but replace the raisins with diced apples? Sure can!

Here's the cookie recipe. I don't give instructions on how to actually "mix the ingredients", such as the order, you can follow any cookie recipe or just start mixing as the ingredients are listed:

HEIDI'S SPICED APPLE OATMEAL COOKIE
1 cup butter (2 cubes)
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla flavoring (or extract)
2 large eggs
2 cups quick cook oatmeal (uncooked)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup diced apples (peeled, cored first)
*if desired: 1 cup chopped walnuts

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.   Mix the ingredients as a cookie dough.  Drop by rounded tablespoons, spacing evenly.   (On Silpat matt, or greased cookie sheet.)  Bake for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool cookies,  then enjoy!

I use a Silpat baking matt--you must get!  I have four, so I can make lots of cookies quickly, if I need to.  Also, when I make gingerbread houses for a Gingerbread House Making Party here, the Silpat matts make the baking so much easier.  I bought mine at our local Fred Meyer store, when they had a BOGOF (buy one get one free) sale.  You can find them online as well, such as here at Amazon.

We've working on making rustic layered board signs.  Here's a couple examples. 

"GRATITUDE:  turns what we have into enough."

"House Rules: 1. Be KIND 2. Always follow rule #1."

These are listed in my Etsy shop here (GRATITUDE) and here (House Rules).

Today I'm going to make and can applesauce and apple butter. I'm still all about apples right now!

Don't forget to change your clocks tomorrow night:  Fall Back! 

Have a blessed weekend,
      Hugs, Heidi

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(Linked to Blissful and Domestic Feature Friday Link Up Party here,  Cindy's Romantic Home Show and Tell Friday here, Whipperberry Friday Link Party here, Simply Sweet Home Friday link party here, and Nifty Thrifty Sunday here.)

Pinwheels (Pin Wheels) for a wedding!

A sweet friend of ours is getting married in a couple weeks.  Her wedding will be in a beautiful park setting.  This sweet girl loves color and selected pinwheels as a way to bring color into her wedding.  The challenge was to figure out how to make these colorful pinwheel in all sizes, and how to get them pinned onto dowels (or sticks).

I played around the ideas for a days.  I tried pins, push-pins, tacks, nails and more, but just couldn't make them stick without the fear of them popping off in an outdoor setting.  Then one morning as I was running the light bulb in my head went off.  (It seems my best thoughts and ideas come when I'm on my run!)  Use my nail gun!

I used the smallest finish nail my nail-gun would shoot.  Then I stuck the dowel, or sticks (we're using both), on the crack of our deck boards, shooting the nail into the top, so that it goes through the other side, but doesn't actually get nailed to anything!  Perfect.  Now just make the paper pinwheels!

To make the paper pinwheels we used various sizes, 12" squares down to 4" squares.  I fold them corner to corner, and open them back up.  This gives me a line to use for my cutting.  I cut down to about an inch or two from the center. 

Then fold one of each tip into the center. Set this on top of the nail and push through.  Now on the nail I put a pearl or bead, then take a pair of pliers and bend the nail back down onto the bead.  This holds it all in place. 

Because we used so many kinds of papers we often doubled up the thinner papers, which also gave contrasting colors and patterns. To make sure the papers didn't separate I just dabbed some glue on the corners of the papers.  For the smaller ones we used straight pins, with white heads.  Using a pliers I cut off the ends and curled them so a skewer stick could be used.  Then a dab of hot glue to make sure they stay attached.

The bride will line the isle of the ceremony chairs with pinwheels.  She'll also use them all around the reception.  Then as centerpieces on the tables, we'll have vases filled with sand and 5 pinwheels in each vase.  The pinwheels will be used on the cake and food tables, too.  Should be colorful and fun!

   Have a great day!  Blessings, Heidi

(Linked to Between Nap's Metamorphosis Monday here,and Tip Junkie Homemade Projects Tuesday here.)

Sisters and Friends

" A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. "

(six sisters=six friends)

"Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood."

 ~Louisa May Alcott

                          

(six sisters=six friends)

(I saved a few of these vintage photos but didn't note where they came from.

I think on Flickr...if they belong to you, let me know and I'll give credit due!)

"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."

(My five sisters and me....I'm second from the left.)

"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can  supply..."   ~Jane Austen

(My precious Mother and all her girls...my sisters and sisters-in-law,

and Claira!.)

"Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other."

(I was so blessed to be asked to paint this sign for one of my

Etsy buyers.  I will now offer this in my shop!)

I was blessed to be born in a large family, with five sisters and three brothers, there were nine children.  We moved quite a bit while growing up, but no matter where we lived on the West Coast, I my friends always moved with me!  Then when my brothers got married, one by one, three more precious and special sisters were added to my life. In addition to my family, I count so many other girls/ladies as my "sisters", my "sisters in Christ".  You know who you are, right?  I love you all!

A friend can be a "sista", too, you know!

Blessings, and hug a sister today!         ~Heidi

Some of the quotes I used came from The Quote Garden.

Linked to "Get Your Craft on Tuesday" here.