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3 Country Style Tips by Farm Girl Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton) All Creatures Great & Small
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Here is another Country Fashion analysis of mine from Masterpiece Theatre production All Creatures Great & Small. Helen Alderson played by the lovely Rachel Shenton, shows us a glimpse inside a real farm girl’s wardrobe of 1937. Season 1, episode 2, we see Helen out for a walk wearing a dress. It is a brief scene in which she is seen meandering along a pathway near a waterfall wearing a towel around her neck. To dab the sweat away on an exercise walk? On her way to…
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5 Farm Fashion Lessons by Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton) from All Creatures Great & Small
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Country women don’t get a lot of style icons. There is somewhat of a void of fashion advice for those of us living quite a different life than city girls who are prancing across streets in high heels and white jeans. So here I am yet again fashion blogging the country life. When building a country wardrobe there are some things to consider. Let’s look at the practical and stylish pointers we can extract from a character well acquainted with harsh weather, mud and livestock. Look no…
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Now Hiring: Full Time Homemaker Job
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk about working at home! “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” Titus 2:3-5 Were you trained to love your husband and children, or to work at home? We live in a culture that trains…
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The Lord Jesus Lives
Happy Resurrection weekend. There are no words to praise Jesus enough. There are no words. I was outside one day and looked up and saw the clouds in a cross and took this photo. We all need to look up more. “The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation” Psalm 18:46
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Essential Home Decor: Style with Everyday Items!
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk essential home decor! Homemakers are the manager of the home, and one of the most prominent features she manages is the decor. People think of decor as being add-ons, extras, froofy, maybe just optional. Decor is not optional. Decorating is not just a hobby. Decorating is a part of the job. Decor is already happening in your home. Everything that needs to be in the home is a decor item. Can you see it? That’s a part of your decor! Being the manager of the…
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3 Ways of “Vintage” Homemaking (It’s not what you think!)
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk “vintage” homemaking! No this is not the 1950s housewife cleaning routine. This is recent history of homemaking before Pinterest! When women like you and I stayed home not long ago, but long ago enough for it to be kind of old fashioned in many ways compared to today. Here are 3 ways I was “vintage” homemaking just 15 years ago! 1) Magazines. We did not have feeds of endless images to scroll through. We had magazines and we had to purchase them! It’s easy to…
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5 Homemaking Tips for SCENT
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk the scent of your home! Pungent cat urine. Strong dog smell. Dirty socks. Musty. Tuna fish. Overwhelming synthetic fragrance. Smells that smacked me in the face as the door swung open and jolly loving people welcomed me into their homes. As I gasped for air smiling with all of my gusto. I wish that these words did not summarize some of my experiences in other people’s homes. But the smell of people’s homes can assault. And I just have to note that these people were…
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New to Homemaking? The Daily Routine
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk the daily routine for the homemaker! Commonly, new homemakers do not know what to do daily. Some may do too much exhausting themselves and their family trying to mimic the pace of the rat race thinking this is what makes them good at homemaking. Others may feel bored because they truly do not know how to fill their time, and others may actually be lazy but not even realize they are not doing enough. Aside from obvious things like dishes after a meal, being home…
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5 City Fashions to Declutter from Your Country Wardrobe
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk decluttering city fashion from your country wardrobe! Just because you live rurally does not mean your style has to suffer but it definitely will change. Take it from a woman who wears a dress nearly daily and always dons jewelry but it’s what works for where I live. This article is meant to direct you to declutter items that may clash with your new country life and I will share stylish alternatives for country life. 1) Declutter: All Black. Women have been told for decades…
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5 Things Homemakers Should Do
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk what a homemaker should do! Our culture does not often admit others “should” do something. We like a loosey goosey take on everything. We do not want to draw hard lines but it’s sometimes at the cost of not being helpful. Go into any job and there is a job description to fulfill. The same is for homemaking. While you can homemake in a variety of ways, such as tailoring your work to the household’s preferences, you still need to meet certain needs of a…