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How to Dress “French Country” Fashion
Ladies, French Country decor is laid back beauty of expensive toile curtains combined with rustic dirty wood floors. A little rustic and a little polish. Fashion is no different. You can combine the practical and comfortable with the pretty. I like pairing my dusty cowgirl boots with my flowy floral dresses. The French use nice things daily. They do not save their nice things for special occasions only. All clothes will get ruined eventually, just wear your nice things. I think it’s sad to make nice things occasional. It is also sad that a simple day dress has been viewed as fancy in modern culture. Women use to wear pretty…
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Shopping for Your Homestead 10 Tips to Buying Land
This article will cover the most vital ten items to question about potential properties. If you are purchasing an existing house check out Top 10 Tips for buying a Country House click here. 1. Road access. You drove up to the property listing. Is the road to access to the property maintained by the buyer, the county, a neighbor? Is it level or steep? Is it narrow or wide? Will this road be dangerous in the winter? Consider the vehicles and the size of any loads you will need to drive down the road to the property and make sure it suits those needs. I caution to not get involved…
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10 Tips for buying a House in the Country
These are the ten most important questions to ask when buying a house in the country. To see the 10 Tips for Buying Land click here. 1. Water. Is it well or city water? What is the age and condition of the well equipment? What is the well water pressure like? 2. Test your water. Test for bacteria, chemicals, minerals, etc. 3. Septic system. Where is the drain field on the property? This would be an area that you cannot plant or build anything. Or park on. How close to the water well is the drain field? What type of plumbing pipes were used? Ceramic, metal, pvc? 4. Zoning. Can…
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Why I Love Country Life & Why You Might too! A Dreamy Home Retreat
In the morning, I get dressed on my way out of bed and I head outdoors with a hot coffee. The scenery is full of the news of my surroundings and the headlines are joyful: “Sunlight peers through the trees”, “Fog blankets dew kissed pasture”, While the world rushes by distracted…. “The birds sing”. The moments of the morning suspend in the very air I inhale. Droplets of mist and pollen glisten as they ballet dance in the sun rays. Out here the land seems to exist with no time, it just is. The pastel soft colors awaken slowly into day light. Every morning a gift, each morning unique. There…
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Fall Fashion Essentials for the Country Woman Wardrobe
Ladies, if you live in the country, I hope this helps you create a wardrobe specifically suited to your rural lifestyle. Living in the country as a girl who enjoys fashion, I notice how different my fashion essentials are for country living than the typical touted “fashion essentials”! Buy the right kind of boots My cowgirl boots and my rain boots are my daily boot at home on the property. But for a city woman, her daily boot is typically a heeled boot made out of a delicate suede, soft leather or even worse, fake leather (it falls apart all too easily). These kinds of “city boots “do not withstand…
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How to Dress Feminine on the Homestead Fashion Essentials
Ladies, My fashion blog is here to help you build your most beautiful, feminine, and classy wardrobe meant for a life of everyday dirt, outdoors, pets, and children, which I think makes life wonderful. I could call this kind of wardrobe a “Country Woman Wardrobe” and it is for those of us who live in the country, but these principles still apply to the woman living in town. Growing up on fashion advice in magazines and then seeing many same tips repeated throughout the years on the internet, I cannot help but notice that fashion “essentials” have been largely geared toward women who work in offices all day. Style for…
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How to be a Homemaker without Money or a Dream Home
Ladies, The goal can be a pinterest worthy home. But what about the homemakers in the unphotogenic circumstance? Do they proudly wear the title “Homemaker”? When our surroundings do not match our hopes and dreams, we may feel unqualified in our position. But the home doesn’t do the making, the maker does. The home does not qualify the homemaker. The homemaker gives dignity to the home, be it primitive or grand. Proverbs 24 says something that strikes me on this topic because I have witnessed this many times: “I passed by the field of a sluggard,by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;the…
