Romantic Prairie Style: March 2012

Really loving my new prairie table! Giving me plenty of inspiration for next issue......

Even found a pack of wooden spoons with the right size handles to fit in the holes at Home Goods for $2.99 for 8. What a bargain!! Now I just have to age them so they will look like the ones that came with the table.

I didn't paint the pink drawers and legs. The table came like that.

I already had the chair but I am getting a bench similar to this one

It is made by Shawn (a local craftsman) from salvage heart pine and comes unpainted so I will paint and age it too. Shawn is making it 4 1/2 feet long (the table is 5 feet) so I will be able to slide underneath the table if I want to. Very cool!

Don't worry, I still have my pretty pink table

but it's now in the living room, which I am redoing (again!)So, more on that later........

xoxoxo Fifi

As soon as we knew snow was coming to Michigan Mark and I flew there to complete the shoots we couldn't finish last time due to lack of the white stuff.

So, we met (again) in Detroit and drove across the sate back to

ANGELA AND MATT'S FARMHOUSE

And we did get our shots! Here are a few snippets....we shot the house and the exterior for next winter issue so you will have to wait to get the full beauty of the whole place....

ANGELA AND I TRYING TO WARM UP........

And I got to visit with little Sidney again...still wanted to take him home............I wanted too but he is very happy there and my kitty Lilly just died a few days before I left for the shoots and I was not ready to get another kitty yet....I miss her so much. At least I could give some love to this little fur ball....

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The other holiday shoot we did was in northern Michigan and, there, we had PLENTY of snow!

We drove to

MARIA & KARL'S

delightful farmhouse. I have been kidding Maria because I so wanted a cup of coffee---she had graciously brewed a fresh pot--but she and Karl were off to church and when I went to pour myself a cup I could not find any milk! No regular, reduced fat or fat free, not a drop of milk to be found in spite of the fact that Maria's parents have a

D A I R Y FARM! Turned out she had forgotten to get some! Well, I had to joke that we drove over 2 hours to come to the farm and....NO milk! Anyway, Karl went to get some when they came back from church. By then I was fading away. Can't function without 4 or 5 cups in the morning. I am sure the caffeine is what keeps me going through all the shoots.

We had a fabulous time and made friends with their big labrador, Merle, and their little kitten "Kitty". The two are inseparable. It's just priceless.

Maria and Karl are adorable.

Meeting them and the Kuncaitis family was so worth the 2 trips to Michigan. I am so lucky to get to know all the wonderful people I get to meet on shoots. Totally blessed!