The farm landscape inspires many ideas for the home.
Small Indian Corn Wreath
Corn Husk Wreaths
Strawberry Margaritas
1 pound of fresh strawberries
1/2 cup of lime juice
3/4 cup of tequila
1/3 cup of Cointreau
1/3 cup of honey
Blueberries and wooden skewers for garnish
4 cups of ice
Margarita salt
Prep your glasses with salt. Put blueberries on the skewers and place two strawberries on the end.
Place all other ingredients in the blender. Blend and pour into glasses.
Cast Iron Berry Bourbon Cobbler
7 cups of fresh strawberries sliced
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons maple syrup
3 tablespoons bourbon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Topper
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 sticks of butter
1/2 cup of oats
4 tablespoons maple syrup
In the cast iron pan mix all ingredients up except to the topper ingredients.
Mix the topper ingredients in a separate bowl except the maple syrup and butter. Cube the butter into tiny pieces and set aside.
Place topper on top of berries in cast iron. Cover with tinfoil. Cook over wood fire for thirty minutes or in oven at 350 for 20 or until bubbly.
Uncover tin foil abc place butter and maple syrup on top. Put back into oven or over fire. You can also put it on Broil. Leave in another twenty minutes watching.
Scoop onto plates and top with vanilla ice cream.
Easy Red, White, and Blue for the Fourth
Just gather some blueberries and strawberries. Place them in the water.
For this arrangement, I used white hydrangeas, white lantana, and a few smaller sunflowers from the garden.
It makes a pretty show for some subtle red, white and blue on the table.
Sunflower Vintage Water Cooler Arrangement
The dove field sunflowers are coming in beautifully. I wanted to created a very expansive arrangement to show the height and just beauty of the sunflowers.
I gathered a vintage igloo water jug and then ventured out to the sunflower fields to get sunflowers. I cut about six of them close to the base because I wanted a lot of height. Then, I cut more at various sizes. I also cut white lantana and white hydrangeas from the farm. Then I just played around with the arrangement. The good thing about a sunflower arrangement this time of year is that it is stunning and free if you plant sunflowers. I put pictures up of a tall and even taller arrangement. These are easy you don’t even need floral wire. Take the leaves off the very bottom and keep leaves on the top, it just helps keep them full.
Tropical Flower Arrangement
The summer is a great time to add some vibrant arrangements on your porch or in the house.
At the farm, I like to gather some fresh greenery from around the house. The pond banks actually have pretty wild growing reeds and flowers to add in with any arrangement.
For this tropical arrangement:
Just grab a flower vase the width of a pineapple. Place one pineapple inside and prop another one on top.
Take your filler flowers and place them around the edges. These finger leaf bushes were around the house. The lavender flowers were growing along the pond banks.
Grab some fuller flowers that are a bright color. I grabbed these roses at the local grocery store. I placed the brighter colors along the edge of the pineapple.
Pour some water in and place it anywhere you’d like to add color.
Ice Mold Ice Bucket
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Freeze It.
Gather your favorite flowers and fruits. You can use a bucket with a smaller bucket glued to the bottom (sherbet buckets work great with a smaller bucket that will hold a wine bottle). Place your flowers and lemons in around the edge with water. Let it freeze over night. Let hot water run over the bucket and turn it over to release it. (You can also buy the mold online)
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Build it.
Once the ice is out you can place it on a plate or silver platter. This will capture the water as it melts.
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Ice Bucket
This beautiful ice bucket slowly melts revealing the petals and wedges. It makes a really pretty addition to any table.
This bunny cotton wreath was created by putting two handmade cotton wreaths together. I made the cotton wreaths, and then used heavy gauge floral wire to hold them together along the middle. The bow is tied around it. I used floral wire to make the ears by forming a loop and then gluing the cotton on. They are attached at the back with floral wire.
These baskets were simple to make for Easter. They are rectangular flat baskets, I ordered two inch aqua ribbon and just tied a bow around them. I placed empty Gatorade bottles inside the baskets. The flowers are snowballs picked from the farm and mixed with store bought flowers. I just sat them loosely in the baskets with their stems in water and arranged them.
These are the cotton wreaths that I make and will soon offer in the store. They are made from cotton produced on the farm.
These are the cotton wreaths that I make and will soon offer in the store. They are made from cotton produced on the farm.
These are the larger grape vine wreaths decorated on the shop building.
I gathered this cotton to put into baskets for decorating.
I gathered this cotton to put into baskets for decorating.
These wreaths are made out of the corn stalks from the farms.
I love decorating with natural products. This is an oil painting of the house originally on our dining room mantel.
