Blogspot - Recipe Scratch Rusia

Since we've found our new textile manufacturing partners (Rightfully Sewn), I've been excited to expand my custom pillow options.  I'll continue to add more each season and I look forward to it being a big focus of each collection moving forward.   I get a lot of questions about what size pillows to use and how to arrange them.  I put together three design boards based on three different color sofa that I think are pretty popular - Cream (like my hearth room), Beige/Oatmeal (like our formal living room) and Grey (which I don't have, but my sister does...). The most important size for me is the Large 22" Squares that anchor each side of the sofa.  In my (humble, wink) opinion, a 20" squares are too small to be on a sofa by themselves.  They need the larger pillows to fill it out.  I use the 20" as accents with the 22", or use the 20" in a chair by itself.   In the arrangement above, as seen below in real photos of our Hearth Room, I used two 22...

If you've been following me on Instagram over the last week, then you've been getting sneak peeks into our latest adventure. We bought an old School House!  It has been in the works since last Fall, but we weren't sure it would actually happen until it actually happened, so I kept it under wraps until the papers were signed.  But now, we are the proud owners of a one room rural school house in my hometown, Lexington, Missouri. This is one of those places that I've driven by hundreds of times and dreamed about what I could do with it - and as I discovered this weekend at home, many other locals have done the same thing!  When it came on the market in the Fall, I went on a long walk and thought of 100 ideas (from b&b to bakery!), before I had the "ah-ha" moment.  After it came to me, my mind went running and there was no turning back - I had decided to move my entire store operations to The School House. All of the product processing, packaging and shipping...