A Primitive Place ~

It's Here!

The spring edition of A Primitive Place!

Chock full of decorating ideas for your primitive home

as well as recipes and projects to whet your creative appetite!

This issue is extra special to me as it features

the lovely home of my friends

Roger & Charleen Boisvert of Fitchbug, MA.

Tour their home and glean ideas for your own cozy nest!

Hurry in the the Speckled Hen and pick up your copy today!

See you soon~

Lynda

Happy Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Day ~ seems like the perfect time to share the recipe for Blissful Bars. 

My son~in~law loves these so much,

Kaysie says he actually hides them in the garage when I send a plate home for him!

Maybe I will re-name them...

Todd's Blissful Bars

1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar

1 cup butter (softened)

2 extra large eggs

3 teaspoons vanilla

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups white chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups craisins

1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Butter 11 x 15 glass baking dish.

Cream sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla.

Beat in flour, baking powder & salt.

Stir in chips, craisins & nuts.

Spread evenly in prepared pan.  Bake until golden brown, 20 ~ 22 minutes.

(if you use a 9 x 13 it takes about 30 minutes)

Be careful not to overbake, you want them to be moist and chewy.

When they have cooled, frost them with

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese

1/4 cup butter (softened)

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream ingredients together until smooth.  If it's too stiff,

add a few drops of milk to make it spreadable.

Sprinkle some chopped nuts on top, cut into squares & enjoy!

...Just don't let Todd know you made them:)

Have a very, vonderful Valentine's Day~

Lynda

City Wide Antique Sale!

Annual City Wide Antique Sale

February 11, 12 & 13

It's that time again! 

Time for the treasure hunt of the year, when

Historic Downtown Snohomish

antique dealers roll out the welcome mat

and mark down prices.

You already know if you are looking for the perfect antique
or vintage accessory you need look no further than 
Historic Downtown Snohomish 
so make your wish list & plan your trip...
The hunt is on!

We are excited here at the Speckled Hen to join the fun as
we offer 10% off all of our vintage treasures! 
We've been adding to our inventory of
antiques every chance we get 
 so hurry in to see what "old stuff" is new!

Regular Shop Hours
Friday & Saturday 11:00 ~ 5:00
Sunday Noon ~ 4:00

And don't forget Thursday February 10 from 6pm ~ 8pm

Local Harpist
Bronn Journey

With thanks to our loyal customers we offer this gift of music.
Please come and enjoy sips, sweets & music while you browse!

Blessings to you~
Lynda

Bronn Journey in Concert

Bronn Journey 

It's February!  The month of Groundhogs & Valentines~

Dreams of spring and thoughts of Love!

 In celebration of both

(and what is more lovely than love in springtime?)

We invite you to an evening concert...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

6:00 pm

Bronn will offer his gift of music, we will offer sips and sweets~

& promise you an evening to remember!

So mark your calendar and make your date,

we'll make you kindly welcome!

  Hearts and Doorways open Wide~

Love all around... Peace inside 

Blessings to you~

Lynda

Edgar Guest

Write it down, when I have perished;

Here is everything I've cherished;

That these walls should glow with beauty,

Spurred my lagging soul to duty;

That there should be gladness here,

Kept me toiling year by year...

Every thought and every act,

Were to keep this home in tact.

*Edgar Guest

Blessings to you as you continue this journey in the New Year!

Lynda



Fabric Sale!

Fabric Sale!

January 14 thru January 17

Fabric will be 50% off for 4 days only!

1/2 yard minimum cut please

(Sorry...pre~cut pieces are not included)

Come early for best selection!

Happy New Year!

Look to this Day

For it is life, the very life of life.

In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities of your existence.

The bliss of Growth, The glory of Action, The splendor of Beauty;

For yesterday is already a dream,

And tomorrow is only a vision;

But today, well~lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,

And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this Day.

Such is the salutation on the Dawn.

I found these words framed and dated 1918, attributed to the Sanskrit. They hang above my desk, where I spend a little time each morning. I try to read these words and take them to heart each day, though I admit some mornings I just don’t ‘see ‘ them.

Look to this Day.

Look to this day. It is all we have, and to be honest, we really only have this minute.

None of us know what waits down the hall, or around the corner, and yet we spend time worrying about things unknown and unforeseen.

Look to this Day.

This day found things tumbling in my head, like numbered ping~pong balls being blown about at a bingo parlor. Big things tumbled. The war. Our president in Washington. Our country divided. Climate scientists and global warming. ‘Little’ things tumbled.

Home, family, the economy… pretty soon, it’s too much!

Look to this Day.

This day I needed a reminder and I received a series of them, like little pats on the head from the Hand of the Almighty. As I moved about my house, I came across a folded card I bought at a craft show a few weeks ago. A bird embellished with the word “Faith”. Opening a trunk, in search of something, I found an old blue spice box. Mustard Seed. As in “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed…nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20.

I carried the card and the old box into my kitchen where there sits a little plaque

 that reads another favorite verse,

“Now faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see.”

Hebrews 11:1.

Look to this Day.

I am a child of God, created in His likeness. That means if God is Great, then so am I.

Look to this Day.

It is Life. The very Life of Life.

God is Great, God is good, let us thank Him…

 

 

Blessings to you in 2011~

 

Lynda