Gathered Home
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Thrifted treasures. Vintage finds. A home with a story.
Vintage Decorating
Collected homes, thrifted treasures, and timeless style.
Estate sales, auctions, and secondhand finds.
Seasonal Homemaking
Simple traditions for every season.
A collected home tells a story
Many of the pieces in my home came from thrift stores, auctions estate sales, and family members who passed them down.
The goal isn’t perfection. The goal is creating a home that feels gathered over time, rather than purchased all at once.
A collected home tells the story of the people who live there.
My recent thrift finds…
Creative Projects & Showpieces
From county fair entries to garden art, these are a few of my favorite creative projects through the years.
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10 Thrift Store Finds for a Cottage Home That Never Go Out of Style
Thrift store finds for a cottage home are one of the easiest ways to create a house that feels collected rather than decorated. The most inviting homes are rarely filled with matching furniture sets or trendy pieces from big-box stores. Instead, they’re built slowly over time with meaningful treasures that bring warmth, history, and character…
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How to Make a Living Moss Chair: A Vintage Garden Project
This living moss chair began with a worn-out vintage chair that most people would have thrown away. Years ago, I came across a worn-out vintage chair with torn upholstery, stained fabric, and more than a few rough spots. It wasn’t valuable enough to restore, but it was too pretty to send to the dump. Instead,…
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Homemade Sauerkraut Recipe (Easy Traditional Method)
Homemade sauerkraut is one of the simplest ways to preserve cabbage and bring the harvest into the winter months. Every year, sometime between the last flush of summer and the first cool evenings of fall, the cabbage starts piling up on the counter. The tomatoes have slowed down, the garden is beginning to look tired,…
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How to Make Homemade Raw Butter & Cultured Buttermilk (Easy Traditional Method)
How to Make Homemade Raw Butter from Fresh Cream There are few things more satisfying than turning a jar of cream into a crock of homemade raw butter. Perhaps it’s because butter reminds us of a slower time. A time when every farmhouse had a milk cow, flour sack towels hung by the sink, and…