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remember my sweet little red cottage? remember how i spent all summer long deliberating about how to reside this beast? we finally decided it was best to hire it out. the walls are crooked and uneven and there are three different kinds of siding materials on the house. it was just too much for joe […]

penthouse progress siding edition

House & Home

dress: Free People Emma Dress booties: MTNG becca bootie remember when i was part of the farmgirl flea? remember when i shopped during any possible break i got? remember when i bought a dress at the show? ok but in my defense this was NOT your grandmas flea market. we had jb and me there. […]

free people emma dress

Style & Fashion

  this entryway has been really sneaky tricky. like tricky with colors, heights and proportions. the object/goal is to NOT damage the paneling (or paint it..yet). ok i’m resisting painting because it really is a gorgeous wood and i know that i would regret it someday so i’m going to work with it. it’s a […]

fall entryway greeting

House & Home

ok so believe it or not.. i’m a bargain shopper. i know is it a bargain if you buy a lot of bargains? i dunno. but it’s really really really hard for me to pay full price for stuff. so when i do the item has to be extremely special. i think it’s because i […]

the perfect poncho

Style & Fashion

this post…has been a year in the making. i know it’s so bad. seriously. bad bad blogger bad. but sometimes you can’t force inspiration right? so this cart…. i purchased this from Lost and Found in grand rapids michigan probably in january when they were at the grand rapids vintage and antique show in the devos […]

bedroom coffee cart

House & Home

greetings from new mexico! i have had two days here packed full of conferences and a little bit of opportunity to see what is going on around this town. my co worker misty and i arrived here early afternoon on sunday and walked the town  of santa fe a little bit after we checked into […]

new mexico

Lifestyle

pinterest (including my own boards) are filled with dreamy images of flower fields, backyard chickens and expansive gardens. and i’m not going to lie, there is a lot a lot of that. never in my wildest dreams would i ever think that homesteading (or at least trying to) would be something that i would even […]

5 things pinterest doesn’t tell you about farming

Farm & Garden

greetings from chicago! yesterday afternoon my friend shawn and i drove down to chicago to hang out at the godfrey hotel for wolverines fashion night out! we desperately needed coffee because we had a long night ahead of us so we popular paid our way over to cafe integral for some amazing smoked fish toasts […]

finally friday

Lifestyle

ahhhhh this room… the first (almost) complete room that we have done in the farmhouse. meaning it’s the only room we’ve painted and put new furniture in, light fixtures etc. so this is the before.. the wallpaper was layered and layered and took me almost a month to tear down. but i finally got it […]

farmhouse dining room

House & Home

so many of you have inquired about starting a flower garden so i thought i would do a little write up on how i started my (first) official flower garden. in the past i have stuck to more bulb type flowers (dahlias and glads) but i had always admired my friend danns amazing array of […]

how to start a flower garden

Farm & Garden

soooooo i am going to blame this demon detox on account that i took completed photos of my dining room and forgot to load them in to my computer. so today instead we are going to pick out some paint colors! i’ve shown you the downstairs bathroom before with the pink penny tiles.  i’ve made […]

Farmhouse Bathroom Colors

House & Home

this weekend we are heading up to pentwater to have a nice long work weekend. i know this doesn’t look like much but considering we had no interior siding or insulation…. or electric when we purchased the place this is a long way. what we’ve done so far: insulated the interior rewired all of the […]

pentwater progress

House & Home

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I'm abigail albers

Wife and mother, antique shopper, entrepreneur, gardener, sheep lady, sequin enthusiast and your Midwest Martha Stewart Wannabe. 

I am collector of collections and hobbies and I’m so excited to share them all with you here on my little slice of the internet. 

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Abby