hot off the press!

The latest edition of the always lovely Jeanne d'Arc Living Magazine just came in.

This one is just as beautiful as the previous ones, if not more! (They just keep getting better!)

It is jammed full of gorgeous photos and inspiration on every page.

It is definitely one to add to your collection. 

If you haven't started yours yet, stop by today and pick up your copy!

It is also available for purchase over at our online shop!

Here's a small glimpse inside the pages of Jeanne d'Arc Living..

armoire

One of the best Christmas presents I saw this year was this little armoire.  My son has a friend who gave his wife this "new wardrobe" for her gift this Christmas.  Isn't it just perfect?  What woman doesn't get frustrated with the same old clothes and lament that she wishes she "just had a whole new wardrobe"?  What a perfect way to put this gift together.  I am blown away by its creativeness.  Now if she wants to come down to the Willows and trade those little shirts in for some in her size, we would be more than happy to help her with this new wardrobe.  And you, too, of course!  Come see all the lovely things in our apparel section.  Just one or two new things sometimes makes you feel like you do have a whole new wardrobe!

an epiphany party

Last night we had some of the grandkids over for a little Epiphany party to celebrate the end of the Christmas season.  We had our three kings and a lovely little procession of cute kids around the house, ending at the Christmas tree where there were treat bags for each of them (bought and packaged at smeeks!).  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season this year!  We thoroughly enjoyed ours!

The lips and mustaches in the goodie bags definitely provided us with some major giggles...

new years 2012

We had a wonderful New Year's Eve celebration with lots of friends and family in California again this year.  We ate, drank, played games, laughed and had a wonderful time.  It was so nice to get away to Balboa for a little while after the Christmas madness, but now its time to get this new year and these resolutions underway!  Hope everyone had a wonderful time ringing in 2012!

Friday Madness! (it's a little extra mad this time)

Out with the old, in with the new!

30% OFF ENTIRE STORE!

(*excluding furniture*)

60% OFF ENTIRE SALE ROOM!

It has been freshly restocked with loads of wonderful treasures!

We have decided to forgo having a Flea Market this Friday. This is due to the fact that we are just emerging from the hectic holiday season and we are all still unwinding from that, right?

However, in place of the flea market, we are going to make this Friday Madness our biggest yet!!

We are making room for all of the fabulous finds we have coming in for the new year.

This is one you don't want to miss friends!

and just like that its gone...

Is Christmas really over?  I honestly cannot believe it.  Several weeks ago now, we had our family Christmas party with an outrageous scavenger hunt, dinner at Pizzeria Bianco, delicious desserts and a gift exchange back home.  It is always so fun to have a night all together, just adults to eat, drink and laugh like crazy.  Unfortunately, I don't really have any pictures of the scavenger hunt, but I'm not so sure we should share all that craziness anyway.  From there it was one thing to the next straight through until Christmas and then off to California for a week to ring in the new year.  With the madness that is always the holidays between family and the store, then throw on top some other things we had going on in our lives, the time has just flown by.  And this poor little blog has been neglected through it all.  So, hopefully the New Year will find us some time to get things going around here again.  Did you miss us?  We missed you!