Happy Fall Y'all!

 Well, it's fall on the farm and the chores have changed with the season and the lesser day light has us rising earlier and going to "roost" earlier too. In the early mornings before the sun has come up over the ridge and the air is still crisp and frosty, I go out to gather kindling from the woodshed, the smell of hickory wood smoke and the sounds of farm around me- wild turkeys gobbling in the woods and the horses neighing at me from the barn and pastures- I love this time of the morning.

Mama has kept busy these past months drawing and re-drawing the Homestead Blessings Coloring Book. Every page is hand sketched and is a work of homesteading art- each drawing reflecting our life on the homestead and many drawings are memories and have stories behind them. We are very excited about it being finished and available now, just in time for the holiday gift giving season.

You did a beautiful job, Mom!

Earlier this fall we spent some time on the back roads up on the ridge tops gathering wild muskadine and fox grapes.

We made quite a few jars of jelly from these gatherings.

Almost every day we make at least one or two handwoven homestead potholders.

These potholders sure are handy around the kitchen. We love using them!

The other day we went out to gather the purple cone flower to make our tonics and such...

We ended up capturing some gorgeous pictures of bees on the purple cone...

The newest member of the farm...

A beautiful 17month old registered Quarter Horse gelding...

who is a beautiful red dun and a sweet little guy

Hannah and I look forward to training him this winter

His name is Pistol.

Our neighbors beautiful cows

What a pretty Jersey girl!

Here's a parting shot from the homestead, the peaceful creek meandering along, the tire swing hanging on the sugar maple, brilliant autumn colors... simple homestead blessings!

Now Available!

Our new coloring book is now available with 40 pages of family farming, homesteading fun!

Order it  here.

Coming soon!!

The Homestead Blessings Coloring Book is one-of-kind with 40 pages of original art by Vicki West. It is our hope that this beautifully hand sketched coloring book will inspire and encourage children of all ages in family farming and homesteading life. So, grab your crayons and color pencils and join in the art of creating a homestead on your coloring page!

Available HERE the first part of november, just in time for your holiday shopping!

Free Coloring Page!

    We hope your children will enjoy coloring this holiday coloring page from our upcoming coloring book!

To print the full sized picture, click on the picture, then click file, then print.

New products and black friday sale!

Hope you are all enjoying this wonderful season of thanksgiving.  A time to reflect, count your blessings and give thanks to the lord.  Just wanted to let y'all know that the cute rolling pin recipe card holder and sturdy homespun potholders that you see in the holiday pies video bellow, is now available on our website.  When not holding a recipe we use ours to display a verse or quote.  Another new item we've added is homesteaders soap.

Also, starting friday, were running a four day Sale.  Many items will be 20-50 percent off!  We hope y'all have a joyful Thanksgiving!

Rolling pin recipe card holder

Homesteaders soap

homespun potholders

New Products and Spring and Summer Sale

New products at Homestead Blessings!!

We are so excited to now be carrying this book, “The ABC Herbal” by Steven Horn, and have it available for you all! I have used this book since the girls were very young and have found many of these methods and formulas very effective and good, being a great help and relief and saving us lots of money!

“The ABC Herbal” makes a great gift to give to young mothers and is a wonderful book to have on hand in every household. With a wonderful common sense approach, you’ll find the helpful herbal information as simple as A-B-C!!

New Homestead Blessings note card set!

These new hand-sketched note cards, with beautiful drawings of the little blessings of the homesteading life, will surely bring a smile to anyone’s face who may receive one! The drawings on these new cards also appear in the new Homestead Blessings Cookbook and are inspired from real stories and memories on the farm where we were raised. These cards are blank inside and make wonderful little gifts. So, please feel welcome to come by and visit our products page and take a glance at these new products we’re sure you will enjoy!

Go to Homestead Blessings Website

Just a note... if you would like a cookbook signed by the West Ladies, please leave a note in the "special delivery/comments" on your order page and we will gladly sign it for you! Also, please specify if and who you may like it signed to and the proper spelling of any names. Thank you, and many happy homestead cooking days to you!

After many months {possibly years} of writing, editing, cooking, editing again and finally off to the printer- we are so excited to annouce that the Homestead Blessings Cookbook is now available at our website www.homestead-blessings.com !!! Yeah!!!!

Full of lots of pictures from the homestead kitchen and garden, hand sketched drawings by Mama, stories and tips from the farm and over 150 recipes that are easy, fun and centered around the home and farm.

 

                                       Recipes for homemade breads and Lemon Meringue Pie...

                         and also recipes for canning pickles, relishes and produce right from the garden!

So gather 'round in the kitchen and open up the Homestead Blessings Cookbook to try new recipes and have some good 'ole fashioned family fun! We hope this book will be a blessing to you and your homestead!

 

www.homestead-blessings.com 

Homestead Happenings

Well we have been busy making bread, sewing dolls, cooking maple syrup and getting ready for spring. The air has warmed up quite a bit outside and the spring birds are singing. Speaking of birds, I have had fun taking pictures of robins, chickens and our goats. The goats love to nibble on my apron when I'm taking their picture. They don't hold still either, just jump around and such. :)

We have been working on the cookbook, trying out new dishes and deserts, we'll all have to do a lot of juicing after this!! Hah, hah!

Hopefully we'll have some more pictures up soon . Until then...

                                                                           Blessings,

                                                                                Vicki for the West Family