Hello! Just a note and an update to say I am moving on and making a new home for this Polished Peasant blog. :) Better networking better opportunities and better ways to share and a new look. I will post from my new home soon! I will keep this blog and its trail and I will be back to visit & post. Thanks for reading and hanging with my thoughts....bye.... Julie Continue reading

Free digital collage sheets. :) http://www.digitalcollagesheets.com/free.aspx Continue reading

It is still cool (o.k.) cold here in the Midwest and for all of the blustry days still ahead I love this "How To Tie A Scarf" tutorial. http://jonesdesigncompany.com/fashion/w-i-w-and-tying-a-scarf/ Just wonderful! :) You can also check out: ~French Women For All Seasons~ by Mireille Guiliano, that also helps you refine this skill so you can look tres chic. :) Continue reading

http://www.freep.com/article/20110319/FEATURES14/103190307/The-Plunge-Think-beyond-pink-choose-your-wedding-colors?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s ~ Wonderful wedding color ideas! Continue reading

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7e7b0895966d9165fb3e97/flea-chic?index=0 Continue reading

My Spring 2011 Etsy color treasury http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7abe998cbd6d91f92d6d3f/i-see-your-true-colors?index=2 Continue reading

My pretty purple Springtime picks for an Etsy treasury http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7ad968fdd66d918165653c/purple-rain?index=1 Continue reading

My Wedding Treasury pick for 2011 on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7b6d33ecb26d91c26e5df8/something-old-something-new?index=0 Continue reading

With Valentines Day approaching I thought I would share some blogging love...... So glad to be back here in my little blogging corner. I decided to jot down a quick blog about...well...blogging. I have come across so many great, beautiful, blissful, lovely, expressive resources and blogs lately that I wanted to share. Women have really found a creative way to bring forth their ideas...really amazing. I want to encourage anyone who has given the idea some thought but not quite sure where to begin. Perhaps this can be a little inspiration. Maybe you already blog and just want new ideas... Continue reading

Cold but beautiful today and I know, know....it is time for me to post again. I have been busy!! Hopefully with a lot to write about.... :) Continue reading

20 Need-to-Know Wedding Planning Tips. Continue reading

A new year and some new planning, cleaning, straightening and a new perspective are in order. :) Continue reading

HAPPY NEW YEAR and a happy start to 2011! :) O.K....my goal for 2010 was to begin this blog, now lets see if I can kick it up a notch and post more frequently for 2011........all the best. :) Continue reading

Welcome to the unofficial opening of my new Etsy shop! Here we are with the holidays again. What a year I can already reflect on and say. I have been able to get some plans and projects off of the ground and for that I am definitely grateful. Also such great transition as to not be minimized....first child with high school graduation and college bound, the sad death of my mother and a world in general that at times seems completely up-side-down in every respect. But....all is good as we never really stop learning, changing and transforming, evolving and on... Continue reading

Growth, trees, fall, seasons, cycles... It's a new day. I think these are exciting, interesting times. I know it doesn't feel like it with all of the uncertainty, (economic and other) but usually some new order does emerge from chaos. I think social media is part of the emerging new order. It really is communication coming of age. (It makes me wonder what people must of first thought of the telephone!) I was recently having a conversation with someone, trying to explain the advantages of Twitter, why I like it, what are the advantages and I just thought...blog it. :)... Continue reading

Blending the old with the new.....vintage and new. Some old, new earrings. Something new made with some things old. Continue reading