Still loving everything we do here …

Still more than satisfied with our style …

When you're happy with your own creations …

It's a great feeling!

Well, Rugged Country Collections was a little bit neglected this past 2014. So much went on with family this past year and little attention was able to be directed to something that I truly was passionate about. 

As I look back, I wonder how that could happen. How did everything get so far removed from me? It took ministering, sharing much with Trunk Treasures/Teaching Moments with Izzy Herriette & Co and then nearly half of the year spent on family who encountered illness; including myself.

As you know, we don't believe in "illness, sickness or disease and malady". We believe in the Cross of Jesus Christ that stand as our deliverance from all such evils. (Is 53)

So, we are headed into 2015 with great hope, faith and love; first for the Father who took such awesome care of us in 2014, second for keeping His promises to us and third but not last, for being so close to us as we walked daily through the past year. 

Everything we experience, as we cling to Him, becomes a "rose" of sweet smell and beauty. It is our lives unfolding before us. 

How we SEE it all … depends upon our faith and trust in Him and His Word. 

Here's to your great 2015!

All our love!

Izzy Herriette & Co 

Rugged Country Collections

More displays of Rugged Country Joey Buoy Booklets ...

Our Rugged Country Pampered Heart

with 

Joey Buey Booklet/Prophetic for the Persecuted Church 

Displayed in a glass apothecary vase allows you to view 

it daily and offer up your prayers for

the Persecuted Church of today

every time you walk past it. 

No matter how you display it

it's the contents of the booklet

that matter most. 

Under glass, in glass, in a basket ...

Done in cloth or in paper tags

"vintage" is Rugged Country Exclusive Design!

Place your orders here:

http://www.izzyherriette.com/#!product/prd1/512090781/rugged-country-joey-buoy-book-%26-pampered-heart 

Playspaces/Workplaces ...

I consider myself to be VERY BLESSED!

Some grow weary of their workplaces, I know ...

At "rugged country" however ...

We don't have that issue!

My space came out of years of "yearning" for a very CERTAIN type of ATMOSPHERE ...

One that is antiquated, filled with FUN ...

Built around places I visited as a child ...

Old stores with hardwood floors, antique looking display cases ...

You get the pICTURE ...

Today, I absolutely DELIGHT in my spaces ...

Ones created from years of collecting exactly those SELECT PIECES that make up the entire MOOD!

I am HAPPY!

ICY MORNING IN TULSA / EVERYTHING LOOKING LIKE CRYSTAL ...

Old sweaters, muslin, old shirts, twine, buttons, needs and thread ...

So completely head over heels for how this grouping turned out for me this year. I made the stocking last year and added pillows and stuffed hearts this year. Rich, thick, heavy and just a little QUIRKY and I am very pleased!!

Can't leave out the RESTROOM when you're doing CHRISTMAS.

Specially made for that special spot in the house ...

Photos don't capture the way these stuffed hearts actually turned out. They're so PRETTY and FUN, if I do say so myself.

My large, large, extremely large candle stand that I've had for well over ten years now, adds that "rustic" look, with the fluted heavy glass and the RUST stand. Fill with homemade bars of soap, tags, roping, and a few Christmas balls (Dollar Tree) and I'm feeling right at home - RUGGED!

This metal piece is another I purchased from River City, several years ago.

Just hanging this NEW heart over the edge of that metal and ...

It's looking a little like CHRISTMAS.

(Muslin strip of fabric - plain - makes a beautiful wrap-around-bow for that tall glass candle holder.)

Getting closer and closer to being "rugged country christmas" READY!

I am so excited about this beautiful accident that happened, when in search of buttons for this stocking, I came across these rusted turquoise. What an ADD for color boost. Love it.

Pulled out these ornaments that I bought at an after-Christmas-sale last year and had tucked away in one of the buffets. The gold creates such depth of beauty!!

A top-looking-down upon all the STUFF on my coffee table, where you just saw the antique dolls positions in the forefront. I literally have more Christmas ornaments in these cheese keepers than anywhere else in the house.

Another of those "tucked-away-wiating-to-be-used-for-the-first-time 2012 Christmas balls.

These ... oh, these!! What a new addition to our collection. I found these last year-after-Christmas as well. These ornaments measure only about and inch in diameter. They came in a six inch plastic Christmas tree - loaded. I was SHOKED at how many balls I continued to reach for and pull out of that small package. These bring such a rich, dark glow, along with the reds and bright green we've added this year. Yes, the green ribbon was also a sale from last year.

More of those small, glitter balls that pack a big SPARKLE!

Red and silver with gold. I only got five of these balls. They measure four and five inches, so I placed them over the large window in the living space.

This is our TRUNK TREASURE / TEACHING MOMENTS WITH IZZY HERRIETTE & CO, corner table, spruced up for the holiday!

All decorated with things we had stored away in the garage for a few years.

For several years, I bought so much from that little antique / thrift market The River Walk, in Jenks, OK, that I had to STOP and I have enough STOCK now to go on for an eternity. I used to pick up all manner of gift cards marked down, whenever I would see them and just started a real collection of them. Most of my purchases have been sales and I also bought so much from Dollar Tree, back in the day.

It's so EASY to come up with simple, little FILLERS too, creating those little extra EYE-GRABBERS with small fabric CREATES.

I bought these buckets at the River Walk. There were about ten of them for $1.00 a piece. I couldn't pass them up!

AND ... I bought an entire plastic TUB of antique Christmas, glass balls ... for $5.00 for the entire TUB. All colors and sizes. I have enjoyed every single one of them, as I leave them strewn around the house, all year round.