Showing posts with label Tongue-In-Cheek Tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tongue-In-Cheek Tuesday. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SILO HILL FARM: TOTAL COUTURE TUESDAY!

I'm a farm girl.  Haven't always been one.  I was a city girl, growing up just outside Chicago.  I was a mountain girl, living in a log cabin in Montana.  But now, I'm a farm girl, living in rural Missouri.
 I know how to dress up....really I do!  I've even been to a Presidential inaugural ball in Washington D.C..  I once dined with a Saudi Arabian Prince and his entourage (and let me tell you, they really do have an entourage).  But my happiest days are my days here on the farm.  Notice I didn't say my dressiest days!!  The farm girl look is not for everyone, but if you want to "get the look" I'm sharing my secrets today!
 I say goodbye to my fingernails just about this time every spring and I don't see them again until about November, because my hands spend their spring,summer and fall in these...
I cannot overstress the need for a good pair of work gloves in suede!  Have some fun with these and get a pair that has some brightly colored canvas print trim!

I'm old enough to have had a job or two that had dress codes of dresses, skirts and heels...yes, heels.  I've had me some dandy ones too.   Possibly even bordering on hooker heels.  But these days, my shoes are looking more like this...
 Muck shoes are a must for farm girls.  In the winter...Wellingtons are the height of fashion, but right now, it's Mucks because you never know what you might step in and caring for these is simply a matter of hosing them down.  Try that with your Bandolino's.

I love a good purse, really I do.  My everyday purse is a Bagallini, I love them so much I have 2 of them.  They were invented by a stewardess and they can hold everything.  But around the farm, I use this....

 It's custom made and holds tools, first-aid, water, poison, bug spray, a pistol, some chain, rope, and my cell phone.  Try fitting that stuff in your Louis Vuitton handbag. 

Let's talk hair accessories for just a minute.  Most days, it's this....
 It keeps the ticks from falling from the branches into my hair.  It also keeps my scalp from getting fried and my face from getting burned.  Can your headband do that?  Thought not.

But, the quintessential couture for a farm girl would be these....
 Really...pockets for everything you might need as well as some lengthy protection for your legs from snakes, tics and spiders, not to mention a thorn bush or two.  Do not skimp on these girls.  Go straight to your farm supply store and only look at the ones that have either the words "Key" or "Carhartt" on them.  If you go for a cheaper knock-off.....well...people will talk.

Now your going to need a shirt...something long sleeved to protect your arms from scratchy brush, poison ivy and flying wood chips.  I recommend something that really says who you are....
If it happens to match your hat, with accent colors that also are in tune with your gloves...well you're well on your way to that runway look! 
Now, let's talk about accessorizing this great outfit.  After all, our ability to accessorize is what sets us apart from the beasts.  Often, a simple accessory will be all you need to draw the eye to your couture.  Something with a brightly colored handle will be enough on most days...
Sometimes you want to bring out the big guns, something that really makes a statement, with a handle color that matches your gloves....
If "soft and sexy" is your look...then just stick with the basics, something with a classic black handle that's sleek and slim....
When I get all dressed up in farm girl style...my sporty, sexy vehicle of choice is this.....
 You cannot beat a four-wheeler for escaping paparazzi in a flash and believe me when I say...with the farm girl look, you'll certainly be drawing their attention!

So there you have it...Total Couture...Farm Girl Style.  Trust me when I say this is a widely accepted look here in the midwest.  It's not just for the farm either girls, oh no, you'll feel right at home at the local mill, co-op, or farm supply store when you're sporting this all-together look!  When you run into some of your peeps in those places, just flash 'em your sign......they'll know.
Whew....bringing you all up to speed on farm girl couture has made me tired.
I'm not sure I'll have the energy to give you some tips on getting ready for the Cattlemen's Ball.  What?  You didn't get an invitation?  Oh, I'm so sorry....I told you not to wear those knock-off overalls.  Tsk..tsk.        

If you possess the ability to poke a little fun at yourself, write up a post about your everyday outfit, and come back anytime this week and link it up here or at any of the awesome blogs listed below.  If you're not that bold (or value your reputation), just stop back and enjoy reading a few posts from some great bloggers with an awesome sense of humor!

     

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

TONGUE IN CHEEK TUESDAY #3 - JUNK IN OUR TRUNKS

Welcome to Tongue-in-Cheek Tuesday #3, the Junk in Our Trunks edition.
  
It was not hard to choose the "trunk" where I keep my junk.  My house is actually quite clean most of the time...but  my laundry room, (actually since it's just a little hallway that I refer to as "the hall of shame", off of my kitchen, lets call it a laundry area), is where I keep my junk.  Lots of it. For all of the organizational tips the blog world has to offer (and I read a lot of them because I have really good intentions...if you wrote an organizational post, I probably pinned it) really, my laundry area should not look like this:
 Just so you know, I'm not going to edit these pictures, because pic monkey doesn't have an option to enhance this hot mess! Really, unless I'm throwing in a load of clothes, I try hard not to look in this area at all.  But....just for you, those of you with your cute wire baskets with chalkboard labels and drawers with awesome dividers, or neatly itemized bins....I'm going to take you in for a closer look, because maybe you'll give me some more tips to pin.  I need them...heaven knows, I need them. 
Let's talk about this deep-freeze portion of the laundry area for a moment.  First of all...those awesome funky gears on the front, my grandson hasn't played with in a year.  I've promised to mail them to my friend Melissa at Serendipity and Spice, so if you are blog friends with her, tell her you've seen them and they're in a safe place.  And...that funky green flower is the best beer bottle opener in the world...that bottom petal catches the cap because it's magnetic.  But..I'm just trying to distract you with the only awesome things back here..so you won't notice that for some reason, I keep my bread up on top of the deep freeze right along with some disposable pans that I'm saving for some pot-luck emergency.  That top shelf?  Did you notice that top shelf?  Yeah...in between 2 bottles of deadly chemicals is my coffee thermos and my Wilton Cookie Press.  Let's move on.....
Just to the right of my deep freeze is the hot water heater, which is really just a surface to put stuff on because the cute wire hanging shelves above it long ago got filled to the point of overflowing.  You will notice that there was an attempt to organize this area at one time because those matching white plastic baskets hold batteries, light bulbs and some other stuff that I don't know because I need a ladder to see in them.  I do love the way that hose on top of the water heater holds my swiffer dusters...man, you just can't plan that kind of good fortune!
Underneath that deep freeze.....
 Well....I keep my lunch coolers for when we're working at the creek, some extra paper towels, a mop bucket and yes...a pumpkin.  It's a real pumpkin that I harvested last fall and planned to make a Thanksgiving pie with and when i didn't, it was going to be an awesome pumpkin stuffing dish at Christmas, with Gruyere cheese and brioche, but now...well, I don't have a new plan for it yet.  If it molds before I come up with something, I'll toss it...promise.
 As further proof of my good intentions, a friend gave me this awesome chippy shelf and I pinned several ways I wanted to paint it.  I put wheels on the bottom of it so that I could move it around a little.  I never got around to any of the paint treatments I pinned because I immediately loaded it with more junk.  The bottom shelf is where I keep my chandelier lamp shades stacked, while I'm trying to decide what to cover them with.  Surely you can spot them in between the Little Green Machine fluids and the distilled water.  Up on the next shelf some butane, mason jars (I have a plan for those) mulitple bottles of bug spray, a gallon ziploc bag with some potting soil (just in case) and some Heet engine treatment, and here's a bonus....because I didn't know it was there until I just saw this picture....there's a can of Budweiser back in the corner!!  Neither my husband nor I drink Bud, so I have no idea why that's there.  But really, the flammability of just that shelf alone is frightening!  That tiny top shelf holds some vacuum cleaner attachments to a vacuum cleaner I no longer own.
I did not plan for this laundry area to be my junk room...just turned out that way.  When I bought that Bosch Washer and Dryer (the finest piece of German engineering money can buy......no wait, that would be a Mercedes Benz...but the Bosch runs a close second) I planned to have a laundry area worthy of it's presence.  Sooooooo.....stay tuned because a laundry area makeover is on the horizon!  Just as soon as one of you inspires me just enough.   In the meantime.....
Link up your own Junk in My Trunk post below and enjoy reading a few posts from  some of the other awesome bloggers who aren't afraid to poke a little fun at themselves........
 
 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

LET'S MAKE A LITTLE FUN OF OURSELVES

I'm inviting all of my readers to join in a little fun next week.  We're going to be having another Tongue-in-Cheek Tuesday.
The last two were so much fun and so many people expressed interest in joining us, we've decided to invite everyone and turn it into a once a month link party on 5 blogs.  It's all in good fun and it's all about making fun of ourselves!
Here's the back story...... 
 A couple of months ago, Kirby from Kirb Appeal sent me an email and asked me if I would be interested in poking a little fun at myself by joining her, along with Bliss Ranch, for what Bliss called Tongue-in-Cheek Tuesday. There was a theme...
The Christmas Edition
(Why we didn't do a fabulous Christmas Home Tour)
 
It was a lot of fun, so much fun that we did it again in January, with several more awesome bloggers joining in for this theme....

New Years Resolutions...we should have made
 Now we're ready to do another one and this time we're going to dish out some dirt.....our own!  We're going to be sharing where we keep our junk for......


If you want to join in...we'd love to have you.  Just write up a post poking a little fun at your junkiest area and link it up at any of the following blogs on Tuesday,March 12th. (That's a week from today.)
   
We don't really have any rules, like you have to post a button or you have to follow us or any crazy jumping through hoops.  Of course, we'd love it if you did those things, (especially the jumping through hoops...if you do that, include a picture) but really, we don't  take ourselves too seriously on Tongue-in-Cheek Tuesdays!
We hope to see you there....c'mon.....everyone's got a litte
JUNK IN THEIR TRUNKS 
come share yours!