COUNTRY PORCH
Holiday 2004 Newsletter
Greetings from The Porch!
We bring you tidings of
comfort and joy! The season of blessing is almost upon us.
Soon our town will be blanketed in snow, icicles will glisten from frosty
eves and children will go screeching merrily down hills on their sleds.
Here at The Porch we can’t
wait to really deck the halls! Shortly our store will take
on an enchantment of its own. Country lamps
will cast their warm glow for table
settings in NEW yummy Christmas colors while homey quilts
hang from the banister (we have 265 to choose from!). Customers will
inhale the delectable scents of our many cake
candles and comment on how charming they look in candle pans filled
with fragrant rose
hips.
This year, really
set the stage for festivity no matter what holiday you celebrate.
Freshen your home with pretty Country Porch curtains,
seasonal dishtowels
for giving or for the kitchen, NEW Christmas
napkin rings and warm and comfy rag
rugs.
Make it a wonderful life!
Drop a dollar in the Salvation Army kettle, fill the dreams of a child
or share your blessings with a shelter for women or the homeless.
Catch a star and make it yours.
When they saw the star,
they were overjoyed. – Matthew 2:10
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All-Time Favorites
Moose
Have some fun with this
great north woods look of navy and tan plaid. Small stripes of gold and
red accent stitched moose in hunter green. A favorite for the mountain
lodge look and boy's bedrooms. Moose tiers come in a plaid pattern only.
In keeping with this fun
theme, don a Moose
apron and cook up some moose burger . . . too much fun? Then
just kick back and read Call
of the Wild by the glow of a Moose
lamp shade or accent your table linens with Moose
napkin rings.
Visit our Kitchen
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Allspice
Luscious colors of rich
plaid will welcome you home. All the colors of an English manor house include
deep navy, country red, gold, and tiny stripes of hunter with a touch of
dark warm tan. Add a little holiday sparkle to your table linens with Clarion
Angel napkin rings and a pretty little lamp
to light your way.
Visit our Allspice
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Colonial Star Mustard
Think out of the box and
turn this Americana pattern into a country Christmas theme! It’s
got the look . . . the antique mustard check with jewel tone stars of blue,
the colors of a country Christmas. Add a little shimmer to your holiday
table with antique napkin rings
and a twinkle with an old-fashioned oil
lamp.
Visit our Christmas
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Christmas All-Time Favorites
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Holiday March
Santa Claus is coming to
town! An enchanted Santa is on his Holiday March with whimsical friends
in tow. Country colors of federal blue, moss, mustard and brick with
cranberry accents make this pattern absolutely endearing! Capture
your napkins in delightful napkin
rings of antique Christmas tree, antique Wreath or matching wooden
rings.
Visit our Christmas
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Christmas Ticking
It’s a wonderful life!
Really deck the halls this holiday season with a primitive table
setting in Christmas Ticking. Muted Christmas colors of country red
and hunter on an aged-tan background are bordered with tiny fir trees all
in a row. Add a little shimmer with antiqued
Fir Tree napkin rings or a sweet little Pinecone
lamp to light your way.
Visit our Christmas
Decorating Themes page for more ideas. |
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Ribbon Candy
Over the river and through
the woods . . . ! Remember Grandmother’s house and that magical candy
dish filled with ribbon candy? Bring back those precious memories
with table settings in the Ribbon Candy design of traditional hunter and
Christmas red on a soft white background.
Add a little shimmer to your
holiday table with pewter
Snowflake napkin rings, a square
lantern lamp to catch the twinkle and an Apple Cinnamon cake
candle to delight the senses.
Visit our Christmas
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Holiday
Quilt of the Season |
Chenille Star Quilt
Lovely 8-pointed stars of
antique red and strawberry vines on sage make a bold statement on a background
of soft white tone-on-tone prints. Sprays of 18th century florals border
this country quilt. Compliment your Chenille Star quilt with mix and match
pillow shams and quilted pillows.
Visit our homepage
and check out Patchmagic
and Victorian
Heart quilts under Featured Products for more decorating ideas. |
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Recipes
We made this yummy recipe
and all of us fairly licked the platter clean! For a special gift,
bake one for your neighbor wrapped warm in a pretty dishtowel.
From The Taste
of Autumn by Gooseberry Patch.
Apple Cinnamon Loaves
4 eggs, beaten
1 c oil
3 c sugar
2 c apple, cored, peeled
and grated
3 1/2 c all purpose flour
1 t baking soda
1 T cinnamon
1 t salt
3/4 c water
1 t vanilla
Mix eggs, oil, sugar and
apples together, set aside. Combine flour,
baking soda, cinnamon and
salt, mix into apple mixture, alternately
with water. Add vanilla,
blend until smooth. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5 loaf pans,
filling 1/2 to 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour and 15 minutes.
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Holiday
Candle Club
Dan, our Fed Ex man delivers
lots of goodies to the shop, but none more delightful than our newest shipment
of cake candles. Every candle we unwrapped was better than the last
. . . every scent yummy and every shade divine.
We love Snickerdoodle, but
then there was Cranberry Cake and Banana Nut Bread, and oh yes, what about
Pumpkin Spice . . . we just couldn’t decide. Did you know our cake
candles burn 90-92 hours?
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NEW! Holiday Gift Ideas
from the Porch
Our customers are making
pretty Christmas pillows simply by sewing two of our patterned Christmas
dishtowels into a pillow. Pillow forms are readily available
in just the right size from your local discount store. Some are even
making gift and hand bags from our dishtowels! How inexpensive is
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| It was so good to visit
with you and we thank you for your business! Since one fourth of
you are repeat customers, we’ve come to know you by name. Our creative
energy is, as always, in overdrive and we’re all on a mission . . . to
bring you the very BEST of everything that we and the shop have to offer.
New and exciting patterns
are arriving daily, so visit often, anytime. We’re always OPEN on-line.
Or call us at our toll free number @ 1-866-664-9182 and chat; we’d love
to hear how you transformed your home with decorating themes from The Country
Porch!
Our shop hours are 10:00
am to 4:00 pm Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
From our house to yours,
we wish you peace and blessings!
But for me and my household,
we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15
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