Lady Florence

04/27/2024

We love to see the bromance too 🥂

04/18/2024

Swipe to see just a few of the many testimonials we’ve received over the last few years! 🤍 We love reading the feedback we get from our wonderful couples and their family/friends. These kind words fill our cup!

04/07/2024

I remember dangling my fingers along those leafy branches as row after row stretched out before my young eyes. My feet flew to catch up with my daddy’s long striding big boot prints as he left one after another in the soft soil before me. The blue sky sang bright with birds tweet tweeting their greetings and the shade of the treed canopies cooled my hot summer cheeks…..Head to our profile to click through and read my most recent Happy Birthday Dad blog! Happy 72nd Birthday Dad we sure think of you often and miss that smile ❤️❤️❤️

04/03/2024

It’s been a minute since I have shown my face on Instagram and I felt it was time to reintroduce myself and our family. Hi, my name is Amy Christianson and together with my mother Elizabeth and my siblings, Dan, Audrey (Roger), Andrew (Karmen), and Grace we run the Historic Lady Florence.

35 years ago my parents bought the Lady from the original owners, the Anderson’s and with a whole lot of love restored her to her present glory. This year will be our 9th year opening her doors to the public for guests from around the country to gather within her walls and amongst her gardens to make life’s most precious memories the ones only found when you gather for those milestone moments, the ones you look lovingly back on years down the road.

Today, we are starting a new journey of documenting our month to month/week to week happenings at the venue! There will be memories, seasonal thoughts, a few funday posts, and a lot more moments celebrating all the wonderful celebrations that have graced the lady’s doors past, present and into the future.
We welcome you to follow along and if you’re looking for the perfect place to hold your next wedding, shower, reunion or celebration of life we are actively booking for our 2024/2025 seasons.

Cheers,
The Christianson’s

09/01/2023

Fall vintage sale today 9/1-9/2! 9am-2pm daily - lots of furniture, smalls and art. Come shop at the Lady! 24124 Marine Dr. Stanwood, WA 98292

08/29/2023

It’s always been a dream of mine to have our house Lady Florence in the historical houses tour with the Stanwood Stanwood Area Historical Society and this year is the year! Mark your calendars and join us for a tour around the lady’s historic house and grounds. Click the link for below for tickets to the event! - Amy Christianson venue Manager/Owner

Stanwood Historic Homes Tour
Saturday, September 9, 2023
11 am - 4 pm.

This first annual Historic Homes Tour features eight private homes built from 1890 to 1925, including the JP Anderson House. Currently known as Lady Florence. Get your tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanwood-historic-homes-tour-tickets-679650030537?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/29/2023

Cleaning out our barns for a yard sale this Friday and Saturday 9/1-9/2/23 9am-2pm! Stop by and see us- 24124 Marine Dr, Stanwood, Wa 98292

08/29/2023

Impromptu Yard Sale this weekend Friday and Saturday at the Lady Florence! If your looking for furniture all eras and fun vintage finds stop by 9am-2pm both days. More pictures coming soon 😍

04/16/2022

If you’ve missed some of our stories on ig between last weekend and today, I wanted to let everyone know we (.knotty.design and I) have the bug 🐛 🙈What bug you ask? 😉The junking bug!! We had so much fun putting our booth together and selling for two days spring Garage Sale, antiques and more event we decided to sign up for more fun!! Hope to see you at any or all of our next three events - April 29th and 30th (get your tickets now!) in Puyallup, May 7th locally on Camano Island and May 21st in East Stanwood! Follow along on our stories and posts for previews of items coming to our spring shows and flip through our photos here for some views of how our booth turned out last week 😍🤩😍🤩😍 If you haven’t already head over to .knotty.design and follow along for all our restoring, renovating, vintage rescuing, furniture building and lighting adventures! Super excited to see where this takes us 🙌🙌

04/07/2022

We are finally coming out of our winter hibernation just in time for the annual Spring Garage Sale- Antiques and More at the Skagit Valley Fairgrounds!!🌷🌼🌸🌷🌼🌸🌿Come see .knotty.design and us this Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm at booth 25 in Building D for all your springtime essentials 😉😉😎

12/28/2021

Winter coziness has descended on the Lady filled with snowfall, icy expression, calls of the snow goose, contented white doggies, wood fires and the remnants of Christmas 🎄 joy and cookies🤩 and we could not be more thrilled for our quiet season on the farm. Loving the brief contemplative peace that snowy days in the pnw bring to our door. There is nothing quiet like it in our endlessly busy world. Wishing all of our followers near and far a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a blessed New Year!

12/12/2021

So many fun quality vintage and handmade gifts available at our first Holiday pop up shop with .knotty.design Come see us tomorrow starting at 10am and we have decided to stay open throughout this upcoming week from 10am-4pm (until dark) into next weekend. look for the Open sign on Marine Drive- Address 24124 Marine Dr Stanwood, Wa 98292 😍🤩😍🤩

11/19/2021

Our hearts and prayers this past week have been with all those affected by the major flooding in the Skagit Valley, Whatcom county and B.C. Mother Nature is surely showing her muscles in ways we haven’t seen in close to 30+ years. Although it flooded down in the Stillaguamish valley, it was not as bad as previous years and certainly not as bad as our throw back pic this week of the Lady and the original Anderson farm set up. The date is unknown. Fighting the flow of the waterways is a history all unto its own in this area. We surely can thank all those Scandinavians and Dutch settlers for their knowledge of drainage and diking to make farming possible in all of these areas. Farmers have to be experts in many things and when you farm in the valleys of the Pacific Northwest and diking and drainage of fields is close to number one While the fields around our house have not been flooded to this extent in a long long time it gives pause to a time before big powered equipment when all farms and homes in the valleys were at the mercy of the rising waters.

11/03/2021

We are coming off an amazing Halloween 🎃 weekend at the Lady Florence only 3 days late 😉We had the the privilege of hosting an annual Halloween party this past Saturday for 20 close friends. After a few months of planning with it was so fun to see the decor, roaring fires, appetizers, themed drinks and elegantly plated meal all come together on a chilly October 🌟 night! In Natalie’s words, “The Lady Florence hosted our annual Halloween dinner party and hit it out of the park! From someone who is obsessed with the minute details: Amy and her team did not disappoint.” If your looking for a one of a kind special event this holiday season look no further than the Lady Florence! Contact us today to book your intimate gathering 🎉

10/15/2021

Hi my name is Amy Christianson and I with my mom Betsy run the historic Lady Florence wedding venue ❤️

Inspired by Mary & here are 10 things about us

1. We might be a mother/daughter team, but truly it takes our whole family/village pulling together at different moments throughout the year to pull off our many events at the Lady Florence - huge thank you to my siblings Audrey and her husband Roger with, grace and Andrew and his wife Karmen and Dan
2. The only house I have only known is the Lady Florence. Before I could walk I sat in a crib on her porch, when I could run I hauled a paint smeared beloved blankie with me everywhere through her rooms and by the time I had really gained my balance I was out on the roof with my Uncle Dan watching him fix the siding.
3. My mom Betsy got her degrees in K-12 education, German and physical education, but ended up homeschooling all 4.
4. We have 3 dogs all white, all little, all hyper allergenic, but 3 different breeds. Pearl- havenese/Maltese, Luke- Maltese/Poodle and our new girl Jem-Westie 💕
5. Prior to starting the Lady, our family and families family on both sides have always been a mixture of farmers, seed growers, dairymen, nurseryman, and part-time ranchers. Pioneering, working with the land, running the soil between our thumbs runs deep, just as about as deep as our strong scandahovian roots. I was always proud of being a farmers daughter, it’s a special thing to grow up surrounded by the process of watching a seed be planted, see it spring forth out of the ground, pray for rain, scratch the weeds and pray for sun and partake of its full and plentiful harvest.
6. We are a family of artists- My mom is an oil painter, I am the Poet/writer/historian, Audrey is the architect/finish carpenter/potter/printmaker, Andrew is an opera singer/plays guitar, Viola and piano, and Grace is a opera singer/quilter/bread maker. However, there is no limit to learning and experimenting with new art forms in our world!
7. You can tell that we are of Swedish lineage from the spelling of our last name Christianson versus the danish Christensen.
See comment section for the rest!

10/08/2021

Our fall porch sale is going strong! Lots went down the driveway today, but more was added throughout and some special pieces will be added first thing in the morning for tomorrow! Early bird gets the worm 🐛 Sale opens at 8:30am and runs til 4pm - Look for the signs on Marine dr. 2.5 miles out of Stanwood 😍🤩

10/07/2021

Do you ever have one of those fall urges to open all the barns and outbuildings and pull out the treasures you have been storing up for far too long and throw together a porch sale??? No, just us 🤣 Well, your in luck because we are throwing together an impromptu sale starting Tomorrow (Thursday 12pm-6pm Look for the signs on Marine Dr.) because in typical PNW fall fashion it’s projected to rain ☔️ this weekend but sunshine Thursday and Friday. The sale has all kinds of pieces from take home and enjoy to put a little elbow grease in 😉🙃 From flea market vibes to estate sales themes - all types of furniture from all types of times: MCM, Arts and Crafts, Mission, Victorian, farmhouse, and modern. There is a little something for everyone! More pictures to come - follow us in our stories for updates!

10/05/2021

When I was a little girl my Grandma Lucille taught my sister Audrey and I the art of wreath making. She spent the summers in her large English garden on the hill looking out over Port Susan Bay tending to her plants and flowers. She would carefully pick and dry all of her many varieties throughout the spring, summer and fall in preparation for wreath making in the winter months. This fall after a long hot summer our hydrangea blooms have never been more prolific or full of all the beautiful colors. So, I pulled out the clippers and floral wire, mom went picking and these are the first two wreaths now available for pre-order. As I bunched flowers together and wired them into the wreaths, I thought about my grandma Lucille, her green thumb and burning my fingers in her glue pot while making my first wreaths with her sometime in the 90s. If anyone is looking for a autumn wreath the Lady Florence is doing pre-orders on our Hydrangia wreaths 🍂🍁 multiple colors available, each wreath is one of a kind and around 36” wide. If your interested DM us!

09/26/2021

Last Wedding of our high season! Congratulations to Chris & Jennifer 🎊🍾 The September weather was perfection and your afternoon tea themed reception was so lovely 😍

09/17/2021

One day late for Throw Back Thursday, but wanted to share our most recent Blog dedicated to looking back at our 2021 summer and looking forward to Opening our Bookings for 2022! Here is a small sample of the blog: As our 2021 summer wedding and event season comes to a close our hearts are full of gratitude for the chance to see all of our wonderful couples get to celebrate their milestone of marriage in our Lady’s backyard. To see all the smiling faces, laughter, and shouts of congratulation after a very quiet 2020 was a blessing to us, as we are sure it was to them!

We raise our glasses to all of our 2021 couples and send out major blessings to them, their families & friends as they venture onward. May you continue in the Lady Florence’s spirit of making joyful memories, having grand adventures, and living a life filled with manifold moments of contentment in the everyday! Head to the bio for the full blog link ❤️
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09/07/2021

Many of you know we love our little white dogs and have had lots of pups over the years from our momma dog Pearl and daddy dog Luke. Well one of Luke and Pearls daughters has now had her own brood and they are ready to find new homes 🥰😍 Go give a follow/DM for more info!

09/06/2021

The summer has flown by and some how here we are on Labor Day thankful for a day of rest after another busy weekend of beautiful weddings! Both couples envisioned the space in new and elegant ways. It’s always so fun to see how each couple bring their own style and creative vision to make their special day unique and all their own❤️ Only one wedding left to close out our summer season. Hopefully going forward we will start sharing more of our process with you and yours throughout the seasons. Today’s post is a start and sometimes that is the hardest part. Until next time ❤️

07/18/2021

All set up for wedding #3 tomorrow morning!