Spend golden hour in our garden with me🌻The garden is my happy place. The earthy smell of dirt and herbs, the bright bird song, the soft sunlight that streams in during the summer early evenings, the promise of fresh vegetables as a payoff for hours of tending, all of which brings me peace. On this rainy weekend, we’re reminiscing on this beautiful weather from last week and hoping for more of it as the summer goes on!
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WE’RE HIRING! COME WORK FOR LIFE’S PATINA! In life, we are thrown curve balls and in our renovation of the Life’s Patina Mercantile & Cafe, we feel like we have dodged a whole World Series of them!We have painstakingly stayed the course because we really believe in this project and in adaptive reuse and we are in the final stages of opening our Mercantile space. However, after many stops and starts, we are still on the hunt for some essential Cafe team members in our sprint to home plate. Visit the following link to see and apply to our open roles, including Cafe Chef and Artistic Baker: https://culinaryagents.com/entities/481962-Life%2527s-Patina-Mercantile-and-Cafe
We are all a close knit family at Life’s Patina, as our team members both past and present can attest to. If you want to join a team that puts family first, have a passion for what you do and want to share that with others and you seek to build a career that you have a say in versus “working a job,” we would love to meet you! We have painstakingly designed and renovated a beautiful Grande dame in the Life’s Patina aesthetic to house our Mercantile & Cafe. We are beginning to fill it with our unique treasures which we will be both furnishing it with and offering for sale to create the most peaceful and tranquil backdrop in which our guests can enjoy our artisanal breakfast, lunch, beverage and snack offerings.
Come work with us to create unique offerings in a truly inspirational business with a team of like minded passionate human beings!
We would be forever grateful if you’d pass along these job openings to people in your life who you think would be a fit. Thank you, thank you!
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WE’RE HIRING! ✨As the old saying goes “We plan, God laughs.” We have jumped far too many hurdles over the last three years in the process of painstakingly renovating and restoring the Jenny Lind House, the location for the Life’s Patina Mercantile & Café. Just when we thought we’d cleared the last obstacle before finally opening the doors of this old beauty for all of you to enjoy, another appeared out of nowhere…our Café Chef and Café Manager decided to move on for personal reasons.
If our hard work and sleepless nights related to this project have taught us one thing, it’s the importance of pivoting and persisting when life doesn’t go as planned. With grit and grace, as is the Life’s Patina way, we WILL surmount this stumbling block. What’s one more hurdle when you’ve already leapt hundreds??? We have always been transparent and authentic with all of you about the goings on in our small business and this is no exception. With that, please visit the link in our bio to read about and apply for our open positions and help us pass along the word to friends, family or acquaintances who may be a fit.
Thank you all for your continued support and encouragement. It has buoyed us up when we felt we were drowning in this project, and we are forever grateful!
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The plethora of pillow possibilities is positively perplexing. Wouldn’t you agree? 🤪 While we love our weeklong annual buying trip at @americasmartatl the decision-making fatigue is real! As you can see, the choices are absolutely endless but we pride ourselves on being able to cull through a wide selection of items and curate a unique, creative collection of goods that delights and inspires.
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Join us one last time this year as we open our barn doors tomorrow, Tuesday, December 20 from 1- 7 pm! We have set our tables to welcome you all and give you inspirational ideas for your upcoming holiday gatherings. Shop from our wide assortment of Christmas and winter decor in a variety of color schemes to please everyone’s palette and peruse our collection of one-of-a-kind vintage, home accessories and gifts. Plus, don’t miss our tent sale (located in the barn courtyard) and markdowns on Christmas merchandise.
We hope to see you and wish you a very Merry Christmas before we close our doors for the year!
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THE FORAGED TABLE - TABLESCAPE CLASS TICKETS NOW ON SALE✨ At Life’s Patina, we love entertaining and hosting beautiful, meaningful gatherings to connect with loved ones, especially at this festive time of year! Join us at our farm on Wednesday, December 14th (12-2 pm and 6-8 pm) as we partner with Heritage Gatherings for a master class on crafting a holiday tablescape for this joyous season. Enjoy mulled cider and festive bites as you learn the art of creating a thoughtful, timeless winter table and choose your own adornments, including natural elements, dried florals, live winter greens, vintage touches, velvet ribbon, heirloom pieces and more.
Visit the link in our bio to buy tickets to craft your own intentional design for when you gather your loved ones around the table this season.
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As we wrap up the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we hope you were fortunate enough to spend time with those that you love, whether it be near or far. These times of traditions and gathering together are so incredibly needed in life. Times, though very different today, are not all that far removed from the past where loved ones traveled to gather for the holidays, whatever holidays they took part in. And they were just as relevant as they are today as a time to relax, celebrate and connect.
As we dive deeper into the Holiday season, let us remember to enjoy the hustle and bustle of this time of year. To be fully present in your many to do lists, to romanticize the everyday and to bring festivity to the mundane. Sing along to that Christmas Carol. String lights to bring cheer into cold, dark evenings. Put thought into your gift giving, taking delight in the giving. Watch a cheesy Hallmark movie. Take out the decorations and revel in the cherished memories tied to them. Celebrate instead of getting stuck in the angst.
This Christmas season, we’re grateful to be celebrating yet another season of magic together and we hope you are able to find the magic as well. ✨
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While on life’s journey, it’s easy to become so focused on moving forward and looking ahead at what comes next and what we aim to achieve that we forget to take a moment to pause and look behind us at the beauty that exists there, too. To acknowledge where we’ve come from and all we’ve accomplished - moments that are full of growth, perseverance, grit and yes, beauty.
Yesterday’s hike in Park City, Utah was a beautiful reminder of this. We are visiting our youngest son this weekend and soaking it all in. We hope you enjoy this beautiful weekend!
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Looking back on our Fall Barn this past weekend, we are filled to the brim with gratitude. Whether you traveled all the way from Texas like one couple did or cheered us on from afar on social media, attended for the very first time or have been joining us for years, just browsed or bought a truck load of treasures, THANK YOU! We had the most guests ever come through the barn this weekend. We loved meeting our newbies, catching up with our regulars and even reuniting with past owners of Willowbrook Farm which was a true full circle moment.
What we have created at Life’s Patina was built on a dream, bolstered by friends and family and kept alive by your support, loyalty and encouragement over the years. We couldn’t do this without all of you. Our greatest hope is that you left our farm with a joyful heart, feeling inspired to search for and create beauty in the every day. We hope we’ve succeeded. Until next time…🤍
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BARN OPEN TODAY (Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 am-5 pm) ✨ It’s another beautiful fall day to visit us at Willowbrook Farm! Join us in our two-story bank barn to peruse beautifully and imaginatively displayed home decor accents, seasonal decor and gifts, restored and new furniture, architectural salvage, china and glassware, vintage pieces and more. Plus, enjoy food and creations from amazing local vendors! By shopping with us, you’ll also be supporting our Fall Barn Sale charity partner @valleyforgeparkalliance, furthering their important efforts to maintain, protect and preserve Valley Forge Park and the historical structures built within.
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Our center table is coming together, slowly but surely! It’s oftentimes the very last area we vignette and to be honest, we are still perfecting it, even the night before our Preview Party tomorrow. We know it really makes an impact as it’s the first thing you see when you walk into our barn so we want it to wow and inspire! To see the final product, you’ll just have to visit us during our Fall Barn Sale!
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#fallart #fallvibes
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We’re only two weeks away from welcoming you all back to Willowbrook Farm for our Fall Barn Sale. Over the long days and late nights leading up to our opening, we work tirelessly to create an imaginative, inspirational, joyful and beautiful experience for all of you that amazes and delights time after time.
What do we have in store for our infamous center table that runs down the middle of our barn? You’ll just have to visit us to find out!
✨Friday, September 23 (10 am-5 pm)
✨Saturday, September 24 (10 am-5 pm)
✨Sunday, September 25 (10 am-4 pm)
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August at Willowbrook Farm ✨
What’s growing in our garden:
🌱 Mint, Basil, cilantro, lavender, fennel, oregano, Russian sage and rosemary
🍅 Heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, zucchini and squash
🍉Watermelon, Concord grapes and pears
What’s blooming on our farm:
🌸Rose of Sharon
🌸Echinacea
🌸Bellflower
🌸Butterfly Bush
🌸Black Eyed Susan
🌸Wild Flowers
🌸Hydrangeas
What we’re working on:
✨Preparations for our Fall Barn Sale! We’re a little over a month away from opening our barn doors to reveal a curated collection of vintage and new home decor accents, furnitures, gifts and more. Stay tuned for sneak peeks!
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Before➡️After: stair tower edition!
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This young man celebrated his Birthday today! As our fourth born, Aidan, you quietly yet steadily fill our lives with music. We admire your passion, dedication and persistence to a craft that you love and we couldn’t be more proud of you.
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Peony season is in full swing! The long weekend gave me some extra time to enjoy the gardens on our farm bursting into full bloom and do some work in our vegetable garden. Our old fence was on its last leg so we finally had a new fence put up around it and new raised beds built. We are a little behind this season but now it’s all ready for planting all of our favorites, some of which we’ll be utilizing over at the Cafe and Mercantile!
However you spent this holiday weekend, we hope that you took time to celebrate the beautiful aspects of life and may you even have rested up a bit! And of course, our thanks go out endlessly to all the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
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Happy Earth Day! 🌎 We thank Mother Earth every day for bringing so much beauty and peace into our lives. #lifespatina #earthdayeveryday #earthisbeautiful #protectourplanet #farmliving #springflowers #treelined #floweringtree #floweringtrees #ivy #blueskydays #whatawonderfulworld #beautyintheeveryday
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all! 🍀 May you always strive to see the beauty of the rainbow instead of searching for the pot of gold.
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Sunday gratitude ✨ Today we’re grateful for the extra hour of daylight in the evening and the late winter sunset that so beautifully followed.
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