Journal

Carving Out Memories for a Spooky October

Have you felt it? The shiver on the heels of the morning air? The slow creep of orange and yellow up the hillsides? Here are some of our favorite ways to create spooky (and wholesome) October memories all month long.

October 02, 2020 — Carolyn Carter

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School at Home: Inspiring Creativity and Finding Purpose

For centuries creatives have endeavored to express what leads them to their cause, motivates the effort required and inspires the outcome. Each one relates processes as unique as their work itself. Identifying my unique process of creativity feels as important as identifying my form of art. As a father, having only recently discovered this pursuit, I feel a deep yearning to help my children discover the divine within them much earlier.

September 04, 2020 — Brad Roberts

The Sweet Art of Preserving

Those memories are distinctly sweet to me despite the sticky floors and fruit flies. Home canning is certainly becoming a lost art; one more thing that is becoming resigned to the past. But really this post isn’t really about canning—its about preserving. What in life is worth preserving? I have been thinking about this question for several weeks now and there are a few things that are worth the effort of keeping and preserving for future generations.

August 28, 2020 — Chelsey Newbould

Pizza Nights and Starry Lights

The summer sun has already turned a raspberry shade of orange by the time the guests start arriving. Old friends, neighbors, new loves, with their old friends, neighbors, and new loves in tow. Each bears a favorite pizza topping: prosciutto, pineapple, balsamic, basil, feta, fig spread, jalapeno, honey.

With the changing seasons, we’re constantly trying new variations on these pizza gatherings. Warm summer evenings and crisp fall soirees are the ideal time to host these, so we have created a collection of tools and tips to help make your own pizza nights magical.

August 13, 2020 — Carolyn Carter

Giving Good Gifts: simple ways to add meaning and give well

Truly this is the heart of Heirloom Art Co. The variety of products we carry may seem disconnected but what unites them all is the intent: gifts worth giving. Lest you think our curation simply an aesthetic, I hope to show how we take the art of giving good gifts very seriously and source our product accordingly.

August 07, 2020 — Brad Roberts

Summer Pastimes

I am not sure if it comes from the light that seems to stretch all day, allowing a few minutes of cool respite in the early hours of the morning or the sunset hours of evening. Or perhaps it comes from the heat that shimmers through the mid-afternoon air. With all of that in mind, it’s a perfect time to talk about some of our favorite summer pastimes; things that help us appreciate early and the late hours, things that help us beat the heat, and the simple spontaneous things that make memories.

July 11, 2020 — Chelsey Newbould

Books & Chocolate: a perfect match

Summer is well upon us and we are eagerly reading. Books and chocolate go hand in hand, and it is one of our favorite gifts to give. Something to feed the soul and the stomach. We asked each of our employees to pair their favorite book with a corresponding chocolate for some delightful summer reading.

June 19, 2020 — Heirloom Staff

Fathers at Home at Last

Fatherhood is simply magic. It is transformative in every sense. First off, love is created immediately and abundantly. A baby, your baby, enters the world and suddenly life starts afresh. You assume a role that rocks your world while you rock and bounce a bundle of new love in your arms. Your priorities shift and though you continue to feel an urgent pull to reach your full creative potential and driving ambitions they are fueled and tempered at the same time, in the best sort of way, by a desire to preserve, protect, honor and nurture this new life.

May 21, 2020 — Brad Roberts

Old-Lands: Welsh Conservation, Foraging and Family at its very Finest.

I want to tell you of a place full of wonder I wish the whole world could visit, one human or family at a time. There are certainly times when something feels merely coincidental and there are times when the universe mystically aligns so perfectly that you realize that a Being more loving, creative and capable than you must be in possession of all the cards. Such a time was the serendipitous few days we spent last summer, nestled among history in the border country of Wales in a place called Old-Lands

April 22, 2020 — Brad Roberts

Attributes of Mothers

Mothers are everything to us. This year, and every year, we are influenced our own mothers, the mothering women in our lives, and the attributes that we treasure about them. It is hard to define what makes a mother so inherently good. Personally, I appreciate different things about my mother at different times in my life. It's sort of like looking in a mirror, but of things only seen in hindsight. I see the personal strength of my mother’s choices and actions over the years, as I now face similar challenges. As a result, I admire and crave her wisdom even more, as she continues to mother me in every phase of life, albeit differently than when I was four years old.

April 10, 2020 — Chelsey Newbould

The Gift of Life Stories: J.R.R. Tolkien

To tell a story, whether your own life story or any other type, is to share a piece of you, a part of your world and how you see it. J.R.R. Tolkien did this, sharing stories and an entirely new world, Middle-earth, that have resonated with readers, filmmakers, authors, artists, and fans down through the decades. If you’re familiar with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings but not with their creator, I hope I can share why Tolkien and his works have impacted our world, as well as my own.

October 02, 2019 — Heirloom Art & Co.

Let Good Things Grow: Garden Mornings

I come from a long line of women who knew how to grow things. My mom grew tomatoes on a tiny cement patio wedged between rowhomes in downtown Saint Louis. My grandma grew a raspberry patch that nears legend in the imaginations of her grandchildren.

This summer it was time to take my place.

August 26, 2019 — Carolyn Carter

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