Thank you for another incredible year creating and journeying together! I can’t wait to grow together as artists and individuals in 2023! It is such an honor to stand beside you and create this creative life together. We have created a small gift below of gift tags and a poster that perfectly proclaims how my heart feels about the gift of Christ. Please download your free tags and print and share with those you love. Merry Christmas! To download …
Beauty Chaser Christmas Playlist
I usually don’t start listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving but I probably should because it is FULL OF HOPE! I love a lot of the older Christmas music but this year I wanted to put a playlist together for you (and us) that hopefully feels peaceful and you are able to listen throughout the day when you want to be immersed in hope too. Click on the image below or click HERE to get the playlist.
Gift Guide for the Beauty Chasers | Christmas 2021
We are all beauty chasers in one way or another. My friend Timothy Willard often says that, “Beauty Defies Despair”. Do we have our eyes open to that beauty? The beauty that is all around in people, nature, circumstances, love, forgiveness, faith, gathering, the work of our hands, the sound of laughter, the comfort of touch, the gifts of others and a million other moments of beauty that defy despair? We are a small business, I love to purchase …
Paint Splattered Gift Wrapping
Today I wanted to share another gift wrapping idea. This won’t come as a surprise to you but I threw some paint on mine:-) I got the boxes, ribbons, bells and animal ornaments from Target and then with three different paintbrush sizes I splattered white craft paint onto the packages. I think wrapping for our family is almost as much fun as finding the gift. Whatever is easy, affordable and fun is the perfect way to wrap all of …
Christmas Stove Top Potpourri
With simple ingredients (that you most likely already have on hand) you can create an easy and amazing smelling stove top potpourri. Try adding sage, thyme, coriander or other herbs and spices that you love too. Don’t save this idea just for the holidays. Change the scents throughout the year.
Last Days for Holiday Delivery
We have loved wrapping up so many special artisan products from our shop for you! Just a reminder that tomorrow night (December 8th @ 10pm MT) is the last day we can guarantee Christmas delivery. Each item will come beautifully wrapped and ready to give (or keep for yourself). Give the gift of creativity! Give my book, The Painted Art Journal! Shop all of our gallery wrapped canvases HERE Shop our artist supplies + necessities HERE …
Holiday Housewalk 2020 | The Foraged Home
I don’t know where your heart is right now with preparing for the holidays. Does it feel too much, like a burden, are you excited, did you decorate weeks ago, is this time of the year bringing you joy and excitement for a new year? Are you somewhere in-between? Almost our whole family got sick with Covid last month and even though our symptoms were mild it took us weeks to feel back to normal. I was worried that …
Hot Toddy Kits | Easy Gift Giving
We are surrounded by some pretty incredible neighbors but with all of the acreage between our homes, you have to go out of your way to connect and to see one another. That is probably why we are all out here and I would guess that most of us out here like having that privacy. Can you say introverts unite? Each year we put together these hot toddy kits and our neighbors LOVE them! This has now become a …
Eco-Friendly Christmas Wrapping
Wrapping up gifts for those that I love is half of the fun of giving. I love to wrap gifts in vintage French linens but you could also use yardage of any fabric you have on hand or use other vintage linens. Vintage napkins are very generous in size and will be large enough for most small to medium-sized gifts. I wanted to share my sources for the gift wrap materials I use throughout the year. 1. I …
Holiday Shopping Guide 2020 | Support Small Businesses
I have watched with awe and pure respect as so many small business owners have worked harder than ever this year to save, sustain or grow their businesses. Each birthday gift I purchase, teacher we want to thank, or Christmas gift I wrap each year…it is with great intention to try to support another small business in the process. This year this simple act is more important than ever before! I do not want to see a world without the …
Home For The Holidays | Get Your Free Course
One of our most popular online courses is Creatively Made Home | Home for the Holidays. This three-part course is all about the heart of home and how to make the holidays all about the people you love. During this time of year, we usually offer Home For The Holidays at a discount but this year is so different and home means more than ever so… This year we want to give it away for FREE over the next …
Semi-Annual 50% Off Sale | Art + Lifestyle Online Workshops
We only do this twice a year and this will not happen again until Summer! For the next 48 hours we are having our Semi Annual 50% off Online Class Sale! USE CODE: JO50 This is the perfect time to stock up on all of those online classes that you have been dreaming about taking. We have so many courses that are on sale for the first time! Our creative network has some of the most incredible artists around …
Ten Things That Defined This Decade In My Life + Business
1. All of the things that made me weird growing up are now the things that make our life and business. I was the kid making up plays, gathering the neighbors, writing poetry under a tree (no one needs to read those), writing songs, designing clothing and randomly calling the airlines to see how much it would cost to fly to California. Being a creative kid in a small rural town can be hard. Sports were king and …
Gifts For Artists | Give The Gift of Creativity
I love looking for gifts for people I love throughout the year and it is the most fun to share some of our favorite things that we use in our day to day life. I love being surrounded by things that are beautiful and useful. I believe the two can go together and I have gathered some really wonderful gift ideas to give your favorite creative. 1. I don’t know the volume of clothes I have destroyed over …
Hot Toddy Kits | What We Give Our Neighbors at Christmas
We are surrounded by some pretty incredible neighbors but with all of the acreage between our homes, you have to go out of your way to connect and to see one another. That is probably why we are all out here and I would guess that most of us out here like having that privacy. Can you say introverts unite? I also think we are so lucky to have six incredible families that surround us that we get to …
Free Printable Christmas Poster + Gift Tags
Thank you for another incredible year creating and journeying together! 2020 has so much goodness promised already and I can’t wait to grow together as artists and individuals. It is such an honor to stand beside you and create this creative life together. Thank you! We have created a small gift below of gift tags and a poster that perfectly proclaims how my heart feels about the gift of Christ. Please download your free tags and print and share with …
Wrapping Up Your Gifts | French Linen, Feathers, Moroccan Bells and Pine
Wrapping up gifts for those that I love is half of the fun of giving. This year I am wrapping gifts in vintage French linens but you could also use yardage of any fabric you have on hand or use vintage linens. Vintage napkins are very generous in size and will be large enough for most small to medium sized gifts. I wanted to share my sources for the gift wrap materials I used in our latest Holiday …
Shop Our Home | Favorites From Our Holiday Home Tour!
We loved sharing our home dressed up for Christmas and your feedback is always the sweetest. We always get so many questions about our home, how we decorate and how to create a home that looks modern but feels cozy at the same time. I think creating home is a gradual and beautiful process but I think there are some key elements that bring that cozy and modern feeling together. We have gathered some of our favorite things from …
2019 Holiday Housewalk
I have been fortunate enough to be a part of Jen Rizzo’s Holiday Housewalk almost as long as I have been blogging. It is the sweetest honor to be asked again to share our home along with so many incredible design and DIY bloggers! I am an artist, business owner and homeschool mom so I am usually capturing our home with my phone. I dusted off the real camera for this post and I can’t wait to check out …
All Home Online Courses On Sale | Just In Time For The Holidays
Thanksgiving is almost here and for many this is the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. The day after Thanksgiving we go as a family to get our tree and each year the decorations get simpler and the meaning of the holiday becomes more known. We open our home more than every before and we are learning that gathering others is one of the sweetest ways to love others around us. We would like to offer you 40% off …
Guest Basket | Your Guests Will Feel Loved On!
Opening our doors and loving on those in our lives is such a sweet gift. The more I gather the more I learn how important it is and that so many just want to be invited. Invited into community and authentic relationship and the joy that comes from that. The holidays are right around the corner and one thing we do in our home for company is to place a guest basket in the room where they are …
Holiday Housewalk | 2018
Thank you Jen Rizzo for inviting me year after year to be included with some of the most talented men and women I know in your gorgeous holiday housewalk. Thank you for allowing this artist that loves home so much to hang out with all of these design and DIY bloggers that make creating home an art. Guys, I have been a part of Jen’s housewalk since the beginning! That means this is my eighth year! So crazy and fun …
Gift Giving Guide | 2018
Each year I love sharing some of the products that I am loving in my own life and I believe in supporting other small business owners and giving these products as gifts too! This is why it is so important to small business owners like me that when you love our products you share with your friends and family. You sharing is the best thing you can do to bless us. Here are some of the products and small business …
JO Gift Cards and Store Credit Now Available!
If you have not finished your Christmas shopping I PROMISE you will love what we just finished creating! Have I told you how much we love our new site and all we can offer you now? We just finished adding digital gift certificates and store credit to the shop. The store credit can be added right to your account on jeanneoliver.com and you can even email gift cards to your friends and family to use on our site. …
Free Printable Tags + Poster
Thank you for another incredible year creating and journeying together! 2018 has so much goodness promised already and I can’t wait to grow together as artists and individuals. It is such an honor to stand beside you and create this creative life together. Thank you! We have created a small gift below of gift tags and a poster that perfectly proclaims how my heart feels about the gift of Christ. Please download your free tags and print and share with …