Southern Living Magazine - BOGO Year FREE!

Southern Living is one of my favorite magazines  - great recipes, home decorating tips, gardening ideas and lots of Southern goodness delivered to my Midwest doorstep every month. 

Now through the end of September, you can order a two-year subscription for the price of one year - just $20 for two years! That's like getting your second year FREE!

It's easy to place your order - just send me an email to amyschehl@yahoo.com with Southern Living BOGO in the subject and I'll reply with details on how to place your order!

Willow House Making News

Came across this article about Willow House today in a direct sales publication and found it interesting.

http://www.imakenews.com/dsaweekly/e_article001867119.cfm?x=bhmbj9k,bg2PVClR

French Wire Tiered Stand

I added the French Wire Tiered Stand ($51.96) to our kitchen table this week and am loving the antique style and versatile function it is adding to the room right now. Courtesy of Willow House, here are ten more ideas for using this customizable stand in your home:

1.Separate all three tiers (they come apart super quick) and use them as serving trays for snacks on family movie night, or use them to accent serving dishes for special occasion meals on Easter, Passover or Thanksgiving.

2. Create a stand that coordinates with your color palette by looping ribbon around the loops of the stand or by tying a bow onto the top loop.

3. When used with a liner, our stand makes a fantastic fruit display – and, since it’s customizable, you can use it with one, two or three tiers depending on how much fruit you have on hand.

4. Flip any tier upside-down to create a riser for a stack of plates or linens. (Tiers are not designed to support weight when used upside-down, so be careful not to overload them.

5. At tea time, use the small tier with its handle as an elegant way to display teabags.

6. Tie small labels onto the tiers using pretty ribbon to help guests identify their favorite items on a buffet.

7. Tiers are spaced far apart so you can use the stand as a spice AND condiment caddy – store everything from a mason jar to a honey bear to a small bottle of olive oil on the lower tier.

8. Design an easy holiday display by grouping seasonal treats and color-coordinated accents on the tiers.

9. Creating a cupcake tier has never been easier – just bake them in pretty wrappers and stack them on the tray! (Try this with muffins, too!)

10. Add height, interest and easy servability to a buffet by adding linens, flatware or small serving bowls to the stand. Or add it to the center of a circular table as a sculptural element. 

Making the Neighbors Jealous, Part 1

We all want the cutest/prettiest house on the block. Am I right? Well, my budget doesn't allow for a complete remodel right now. So I'm always looking for inexpensive and EASY ways to spruce it up around here. One easy way is making your front door look like a million bucks.

Enter the Flower Market Door Bucket. This friend goes from season to season and makes your entryway look put-together, even when what lies behind that door may be utter chaos.

Here's a step-by-step of how I dressed my Bucket up for Fall.

1. Gather supplies. This could be clippings or twigs from your own yard, live flowers from Kroger or picks from Hobby Lobby. You'll also need some florist's foam to make sure everything stays put.

2. Start shoving it in. I have zero skills when it comes to floral arranging so I just jam stuff into the foam until I think it looks full and balanced. There's no one right way to do this, people.

3. Straighten things up. Make sure it is not lopsided (unless that's the look you're going for). Now get ready to hang this 5-minute masterpiece on the door.

4. Hang on door. I told you this was SIMPLE.

5. Sit back and watch the cars drive real slow as they take in the fall beauty you and the Flower Market Door Bucket have bestowed on them. 

Another smart tip: The Flower Market Door Bucket is $39.96 ... meaning when you purchase yours, you qualify to select any other item $40 and under for 50% off. Now wasn't that easy?

Addicted to Magazines!

Those of you who know me are aware of my magazine addiction. I have this weird phobia that I will finish reading a magazine before a new one arrives in the mail…therefore I subscribe to a handful of publications so there is always a new one waiting. And they can be any kind of magazine – shelter, women’s, parenting, gossip rags, you name it I’ll read it…ask my mom, she used to put a new People magazine in my Christmas stocking each year!

These are my top reads:

• Real Simple

• Entertainment Weekly

• Southern Living
• Country Living
• Parenting School Years
• Family Fun

I’m so excited that Willow House offers magazine subscriptions and gift subscriptions…you know what this means…even more goodies for the mailman to deliver each month!

Through my Willow House business, you can subscribe to these publications:

• All You
• Coastal Living
• Cooking Light
• Health
• Real Simple
• Southern Living
• Martha Stewart Living
• Everyday Food
• Sports Illustrated
• Golf Magazine

I think the best deal in the bunch is All You. 

If you’re not familiar with All You, it is a Family Circle/Ladies’ Home Journal type magazine with the typical money/food/clothes/kids articles but with one catch…it is chock full of coupons! And good ones too! I am a big coupon clipper and I love getting All You because it’s full of coupons you can’t get in the Sunday paper and for a lot of the brands I already buy.

So for a $10 subscription, you get something fun in the mail AND money-saving coupons with each issue! Can’t beat that! And magazines count toward Willow House's Customer Reward Offers - minimum purchase of $39.96 and pick any item under $40 for 50% off.

Great gifts for others - or yourself! 

Delivery for Amy!

My Willow House kit arrived yesterday! I was ready to rip it open and dig out a catalog. Can you believe I signed up as a Design Consultant and had never seen a catalog in "real-life?" I mean who makes a decision like this based on a cute logo and a PDF? Ummm...that would be me.

Even Miki was excited.

See. The catalog just makes me smile.

So, my $99 kit included:

All said, the kit is valued at $335 not including paperwork/catalogs.

The catalog is stunning. I have flipped through it so many times online and now with the hard copy and keep discovering something new on every spread. It is more of an inspiration guide for decor/design than I expected. Lots of great ideas that are easy to duplicate in your own home.

I can't wait to see all of the kit products in my house...off to play! Will post more pics soon! In the meanwhile, find me on Facebook at Willow House with Amy Schehl.