We started the beginning of 2015 at one of the most inspirational places for home decor and gifts, the New York City Home + Lifestyle Market.  There we walked the aisles, meeting new friends and greeting old.  We discovered beautiful wares and must have gift and home decor.

We can’t wait to share more with you as we load up the new products starting this spring!

With a discerning eye for beautiful things, high quality, and inspiration, we are curating the perfect things for you, your home, and gifts you wish to give!

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We discovered Voxer about a year ago. It was introduced to us by a group of friends. It quickly made it’s way into our own friendship and has become an invaluable tool. Here are a couple of quick facts about Voxer:

What is Voxer?

Voxer is like a walkie talkie, but a sophisticated one. With this program you can send voice messages, pictures, as well as texts.

Where can I use Voxer?

You can use Voxer on your phone or desk top. We use it on our phones.Personally we have found huge benefits for using Voxer:

• Voxer basic is free.
• You can have multiple people on one thread.
• You can use Voxer anywhere you have wi fi.
• You are not committed to a full on conversation in the midst of your busy day, but can have an ongoing conversation.
• Messages can be retrieved at any time.
• For more complex thoughts, it’s quicker and easier then a text.
• But, if you want to text, you can.

On one Voxer thread, we have almost 20 of our friends. These friends live all over the United States and one is even in Canada. We are able to share our day to day antics, check in to share a funny story, or a frustrating moment. We have found (especially for moms) who feel isolated some days, that they have a group of girlfriends right at their finger tips in a moment’s notice to chat with. Inevitably someone is around to listen and respond. It’s like a facebook group, but this way we get to hear each other’s voices. Sometimes we laugh with one another, cry with one another, hear a friend sing a song that’s been rolling around in her mind all day long or just throw out an encouraging word. It has brought us together.

We are on another thread with a friend who just moved to Africa. She checks in daily to share what’s going on, how she’s adjusting. Recently she shared pictures of her groceries. It’s keeping her connected to her people here and allowing her to not feel so isolated. It’s allowing us to be able to understand what she’s going through daily and hear her newly adopted, daughters’ voices.

Professionally we have found huge benefits for using Voxer:

• We can send the same message to our team all at once.
• Everyone can weigh in on the conversation and be heard by all.
• We can use this to connect with our international VA (virtual assistant) throughout the day.
• It’s free. We don’t pay for long distance phone calls.
• Because our team is on different time zones, everyone can check in at times that are convenient for them.

One of our virtual assistants moved to Ireland last year. We have barely felt the distance. Not only can we chat with her to hear about her daily life, but with Chris Ann in Minnesota and Kristin in Baltimore and all the different time zones, we are able to all keep business communication rolling. The three of us are juggling 11 children between us, school and sports schedules, work schedules, doctor appointments and daily chores. Voxer has allowed us some flexibility in the way we communicate and stay connected throughout the day.

Two weekends ago Kristin and I were together in Baltimore.  Which makes being apart today, Kristin’s Birthday, somewhat bearable.

Happy Birthday to my bff and biz partner!  Here is to another year filled with JOY and all sorts of good things!

Over that weekend we savored every moment, doing the things we love, sharing dinner with friends, planing and talking over our business and catching up.  Of course in order to run our business we talk everyday on the phone or skype, but nothing beats being together in real life.

Nothing for us is ever too far removed from sharing time together at the table.  We did some of our meetings over tea.

and others over cappuccino.

It was about 5 years ago now over sweet potato fries that we hatched the plan that became our business.  Who knew where we would go after we started taking the steps that would lead us on our LoveFeast journey.

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

LoveFeast Table & LoveFeast Shop is run by us ~ two friends from two different cities who have step by step built our online boutique and lifestyle blog to inspire you to experience a beautiful life.

Looking for inspiration for 2014?  Choose a ~  One Word For The Year

Our LIFE category is where we share a bit more of the behind the scenes of the LoveFeast lifestyle.  You will see a bit into our personal lives here as well as the beauty and inspiration we find along our journey.

This year we started the year going to NYC Gift Fair.  It was there we found these beautiful hand embellished dishes which have become a popular item in LoveFeast Shop.

 NY International Gift Fair

This past summer we packed in all the good things that make summer special.

LoveFeast Instagram Summer Memories

We love to see new things, and taste new foods and of course we love to travel.

 London Weekend ~ Places To See & Be

This is the third part of our Friendship Story. We have been friends for 18 years…there is so much to tell! Just to give you a glimpse, we lived in the same neighborhood while raising out first 7 (Kristin 4, Chris Ann 3) children. We sold both of our homes within a month of each other with Chris Ann’s family moving back to Minnesota and Kristin’sfamily traveling the world. We wanted a way to see each other, so 4 years ago, we started a business together.  

Our Friendship Story ~ Beads

You can read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.  

Where We Gather

There’s other places to find what inspires us!  Here’s where we share behind the scenes ~ our life, our shop and the beauty & inspiration we find all around us on our journey!

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We’d love to know what were your favorite times of 2013 ~ leave a comment and let us know!

Because our business was born with a passion to create beauty inside the home and within daily lives ~ it is impossible for us to not do business considering things that are matters of the heart.  We are, as a woman-owned business thankful to have partnered with another woman-owned business, Plush Pumpkin. When Plush Pumpkin let us know that they were going to give back in a significant way to the National Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation to support breast cancer we agreed to support through every avenue we could, Plush Pumpkin’s contribution.

When you purchase any velvet PINK Plush Pumpkin, our partner, Plush Pumpkin will donate $3 per pumpkin sold, to the National Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.

Each heirloom quality, handcrafted velvet PINK pumpkin is embossed with a ribbon stamp and finished with a natural, organic stem.  LoveFeast Shop carries the full line of the exquisitely hand-made Plush Pumpkin velvet products including these unique PINK velvet pumpkins each hand-stamped with the symbolic ribbon.

Visit LoveFeast Shop to see the full line of Plush Pumpkin Products and visit our special PINK Pumpkin page to view all the PINK pumpkins available to honor our sisters during this month of Breast Cancer Awareness.

PINK velvet pumpkins found in LoveFeast Shop ~ to remember a grandmother, mother, sister or friend during this month.

Are you on Instagram? It’s a fun downloadable app for capturing and sharing photos.  Kristin and I have found it to be a creative and fun outlet for capturing and sharing beauty, memories and inspiration!  On Instagram you can see a bit of our personal moments as well as some shop “behind the scenes” happenings in our LoveFeast Shop.

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Where we share behind the scenes ~ our life, our shop and the beauty & inspiration we find all around us on our journey!

Our summer looked a little like this ~

It was a great summer!  How about you?  What were your favorite summer memories? 

For years we’ve daydreamed about the Shop we’d own and all the fun trips that we would take. We’d dream about poolside meetings and trips to the NY market with weekends spent discovering new finds. Last winter, in a “pinch us” moment, we found ourselves in NY, together with days on end to spend at the NY International Gift Show. We were like kids in a candy store (with sore feet from the miles of walking) with aisles of endless possibility.

We took notes, snapped pictures and lingered with new friends and old. The joy of the discovery, being in the moment and the synergy of two best friends created a weekend to remember.

When we came home and took a look at the weekend through the eyes of our lens, we realized we have a strong aesthetic and are drawn to the same things. I mean, we always knew we had similar taste, but when we took a look objectively at the pieces we were drawn to, it was pretty amazing to discover that our love for pattern, texture and color was woven through our weekend.

We wanted to give you a little taste of the finds we discovered and the beautiful things to come at LoveFeast Shop!

 Found now in LoveFeast Shop ~ Loose Antlers ~ perfect rustic chic accent!

Found now in LoveFeast Shop ~ Ceramic Dishes ~ for artistic place settings!

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Just wanted to give you a little reminder…our Rustic Marquee GIVEAWAY ends tomorrow. We’d love for you to have the chance to win this vintage inspired light. It looks gorgeous anywhere…on a porch, at a wedding, over a bed or just propped up in any space where you need a sparkly reminder that you are loved.

Thank you for joining us at the table this August and celebrating with us as we launched the NEW LoveFeast Shop! We can’t wait to share more fabulous finds with you in September.

Enter HERE to win.