Homemaker Chic

What does it mean to be a PRO homemaker?   What would get you sacked from your job if you were being paid?  You got skills girlfriend!  We're taking a LOOK at homemaking as a profession today!  Today's show is brought to you by Angela's OLD WORLD DESIGN SOCIETY! The Old World Design Society is a place for individuals who cherish the elements of a bygone era. It’s for people who live by...

What we're planting this year!!!  But FIRST, we analyze Shaye's Bjorn Bun and Angela will give her wardrobe advice for being a true shield maiden, and hair style advice to avoid looking like a sumo wrestler.   (Seriously, become a see this hilarity!)  From beet varieties to zucchini.  We're going step by step through our seed orders for our 2021 gardens.   After we laugh. Today's s...

Stale winter house BE GONE!  Angela and Shaye are sharing ten ways to shake off the winter stale in your home and bring it to life even before Spring! Today's show is brought to you by Angela's OLD WORLD DESIGN SOCIETY! The Old World Design Society is a place for individuals who cherish the elements of a bygone era. It’s for people who live by the motto that ‘new is not always better’ and...

January is here and SO is Homemaker Chic!    We're back and ready to CHOOSE.  OUR.  HARD. From crotch snap leotards to cardboard... we're doing it again! Today's show is brought to you by Angela's OLD WORLD DESIGN SOCIETY! The Old World Design Society is a place for individuals who cherish the elements of a bygone era. It’s for people who live by the motto that ‘new is not always b...

January is here and SO is Homemaker Chic!    We're back and ready to CHOOSE.  OUR.  HARD.  How much chaos and frustration do we bring into our homemaking by choosing the WRONG hard?  We're about to tell you all about what it means to "choose your hard" and why it's vital for the art of homemaking. We've also got some (JAZZ HANDS!) BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS so settle in with a glass...

Oh goodness, we're going out with a LAUGH!   Thank you for a wonderful Season Four of Homemaker Chic Podcast.   This one got the best of us to be sure, but we're sticking with it because.... "I don't make resolutions." GET YOUR WINE and PATREON NOW for NEW YEARS! Patreon Love: A massive thank you to our Patrons over on Patreon www.patreon.com/homemakerchicpodcast. Patreon is a...

It's the Monday before Christmas and clothes dryers are broken, bedrooms are messy but the trees are UP and we're still wearing our red lips.   Join Angela and Shaye for some Monday musings as they prep for the big day and wrestle with modern conveniences that won't cooperate with daily to-do lists. GET YOUR WINE and PATREON NOW for NEW YEARS! Patreon Love: A massive thank you to our P...

Better late then never.  What a riot. It's now Friday and we both are butchering and trying to stay warm. Get luxury linens from our friends at American Blossom Linens and save 20% with code TOP20: https://americanblossomlinens.com Clean, CLEAN with Branch Basics! https://branchbasics.com/ Coupon code HOMEMAKERCHIC Décorate your home with French antiques just in from Paris at Everyday Château...

We're connecting after a long weekend, from Italian sparkling wines to how to stop tearing down our own homes, brick by brick.  It's us again and we're glad you're here. Patreon Love: A massive thank you to our Patrons over on Patreon www.patreon.com/homemakerchicpodcast. Patreon is a way that you can show your love for our podcast by contributing $5 or $10/month and in return, we’...

Dang.  This was a fun one.  We covered it ALL and we announced a winner for the queen size sheets! Shaye's musing a modern Renaissance and Angela finally broke down crying about Covid.   Has isolation pushed us towards a heightened state of contribution to humanity?  How long CAN a person sit and consume Netflix?   The mind reels... here we go! THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING! Get your "penny bott...

I guess we can't help ourselves.   Chin hairs?  Faux eyelashes?   Covid and beauty routines?  Why bother?    Here we are again.   Ang confesses to wearing a LOT of mascara (with no apparent shame) and Shaye recalls weaning herself off bleach blond hair. Should we care about our looks?   Why can't we just give other women a break?   Turns out, our toilette, like so much else, turns out to b...

Homemakers-   No one's going to do it for you.  It's got to be you.    Are you looking to skill up?   Learn something new?  Pick up with those piano lessons you gave up after high school?   Polish off those old tap shoes?  In an effort to rescue the art of homemaking from the daily grind we need to take care of our minds, hands, and all our amazing capabilities.   We're dissecting thes...

Wooosh - Thanksgiving is over and we're looking forward to December.   How do we juggle normal, everyday homemaking with the added fun of the Holidays?   How do you make time for the extra activities?  What if you don't even LIKE the extra activities?   Ang is under the weather and Shaye is under the gun with farm chores.  It's time for a catch-up chat while we hash it all out. CUE THE...

We just had to grab Jennifer of the Daily Connoisseur and visit with her again.   Let's face it, we're all sort of struggling as it feels like we're constantly going against the grain.  She shares with us, in a world that's rather chaotic, how manners and class can give us a source of comfort.  Find Jennifer here:  https://jenniferlscott.com/ Any enjoy her Youtube channel here: htt...

Good grief - We've hardly spoken to each other all week it's time to get CAUGHT up with each other and with YOU! You NEED Dry Farms on hand for entertaining!  CUE the wine music! Get your "penny bottle" now by visiting https://www.dryfarmwines.com/homemakerchic This is the part of the podcast where we encourage you to pour a glass of whatever scratches your itch, for us, that means...

We all know someone whose Holidays will be in need of our hospitality and tenderness.  A gentle hand, a listening year, a generous pocket book, a hot meal.... You've heard us mention her before and today we'd like to introduce Audrey and invite her to share her story.   Audrey shares a cup of coffee with us and shares with us her incredible story and how to care for people in our lives who...

Entertaining, that is. JAZZ HANDS friends!  Today we're sharing our top tips for "entertaining" from selecting only one glamorous dish to the call for "all hands on deck!" to straighten up the house.  Entertaining?  It's easy once you get the hang of it, after all, "a cake is made with flour and water". You NEED Dry Farms on hand for entertaining!  CUE the wine musi...

Join us as we dive into a chat about our little smallholdings.   Shaye is celebrating worm castings??? And Ang is bathing in an excess of milk.  Veg harvest, meat harvest, dreaded farm clean up before the snow flies... today's all bovine love and compost girlfriend!   Even if you're not a farmgirl, pop on and learn something new.  Want to support your best homemaker girlfriends? Join us ov...

You guessed it.  Season 4 is all hosting, entertaining, and the holidays.  But let's start with ground zero.  "Hospitality".   It's more than entertaining, it's more than being the hostess with the mostess ... join us as we unpack what we believe is the "art of hospitality".    After you're done laughing at Ang struggling for breath during the Jovial ad - Leave us a...

We're back!   And we're bringing along an inspiring domestic maven today, you all know and love her!  Welcome Farmhouse on Boone's, Lisa Bass!   We're picking her brain on how she came to be the skilled homemaker she is today and how her home and responsibilities have changed over the years. To do: 1.  Leave Homemaker Chic a FIVE STAR review on your favorite podcast platform.    2....

Another season in the BOOKS!   This season we hashed out the "hard things" and some definite overarching themes were discovered.    We'll be on a little break until Season 4 on 11/2.   In the meantime, go check out all your old favorites and grab a glass of Dry Farm Wines! CUE the WINE MUSIC! Get your "penny bottle" now by visiting https://www.dryfarmwines.com/homemakerchic Thi...

Life in the Trenches Part II Dignity? Routine?  Birth Control? Crock Pots?  We're here with you in the trenches.  Maintaining some semblance of sanity while mothering small children is possible, but you're not meant to do it alone.   Your bestie's Shaye and Ang are here.   With ten kids between the two of us, we KNOW life in the trenches and we've got your back. CUE the WINE MUSIC!...

With ten children under 15 between the two of us, we understand life in the trenches.  Today we are skimming the top of the iceberg with laughs, encouragement, and Angela's desperate need for a cough button. THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING! Get your "penny bottle" now by visiting https://www.dryfarmwines.com/homemakerchic This is the part of the podcast where we encourage you to pour a glass o...

High horse?  High ground?  Naw girl... it's high passion that has us chewing over "food" that poses as food, migraines, brain fog, belly aches versus savory nourishment that allows us to LIVE so we can keep rescuing this FINE ART of homemaking. While we may want to believe food intake is a subjective topic... the fact is, we homemakers are, for the most part... IN CHARGE of providing o...

We asked, you answered.   We asked for questions and you blew up the Instagram comments and now YOU asked and we're answering.   Birth and nursing?   Botox?  Budgets?   How we met our spouses?   We did our best to cram as many answers into one episode.   Shaye's got a runny nose and two WHAT???   Tune in to find out. We're still in Season 3 but we WILL be taking a one week break for ou...