You know what would look lovely on the finials is if you matched the painted pattern of the feet of the piece by painting that pattern onto the nut and washer. I think it would make the shell just look magnificent with those colors at its base!
Thank you Gail! That sounds like fun. It’s interesting that you spoke of that idea. There may have been a time that I would have appreciated this nuts as for their incredibly elegant shape and I would have painted them to not distract but to complete the circus. By suggesting that idea, I realized how much I have changed since living in this old ship with all the old ship repairs stacked everywhere Round is. I have begun loving this rusty old industry as if it is gold to me. I am fascinated by it, and juxtaposing it against the refinements of our earlier works, thecfactcthstvitvjoltscthe harmony and challenges the scenes, thrills me. I guess we were always like this -loving the unexpected. But now that MacKenzie-Childs IS THE EXPECTED, it makes us want to keep exploring the shocking beauty of all the dimensions of nature, industry, and art -to look for and love, without too much precondition, simply what is round us even in shocking discord with the now accepted “tradition” of MacKenzie-Childs. So, I know you weren’t thinking of it like this, but I am so very grateful for your comment, simply because you have jolted my conscious thought to align with my subconscious attraction, natural attraction to what moves me to where I have not been. I was thrilled with the unpolished old, weathered boys, in direct opposition to the Rococo Copper drawer pulls, to the smooth bubbly whimsy of the bull is Majolica feet, to the earthy rattan, to the look and feel of a hand made cotton stuffed mattress, to the surprise of the seaman’s charts lining the sm drawers showing precisely where we have landed, and finally, to the awkward, charm of a setter, which transcends to an Elizabethan bed, complete with towel rails, and pillow/blanket /linen drawers for the whole dream of a night in an imagination never yet seen, ever! Bon Nuit. So Gratefully to you CS Gail. Thank you for helping me to finish this leg of our voyage.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 of course. It is nice to appreciate things just for what they are and the contrast is nice. How you change and find beauty and joy that is important. I think what drew me to your earlier work was color, but I also like the beauty of worn and loved items. I prefer an old rusted bucket or chipped enamel over a shiny new one. It almost tells a story of how it once lived😊. I think that is what makes Yankee so beautiful over a new shiny speedboat😊
Dear Joyce, thank you. It is very important to recognize the author of invention. And now that you have, you and I can, together, turn to our created, our overflowing souse, and praise Dear FatherMother, God. For when we give all gratitude to Him, we are free of all burdens of a false, materially based ego, and the works may continually flow in endless liberation from the mortal dream, to embrace the grace from which a ll good flows. Thank you, again, Joyce, as now we are both free to forever bliss! Ahoy, Victoria
Such a beautiful mind you have. So pure and the ability to see the gifts we have been given and overlook in a busy world. May a piece of your gift be in all of us. Thank you.
Hi Victoria, I adore your videos and all your amazing talent ! I love watching and I learn from you too❣️ Stay safe my friend and God bless you❣️❤️Thank you to share your wonderful fun amazing videos & talents & charts of the sea! ❣️The shell finials are amazing ❣️Happy Summer ❤️
Yes,, And I am so grateful these very important portent works will be cherished, as we live a harder life and they will be cared for better by a real collector of ourceorks
Good evening Victoria, I love your videos. Your signed pieces are true works of art. One of a kind pieces are special. They're handmade with love and come from the heart. Hugs to you.❤
Liz, that was a funny sensation. I read your sweet comment the wrong way at first, that it’s good to see me doing what I do best, love the sofa! I thought you thought I liked to be a couch potatoes!😁. I giggled so hard. Thanks for making me so silly. The reason it is so funny is that I nearly Znever Sid down and enjoy just sitting. So I got a kick out of the satire imagery in my thought,
Your little hands and your creative mind have have brought forth so much enchanting beauty into all your work. It’s love. Pure dee🥰 I love your and Richards signature on it’s left end. Perfect. Tons of love. Zeta
Ahoy, my Tra LaLa! I love to sing your name. Oh, but it is not your name? ‘Tis Zeta? Well Zeta is the symbol at the end! Haha! And thank you for acknowledging the love. That is the substance of things not seen
Hi Kristin! So good to hear from you. I especially liked the discovery of the finials. They just built themselves as I was fetching the parts like an obedient child. God is truly the creator. Not one thing left without its full needs met!
Your work makes me so happy; I am a long time collector of Mackenzie Childs after seeing you on a designer's tv show. I so loved the colors and the whimsy. You and your husband a the most creative designers and bring such pleasure to so many people, including me!
Oh, my sweet Californian connection! I miss the old California I knew as a child. Please keep it pure, wholesome and hearty! Thank you for your supportive comment!
Aww, Victoria, the symbolism just goes on and on….. Yankee, charts of the seas, seashells, and at 0:50 a rainbow hovering over Yankee as if God is hugging all of you on board, just as you said that by releasing your beautiful creation, that has had your love and attention lavished on it, is like sending a hug out to someone else ! 🌈. “ Send forth your bread upon the waters, for in the multitude of days you will find it “. Ecclesiastes 11:1. Before you send out your hug, God is putting His loving arms around you ❣️.
Christina! You SHOCK me! EVERY time you have the PERFECT citation from the Bible to Spirit the thought like a sword of glory! Honestly, you write as an ancient scribe. The words fall off your feather tip like inflated diamond trails leading, always upward! How ever can we thank you? I hope everyone reads your prose and poetry. And I can tell, you do not struggle over it. It follows the notes of your heart strings!
Nice to see you , Lynn! I really appreciate the little confidence you sent. It is hard to know what folks think unless they take a sweet moment to communicate. I so love hearing from you
Wonderful and precious are His provisions for us. How wonderful to view from afar, through the thought process and placement of the shell finials. They are presently perfect. I love that thistles were original and first consideration. I have adored thistles since I was a child. My mother loved them. I think they are whimsical and wonderful, and I am always drawn to them. Now, my daughter loves them. She has a sweet little business named Thistle Cottage Home, where she hand cuts silhouettes of children, parents, and pets. What a joy and surprise to be blessed with a Richard sighting today! I just know the new owners of the P and G Settee will be thrilled with the ‘finial’ results. I’m thrilled to have joined in on Patreon. Sending love and hugs from Tennessee, Kathy
Kathy! Oh, thank you for joining Patreon! I am so happy and glad and grateful! I just can’t get over how, with only a little from each grateful soul, the promise of many shall provide for the continued work here. It feels so like a God-made design of provision. It reminds me of the Bible story in ll Kings 4: 1-7 where Elisha instructed the woman who’s husband had died and there was a debt so her two sons were to be taken as bondsmen to pay the debt but she obeyed Elisha who told her to have her sons go and borrow lots of vessels from all her neighbors. She had only a pot of oil. (Oil translates in Greek as inspiration). She slowed the door of her house (I think that means to shut out any doubting opinions) and just kept filling the vessels and filling and filling Even after they were all filled she had more oil. He then told her to sell all the oil, and to pay her debt and to live happily with her sons off the rest, forever. I loved your thistle story, and your daughters gifts. I am so inspired by knowing you this little bit more. Oh, how I hope to learn more and more. Thank you ever so much. And I am glad that the shells and nuts and washers were therein our new environ to meet the need. They aren’t thistles but they ARE sea shells! And they are happy little stand-ins😁
I'm new to your channel and I love it! I was sent by My Little Blue Fly. Thank God for you, I love your whimsy decor, I always wondered who Mackenzie Childs was and now I know and I love everything about your art!
Dear Donna! I am so pleased to meet you. Thank you for telling me from whence you hail … the little Blue Fly. I know we think of each other often but for some reason, have let our lives get in our way. So I rarely hear from Bev. However my gratitude goes to her, evermore!
Kimberly, I’m so glad you are here with me. What you watch … it is all in honor of you. I try my best to get to the core of our being and to find our oneness and our infinite individuality! It is like opening a jewel box
Chère Victoria vous avez donné une deuxième vie à ce canapé lit il est original ce qui fait son charme le matelas à l’air très confortable on voit que c’est de la bonne qualité bon maintenant il ne reste plus qu’à l’étrenner😅❤❤❤
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Love your joyful videos. My son is moving out there in September so there is a visit out there in my future. Hope to meet you in person some day! :) Love Sufi
Love watching your ingenuity and creativity at work. Love the finials! When I give or sell my creations, I don't feel loss, either. Just putting a little bit of myself out into the universe for someone to, hopefully, enjoy!
Hi John! Oh, I loved hearing how you think about your works. I must look you up! And, yes, it is a joy to see joy being spread by these symbols of soul, in deed.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Actually, it's Melissa. I'm not famous, just a local craftsperson. But I love creating items from used materials. You have been an inspiration since I first saw your work years ago. My John is an interior designer and inventor who has always created lovely places for me to live and create in.
Victoria- I so enjoyed watching you create and recreate this piece. It was all clearly done with love knowing that it was just "visiting" you on Yankee for awhile. Do you think that you could ever do a video showing you actually painting one of the iconic landscapes of Cayuga Lake? That would be so interesting! I hope you consider it. By the way- I loved the pulls you decided to use. It is the unexpectedness that make it so special! My best to you, Richard and crew. Uncle Robert.
Uncle ROBERT! Guess what, this morning I was making a Cloud Cake for the crew, plus zFelix, who just flew in last night and shall be in and out for the summer. Anyway, whilst I was making the breakfast, Felix came right into the picture without knowing it and was so shocked to see the scene on the beautiful little MacLachlan Dish you so lovingly sent to us. I somehow, don’t think Felix had ever seen the dish. But he was drawn into it as if he was shrinking right to size. He felt like he was wandering round in our kitchen at “Home Again”. It was darling, and we got it on video, because he came in and didn’t know I was making the Cloud Cake on video! You will see it, I hope. And I shall try to answer all your questions in your wonderful letter, eh? Ps, I agree about the handles. I had seen them flashing by whilst always in search of a this orca that. When we needed plucks, they flashed right into thought, immediately. I didn’t even know how many we had. It was just “meant to be,”I am sure. And they looked like the devil! Richard polished them up and they looked even more glorious than I had ever seen them.
What an adventure to watch creative minds at work! Just one thing about the shells -- is there any chance of eye injury with the tips? I always think that way having been in retail and in the food business and always wanting to be 'covered'. So awesome to see you in the furniture design mode....God gives us no lack of creativity no matter what the world tries to control of it! P.S. Did you get my little package with the Rooibos yet? I didn't get a tracking # but it was a few weeks ago.
I DiD ! And your beautiful NOTE! I feel so bad, I hadn’t yet responded! And your beautiful note to me! Oh, and now I am even GLAD, because you reminded me that I hadn’t written back. I am making pies today, and they shall be laces this lovely earthy traces of your precious packets! I , admittedly, have become quite overcome with heavy weights of responsibility for yankee and crew of late. There is a big change coming to us almost presently. Everything has fallen every which way. I feel like I am constantly running to catch another falling object! Here is one lovely gift I can save and savor and KNOW, FINALY, that the gift knows how much I appreciate her! Thank you so much for your touch! Soon I hope to tell you all of what is going on. I know all is “falling” into place with God’s grace, as usual. Ever gratefully, Victoria Ps, I think the shells will not be a problem, as they are held into place with a coated wire and so would tip rather than jab I’d pressured. Also, the seating is very deep and the shells are above the head. Of course it is not a climbing frame for children, and one would hope a parent would have raised up their child to know to be respectful and know the difference between the playground and the parlor. But your comment gives me pause. I do think it is unusual, and pray … prayer is so much more effective as a preventative than people know. … that Divine wisdom animates us, and our children, and Divine Love armors us in His protective care. I shall think harder each time from here on out that an idea is useful AND harmless! Thank you for your kind care. Thank you for your lovely gifts! I shall think of you today, on pie day!
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Love you so much in Christ. I'm praying or four couples in particular and you are one. I'm excited to hear what the Lord is doing in your life!!! Another couple we're praying for has just had a big new adventure as well! Pray for us too please; it looks like we also are needing some wisdom! And am glad about the shells being 'bendable' if touched with any pressure! And will continue to pray. Blessings to both of you wonderful people.
How precious, your last note! I have been discovering something about prayer which has really opened my eyes. Often people pray to God to ask for something or to change something, or to help us. But in discovering more about God, I am realizing that God is the AllKnowing, all Wise, omnipotent, light, and that we are His rays. So we don’t need to ask God for more than He has already been, designed, perfected, just because God IS ALL OF THAT AND MORE. Why would we ask for more than we are accepting, already. It has been helping me, not to ask God! But rather to ask myself! To pray to myself, if you will. That sounds strange but really what needs to change, or adjust, or be known is all of what I just said, and it is we whom need to be quieted in prayer to be still and to know we have never been separated from God, even for a split second … as a ray of light can NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM THE SUN. So I pray with myself to trust, to know that God’s plan is complete, that His love for his creation is fulfilled and that I must accept and trust His holy plan and His perfect provision for all of His perfect rays of light. we shine because God shines, we reflect God. Jesus said, “can of mine own self do NOTHING.” I love that because it doesn’t mean he needs help to do something with God’s help, but that he can DO NOTHING, because God is ALL, the earth is as heaven, “as in Heaven, So, on EARTH,”. … God is omnipotent, supreme! Magen I realize God has given me everything, I simply need to accept it,,watch for it, and CC WAIT on Gods. I have really felt the comforter right here in every moment, never doubting.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 The Comforter. Such a perfect name. In fact, Jesus, it says, could not do 'many mighty miracles' in one town because of 'their unbelief'. Our faith, His power!!!
Hey Victoria!! I love this video!! my daugter and I are big fans and we follow your posts religiously. I just bought just bought a prototype of one of your old rattan canopy beds for my daughter. The person I bought it from used to be a carpenter at Mackenzie- Childs and he lives in a beautiful victorian house on Seneca lake. He said that the bed was one of 2 that were made in the lighter blonde color. I would like to stain it darker but I am nervous to ruin it. Any advice wise one? Love, channel mammals in Manlius Ny
Oh, Amy, you have asked the wrong person! I am dreadful with dates, on every subject. I don’t know how old my children, grand children, nor Richard not I. So , the P&G Settee, I wish we had dated our works because I usually know todays date. Sorry I’m stumped!
Oh, Delores! I just watched the little shop part? I agree with you so MUCH! I was getting dizzy too, in trying to watch it. I am so sorry! I shall try to slow things down in the further. I shall also ask our editor if he could have slowed it down. I bet he could! Thank you for your comment … such a help! AND for your beautiful gift, which I cannot stop thinking of! I made a video of my experience as I opened it! Every layer was more wonderful than the one above, ending up with the heart of the whole gift, being the Holy Bible! I think it will be put up soon, so do watch for it. It is my whole heartfelt gratitude to you! Fondly to you Delores, Victoria
Let me look in my emails, Dolores. I rarely look in email. I hope I can find it in all the rubble of e-mail. I’ll let you know if I can’t, and maybe you can resend? Just a second
Hi! Yes, I saw it. Thank you. I did see it, before but I just didn’t quite know if I was supposed to do something or not. Was I supposed to reply or did you just sent the exchanges for my interest? Thank you so much! Very sweet, isn’t it?
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 You can reply, if you have a mind to, just like we communicate here, but it's a little more private. I think of email as letters by an electronic gizmo rather than snail mail.
I am so sorry..... I had no knowledge of this. I had not seen videos but thought perhaps it was that I was too busy or involved in other things to pay attention.
I know copy cats are a form of flattery. But Rebecca proctor has even stolen Richards stripe black shirt look. Copying your style all the new pottery is just a take on your style. It’s wrong to copy you and make money. You are the artists. How can they copy your work and dress and steal your home. Proctor had big money to just take off with your original ideas. I feel like someone needs to make a documentary on this when she talks it’s fake. You can feel it inside. She says she’s grateful but she has stolen what she counts as blessing.
You know what would look lovely on the finials is if you matched the painted pattern of the feet of the piece by painting that pattern onto the nut and washer. I think it would make the shell just look magnificent with those colors at its base!
Thank you Gail! That sounds like fun. It’s interesting that you spoke of that idea. There may have been a time that I would have appreciated this nuts as for their incredibly elegant shape and I would have painted them to not distract but to complete the circus.
By suggesting that idea, I realized how much I have changed since living in this old ship with all the old ship repairs stacked everywhere Round is. I have begun loving this rusty old industry as if it is gold to me. I am fascinated by it, and juxtaposing it against the refinements of our earlier works, thecfactcthstvitvjoltscthe harmony and challenges the scenes, thrills me.
I guess we were always like this -loving the unexpected. But now that MacKenzie-Childs IS THE EXPECTED, it makes us want to keep exploring the shocking beauty of all the dimensions of nature, industry, and art -to look for and love, without too much precondition, simply what is round us even in shocking discord with the now accepted “tradition” of MacKenzie-Childs.
So, I know you weren’t thinking of it like this, but I am so very grateful for your comment, simply because you have jolted my conscious thought to align with my subconscious attraction, natural attraction to what moves me to where I have not been.
I was thrilled with the unpolished old, weathered boys, in direct opposition to the Rococo Copper drawer pulls, to the smooth bubbly whimsy of the bull is Majolica feet, to the earthy rattan, to the look and feel of a hand made cotton stuffed mattress, to the surprise of the seaman’s charts lining the sm drawers showing precisely where we have landed, and finally, to the awkward, charm of a setter, which transcends to an Elizabethan bed, complete with towel rails, and pillow/blanket /linen drawers for the whole dream of a night in an imagination never yet seen, ever!
Bon Nuit.
So Gratefully to you CS Gail. Thank you for helping me to finish this leg of our voyage.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 of course. It is nice to appreciate things just for what they are and the contrast is nice. How you change and find beauty and joy that is important. I think what drew me to your earlier work was color, but I also like the beauty of worn and loved items. I prefer an old rusted bucket or chipped enamel over a shiny new one. It almost tells a story of how it once lived😊. I think that is what makes Yankee so beautiful over a new shiny speedboat😊
That’s right, Gail. It’s the story.
Mrs Victoria, your whole idea will always be very popular and everyone will know it was YOU that started all this amazing design. Love you bunches ❤❤❤
Dear Joyce, thank you. It is very important to recognize the author of invention. And now that you have, you and I can, together, turn to our created, our overflowing souse, and praise Dear FatherMother, God. For when we give all gratitude to Him, we are free of all burdens of a false, materially based ego, and the works may continually flow in endless liberation from the mortal dream, to embrace the grace from which a ll good flows.
Thank you, again, Joyce, as now we are both free to forever bliss! Ahoy, Victoria
Watching you reminds me of the wonderful, joyous world we live in!! Thank you!!
Creativity is everything! It makes the spirit ripple through the world…. Thank you for being a rainbow of loving light…. Illuminating humanity. 💚💚💚🤗
I am always amazed at your thinking outside the box. I find when I am in the right place God shows me what he wants me to do.
I just love your videos. It gives all my art and my MCK all deeper meaning. God bless you Victoria ❤
Such a beautiful mind you have. So pure and the ability to see the gifts we have been given and overlook in a busy world. May a piece of your gift be in all of us. Thank you.
Hi Victoria, I adore your videos and all your amazing talent ! I love watching and I learn from you too❣️ Stay safe my friend and God bless you❣️❤️Thank you to share your wonderful fun amazing videos & talents & charts of the sea! ❣️The shell finials are amazing ❣️Happy Summer ❤️
❤Beautiful Unique Piece. This piece will be a special piece in someone’s special place. Congrats 🎉
Yes,, And I am so grateful these very important portent works will be cherished, as we live a harder life and they will be cared for better by a real collector of ourceorks
So wonderful to see Richard in this video. Hope you're both doing well.
Oh, we are! Richard surprises me every day, so quietly coming up with the missing parts (the charts!!😃)
I love the replacement pulls and finials.
Good evening Victoria, I love your videos. Your signed pieces are true works of art. One of a kind pieces are special. They're handmade with love and come from the heart. Hugs to you.❤
Hi Laura! So good to hear from you. Your last two sentences warmed me on a brisk early summer morn out here on the winds of the water. Ahoy!
Hello Victoria it is a pleasure to see you do what you do best love the sofa
Liz, that was a funny sensation. I read your sweet comment the wrong way at first, that it’s good to see me doing what I do best, love the sofa! I thought you thought I liked to be a couch potatoes!😁. I giggled so hard. Thanks for making me so silly. The reason it is so funny is that I nearly Znever Sid down and enjoy just sitting. So I got a kick out of the satire imagery in my thought,
The shells 🐚 were the perfect touch of Victoria.
Thank you 💐
I’m so glad you like them, Whims! They were a gift! They just popped into thought, immediately. No pondering or wondering required!
Everything is so truly amazing Love being along cheers from Pennsylvania Blessings 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎚🎚🎚
What a lovely addition
Thanks, it was so much fun to see it all come to thought like a little parade
Quite uniquely cozy & fun❣️
😃
Your little hands and your creative mind have have brought forth so much enchanting beauty into all your work. It’s love. Pure dee🥰
I love your and Richards signature on it’s left end. Perfect. Tons of love. Zeta
Ahoy, my Tra LaLa! I love to sing your name. Oh, but it is not your name? ‘Tis Zeta? Well Zeta is the symbol at the end! Haha! And thank you for acknowledging the love. That is the substance of things not seen
The shells,the handles ,the feet and your signature are so special and unique..
Hi Kristin! So good to hear from you. I especially liked the discovery of the finials. They just built themselves as I was fetching the parts like an obedient child. God is truly the creator. Not one thing left without its full needs met!
Kristin, thank you. I too, as amazed to see it spring forth all as a new fresh meeting of the needs at hand
Oh gosh! How I enjoy these scurry abouts on Yankee! Love to hear your mind ticking and creating!
Thanks so much for having us aboard!
You are welcome, any time, Valerie!
Such a marriage of quaint findings, magical hobby shop, and inspiring perspective! Blessed and safe days!
Alice. What a great succinct comment! Wish I could do that!😁
I think whoever gets that is getting a priceless gem!! Watching you work your magic is amazing and I love how you finished it. Just perfect!
Oh, Darnell, so good to be seeing you this glorious sparkling morning. Thank you so much for your following the process with me.
👏👏🙏❤Thank u 4 all the beauty truth & love…..oliver
Your work makes me so happy; I am a long time collector of Mackenzie Childs after seeing you on a designer's tv show. I so loved the colors and the whimsy. You and your husband a the most creative designers and bring such pleasure to so many people, including me!
Howdy Victoria, what a cute touch the shells. The seat looks very comfy and inviting.
Ah, Vickie, I wish it was here right now. A Saturday afternoon nap on the P&G settee sound inviting, in deed, right about now🥱
Beautiful indeed!!
You are genius!!❤️❤️
Salutations Victoria! I love this piece, it turned out so adorable. Sending love from a California 🏜️ desert.
Oh, my sweet Californian connection! I miss the old California I knew as a child. Please keep it pure, wholesome and hearty! Thank you for your supportive comment!
So lovely and so very inspirational !⚡
Aww, Victoria, the symbolism just goes on and on….. Yankee, charts of the seas, seashells, and at 0:50 a rainbow hovering over Yankee as if God is hugging all of you on board, just as you said that by releasing your beautiful creation, that has had your love and attention lavished on it, is like sending a hug out to someone else ! 🌈. “ Send forth your bread upon the waters, for in the multitude of days you will find it “. Ecclesiastes 11:1. Before you send out your hug, God is putting His loving arms around you ❣️.
Christina! You SHOCK me! EVERY time you have the PERFECT citation from the Bible to Spirit the thought like a sword of glory! Honestly, you write as an ancient scribe. The words fall off your feather tip like inflated diamond trails leading, always upward!
How ever can we thank you? I hope everyone reads your prose and poetry. And I can tell, you do not struggle over it. It follows the notes of your heart strings!
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Thank you, Victoria ! God is great and worthy to be praised !
Ahoy Victoria! What a unique beautifully made settee. So creative and how nice to see your Richard too. All the best to you both. Eileen
Hi Eileen! Sorry, I miss this comment. Thank you so much. Yes, Richard is always a surprise appearance😁. Always GOOD!
I would like to go shopping here! 🤗
Again like visiting an old and dear friend🎀 Thank you both for sharing your most special vision a wonderful gift for us all🌸
Nice to see you , Lynn! I really appreciate the little confidence you sent. It is hard to know what folks think unless they take a sweet moment to communicate. I so love hearing from you
You are such a joyful lovely woman
🐚🐚🐚🐚I love sea shells! 🐚🐚🐚🐚
Do you sell sea shells by the sea shore, D D? Ahoy, Victoria😇
Aren’t they wonderful??
I have been buying from you from the start !
Wonderful and precious are His provisions for us. How wonderful to view from afar, through the thought process and placement of the shell finials. They are presently perfect. I love that thistles were original and first consideration. I have adored thistles since I was a child. My mother loved them. I think they are whimsical and wonderful, and I am always drawn to them. Now, my daughter loves them. She has a sweet little business named Thistle Cottage Home, where she hand cuts silhouettes of children, parents, and pets. What a joy and surprise to be blessed with a Richard sighting today! I just know the new owners of the P and G Settee will be thrilled with the ‘finial’ results. I’m thrilled to have joined in on Patreon. Sending love and hugs from Tennessee, Kathy
Kathy! Oh, thank you for joining Patreon! I am so happy and glad and grateful! I just can’t get over how, with only a little from each grateful soul, the promise of many shall provide for the continued work here. It feels so like a God-made design of provision. It reminds me of the Bible story in ll Kings 4: 1-7 where Elisha instructed the woman who’s husband had died and there was a debt so her two sons were to be taken as bondsmen to pay the debt but she obeyed Elisha who told her to have her sons go and borrow lots of vessels from all her neighbors. She had only a pot of oil. (Oil translates in Greek as inspiration). She slowed the door of her house (I think that means to shut out any doubting opinions) and just kept filling the vessels and filling and filling Even after they were all filled she had more oil. He then told her to sell all the oil, and to pay her debt and to live happily with her sons off the rest, forever.
I loved your thistle story, and your daughters gifts. I am so inspired by knowing you this little bit more. Oh, how I hope to learn more and more. Thank you ever so much.
And I am glad that the shells and nuts and washers were therein our new environ to meet the need. They aren’t thistles but they ARE sea shells! And they are happy little stand-ins😁
I added my name and address as requested… not really understanding all the inner workings of Patreon. Kathy Starner
I am planning to make something for the third wave of Patreons so hold tight! Hopefully I shall get to it soon, eh?
I'm new to your channel and I love it!
I was sent by My Little Blue Fly. Thank God for you, I love your whimsy decor, I always wondered who Mackenzie Childs was and now I know and I love everything about your art!
Dear Donna! I am so pleased to meet you. Thank you for telling me from whence you hail … the little Blue Fly. I know we think of each other often but for some reason, have let our lives get in our way. So I rarely hear from Bev. However my gratitude goes to her, evermore!
So creative … as usual! I love your work!
It was so long ago, Sharon. I had no idea what I was in for. Every step, just doing my best to follow Holim
I love this piece-
Oh, I’m so glad, Pamela. And thanks for your sweet little comment. It means a lot!
Hi Victoria. I love ur videos.
Kimberly, I’m so glad you are here with me. What you watch … it is all in honor of you. I try my best to get to the core of our being and to find our oneness and our infinite individuality! It is like opening a jewel box
Chère Victoria vous avez donné une deuxième vie à ce canapé lit il est original ce qui fait son charme le matelas à l’air très confortable on voit que c’est de la bonne qualité bon maintenant il ne reste plus qu’à l’étrenner😅❤❤❤
Love your amazing creative mind and imagination! Truly Ha’ Shem has bless you both! 🥰
Shalom Charverim, Elizabeth!
Beautiful and fun to see your process!!!
Thank you kindly, Stephanie Starkey. Isn’t you name pretty? I think you are a character in a story. Are you?
So happy to watch this on Friday as I bring in the weekend. Love your creativity that inspires mine. Thank you Victoria! Sufi
Sufi! I have not heard from you of late! I too have been Remus with entries. We are together again! Tra-La!
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Love your joyful videos. My son is moving out there in September so there is a visit out there in my future. Hope to meet you in person some day! :) Love Sufi
I’m so happy for you and your son! And I am happy for the East that you might come to grace us! We shall be here with open arms🤗
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Awesome! :) Sufi
Lovely
You have a kindly Imagine-Atkin!😁
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💕que lindos muebles!
Por qué, muchas gracias, Roxana. Me siento honrado de recibir tal aprecio!
Love watching your ingenuity and creativity at work. Love the finials! When I give or sell my creations, I don't feel loss, either. Just putting a little bit of myself out into the universe for someone to, hopefully, enjoy!
Hi John! Oh, I loved hearing how you think about your works. I must look you up! And, yes, it is a joy to see joy being spread by these symbols of soul, in deed.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Actually, it's Melissa. I'm not famous, just a local craftsperson. But I love creating items from used materials. You have been an inspiration since I first saw your work years ago. My John is an interior designer and inventor who has always created lovely places for me to live and create in.
Hi Melissa, sounds like you are a famously mighty team, you and John! Much love to you both
I absolutely love those feet ! 💖
Me too. They really ground it. They keep it in the circus parade, somehow
Have y’all ever used glass drawer knobs as finials????….I just love you…hugs from carolyn in Columbus GA
Yes! It is great using everything in new ways! Thank you so much, Carolyn
You should paint the washers and nuts .
Victoria- I so enjoyed watching you create and recreate this piece. It was all clearly done with love knowing that it was just "visiting" you on Yankee for awhile. Do you think that you could ever do a video showing you actually painting one of the iconic landscapes of Cayuga Lake? That would be so interesting! I hope you consider it. By the way- I loved the pulls you decided to use. It is the unexpectedness that make it so special! My best to you, Richard and crew. Uncle Robert.
Uncle ROBERT! Guess what, this morning I was making a Cloud Cake for the crew, plus zFelix, who just flew in last night and shall be in and out for the summer. Anyway, whilst I was making the breakfast, Felix came right into the picture without knowing it and was so shocked to see the scene on the beautiful little MacLachlan Dish you so lovingly sent to us. I somehow, don’t think Felix had ever seen the dish. But he was drawn into it as if he was shrinking right to size. He felt like he was wandering round in our kitchen at “Home Again”. It was darling, and we got it on video, because he came in and didn’t know I was making the Cloud Cake on video!
You will see it, I hope. And I shall try to answer all your questions in your wonderful letter, eh?
Ps, I agree about the handles. I had seen them flashing by whilst always in search of a this orca that. When we needed plucks, they flashed right into thought, immediately. I didn’t even know how many we had. It was just “meant to be,”I am sure. And they looked like the devil! Richard polished them up and they looked even more glorious than I had ever seen them.
Could you share the location of this beautiful hobby shop, please? Thank you!!
What an adventure to watch creative minds at work! Just one thing about the shells -- is there any chance of eye injury with the tips? I always think that way having been in retail and in the food business and always wanting to be 'covered'. So awesome to see you in the furniture design mode....God gives us no lack of creativity no matter what the world tries to control of it! P.S. Did you get my little package with the Rooibos yet? I didn't get a tracking # but it was a few weeks ago.
I DiD ! And your beautiful NOTE! I feel so bad, I hadn’t yet responded! And your beautiful note to me! Oh, and now I am even GLAD, because you reminded me that I hadn’t written back. I am making pies today, and they shall be laces this lovely earthy traces of your precious packets!
I , admittedly, have become quite overcome with heavy weights of responsibility for yankee and crew of late. There is a big change coming to us almost presently. Everything has fallen every which way. I feel like I am constantly running to catch another falling object!
Here is one lovely gift I can save and savor and KNOW, FINALY, that the gift knows how much I appreciate her! Thank you so much for your touch!
Soon I hope to tell you all of what is going on. I know all is “falling” into place with God’s grace, as usual.
Ever gratefully, Victoria
Ps, I think the shells will not be a problem, as they are held into place with a coated wire and so would tip rather than jab I’d pressured. Also, the seating is very deep and the shells are above the head. Of course it is not a climbing frame for children, and one would hope a parent would have raised up their child to know to be respectful and know the difference between the playground and the parlor. But your comment gives me pause. I do think it is unusual, and pray … prayer is so much more effective as a preventative than people know. … that Divine wisdom animates us, and our children, and Divine Love armors us in His protective care. I shall think harder each time from here on out that an idea is useful AND harmless!
Thank you for your kind care. Thank you for your lovely gifts! I shall think of you today, on pie day!
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 Love you so much in Christ. I'm praying or four couples in particular and you are one. I'm excited to hear what the Lord is doing in your life!!! Another couple we're praying for has just had a big new adventure as well! Pray for us too please; it looks like we also are needing some wisdom! And am glad about the shells being 'bendable' if touched with any pressure! And will continue to pray. Blessings to both of you wonderful people.
How precious, your last note! I have been discovering something about prayer which has really opened my eyes. Often people pray to God to ask for something or to change something, or to help us. But in discovering more about God, I am realizing that God is the AllKnowing, all Wise, omnipotent, light, and that we are His rays. So we don’t need to ask God for more than He has already been, designed, perfected, just because God IS ALL OF THAT AND MORE. Why would we ask for more than we are accepting, already.
It has been helping me, not to ask God! But rather to ask myself! To pray to myself, if you will. That sounds strange but really what needs to change, or adjust, or be known is all of what I just said, and it is we whom need to be quieted in prayer to be still and to know we have never been separated from God, even for a split second … as a ray of light can NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM THE SUN. So I pray with myself to trust, to know that God’s plan is complete, that His love for his creation is fulfilled and that I must accept and trust His holy plan and His perfect provision for all of His perfect rays of light. we shine because God shines, we reflect God.
Jesus said, “can of mine own self do NOTHING.” I love that because it doesn’t mean he needs help to do something with God’s help, but that he can DO NOTHING, because God is ALL, the earth is as heaven, “as in Heaven, So, on EARTH,”. … God is omnipotent, supreme!
Magen I realize God has given me everything, I simply need to accept it,,watch for it, and CC WAIT on Gods.
I have really felt the comforter right here in every moment, never doubting.
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 The Comforter. Such a perfect name. In fact, Jesus, it says, could not do 'many mighty miracles' in one town because of 'their unbelief'. Our faith, His power!!!
Hey Victoria!! I love this video!! my daugter and I are big fans and we follow your posts religiously. I just bought just bought a prototype of one of your old rattan canopy beds for my daughter. The person I bought it from used to be a carpenter at Mackenzie- Childs and he lives in a beautiful victorian house on Seneca lake. He said that the bed was one of 2 that were made in the lighter blonde color. I would like to stain it darker but I am nervous to ruin it. Any advice wise one? Love, channel mammals in Manlius Ny
Also - how do you keep pretty kitty from scratching up all your beautiful wicker!?!
Beautiful Piece Victoria!!! How old is it???
Oh, Amy, you have asked the wrong person! I am dreadful with dates, on every subject. I don’t know how old my children, grand children, nor Richard not I. So , the P&G Settee, I wish we had dated our works because I usually know todays date. Sorry I’m stumped!
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 that is ok
I enjoy looking at stores to see what they have to sell, but the whirlwind view makes me dizzy. Please slow the camera down just a tad bit. Thank you.
Oh, Delores! I just watched the little shop part?
I agree with you so MUCH! I was getting dizzy too, in trying to watch it. I am so sorry! I shall try to slow things down in the further. I shall also ask our editor if he could have slowed it down. I bet he could! Thank you for your comment … such a help!
AND for your beautiful gift, which I cannot stop thinking of! I made a video of my experience as I opened it! Every layer was more wonderful than the one above, ending up with the heart of the whole gift, being the Holy Bible!
I think it will be put up soon, so do watch for it. It is my whole heartfelt gratitude to you! Fondly to you Delores, Victoria
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 I sent you an email. Did you get it?
Let me look in my emails, Dolores. I rarely look in email. I hope I can find it in all the rubble of e-mail. I’ll let you know if I can’t, and maybe you can resend? Just a second
Hi! Yes, I saw it. Thank you. I did see it, before but I just didn’t quite know if I was supposed to do something or not. Was I supposed to reply or did you just sent the exchanges for my interest? Thank you so much! Very sweet, isn’t it?
@@victoriamackenzie-childs7215 You can reply, if you have a mind to, just like we communicate here, but it's a little more private. I think of email as letters by an electronic gizmo rather than snail mail.
I am so sorry..... I had no knowledge of this. I had not seen videos but thought perhaps it was that I was too busy or involved in other things to pay attention.
It’s OK, Lynda! I love hearing from you, and there is always another day to fill with unknowns, don’t you think?
I know copy cats are a form of flattery. But Rebecca proctor has even stolen Richards stripe black shirt look. Copying your style all the new pottery is just a take on your style. It’s wrong to copy you and make money. You are the artists. How can they copy your work and dress and steal your home. Proctor had big money to just take off with your original ideas. I feel like someone needs to make a documentary on this when she talks it’s fake. You can feel it inside. She says she’s grateful but she has stolen what she counts as blessing.