Congratulations!!!

...WE HAVE A WINNER.....!

Congratulations to Fran DeMarco the winner of our giveaway and the new proud owner of a $50 gift certificate for Stecher's Country Store!!!

Email us at astecher08@comcast.net, call us at (856) 467-2208 or come on in to claim your prize!

We are so grateful to everyone to who participated!! We have had an overwhelmingly huge number of likes on Facebook as well as new followers on our blog and Twitter!! You are all absolutely amazing and we have loved hearing from so many of you!

As a thank you for participating and just because we love all of you, come on in starting today, Thursday March 15th through Wednesday March 21st for 20% off the item of your choice!!

And just as a little side note to enjoy this beautiful weather... WE HAVE PANSIES!!

Isn't that just so exciting! They're blooming and beautiful and are all ready to be planted! We know you all are so anxious to get out there and beautify your yards with this gorgeous weather we're having! Aren't they just a happy site??

A big WELCOME to Leo!!

We would like to introduce you to Leo! He is our new Lionhead rabbit who has joined us at Stecher's Country Store! Saved from an animal shelter, he is two years old, very curious, friendly, and absolutely loves people!

It all started with a dream... Vicki woke up in the middle of night with an epiphany. We need a rabbit! After searching and searching, she couldn't find anything. All the rabbits she found were already spoken for. Then, while on a trip to the vet for our golden retriever, there he was! There was Leo sitting on the counter looking for a new home! They rescued him from an animal shelter hoping to give Leo one more chance, and to try and find him a new home. We snatched him up that day! How could you not?? He's adorable right!?

We wanted his new home to be a heaven for him. Inspired by a bird cage from Greystone Aviaries and a wooden walkway from Katy Elliot, his cage is located in our greenhouse. It was built by Vicki, Jonathan and Christian out of all recycled materials. The wood for the frame and boxes, from our salvaging trip, the wooden slices are courtesy of Mark and the moss was dug up by Amber from our yard.

You must come in and see our new adorable friend and his gorgeous cage! Let us know what you think!

Oh the organization... and SALE!

We're having a SALE!!!!
ALL EASTER 20% OFF!! Now through Wednesday March 14th!


Organization was one of the happiest things this week besides our sale of course! How relieving is it to have someone organize all your work tools and supplies so beautifully right??

 

I wish I could show you a before and after picture so you would know the effort that went into this kind of organization! Imagine cart after cart of junk and more junk and some tools and hardware ALL over!! That is basically what we were dealing with.

 Look at them now though... all lined up like a surgeons table ready for a surgical procedure. Oh how easy our lives will be now! Jason did such an amazing job right?!

Don't forget to enter our giveaway!! You still have a few days to enter up to five times! Be sure to leave a comment on the giveaway post for each entry. Without that comment, the entry can't be counted.

And we have begun planting...

Isn't that exciting?? All our little plants are growing and we are busy busy busy planting and watering and feeding!

The boss man watering and fertilizing away! It's an everyday occurrence here... making sure these little guys get everything they need.

Our beloved Susan pruning our little guys. I learned something new about growing plants today from talking to her. Did you know that when growing flowers, when they are still small, if you pick off the heads (where the blossoms would form) they will sprout into two or three new heads. Then when those heads pop up, if you pick them off again, they will sprout into two or three new heads. This means you eventually will have lots and lots of blooms from one plant instead of a single bloom from a single plant. Interesting isn't it?

 Aren't these little blooms a happy site with all of this strange weather? To me it means that no matter what we say, spring will come and we will have green leaves and flowers again! It's a nice thought. Get ready for it... We are so excited!!

Pallets

Oh how we love pallets!! How can you not right? The rough weathered wood, the grid like pattern and the rough texture? Because of our love for pallets they are a big part of our changes and a huge part of our spring installation.

We decided though to take a new twist on the pallets. We built 8'-10' high walls out of an actual pallet, not just the pallet wood. After building multiple walls, we took burlap, natural and painted, and wove wide strips of it through the grid pattern of the pallets. The mix of textures from the rough worn pallets and the widely woven burlap created an amazing background for all our gorgeous new product!

We have fallen in love with the new look! What do you think??


Don't forget to enter our giveaway! 
Be sure to leave a SEPARATE comment for EACH of the five entries that you do. Your comment for your first entry could say something like... "I am now a follower of your blog." Then your next comment would say... "I liked your page on Facebook." and so on!!

GIVEAWAY!

We have been making some serious changes in the store. You must all come and see!! Here is a quick little preview to get you excited before we get to the better stuff...

To get you all excited, we are giving away a $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE to Stecher's Country Store!

You have five different chances of winning. For each entry you must leave a comment on this post. So that means that if you do each of the five things, you will leave five DIFFERENT comments.

Here are the five different ways to enter:

1. Click that blue button on the right that says "Join this site" and become a follower of our blog.
2. Go to our Facebook page and "Like" us.
3. Become a follower of ours on Twitter.
4. Share the giveaway on your Facebook/Blog/Twitter, tag us in your post, and leave a link to it in your comment/entry.
5. Tell us your favorite thing about Stecher's in a comment/entry.

The giveaway will close Wednesday night March 14th at 8pm EST and the winner will be randomly selected from the comments left on this post. The winner will be announced Thursday morning March 15th!

Good luck to you!!

Have a Happy Valentine's Day... with Primal Elements!

I know it is a little late because today is the day! Valentine's Day is here!!! I always feel like Valentines Day is one of those sneaky little holidays. I know it is coming but I always think I have time and then all of sudden... BOOM... it is the day.

Well for all of you out there who might need that last minute something, we have some amazing new soaps!! Primal Elements soap is a handmade vegetable glycerin soap that is hand cut off the loaf as you purchase it! How cool right?! You choose the soap, they all look and smell different and yet they are all amazing, and then we will cut quite the bar for you. It is a marvelous soap that is soft on your skin, lasts quite awhile, smells great, and is beautiful all the way until it is in tiny little pieces because the patterns go all the way through.

The best part is, the soap comes in this adorable little sleeve perfect for gift giving! I should have taken a picture of it... I am sorry for that! But be sure to know that if you don't need any Valentine's Day gifts, don't you worry your little heart because we have some great soaps for the spring too. I am quite excited about them actually!!

Salvaging

So in the process of getting ready for our all of our new merchandise we decided to revamp and semi-remodel the interior of the shop. (oh just wait until you see it!! I just have a feeling you are going to love it!) As part of this revamping we decided to try our best to keep to our farming and rural roots.

Susan, a wonderful employee who many of you have I'm sure worked with, grew up on a beautiful farm here in our area. She was so gracious to let us go and explore her families farm and salvage a few things including some gorgeous barn wood!! We went specifically looking for some old farm equipment, tools, barrels, baskets, and all things farm related. Oh boy did we find some awesome stuff!

Loading up the truck... check out those barrels!

Vicki and Christian gathering asparagus creates (wait til you see how we use those!) and investigating some bed frames and springs.

Sue and Jose inspecting a wooden bed frame from the barn attic.

 Passing beautiful barn wood through the wicked spiky brush to get it loaded on the truck. You go Amber!!

 Our little helper for the day! His favorite parts were eating rocks and playing with the tires on our old farm truck while we loaded.

And we begin... here we go!

Why hello my wonderful friends of Stecher's!! We are making so many changes in the store getting ready for the spring and the wonderful planting season and warm weather. I hope you are all ready for it! Part of those changes is this new blog we've started to share all our ideas, decor and garden tips, and to document all the projects we are working on in the store so that you are the first to hear all about them. I am very very excited about it! Come back soon to hear all about our latest salvage and buying trips as well as to see and hear about some of the amazing product we are receiving!

Dawnelle