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 Today I'm talking with Karen at Cottage On Cross. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Karen at Cottage On Cross 00:28 Good morning, Karen. How are you? Good morning. Thank you for having me. You're in Pennsylvania, right? I am, yes. Okay. I'm in Minnesota. It's beautiful here for the first time in four days. We've had clouds and rain since, I think, mid-afternoon on Monday. So it's been really nice to get up this morning and see the sun shining. So how are things in Pennsylvania? Well, we probably got your weather. Oh, We're in the midst of that rain, but it's spring and it's needed, so I'm not complaining. 00:58 Yeah, the weather people here were saying on Monday, they were giving us the heads up that this drenching was coming and they were all like, we need the rain. And I'm like, we don't need 17 inches guys. Oh gosh, no. Yeah. I think we've all, I think we've all ended up with five inches total. Well, that's better. Yes. You don't want your garden to flood. No, that happened last year. I don't want it to happen this year. So, all right. So you tell me why it's called Cottage on Cross. 01:28 That's a fun story. It's purposeful, but it's also out of desperation. This is not my first online business. And I learned accidentally with my last one that your name matters in Google searches. If people don't even know what they're looking for, but type in a keyword, you'll come up. know, cottage core, was super trendy when I started it. 01:56 And that's a lot of what I make. So I wanted that name somewhere. And the first maybe 28 names I chose weren't available either on Etsy or on Instagram. And I needed the availability on both of those. So I ended up with Cottage on Cross because we live on Crossroad. okay. Okay. So for people who don't know what Cottage Core is, can you explain that? 02:24 Um, well right now, grandma core is trending, which is pretty much the same, just another term for it. It's just kind of a, uh, a back to basics, um, aesthetic where, uh, if your grandma had it, you're gonna like it, but, but that's the grandma core. Cottage core is, uh, well, kind of the same thing. It's like little house on the prairie, um, vibe going on. Um, it's, it's a more, uh, old fashioned vibe maybe. 02:54 Uh huh. Okay. Um, what I find interesting about Cottage Core is that I grew up with Cottage Core because we spent time with my grandmas, obviously, and, my mom was very influenced by her mother, who was my grandma. And so we always had old fashioned things in our house. And to this day, I really, really hate sleek, shiny glass metal furniture. want, I want wood furniture. want cast iron. 03:23 hooks for my coats. want the old fashioned stuff. I am the same. I am the same. And I think we probably grew up similarly then. Yeah, just in touch with family and the generations back through and all their things that they brought with them and they didn't have the new shiny, partly because they couldn't afford it. And partly because it was cherished memories for them from the generations. And yeah, so you just grow up loving that stuff and 03:52 No, I shunned. I shunned all that too. So this is not a going back for me. This is a celebrating that they've caught up with us. exactly. And I feel like I'm going to sound really dumb. I feel like shiny glass and metal is very cold. And I feel like quilts and cast iron and wood are very warm. I agree. So I really like the cozy warm feeling in my house. I don't want it to be, you know, austere and cold. Yes, I agree. 04:21 So before we get into what you do with quilts, because I've seen the pictures and what you do is really beautiful. Thank you. Do you live on a farm? I grew up on a dairy farm. I had almost all the animals growing up and it was a fantastic way to live. We have land off my family's farm now. We are right across from the farm. I see it every day. It's beautiful. 04:46 I do not have a farm. I have a working knowledge of what a farm is and how much work it is. So I've chosen very carefully what I want. We have chickens. They are easy to care for. I can walk away from them for a day and bank up on their food and they're going to be okay versus a milk cow. can't ...
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