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Kathy Phillips started Primitives By Kathy in 1997. Kathy had a strong work ethic growing up. Throughout her high school years, she worked half days for her brother’s business and helped in her father’s machine shop. Two years after Kathy graduated from high school, she and her mother started an art studio and gift shop. Then nine years later Kathy decided to introduce a new business, Primitives By Kathy.Though Primitives By Kathy started small with only a few items, over the pas

Did you ever consider sprucing up your yard with a garden lighthouse? If you are one that loves the ocean and nautical scenes, then adding a lighthouse to your landscape is just the thing. Having a lighthouse right outside your window, year-round, can help you reminisce of days, of smelling the salt air at the beach, fishing by a seaside town, or being with family at the harbor on a summer vacation.Depending on how much space you have, you could create a wonderful scene with a garden lighth

In lighting there are many different styles, which include: modern, industrial, traditional, contemporary, vintage, country, primitive, and colonial lighting. Every style has its own unique characteristics that give it their own unique design. The shape, material the light is made out of, or the color, generally helps identify which style the light is. Some styles share some of the same characteristics, or may even closely resemble another style and yet, they will have a detail about t

The development of solar power has created the opportunity to capture the sun’s energy, by adding a replacement solar panel kit to an existing part of an item, such as a solar lighthouse replacement top.Solar power was discovered many years ago, and the invention of solar power cell technology is credited to a young French physicist named Edmond Becquerel. Since his work in 1839, many other physicists and inventors helped to further the invention, into the solar panels that we have today.A

When you hear the words, country living, what do you think about? To some, they may think of living somewhere in the wide-open mid-west. Maybe on the prairie with the wheat blowing in the wind, and cattle grazing on the tall grass nearby. To others it may be owning a small farmette. Having a homemade chicken coup full of chickens, a small pony or horse, goats, or maybe even a cow. While to others they may not live in the western states or even mid-west, and they may not even live on a farm w