Starting a garden can be confusing and overwhelming, especially for anyone new to gardening. When I first began gardening, the internet was foe, not friend. Information abounds, but it can be hard to synthesize all that knowledge for one’s particular growing conditions. There are endless instructions, many contradictory, on how to nurture plants, achieve the…
It’s a new year, and we’re turning our focus to monthly workshops, our new Style & Story community, and exciting new products for the rest of 2023 & into 2024. That means we need to make some room (mentally and physically) for everything we’ve been busy dreaming up for you! To simplify the closing out…
One of the core values of the Whitney English team is creativity. This means that everyone on our team is constantly coming up with new ideas, and we all have several projects going at once! In addition to my role as a graphic designer for Whitney English, I have my own line of wedding stationery…
As an avid gardener, I’ve learned that each year brings new challenges and opportunities to grow and experiment. Looking back on the past three years of my gardening journey, I’ve experienced everything from failures to successes, and I’d like to share some of my experiences with you. In 2020, I made early plans to dive…
**This post is not sponsored by any blind or drapery company Around here, we tend to start projects out of necessity. But once we’ve had some time to live in and use the space, those fueled-by-necessity projects usually end up snowballing into more expensive projects. This is the case with the heating and cooling situation…
I don’t remember where I picked up the phrase, but it’s a well-worn principle in my playbook. I file it beside “go ugly early,” verbiage I picked up from Lena West, speaking at the Country Living Women Entrepreneurs conference years ago. I wish you could have heard how she challenged a ballroom full of female…
If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ve probably heard Whitney talk about HEART. If not, here’s the short version: HEART is a new way of goal-setting, a system that Whitney created to help women live their lives in balance. Last May, she published a book all about HEART titled A More…
It’s no secret that the Whitney English team loves a good calendar… and beautiful artwork… and quotes… and multi-use products. All the necessary things in life, if you ask me! Our team meetings always circle back to how we can take all the pretty things we dream up and get them into your hands. Whitney’s…
Gardening had never really been on my radar. Until March 2020. Stuck at home in a rapidly changing world, I needed something to distract me from the unfolding global pandemic. When the world shut down, I pushed existing projects aside (didn’t we all?). As I realized we’d be stuck at home for quite a while,…
