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Rustic Country Market Shoppe

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We are gardeners with nest run chickens. We love coffee. I make homemade marshmallows. He has a pepper obsession. We value “Made in the U.S.A.” And “Shop Local.” Many of our unique, one of a kind handmade crafts are made from renewed, reused, repurposed, recycled, and renovated materials. We resell “rustic” and “vintage” items we find here and there (Rustic 2nds). We love visiting thrift stores, garage sales and estate sales.

Cold outside. Warm inside.
Warm outside & inside.

Our Shoppe…

Inspired by Pinterest and visiting shops located in sheds near the homeowner’s house, coupled with our inability to find an ideal local location to hold our market, we decided to create a shoppe for our Rustic Country Market. We located it next to our 3 tree apple “orchard” and in front of our backyard garden. We put a fire pit on the side of our shoppe to roast homemade marshmallows.

We used a lot of repurposed materials for our shoppe, including old fence boards to create wainscot. The ceiling is covered with repurposed sheets from a torn down, Tucson, AZ warehouse. Due to the cost of wood stove pipe we decided not to install a wood stove in our shoppe. Instead, Plan B: We added a Duraflame electric fireplace heater. We plan to put cobble stone pavers in the front at the door and eventually a door cover awning to add to its country charm.

  • Best lotion you’ll ever use!
  • Lotion & soap.
  • Spices made from our dried herbs and peppers.
  • We sell our fresh roasted coffee beans.
  • Vintage Rustic 2nds Jewelry.
  • Birdhouses.
  • Coffee Accessories.
  • Mason jar accessories & signs.
  • Country decor.
  • Unique mugs.
  • It’s not a wood stove, but it’s more affordable than installing one and keeps our shoppe warm!
  • Cabinets made with antique windows.
  • Our bulletin board with info about our shoppe.
  • We added a fire pit by our shoppe so we could roast homemade marshmallows!
  • Who we are…

Our Rustic Country Market Shoppe will be open seasonally and by appointment.

A Relentless Redecorator’s Journal: I love to turn spaces into special places & inspire home life. We aren’t just a market, we are Rustic Country Market Living.
Created in 2015 ❤️

https://www.facebook.com/RusticCountryMarket

Farmers Market Style

2024 Farmers Market

Seasonal Farmers Market Items:

We will be posting our shoppe hours on our FB page Rustic Outdoor Market. As previously mentioned, our shoppe will also be open by appointment.

We are small business, shop local and made in the U.S.A. oriented. We support farmers, ranchers, gardeners, bakers, cottage food, crafters and artists.

https://www.facebook.com/RusticOutdoorMarket
  • Daylight.
  • Cozy night.

If you’re planning to visit our area, there’s plenty of recreation around us; and we have an Airbnb decorated and hosted by The Relentless Redecorator 😊.

Click here to book our guest room: airbnb.com/h/rusticcountrymarketguestroom

We aren’t just a market, we are Rustic Country Market Living.

Inspiring Home Life ♥️,

THE RELENTLESS REDECORATOR

Introducing Our Rustic Country Market Guest Room…

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2020 was the year of transition and challenges for us, and I’m NOT just talking about the pandemic.

My motto for 2020, was “Perfect Vision.” It was my last year working for the federal government in real property contracting. I was so excited! Due to the pandemic, I teleworked from home from March until I retired in December, 2020.

One of our 2020 goals was to relocate out of the Phoenix metro area to a small town, recreational area after I retired. We were going to downsize, but the only house we found that would work for us was a larger, 1986 house that had a lot of (undisclosed) deferred maintenance (AKA: fixer upper). After we moved everything out of our Phoenix metro house and we listed it for sale. It sold BEFORE it hit the market for more than the appraised price.

VISION: Future Guest Room…

We decided to convert the second master (primary) bedroom into a Guest Room to list on Airbnb, and to use when family and friends visit. The process of remodeling this room was an adventure in itself. Truth is, the whole house has had its share of issues: electrical, plumbing, lighting, flooring, insulation, windows, appliances, etc. At the rate we are fixing things, we practically have a new house.

  • The carpet, windows & blinds needed to be replaced.
  • The ceiling fan was defective. The blades were loose!
  • Note there’s no blades on the ceiling fan.
  • Needed to finish the wood stove area.
  • Original walk in closet, future breakfast room. Kept the 2nd closet at the other end of the room.
  • Bathroom was dated. No GFI. The tile was very slippery when wet!
  • Replacing the old door to the back storage room, our future mud room. The original door wasn’t an exterior door and the steps were dangerous.
  • Removed this door to our pantry. (There was a 2nd door on the other side.)
  • Huge, dated, jetted tub, didn’t work well. Used a lot of water!

What we did to create our Rustic Country Market Guest Room:

  • Converted the exterior storage room into a separate, exterior entrance/mud room.
  • Converted the extra walk in closet into a breakfast room.
  • Created an entry between the mud room to the breakfast room.
  • Removed the closet door that was for the walk in closet, now breakfast room.
  • Removed dated, nonfunctioning window blinds.
  • Replaced the carpet with vinyl, plank flooring.
  • Removed and sheet rocked over a second door to our walk in pantry.
  • Replaced all the windows.
  • Total renovation of the bathroom. Removed an old jetted tub.
  • Painted the walls and trim.
  • Replaced all the light fixtures.
  • Corrected electrical issues and added a GFI to the bathroom.
  • Added a carbon monoxide detector & a fire extinguisher.
  • Replaced the exterior deck & stairs.
  • Furnished and decorated the room.

Plans Changed…

Instead of using the room for an Airbnb, we moved my 80+ year old mother into the room for 3 years. The room started to be too much for her to care for, so we moved her into our smaller, back guest room, and proceeded to move forward with setting up the room as an Airbnb.

Our Airbnb Guest Room…

Kept the original bay window seat.
Includes a desk and wine chiller to the left.
The door to our pantry was originally behind the headboard.
Total bathroom remodel.
This was the original walk in closet.
This was the original outdoor storage room.
Our Guest Room after pictures.

I’ve added the following info pages related to our Rustic Country Market Guest Room:

Our hope is that guests come as strangers and leave as friends.

If you’d like to book a stay at our Rustic Country Market Guest Room: Visit our Airbnb Guest Room page.

We aren’t just a market, we are Rustic Country Market Living.

Inspiring Home Life ♥️,

THE RELENTLESS REDECORATOR

Gourmet S’mores Kits

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Update:

Sadly, 1927 S’mores in Portland, OR closed in September, 2024.

1927 S’mores Kits have arrived at Rustic Country Market from Portland, OR. Ninteen27 S’mores, LLC was started in 2015 by our good friends’ daughter and son in law (we attended their wedding). They specialize in locally sourced (Oregon based) partnerships to create their American treats. We had the opportunity to try their s’mores during a trip to Portland, and I gotta say, they are tasty!

Opening the box…

When you open your kit, 1927’s roasting instructions are included so you can enjoy your s’mores right at home. Here in the Arizona White Mountains, we prefer to roast our s’mores over an open fire whether it’s wood or propane (as long as there’s no fire restrictions).

Tasting…

Last night we roasted Cocoa Raspberry S’mores over our propane fire pit in our backyard. The marshmallows are huge! We lost half of one to the fire. We recommend spreading the raspberry preserve on one of the delicious, cocoa graham crackers, place a piece of the bittersweet chocolate on it, then roast and squish your marshmallow between the graham crackers.

Flavors we Offer at our Market:

We aren’t just a market, we are Rustic Country Market Living.

Inspiring Home Life ♥️,

THE RELENTLESS REDECORATOR

Looking into the future…

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Rustic Country Market is going to change in the future.

What kind of change?

We are planning to expand our registered trade name, Rustic Country Market, into a home based business. I registered and created this website in 2015, and have an organic following on FB based on the name Rustic Country Market Living.

I’ve organized and supported others’ businesses most of my life, and now I’m going to focus that experience on Rustic Country Market. Our long term goal is to start/organize a local marketplace to sell rustic country items. In the meantime, we are going to participate in newly formed, local farmer market.

Adapting…

For some, there’s a fear of success, because success can raise the performance bar.

(Dilbert was cancelled in 2023.)

We “retired” and relocated the end of 2020, in the midst of global chaos; and took on a fixer upper in the rural White Mountains of AZ. As our home projects slow down, we are looking forward to doing what we enjoy, instead of what we have to do. We had hoped to travel in retirement, but with the economy going as it is, we’re limiting our love for travel to our local area.

It’s not the strongest of the species which survives, nor the most intelligent which survives. It is the one which is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

Believe…

We believe if you attach a feeling to a belief, you will make a way for change. We love God and we love USA country living. We love small towns. We love our garden, greenhouse, canning, home cooked meals, chickens, BBQ hut, wood fired oven and pizza. We love the smell and taste of fresh roasted coffee. We love our hot tub where we can sit under a vast starlit sky (because we live where there’s no light pollution). We love making things. We love crafting. We love going to garage sales and estate sales. We love repurposing things, instead of throwing them away. We love old and new rustic stuff.

We believe our name, Rustic Country Market, fits our country lifestyle.

Humble beginnings…

We’ve been busy planning our local, Arizona, home based business future that includes:

  • Rustic Country Decor
  • Small Batch Roasted Coffee Beans
  • Coffee Mugs & Signs
  • Nest Run Eggs
  • Various Dried Hot Pepper Spices
  • Dried Russian Sage Bunches

There’s a lot of details to attend to when starting a business.

Time has been flying. It’s funny how day to day, nothing appears to change, yet if we look back, EVERYTHING looks different.

I’ll be sharing our new journey, as things progress, on RusticCountryMarket.com, because I love to journal, write, and create.

We aren’t just a market, we are Rustic Country Market Living.

Inspiring Home Life ♥️,

THE RELENTLESS REDECORATOR