Hick Femme

etsy sale

2011-07-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

check out this cute etsy sale!:
www.etsy.com/shop/ebeamer

i went to Paris! :)

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♥

2011-06-27T18:50:00.001-07:00

i am going to this thursday night!

bon voyage!

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salut mon amis!

this blog will be away on vacation for june!

i am going to visit my best friend in scotland, then off to visit another in brighton england, then i am chunnelling over to paris to look for some great femme dresses! ooo la la! happy june and see you back here in july!

earth houses = dreamy!!!!

2011-05-09T22:14:00.000-07:00

what is an earth house you may say? well it's a house dug into the side of a hill, like a hobbit house, with the hilltop for the roof!
i first discovered this the akward way..... i pretty much walked o n my neighbor's roof when i was a kid without knowing! oops.... i was just a small woods lassie trapesin' around in my gumboots and dress just a walk in the woods above my house. maybe lookin for berries or fairies! i grew up on a mountain side with a bunch of dirt roads up the mountain and maybe like 3 houses per road. well.... up in the woods i was bustin around, and then i kinda peered around the hill and what do i see? a bear, my dog, a squirrell?... no! a window! it was an earth house!
here are some pretty pictures of other earth houses from around the world!

saw this book while garage saling. so cute!

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This is the cutest thing I ever seen (besides my cats...)

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So pretty

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♥

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This song is adorable!

When you wanna feel comfort and wholesome...

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I have to live in the city for a while for work. After the recession, I just couldn't make enough of a living on my own in the forest and had to leave my cutest cabin. But I grew up in the woods and then spent many years away traveling and completing my Bachelor degree, and I always go back to see my family and never feel completely away from it in my life. And I don't think a whole upbringing of running around wild in the forest barefoot with dogs and wild elk suddenly leaves your soul when ya have to put on heals and walk on pavement. Hee hee. Living in the city for a bit is also a great way to build up a career to save up to buy land in the future. I know always that I will settle back in the woods again, it just takes some time to be able to afford that dream cabin, with hammock and goat too hopefully! :)

Anyhoo when ever I miss the wholesome innocense of the forest, I like to watch a cute Canadian TV show filmed in Alberta called Heartland, on CBC. Its about a horse ranch and super cute and has very pretty landscapes in it. When I was little my other favorite Canadian show, cuz I am proudly Canadian and from the mountains, was Road to Avonlea. Its by the same author of Anne of Green Gables and very cute too. :)

I've been back to my hicksville twice in a few months since I moved to see Mama Hick Femme. She is adorable. She is a mean tie-dyer and knitter. I am always trying to convince she should sell her knitting on etsy. She bought me a rose quartz crystal and some essential oils. I am a hippy child. It's rad. She loves Bob Dylan and used to shoot cans off the compost pile with her BB Gun when I was growing up. Loves the HT Mama! She used to like riffles but then just BB Guns, but I would try to get her not to shoot the squirrels! My Gramps belongs to the local Rod and Gun Club, which is just for hunters and they also protect some local land for endangered animals like mountain goats. I asked him once to take me to the gun range so I could try it, but he said : "It's no place for a lady." Ha ha! I never asked again. :)

The New Loretta Lynn Tribute Album

2011-01-09T16:08:00.000-08:00

This album has such a pretty pretty cover. I love how everything is black and white with just baby pink. So pretty. The lovely and beautiful Miranda Lambert sings on this album. I saw her speaking on body image after she won at the CMA's and I really liked it. Personally I don't think she is a "bigger girl", she just looks normal to me, but growing up in the 80's I remember size 6 being the tiny size and there was no size 0. So i think its very ridiculous that size 8 is considered a plus size now and what media says is plus now I think is just a normal women's body. We have curves! And I don't know many ladies who are a size 0 to 4. Today's sizing is bonkers.

Any hoo, since there is this great new album out for Loretta, lets just remeber how she was one of the "fore-mother's" of women in country music in and had the guts to write bluntly and sassy about everyday ladies in a time when that was unheard of. According to Wikipedia, she possibly had more banned songs than any other artist in the history of country music, including "Rated X," about the double standards divorced women face, "Wings Upon Your Horns," about the loss of teenage virginity, and "The Pill," lyrics by T. D. Bayless, about a wife and mother becoming liberated via the birth control pill. Her song "Dear Uncle Sam," released in 1966 during the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war.

Review of "Country Strong" movie!

2011-01-09T15:23:00.000-08:00

Hi there. I went to Country Strong last night. I'm not a big gwenyth fan or anything, but I liked the movie and I think she did a good job. Hope I don't sound weird but I wish the girl in this movie, Leighton and Gwenyth, had bigger boobs! Cuz their so much great big hair and big dresses and big songs, but not big that. Ha ha. Oops.

So the best part of the movie was Garret Hedlund. He was the younger country singer guy, not Tim McGraw. He could be my new pretend movie star husband! Hee hee! Sorry Nicholas Cage!!! But ya, his songs were all sung by him and great. All the actors in this movie did their own singing and guitar playing and it was quite good. I also liked they they name dropped lots of great songs and musicians in this movie, such as Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard's Silver Wings, and Emmy Lou! :) I also really liked the dresses of the Leighton Meester character, from Gossip Girl. Her character was a new country barbie like singer who used to be a pagent queen. So of course she also had very nice hair. Does anyone know if their are youtube or website on how to do nice country hair styles? I would love to see them, just for research purposes.... I already have one on the poof.

Here is the Country Strong Trailer, and Merle's Silver wings and lets just have Mama Tried while we're at it! :) And some Townes Van Zandt, this is one of my favorite videos ever. xo. Happy 2011 everyone.

Dolly Klaus! :)

2010-12-18T16:02:00.000-08:00

The Backwoods Remedies Post

2010-11-11T20:42:00.000-08:00

I was chatting with a city gal the other day who a had a dog and it randomly came up about her dog killing a chicken once. And then I was like "Oh you just do the neck trick and then it won't kill again". And she had no idea what I was talking about, and then I realized that lots of the "Backwoods remedies" that are normal to us and work great, have never been heard of by most people!

Well you are in for a treat! Let me tell ya some! xoxoxo :)

1. How to stop you dog from killing chickens

(especially if your neighbor has a liking for using his shotgun on dogs... as mine did where I grew up)

- Simply get the dead chicken and ties it to the back of the dogs neck for about 3 days. The smell and weight will become a nuisance to the dog and then it will associate a chicken with being a nuisance and never touch them again! It totally works!!! :)

2. How to stop keep spiders out of your room

(spiders are great and help out manage our insect ecosystem, but it did suck when i was a kid and wolf spiders would always bite me on the face when I was sleeping. And then you have a huge welt on your face for a week too)

- Get a Chestnut (ya, like they roast at Christmas) and drill a little hole in it with a nail and place one in each corner of your room. The spiders with stay away. I have no idea why this works. Some say the smell of the inside of the nut repels them, but can spiders smell? And some say the vibrations from the inside of the nut repels them. Chestnuts vibrate? But anyways, I used this remedy my whole life and was never bit again!!! :)

3. Honeysuckle - a nice summer snack for bush folk.

- Honey suckle is a chocker vine that grows around bushes and trees in the woods. It blooms in the summer and has pretty little orange flowers. You can drink the honey from them by picking a flower carefully from the vine then biting the bottom tip off and suck out the honey juice. Now only take a few flowers off the vine or it won't regenerate as well them next year without the pollen from the flowers. There are a lot of city folk turned fake hippies where I grew up that have started wildcrafting businesses and take way too many wildflowers from the woods now to make a profit and just think there is plenty and they will grow back, but they haven't lived there as long and haven't seen all the flowers slowing go away like the trees have from logging too. We have to appreciate natural gifts and not take them for granted. xo.

4. Camp fire smoke.

- This is an old old camp trick and I have no idea where it comes from (but if you do please tell me!) and why is works. Its mythical, but yes it works. So if you are ever sitting around a campfire (fun! xo. roast apples! yum), and smoke is in your face, just say "White rabbits" over and over and it will go away. Yup! xo.

The End!

Love Hick Femme!

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Lightening From the North!

2010-07-25T13:47:00.000-07:00

Our favorite band, the .357 String band, has a new album out call "Lightening from the North"! Yay! They are amazing crusty bluegrass from Milwauke! Listen here!

And they are pretty easy on the eyes... Hee hee. Don't tell my boyfriend! :)

Stampedin'!

2010-07-25T13:14:00.000-07:00

We went! Calgary Stampede 2010! We bee-lined right away for the Hot Beef Sundae stand and happily discovered they had a pulled pork sundae, and DAMN it was good!

Now next there was the slight discovery of the Calgary Vet display. They had a stand in the Agriculture tent with a fake cow so you can put your hand up it to feel what a cow baby would feel like. Because you have always wanted to right!!!!!!! But of course they put talcum powder on you 1st! Of course. We both did it, giggling the whole time!

HF.

Summer Bloomers!

2010-07-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

Check out these great summer bloomers by fellow hick femme Kathy, at her great etsy shop: While Jupiter Dreams!

Xo! What a great maganeta one piece Dolly has on!

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xo!

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T-shirt Design for Homogogo Festival 2009

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Tearing down an Outhouse!

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Don't fall in!

Thank you fans!

2010-06-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

We have 247 fans on facebook! Yay! A lot from the USA. Thank you from up in Canada!

Stampede 2008

2010-06-20T17:06:00.000-07:00

The Stampede!!! Its so fun! And have you eva heard of a hot beef sundae!!! Omg. Its sundae cup with mashed potatoes on the bottom, then beef, then gravy!!! Genius. And they have big BBQ turkey legs and corns on the cob, and elephant ears! Ya know the deep fried batter with sugar and cinnamon, not a real elephant silly!!!! There is the air bb gun game where you have to shoot the star out of a paper. Its $5 a pop and i will probably drop a 100 just there alone! hee hee. Well, maybe I can do it in $15.... :) And they have bails of hay everywhere and a you can pet baby chicks. cute!

Shaina Twain

2010-06-20T17:04:00.000-07:00

Last month I saw the CBC bio flick on Shaina's life growing up in Ontario and all the stuff she went through to get to where she is now. I have a new appreciation for the lil' lady now! :)

Most recent Miranda Lambert video. She won 2 CMA's!

2010-06-20T17:03:00.000-07:00

cute shirt! xo.

2010-06-20T16:12:00.001-07:00

get this super cute hick femme top on my friends etsy site:

Miss Kitten Vintage!

Follow us on Facebook!

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my favorite blogs!

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fit for a femme

punkin

growl go the tame

while tangerine dreams

the cutest country dress!

2010-05-19T22:17:00.000-07:00

www.lulus.com

just don't show up wearing it same time as me..... as if! xo.

sale on at this rad etsy site!

2010-05-19T22:14:00.000-07:00

www.ebeamer.etsy.com

check it out! :)

Country crushes... besides on Dolly of course! xo.

2010-05-19T22:09:00.001-07:00

Ok Hick Femmes, any country crushes?! Hmmmm, who WAS hotter: a young Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, or Merle Haggard? Did ya wanna through Hank III in there?.... xo. And what about my fashion crush on Miranda Lambert! She loves ruffles and sequins.... :) Happy almost summer h.f.s! almost time for our country dresses!!!!

The lovely Miss Patsy Cline!

2010-04-27T21:38:00.000-07:00

Hick Femme fashion!

2010-04-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

Hi H.F.'s!!♥ Let's Talk outfits! It's "Hick Femme Fashion Month!!!" Well... in my head any ways.... :) Here are some of our top fashion ladies of all times. Please comment below with any links or fav hick fashions!

Hugs, H.F.!

Femme Deer! ♥♥♥

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Deer Hugs! ♥

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The commute! ♥

2010-02-20T21:53:00.000-08:00

This is my 4km commute to work! Total gridlock! I walk there and back 3 times a week, so 24 km a week. Its very pretty. But I bust down the trail with my To-Go cup and lipstick like its 5th avenue! The crows and ducks give me looks, rush hour ya know.

Well right now I am unable to walk the trail cuz there is a Bobcat on one end and a Cougar on the other! Some suggested I carry a giant knife with me and ya know just just do a little hunting on the way to work, um... no thanks! I already pack a giant thing of Bearspray in the ol' purse with my pink mini flashlight, I don't think I can fit anything else in there.... ♥ Hopefully I can walk again soon! ♥

I know I am a Hick Femme when.....

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I am actually really excited to get invited to a "Driveway Clearing" bush party by the same person who had a "Slash Pile Burning"party! Yes!

Hick Femmes love talking to our baby animal friends in red lipstick!

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Other names for Hick Femmes

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Hillbilly Diva
Backwoods Lassie
Backwoods Barbie
Wheelbarrow Mama
Country Girly

Do you have any more names for a Hick Femme? Submit here! ♥

Our facebook group has over 200 fans!

2010-02-19T19:31:00.000-08:00

Yay! Thank you fans of Hick Femme! Our little country hearts beats as ones! :)

This is the funniest Hick Femme song ever!!!

2010-02-14T20:51:00.000-08:00

Deanna Carter: "Did I Shave My Legs For This?"

Here is the link, the video can't be embeded.

Did I shave my legs for this, song

Luv it.

Hick Femme ART

2010-02-14T20:28:00.000-08:00

Last year I found a pretty old rusted tin can in a field near my cabin in the woods. Rusted metal is so pretty. I took it home and painted pretty roses on it. It was such a hit, I went to the one cafe in my boonie town of 300, and got their old tomato cans and took them home and pounded the shite outta them with a hammer in my pj's on the lawn. Hammering cans is a great release! xo. So then for 3 months I would get up every morning and walk barefoot on my grass by the firepit and spritz my cans with a salt water spray to rust them, and ta da, here we have it! Hick Femme Art! xo.

Happy Valentines Day Hick Femmes! xo!

2010-02-14T19:25:00.000-08:00

here is a little valentines day love ballad for you from our lovely dolly! obsessed am i? well..... how can you not just luv her! checkout her awsum dress with a giant slit up it in this video! and great hair! :)

CALL OUT FOR NEW NEW LINKS!!!

2010-02-14T19:22:00.000-08:00

Hick Femme is now accepting suggestions for new links on the blog. Know a great blog, website or company!? Submit here. And check our new few links just added! Luv hick femme!

A great blog, and link with Hick Femme!

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Fit For a Femme
A fashion blog from San Francisco, our neighbors down south from us up here in yee ol' Canada!
http://fitforafemme.com/blog/

Hick Femmes can jump logs in heels!

2010-02-06T19:45:00.000-08:00

This morning I had to chase the little country bus down the highway, in my high heel cowboy boots, at 7am in the mid dark morning. I was a little late cuz i was so excited about putting on my new lip gloss! light raspberry color! But then I got to thinking, there should be a High Heeled Olympics for us ladies. I would try for silver or gold. look out. But us Hick Femmes could for sure jump logs instead of hurdles!!! xo.

Every Hick Femme's Dream Vacation is..... Dollywood! xo.

2010-02-06T19:27:00.000-08:00

Dolly is amazing! She can tap songs out with her fake nails on the table! Some day my dreams will be complete and i will be there, eating some Hickory House BBQ! xo.
Dollywood

Such nice hair!

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Thee Miss Loretta Lynn

So cute!

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Miranda Lambert- How can you not just love her!

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Miranda Lambert

The most amazing Hick Femme photo ever!

2009-10-29T23:55:00.000-07:00

thanks again to marek!

The Sallies.

2009-10-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

Meet the Sallies, these are the deer that visit me in my front yard. Sally and Sally Junior! So cute. xo.

I know I am a Hick Femme when.....

2009-10-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

You find your self hand-sawing wood inside the house on a log, on a typical Thursday night.... xo.

I know I am a Hick Femme when.....

2009-10-21T20:08:00.000-07:00

When the drive into town conversation consists of:

- wild turkey hunting

- bush guards on trucks

- what to do with road kill

- the benefits of hitting a deer straight on as opposed to swerving

(all while I was checking out my new french manicure).....

I know I am a Hick Femme when.....

2009-10-21T20:07:00.000-07:00

You think that Bear Fencing would be a cooler present then Diamonds.... xo.

Can you guess who has the red toes!?.... It's me!

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Hick Femme musica!

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Music of the day: "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle and "Crazed Country Rebel" by Hank Williams III. The prettiest country song ever though is "Paradise" by John Prine!

The lovely Solveigh dirt biking in her pink dress!

2009-08-02T20:54:00.000-07:00

Dolly! ♥♥♥

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What makes you a Hick Femme?

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Are you a Hick Femme too!? That's great! Tell me why? Got a story? Love to hear it! Post comments on the right hand side panel!

Amazing!

2009-08-02T12:36:00.001-07:00

"The way I look is just a country girl's idea of glam" xo.

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"Backwoods Barbie" - Dolly Parton

I grew up poor and ragged, just a simple country girl.
I wanted to be pretty more than anything in the world,
like Barbie or the models in the Fredricks' catalog.
From rags to wishes in my dreams I could have it all.
I'm just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair.
Don't be fooled by thinkin' that the goods are not all there.
Don't let these false eyelashes lead you to believe that
I'm as shallow as I look 'cause I run true and deep.

I've always been misunderstood because of how I look.
Don't judge me by the cover 'cause I'm a real good book.
So read into it what you will, but see me as I am.
The way I look is just a country girl's idea of glam.

I'm just a backwoods Barbie in a push-up bra and heels.
I might look artificial, but where it counts I'm real.
And I'm all dolled up and hopin' for a chance to prove my worth,
And even backwoods Barbie's get their feelings hurt.

I'm just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair.
Don't be fooled by thinkin' that the goods are not all there.
Yes, I can see where I could be misjudged upon first glance;
But even backwoods Barbie's deserve a second chance.
I'm just a backwoods Barbie just asking for a chance,
just a backwoods Barbie.