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The Paintbrush Prairie

Talia Whatcott & Kenzie Ashcraft

45 episodes

6 months ago

Here we are with another 2 part episode, and today we are sharing our empties! On this episode we chat about products that we love and use up until the bottle is empty. On this week’s episode we share all about our favorite foods/drink and personal care empties, from our favorite pick-me-ups to the best deodorant. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Head to our website for the detailed SHOWNOTES Purchase our Recipe E-Book HERE! Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools! *These are affiliate links...

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Here we are with another 2 part episode, and today we are sharing our empties! On this episode we chat about products that we love and use up until the bottle is empty. On this week’s episode we share all about our favorite foods/drink and personal care empties, from our favorite pick-me-ups to the best deodorant. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Head to our website for the detailed SHOWNOTES Purchase our Recipe E-Book HERE! Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools! *These are affiliate links...

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The Paintbrush Prairie

S5 E5: Our Empties: Things We Can't Stop Using

Here we are with another 2 part episode, and today we are sharing our empties! On this episode we chat about products that we love and use up until the bottle is empty. On this week’s episode we share all about our favorite foods/drink and personal care empties, from our favorite pick-me-ups to the best deodorant. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Head to our website for the detailed SHOWNOTES Purchase our Recipe E-Book HERE! Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools! *These are affiliate links...

6 months ago

48 minutes

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S5 E4: Beat the Winter Blues with Us: Part 2

This week's episode is Part 2 of a two-part episode, where we share our favorite tips to help beat the winter blues! From working out to eating well and getting sunlight, these things have really helped us this season. You might have had a taste of spring but there are a lot of places that are still enduring snow and cold temps and these tips will help you finish out the winter season strong and happy! WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Purchase our Recipe E-Book HERE! Shop Our Favorite Pr...

7 months ago

1 hour

The Paintbrush Prairie

S5 E3: Beat the Winter Blues with Us: Part 1

This week's episode is Part 1 of a two-part episode, where we share our favorite tips to help beat the winter blues! From working out to eating well and getting sunlight, these things have really helped us this season. You might have had a taste of spring but there are a lot of places that are still enduring snow and cold temps and these tips will help you finish out the winter season strong and happy! WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Visit the full show notes HERE Purchase our Recipe E-Bo...

7 months ago

53 minutes

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S5 E2: Our Prairie Picks! Sharing some of the things we are loving right now! From beauty to homeschool, and even what we're listening to.

Hey friends! On this week's episode we sit down and have a fun chat about some of our Prairie Picks! These are things we are loving right now, or things that are helping us, giving us life, or simply making life easier or more beautiful. We share some of our homeschool and life helpers, style and beauty go-tos, Kenzie's pig, and our favorite new country artist. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HEREPurchase our Recipe E-Book HERE!Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools! *These are affiliate links. We...

11 months ago

1 hour 40 minutes

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S5 E1: Season Premiere! Chatting about our big changes and how we're pivoting in our lives and businesses

Hey guys! We're back with our fifth season of the podcast! We are so grateful for all your support over the last year and we are excited to bring you another season of all things homemaking, mothering, homesteading and western living. We give you a rundown of what has happened over the summer and what we're up to now. We also announce some big changes for both of our businesses and we talk about how we're pivoting. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO PODCAST HERE Purchase our Recipe E-Book HERE! Shop Our...

11 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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S4 E9: Tell Your Story: Karri Buck of The Rabbit Hole Creations: Lessons in motherhood from a homeschooling mother of five and tips for making your house a home no matter where you are.

It's the season finale of our Tell Your Story series! We have had an amazing time hearing from all our guests this season, and we are so excited to share Karri's story with you. She is a homeschooling mother of five children, and on this episode she shares some of the lessons she has learned and the tips and tricks she has gained over time. Her family situation is unique since her husband's job has required them to move their family all over the country. She talks about how to maintain consis...

1 year ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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S4 E8: Tell Your Story: Mallory Mundt of Hayseed Home & Harvest: The hard realities of running a retail shop, embracing a slower life, and putting her family first.

Ohhhh baby in this episode we get raw and real! Mallory Mundt sat down with us to talk everything from vintage farmhouse decorating to being a professional hunter's wife, homeschooling, motherhood, and the hard realities of owning and running her own small vintage retail shop. We discuss how being creative can be both exhilarating and draining and how stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm affects our lives and our family. This one gets deep but if you are in a season of struggle creatively or in ...

1 year ago

1 hour 40 minutes

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S4 E7: Tell Your Story: Nevada Watt Miller of Nevada Watt Brand and Be a Maker School: How she became a silversmith, teaching western trades through Be a Maker school, and adjusting to motherhood as a maker and creative.

This week we sit down with Nevada Watt Miller, a silversmith, wife, mother, and all around excellent entrepreneur. She is amazingly talented in her craft, and she has inspired countless other makers and creatives to learn traditional western trades through her online learning platform, Be a Maker School. Nevada was so fun to chat with and hear how she got her start and what it's like being a full time maker and mama of the cutest little baby girl. Nevada also shares what Be a Maker School is ...

1 year ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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S4 E6: Tell Your Story: Lauren Forst of Native West-Marrying a 6th generation rancher, becoming a successful leather artist, raising cowkids on Stuart Ranch

This week’s episode has been much anticipated by both Kenzie and Talia. We sit down with Lauren Forst of Native West to chat about living on the Stuart Ranch in Oklahoma with her husband Robert and becoming a mama. Lauren tells the story of how she met Robert and walks us through her beginnings and career as a leather artist. She discusses the successes and challenges she’s faced as an artist and how she’s managing raising a family while still making time for her art. Lauren is hilarious and ...

1 year ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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S4 E5: Tell Your Story: Sarah Stutzman of Well Folk Revival: Eating a nourishing, ancestral diet, utilizing the whole animal from nose to tail, learning old fashioned homesteading skills

On this week's episode we chat with Sarah Stutzman of Well Folk Revival. Sarah shares how she feeds her family a nourishing, ancestral diet and how, on their homestead, they eat all the parts of the animal with minimal waste. We discuss how to eat a healthier diet based on the research done by Weston A. Price and how we should strive to do our best to eat healthfully in the world we live in without stressing about absolute perfection. She talks all about organ meats and their benefits, as wel...

1 year ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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S4 E4: Tell Your Story: Chelsea Gore of Pasture Petals - Starting a flower farm from scratch while being a homeschooling mama and wife, keeping family at the forefront while running a business

On this week's episode of Tell Your Story, we sit down with Chelsea Gore of Pasture Petals. Chelsea chatted with us about how she got started with her flower farm, her inspiration, and how she manages her life as both a wife and homeschooling mom and a small business owner. We talk about her upbringing (she was homeschooled herself!) and how being a part of the 4H club influenced her and gave her skills she utilizes in many aspects of her life. We discuss the challenges of being determined go...

1 year ago

1 hour 9 minutes

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S4 E3: Tell Your Story: Dakota Dawn Johnson - Being a ranch mama while maintaining a corporate job, sharing stories & fostering connection not competition between women

This week's episode of Tell Your Story features Dakota Dawn Johnson, a cowgirl, cattle rancher's wife, working mama, former Miss Rodeo USA and rodeo athlete, and fellow podcaster. She hosts the Cowgirl Confessions podcast and telling stories is her bread and butter! She shares how she dealt with loss after suddenly losing her mother, how God guided her to meet her husband, how working at Ariat has impacted her life and her family's lifestyle, and she chats about some of her experiences as Mis...

1 year ago

1 hour 29 minutes

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S4 E2: Tell Your Story: Candace Lostroh of In the Wild and Wonder - Raising tough little cowgirls and growing bucking bulls with her cougar-hunting, bull rider husband in the mountains of Colorado

On this week's episode of Season 4, Tell Your Story, Candace Lostroh joins us for a fun conversation. We go into Candace's rural upbringing, how she and her husband Kody have flourished in their Christ-centered marriage, and how they have grown from young rodeo athletes into seasoned parents and entrepreneurs raising bucking bulls on their ranch in Colorado. We even dive into some important topics concerning hunting, firearms, and the importance of standing up for our rights and teaching our ...

1 year ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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S4 E1: Season 4 Premiere! Tell Your Story: Cassie Martin of Wanderlust Skulls discusses what it takes to be a skull artist, her artistic process, and how she maintains her business while being a wife and mother.

Season 4 is here! We are so excited to be bringing you this series called Tell Your Story. This season we will feature a special guest on each episode who will share about her life. Each guest comes from a different background, part of the country, and way of life, but each has their own unique story to tell. This week, we had the most enjoyable (and hilarious) conversation with Cassie of Wanderlust Skulls. Cassie dives deep into her creative process and chats all about the ups and downs of b...

1 year ago

1 hour 25 minutes

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S3 E11: Season 3 Finale! Life updates, ending our homeschool year, and a sneak peek into Season 4!

Oh man, this Spring has been a whirlwind! Between getting our gardens planted and finishing out our homeschool year, we've been busy. We share some life updates and reasons as to why we haven't been as on our podcast game these last couple of months. Our new season launches next week and we share some fun details about what to expect! It will be so full of goodness and so will our podcast shop! Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools!ForJars: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8u6m9 Code: PAINT10Harvest Rig...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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S3 E10: Part 2: Cringy Millennial trends that should have stayed in 2001

This is part 2 of our Millennial throwback episode! This week we go into more about our favorite (and not so favorite) movies and entertainment from the 90s and 2000s. Hint: we may have been mildly obsessed with talking animals and 90s western style. We really enjoyed recording this one and we just know all you millennial ladies will love it too!Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools!ForJars: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8u6m9 Code: PAINT10Harvest Right: https://tinyurl.com/3yrvbjf2To see the full vi...

1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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S3 E9: D.A.R.E. to Say No to Cargo Pants and Chokers! Cringy millennial trends that should have stayed in 2001

On this episode, we have a lengthy (but hilarious) discussion about the trends from the 90s and early 2000s we're seeing make a comeback. We're both in our 30s, so we lived and wore most of them and now we're making a stand. Just say no to these cringy millennial trends--from cargo pants to chokers, we're not having it. We both take our turn sharing some funny memories of what life what like before iphones and social media, and talk all about our favorite music and styles from that era. We en...

1 year ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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S3 E8: Dressing Your Family Without Breaking the Bank

CLOTHING. It's a necessary expense, and it's also a fun thing to spend money on (most of the time). But when times are tough, buying clothing can be stressful and expensive! On this week's episode, we give you some tips for spending less on clothing for all members of the family (yes, even Dad!) and we share our favorite shops and places where we purchase clothing necessities; from church clothes to gym wear!Head to our website to see the full SHOW NOTES.Shop Our Favorite Preservation Tools!F...

1 year ago

1 hour 44 minutes

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S3 E7: Mother Sews Best: Learn to sew clothes for your kids with guest Amelia Mccall!

This week we had the opportunity to interview Amelia Mccall from Mother Sews Best! Amelia teaches moms how to get started on their sewing journey. We talked all things sewing with Amelia and she shared so much helpful information, from her favorite place to get fabric to how to get started sewing on the cheap. Whether you have some experience as a sewist or have never touched a sewing machine, Amelia's online course, Mother Sews Best, will guide you mamas to achieve your sewing dreams! We are...

1 year ago

56 minutes

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S3 E6: Decluttering Tips for the Bedroom: How we declutter clothes, jewelry, and makeup

Our bedrooms and closets can sometimes be the hardest to declutter! It's not just clothing, but shoes, makeup, hair products, jewelry, AND our husband's things too. In this episode we discuss our mindsets when it comes to clearing out old or unnecessary clothing and shoes, how we don't really get rid of jewelry (anymore), and talk about how we sometimes hang onto things even when it's not good for us, whether it's mentally or physically. We also have a discussion about decluttering our husban...

1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes