MARY MARCIA, Making Scents and Pretty Things in KC

I always aspire to be a good mom,  grandmother, and great-grandmother.   ❤️  ❤️  Oh!  To be like the Proverbs 31 woman  in the Holy Bible.  ❤️  ❤️  I dreamed of the day “my children would rise up and call me blessed.”  Things don’t always happen the way we plan.  I cringe when my adult kids share stories of me being a much-less-than-perfect-mom because I remember those stories in a completely different way.  Forgiveness is a gift we all need. ❤️  I have four adult children. Two are homemade and two are made in China, adopted, chosen children.  They changed my life and made me stretch and grow.  I learned a lot from being their mom.  I love them with all my heart. ❤️  Some say our chosen children are “lucky” to be adopted into our family.   That is a very hurtful thing to say to a chosen child.  STOP saying that.   Tell the others.  Our family needed our chosen children as much as they needed us. I have four extraordinary grandchildren: Joshua, Megan Jewell, Emily Grace and Caleb. I lov

  ❤️ I had this idea. ❤️  Most stores like Bath & Body Works and department stores have testers out for customers to use. ❤️ I LOVE testing fragrances but I don’t really like using those tester bottles.  And let’s face it - many do not spray the perfume on tester papers as instructed. ❤️ So… God gave me the idea to create SCENT ENVELOPES.  I believe it’s a breakthrough idea in the perfume industry for TESTERS that has the potential to save perfume companies $$$ dollars while providing a safer way to get a whiff of a perfume you might want to add to your perfume wardrobe. Signature Fragrance:  FAITH, BROWNIE BATTER Signature Fragrance:  MEGAN, CANDY CORN ❤️    Signature Fragrances  Inspired by Actual Humans  in my Tribe ❤️  My gourmand and floral perfumes  and men’s colognes  are DIFFERENT and UNIQUE.   ❤️  ❤️ THANK YOU, GOD,  for the BREAKTHROUGH IDEA  for PERFUME TESTERS.   ❤️COMMENTS: ❤️  “I opened and sniffed every envelope.  HEAVENLY!” ❤️  “I sniffed every envelope and  each on

 💜 There are a multitude of labels yet to apply to hundreds of my handmade HEARTLAND TRIBE MERCH.  It’s a labor of love to see this dream be born.   💜 My art prints are photographs I have taken.  They are suitable for framing and giving as keepsake greeting cards.  They are printed on linen and pearl paper.  Some have a place on the back for notes. This is a photograph I took of a flag flying at our home in Blue Springs, and red geraniums in a hanging pot.  Granny Lucille always had pots of red geraniums at each house she owned in Liberty, Missouri. Granny Lucille’s House 222 West Franklin, Liberty, Missouri Liberty’s Historic District http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-generation.html   I designed the art print cards with a NOTE section because for years my Granny Lucille, Nanny (Aunt Ann), Aunt Helen, Aunt Beulah, Aunt Boob, Aunt Reba, Aunt Jacoba, and Aunt Verpal and Sis-in-law, Shirley, wrote messages all over the cards they lovingly sent me and so many other