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Features Editor’s Letter pg.10 Fast Food pg. 13 With the Taste of Home Cooking School around the corner, we have a preview of its tasty recipes. Home How-to pg. 25 We all wish for patio and pool days with the warmer weather and this home has both.

Cottage Tea Room • pg. 18

Don’t pass through the small town of Aberdeen without stopping into this cute and delicious cafe.

Caldwell Home • pg. 29

On the west side of Tupelo, this home sits beautiful on the outside and equally as appealing on the inside.

The Cotton District • pg. 38

Even if you aren’t a State fan, this town has more to offer than you may think.

Ali Ballard’s Home • pg. 46

With treasures she has collected along the way, Ali’s home is nothing short of eccentric and full of style.

Spring Fashion • pg. 55

Hit the Road pg. 35 A day trip to Pontotoc may be just what you need this weekend. Fact Sheet pg. 45 A powerful woman with a sweet smile, this issue’s q & a subject makes Tupelo proud. In The Know pg. 77 The name may have you thinking food, but this jewelry line is taking the local market by storm.

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Editor’s Letter

Guest Column: Carmen Cristo, multimedia editor There is nothing quite like spring in the South. Everything is green, meals are eaten outside, and porch swings rarely stop swinging. Mississippi is in full bloom, and here at Mud & Magnolias, we are feeling inspired. It’s a new season for our publications as we work diligently to give you more of the content you love. This means adding fresh stories and video to our websites weekly, making our social media pages more interactive, and sending out a newsletter so that you always know what’s new at mudandmagnolias.com. We hope that this year’s home edition will remind you why you love home and encourage you to see and try new things, too. Check out our fashion section (pg.55) featuring local retailers’ picks for spring. Stop by the homes of Ali Ballard (pg.46) and Jala Caldwell (pg.29 ) for design tips for any style. Try your hand at gardening with tips from Tupelo’s experts (pg.82 ). If you’re looking for an excuse to take a day trip, see Aberdeen’s Cottage Tea Room (pg.18), Starkville’s Cotton District (pg.38), and the quaint city of Pontotoc (pg.35). Wherever you go, take Mud & Magnolias with you. We love to hear from our readers on Facebook, Instagram, and mudandmagnolias.com.

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Few things make me happier than receiving a phone call or email from one of our readers asking how they can get a copy of the magazine. When we started Mud & Magnolias, our distribution plan was to partner with our sister publication The Daily Journal to get the magazine in as many hands in our region as possible. We knew this plan would change as we grew to a point where our brand could stand alone. We believe that time has come. The number of copies we distribute will not change. This is important to note. But the way we will distribute Mud & Magnolias will change. This new distribution will include a continued partnership with the Daily Journal in Lee County, but the majority of our copies will be distributed evenly in the following counties: Itawamba, Pontotoc, Union, Alcorn, Monroe, Lee, Tippah, Oktibbeha and Lafayette. These changes will be effective with our June/July issue. This decision was made with much consideration and took into account all feedback, from readers in all corners of our market. A complete list of locations where the magazine will be available is on our website at www.mudandmag.com/find-copy. As always, the Daily Journal offices will have a rack constantly refilled during the two-month cycle. In addition, our digital edition can be accessed by anyone, anywhere via our website.

The Caldwell home is ready for spring and their table setting was the perfect way to capture our hearts this season. Photo by Lauren Wood.

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at 11 a.m., but their days start before 7 a.m. Gardner, a retired nurse, recalls the day she first thought of putting a restaurant in the craftsman-style home. A caterer had been using the home for

storage, and when the business closed, they had a sale there. Gardner, who had a catering side business with Langford, went to the sale with a friend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dietician friend went with me, and I was asking her what I should buy.

She said, ‘What you should really do is buy this house,’” Gardner said. “We bought the house, and didn’t buy a thing at the sale,” added Langford. They opened the Cottage Tea Room on March 15, 1999, with a one-page menu that they put together the night before. That menu has now grown to over 40 items, including best sellers like chicken salad, quiche, and turnip green soup. Langford said what really brings people in the door, though, is the daily special. The daily special, although different each day, is a staple in itself, and the customers don’t take kindly to changes. “Some days, if the weather is bad, or we haven’t had much time to prepare, we will not have a special and will just let people order from the menu,” Langford said. “People act like we have ruined their entire day.”

A customer-favorite special is chicken and wild rice. They also offer different vegetables to accompany the entrées, and every one has their favorite. “We made butterbeans today, and it threw everyone for a loop,” Gardner said, with a laugh. As far as desserts, they decide on a whim what they will make and serve that day, except for Wednesdays, which are reserved as bread pudding days. “We had to give it its own day, because people were always calling wanting to know when we’d be serving bread pudding,” Langford said. Don’t ask for the recipe, though. Gardner said even if they gave out their secrets, it wouldn’t be the same at home. She never strictly follows the instructions. Most of their ideas come from church cookbooks, school cookbooks, magazines, and even

Pinterest. Gardner remembers watching her great aunt, who lived with her family, make bread pudding. It was her time spent in the kitchen with her that first inspired her love for cooking. “She loved children and loved to be around the young people. And she loved to cook. She would be in the kitchen with me, and when I laid a dirty dish down, she washed it up for me, so that’s probably why I like to cook,” Gardner teased. With only four employees, they serve the lunch crowd Monday through Friday and still make time to deliver to bereaved families and homebound patrons, cater, and sell specialty items like cakes and cupcakes. Langford and Gardner even have their own line of pre-packaged mixes called “In the Box,” that make baking sweet favorites as easy mudandmag.com

as adding butter or water. These small tastes of Aberdeen can be found in gift shops and emporiums all over the state. For Cottage Tea Room regulars, the environment is half of the experience. A full guestbook sits on a table by the door, evidence of all those who have experienced Langford and Gardner’s true Southern hospitality first-hand. Customers sit at tables, just a few feet away from other diners, mirroring the intimacy of their quaint hometown. The dishes are mismatched and unique. Most of them were purchased at tag sales, although it isn’t uncommon for people in the community to drop off unwanted dish sets on the front porch. Artifacts, both familiar and unfamiliar to me, hang from the walls and sit perched on tables. “We are refined hoarders,” Langford

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said. One piece in particular caught my eye, which looked like a metal silhouette of a hand attached to a rod. Gardner explained the device was used to dry women’s gloves after they had been washed. The entire restaurant is a nod to a bygone era when women met in gloves and hats to sip tea and talk about the day’s events, possibly even in that very house. For Langford and Gardner, that image doesn’t seem so far-fetched. They entertain women’s church groups and Red Hat Society chapters often. During the annual pilgrimage, they will even host a proper tea, with matching china. Little is known of the home’s history; although, there is rumor that the craftsman is a Sear’s home. It is located in what is known today as “Old

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lmost a dozen years after the family moved into the house in November 2004, Jala still finds joy daily in the surroundings she and her husband have established for themselves and their two children – 18-year-old Jackson, a Tupelo High School senior, and Ansley, 15, a freshman. “I grew up in the country and my husband grew up in the city, so here we have a good blend of both the city and country,” Jala said. “There’s a cow pasture next door, and we’re always seeing deer in the yard.” Jala and Rudy built their four-bedroom, four-bath home after living in two previous houses that didn’t quite meet their needs. “We had lived in a two-story house when our son was born, and all the bedrooms except the master bedroom were upstairs,” Jala said. “We decided that was not the floor plan we wanted. We bought another house that was all on one level and lived there for a while, but at that point we decided we wanted to build something specifically for our family that we liked.” The house design they chose is called a

Florida house plan, though they’ve made major modifications. The design style puts most of the house on one level, except a bonus room above the garage. It also incorporates plenty of windows to bring in lots of natural light. “It was important to us to be able to see outside from pretty much anywhere in the house,” Jala said. To that end, the living-dining greatroom is flanked front and back by three sets of French doors. From the front you can see straight through to the back yard. “We wanted to bring the outside in with all the windows and French doors we have,” Jala said. From entering the house through the central living-dining greatroom, the open floor plan flows to the right into the kitchen, with its nearby breakfast area and den. “We probably spend 80 percent of our time in the kitchen-den area,” Jala said. “We love entertaining and having people over all year long.” Specially-ordered Arizona stone was used to create the arched entrances to the den and kitchen, where an antique pine

cabinet on one wall, refinished in the same stain as the other cabinetry, is a special feature. Another special piece is a refinished pine table for the breakfast area that incorporates some of Rudy’s family history. It was the table where his mother did her homework growing up. “We love being surrounded by those special pieces,” Jala said. The cork walls in the den showcase Mississippi State memorabilia, though Jala freely changes the décor with the season, and the cork walls don’t show any new holes that accommodate changes in placement of pictures. “We live in our house, and there’s no part of our house that is off limits,” Jala said. In addition to their two teenagers with their many friends, the home is also a very comfortable residence for two canine family members, white Maltese Oliver and elderly Cocker Spaniel Sam. With Jala’s cat allergies, the two feline family members, Snickers and Baxter, live outside. Thumper, the rabbit, lives in a hutch in the backyard. Having grown up with a brother and sharing a bathroom with him, it was important to Jala that Jackson and Ansley

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each have their own bathrooms. Décor in both of their living spaces reflects their interests and personalities – Jackson, a lover of most sports and a Mississippi Statebound senior, and Ansley’s love of horses and Synergy show choir at Tupelo High School. On the opposite side of the house is the master suite, where Jala’s favorite feature is the custom-made window in the bathroom, that gives her an expansive view of the backyard and a blooming redbud tree. “I saw a picture in a magazine, and a local window company found a window manufacturer to make it for us,” Jala said. “We did the same thing with the brick on the outside. The original Florida house plan we chose had a stucco exterior, but I had seen this brick on a house featured in a Southern Living magazine. I was set on it, and we ended up getting it from a manufacturer in Virginia because the original manufacturer in Tennessee had quit

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making it.” Jala said they were pleased to have the sand-faced brick give an impression of age and Southern architecture to the house, along with other features like gas lanterns and a deep front porch. On the main floor, the fourth bedroom is furnished as an office and includes an upright piano that both Ansley and Jackson have begun learning to play. Jala said she once had lessons and played, but those days are long past. The space where Jackson and Ansley most often entertain their friends is the bonus room over the garage, which is furnished with a comfy sectional sofa and chairs, games tables and two built-in twin beds. The Caldwells not only enjoy the interior environment they have created to nurture their family, but they also love being outdoors and working in their yard. The architect who worked with them

to lay out the orientation of the home on their lot also designed the swimming pool and included the pool patio, shrubbery and other planting placements in the schematic. They have used it as a guide as they have fleshed out development of the property in the past decade or so. “We’ve added things as we could,” Jala said. “We planted the magnolia tree border on one side, then a few years later added the trees on the other side.” They also added a covered patio behind the swimming pool. Each area is getting a share of attention for outdoor entertaining in the weeks and months ahead. “We’re covered with scratches from trimming our rose trellis last weekend, and we’ve been outside pulling up dead plants and cleaning out beds getting ready to put in our new plants for spring,” she said. M

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here’s a lot for families to love in this city of 5,600, including a rich history, an abundance of boutiques, a variety of restaurants, and numerous recreational and outdoor activities. “We’ve got good choices here,” said Miriam Clark, who along with two friends owns Antiques Downtown. Their business is one of five antiques stores in Pontotoc, located about 25 minutes west of Tupelo in Pontotoc County. Two doors down from Clark’s shop is Antiques on Main, where a life-size cast aluminum buffalo greets visitors amid vintage wrought iron patio furniture on the sidewalk. “It’s going to be sad when the buffalo leaves,” Clark said, explaining that the statue has been sold but not yet relocated to its new home in West Point. 36

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Near the courthouse, “up on the square,” she said, Cowgirl Clutter is in the old Michael’s Department Store building. Antique Station is on Oxford Street just north of the square, and Antiques Off the Square is in a former hardware store on West Marion. “All the antique stores in town are a little different, and that’s why we want everyone to experience each one,” said Clark, who works with the other shop owners to promote their businesses as well as everything else Pontotoc has to offer. That includes the boutiques, of which there are plenty. “We have several downtown and we have several on the bypass,” Clark said. Visitors can park and stroll down Main Street to Between Sisters Boutique and Gifts, Ella Ivy Boutique, True Blue Boutique and Flutter &

Company. Pure Bliss is a short drive away in the Piggly Wiggly Shopping Center, and not far from there is The Red Door. Even the True Value Hardware Store sells ladies’ clothing. “They are great,” Clark said. “The boutiques have replaced the big box stores. They’re really trendy and have good prices.” Those with a notion for sewing can stop in for quilting and knitting classes at Needleart Fabrics and More on Lafayette Street, and hungry visitors will find a mix of fast food, family, sandwich, seafood, Mexican and Chinese restaurants in Pontotoc. Boondocks Grill, next to the Chamber of Commerce downtown, offers authentic Cajun cuisine. Happy Day Cafe serves up specialty sandwiches, coffee and cakes on West Oxford, and at Austin on Main, patrons dine in a red brick building

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that once housed a general store. “At Austin, they have good burgers and chicken wraps,” Pontotoc resident Paula Matkins said. “Their salads are probably my favorite.” From the Mechanics Insurance office where she works on Main Street, Matkins is close to all Pontotoc has to offer. “We’re getting a lot,” she said. Her parents own and operate Happy Trails, a bed and breakfast cottage that routinely hosts guests from near and far interested in the Tanglefoot Trail. Locals, including Matkins, also frequent Mississippi’s longest Rails to Trails conversion. “It’s encouraged a lot of people to get out and walk and ride their bikes,” she said. The 43-mile recreational attraction starts in Houston and ends in New Albany.

“The Tanglefoot Trail goes through 22 miles of Pontotoc County and city,” said Ellen Russell, director of Pontotoc’s Main Street Association and Chamber of Commerce. “That is an avenue that we have seen to grow tourism. It’s brought people from all over the country here.” At Hill and Trail Bicycle Company on Turnpike Road, “They’ll rent you a bike and put you out on the trail,” she said. Other outdoor attractions in Pontotoc include Howard Stafford Park and Trace State Park, which offer camping and fishing, and Russell said visitors to Pontotoc are also curious about the Amish in the area. “We have 20 to 25 families that live in the south part of the county,” Russell said. “We do have a lot of people who inquire about them.” Clark said tourists also visit the

antebellum mansion Lochinvar, as well as the Town Square Post Office & Museum. “The Pontotoc museum is in the old historic post office,” she said. “It’s a working post office. People are donating to it every day. It has a lot of local history.” Clark is among the locals buying into Pontotoc’s new motto. “Where family comes first and you’ll love every second is printed on my business cards,” she said. Visitors too can enjoy the hospitality Pontotoc has to offer. “It’s always a pleasant surprise,” Clark said. M Photos by Lauren Wood

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COTTON DISTRICT A shining example of new-urbanism living tucked in the heart of Starkville. By JB Clark

estled between Starkville’s quaint downtown and Mississippi State University is a beautiful collection of classical architecture in understated blues, reds and yellows, conjuring images of New Orleans, France and even Greece and Rome. This neighborhood, known as the Cotton District, is slowly becoming the beating heart of the growing college town. Dan Camp began renewing the neighborhood in 1969, and over the past 47 years has become credited with starting and leading the new-urbanism movement — preceding and inspiring communities like Seaside and Celebration in Florida. While The Cotton District literally

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connects Downtown Starkville and Mississippi State University along University Drive, it also serves as a symbolic connection — bringing students and permanent residents together through its living spaces, restaurants, bars, shops and communal outdoor spaces. The neighborhood is characterized by its small, intentionally designed spaces priced in a way to encourage young entrepreneurs and restaurateurs to act on their ideas. Above each business and all throughout the neighborhood are similarly designed living spaces that attract students and established residents alike to live in the very community where they go to school, work, eat and gather with friends. Camp said the residential growth has a

lot to do with the success of the businesses and vice versa. “This growth is something I planned, and it’s two-fold,” said Camp. “You have to have places for people to live — we do that in a way that they can walk to these destinations, and any given night there could be thousands of people out at night in front of these places — these restaurants.” Intentional community may be the most obvious trait of the Cotton District, with narrow streets surrounded on either side by sidewalks and patios. Most sunny days find hundreds of people enjoying lunch, happy hour, dinner and late night conversations on these patios, sipping drinks and enjoying the late-night menus from the various neighborhood restaurants.

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Bulldog Burger Co. “There is a true sense of community among the residents, and we are certainly honored to be their neighborhood watering hole,” said Brian Kelley, who co-owns Bin 612 with Chef Ty Thames — longtime staple of The Cotton District. “The Cotton District is its own community within Starkville. It is the most walkable area in the city, and its connection to the beautiful Mississippi State campus makes for an easily walkable commute for a lot of the residents.” Bin 612 has served as a rallying point for The Cotton District since it opened just over 10 years ago. Its large outdoor seating area directly across the street from the large fountain that marks the center of the neighborhood is rarely empty and its late-night cheese fries menu has become legendary. The restaurant and bar offers a classic bar atmosphere with a quality, upscale menu that isn’t out of place in the pub atmosphere — from salmon and pork chops to burgers and pizza. “We have certainly seen a lot of positive

changes in Starkville and the Cotton District over the past decade,” Kelley said. “…It has been fun to watch the neighborhood grow in every direction around us. We have some great new restaurants and businesses in the area along with an ever increasing population that will help the Cotton District continue to flourish.” From Bin 612’s patio, visitors can see plenty of other watering hole options, from the Fountain Bar’s classic college bar atmosphere to Gringo’s taco shop and south-of-the-border-themed drinks. Across the street is one of Camp’s more recent developments, the Rue Du Grand Fromage — a brick street with beautiful yellow- and salmon-colored three-story living spaces with first-floor restaurants. “You won’t find any new street in the country built like the Rue Du Grand Fromage,” Camp said proudly. Along the Rue Du Grand Fromage, a nearby brick-lined street wide enough for one car to pass comfortably, visitors can find

a range of culinary offerings at one of the ally’s two restaurants, each operating out of fewer than 1,000 square feet of combined kitchen, bar and dining space. “We have small spaces that are affordable,” said Camp. “If you’re in college, you might want to try a business that does this or that but can’t afford most spaces that rent for $5,000 a month — all your capital would go to your space.” Camp said the small spaces generate more potential than larger developments would. Commodore Bob’s Yacht Club, a gastropub, offers high-concept dishes and cocktails. “Starkville needed something like this,” said Brady Hindman, who runs the restaurant with Chef Caleb Nabors. “I was tired of going out to eat and then thinking I could cook it better. I wanted to make food that I can’t cook at my house.” The young restaurateurs opened Commodore Bob’s in 2013 and have since been turning heads with what Hindman

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Commodore Bob’s calls an eccentric amalgamation of worldly cuisine and seasonally refreshed drink menu. “We have a Croque-monsieur — local ham from West Point and beer soaked cheddar and Swiss cheese — all the way up to our shrimp po’boy, double bonein boudin stuffed pork chop, fresh fish and weekly soup,” Hindman said. “The combination of the small atmosphere — it’s an 870-square foot building where we’re only serving nine tables at a time — with the food we’re putting out makes for a great experience.” Hindman expertly crafts the drinks and mans the front-of-house responsibilities while Nabors works diligently in the open kitchen in a way that makes diners feel like they’re eating at a friend’s house — if that friend were an award-winning chef. Across the street, Two Brothers Smoked Meats boasts an eclectic collection of smoked chicken, pork, beef and duck dishes and bills itself as the best place to catch a beer, a hearty bite to eat and a football game. From a classic burger to pork street tacos and duck sliders, Two Brothers Smoked Meats offers quality and stays true to its name. For visitors looking for an exciting take on tried and true dishes, the newly opened Bulldog Burger offers a large menu of chefinspired burgers. Robin Fant, Bulldog Burger partner, first brought a restaurant to the Cotton 40

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District in 1987 with Bulldog Deli. As the neighborhood grew and evolved, he saw the need to adapt his restaurant to meet the needs of the clientele. He and his partners renovated the restaurant in an effort to better match the hip nature of the neighborhood and enlisted chefs Matt Bronski and Joe Bullock to develop a burger menu using interesting and fresh ingredients. “We knew that if we wanted to fit into the Cotton District market — it’s a night destination area — we had to change the concept,” Fant said. “We toured Nashville, Atlanta and Dallas to see what other chefs were doing and the reception in the neighborhood and town could not have been better.” The Cotton District will play host to thousands of visitors April 16 with the annual Cotton District Arts Festival and Super Bulldog Weekend. The Cotton District Arts Festival will feature more than 125 artisans as well as the Taste of Starkville restaurant competition, songwriters competition and art competitions. Less than a mile down the road, Super Bulldog Weekend will kick off the 2016 college football season with the annual Maroon and White spring football game at Davis Wade Stadium. M Photos by Lauren Wood

Cotton District Checklist: Commodore Bob’s Fine Dining and high-concept cocktails Eat: The stuffed pork chop or the Croquemonsieur and whatever the soup of week is. Chances are it’s incredible. Drink: The Sazerac is mixed the way Sazeracs are intended to be mixed. The Green Monster is so refreshing it almost feels healthy. Bin 612 Classic bar atmosphere with upscale pub food Eat: Check out the pizza if it’s early, but stay for the cheese fries on the late-night menu. Drink: Who cares, just drink it on the patio. Bulldog Burger Burgers, fries and adult milkshakes Eat: The Pimentology offers a kick with its spicy pimento cheese, and the Hogwild is an experience to be reckoned with. Drink: The Spiked Coffee and Spiked Nutella milkshakes offer the nostalgia of childhood milkshakes and the alcoholic wisdom of adulthood. Two Brothers Smoked Meats Beers and Meats Eat: The pork rind nachos are fried to order and the smoked duck sliders can’t be beaten. Drink: Beer

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How do you start your day? (By saying) Yes! Get up and get this day going. God is not through with me yet. In all ways acknowledge him and he will direct my path. Make yourself and others happy. What event has made the biggest impact on your life? In molding my life there have been several events that have left a fantastic imprint. The greatest impact was when I made myself a “sacrificial offering” and helped integrate lunch counters in the civil rights movement by serving time in jail. To what do you attribute your success in local government? (By being) a gifted, creative leader who is open minded, determined, has unlimited vision, respect for diversity and a positive attitude. When you aren’t working for the city, what do you enjoy doing? Beautifying the environment artistically, spiritually, physically, socially, and melodically.

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What’s your favorite childhood memory? Going to the playground daily. The playground was the AfroAmerican Park and Recreation program housed on George Washington Carver, Tupelo school campus. All of the children in the Parkhill Community, Shakerag and the Carnation gathered at the Playground during the summer months, twice daily for supervised recreational entertainment. I was actively involved in individual and team sports. Girls played with the boys in competition. I was the Table Tennis champion. Carver’s campus was behind my house and I would lay on the hill across from the ball field so I could be first in line to play Table Tennis. Why do you love Tupelo? Tupelo is my hometown. My most pleasant memories in my life were shared here. The Tupelo Spirit that exists in our city makes our community excel above other areas in the Southeastern region. I love the progressive thinking, a sense of togetherness, the diversity of its citizens, the strong quality of life, a top education system and the caring spirit which exist throughout this community.

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When creating a space that feels like home, she feels particularly inspired by “The Selby is in Your Place” by Todd Selby. The book is full of photography, interviews, and doodles that showcase unique people and their living spaces, each mirroring the personality of its owner. In each room of Ballard’s quaint cottage, there are clusters of items hung gallery-style on the walls. Sometimes she chooses a color scheme or similar items in different patterns, like the plate wall that hangs above her dining table.

“I just nail and I don’t care if I mess up. If it doesn’t work, I hang something over it,” she said. “Sometimes, when I’m in my home, it reminds me of the set of ‘Gilmore Girls.’ It just feels homey.” Even if she likes the set-up, it’s likely to be moved soon. “I rearrange a lot,” Ballard said. “I had to rearrange before y’all came. I didn’t sleep last night.” A few collections, however, are permanent fixtures in Ballard’s home, like owls and personalized mugs. “I bought my first name mug for a mudandmag.com

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putting price stickers on all my things, I put one on her that said ‘Not For Sale,’” Ballard said. “If I’m going to backpack across America, she’s going in my backpack.” She displays memories — post cards, photos of friends, event posters, and quotes. One of her favorite pieces is a jeweled mirror that hangs in her hallway. “My mom made me that mirror. She made that for me for my birthday one year from brooches of hers and my grandmother’s, and from a bracelet I wore to prom,” Ballard said. “It has a lot of sentimental value. Sentimental rhinestones.” M Photos by Lauren Wood

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GRITS AND GREENS Originally, Grits & Greens was supposed to be the name of a Southern restaurant. That’s what Mantachie-based Carrie Thompson Buse, 45, envisioned when in 2013 she had designed the restaurant’s logo and began lasering it onto mugs. Already, she had bought the deep fryers, freezers, flat-top grills, even booths and tables. “I just needed the perfect location,” Buse describes how close she came to opening her own restaurant of Southern staples. But then changes in her family life made her reconsider taking on a venture that would have required a 70+ hour work week. Thus the restaurant plans were shelved. By Sandra Knispel mudandmag.com

ut the resolute brunette, looking casual in one of her own T-shirt designs, was aching for an outlet. “If I’m not creating something, I feel useless,” she admits. Four years earlier, Carrie and her husband had bought the Tupelo Trophy & Gifts store, replete with lasers for cutting all kinds of shapes. “The possibilities are endless,” Buse remembers her initial reaction to seeing the machines. She started making wooden Christmas ornaments that sold like hotcakes. One particular one, a small blue guitar in honor of Elvis, was even buried in a time capsule in 2010 at Fairpark right outside Tupelo’s City Hall. “But we had all this excess painted wood left from the ornaments,” Buse says. “We didn’t want to be wasteful so we started making jewelry.” What started initially as a byproduct soon became a successful jewelry line and Buse resuscitated the name Grits & Greens for her latest brainchild. Instead of formal training, her jewelrymaking background is a mix of nature and nurture. “I come from a long line of craftsmen and junk gypsies,” says Buse of her inspiration. “My mom and grandmother can transform anything into something beautiful.” Her mother has made vintage pieces of jewelry most of her life. “She’s a creative ball of energy,” Buse says. Her stepfather, meanwhile, makes objet trouvé art, turning found objects into bird houses and fish. The jewelry isn’t Buse’s first foray into craftsmanship. She also has a line of furniture together with her father – Grits & Greens Hog Barn Furniture – named aptly for its place of assembly inside an old hog barn. That venture is currently on hiatus while her father is building a new house for himself. Plenty handy, the mother of three adult children, two stepkids, and four grandsons, two of whom live with her full time, Buse can handle the big stuff — like repairing your air conditioner – as well as the fine, finicky jewelry work. In fact, helping her uncle, an HVAC contractor, repair an air conditioning unit at a customer’s house unexpectedly turned into romance. Eight years ago she wed the former customer, Terry Buse, 51. “I am Southern through and through,” says Buse who grew up on the

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Mississippi coast in Gulfport before moving to Mantachie, about 17 miles east of Tupelo, some 20 years ago. “I love to be in a garden, feet in the dirt. I would explode if I couldn’t create and grow something.” And creating she does plenty. Now available at her Tupelo trophy store, at festivals, and a total of 28 stores and boutiques across the South, her jewelry line is made of laser-cut wood and painted in vibrant hues. Originally designed at Buse’s kitchen table, her pieces are unapologetically Southern: pendants on leather strings and earrings in the familiar shape of the state of Mississippi, footballs, football helmets, Mason jars, feathers, and cotton bolls, as well as religious symbols like fish and crosses. Last year, Buse took her designs for the first time to Jackson to the Mississippi Market, a wholesale show, and promptly picked up 14 stores eager to sell the Grits & Greens line. Today, Grits & Greens is no longer a onewoman act. Buse gets help from Kendall McKee, 25, and sisters Lindsey Humber, 27, and Sarah Barrett, 22. Sometimes, her 21-year-old daughter Shelby Spradling pitches in, too. “It’s a labor-intensive job,” Buse says of the 3,000 or so pieces she and her team made last year. Of course, being based in Tupelo, it’s impossible to ignore the city’s most famous son. Buse has designed jewelry that is approved by Elvis Presley Enterprises and made for the King of Rock’n Roll’s Tupelo fan club, like some black, guitar-shaped earrings that sport a minuscule pink Elvis. Last year, Buse’s jewelry line made up about seven percent of her store’s total sales, but she says demand is rising as wholesale orders from boutiques and stores are up. This year, Buse expects to create about 5,000 pieces of jewelry. Already her creative mind is racing. In addition to the preppy line of Grits & Greens, Buse is tinkering with a second line that’s more gypsy-like with leather tassels. And she’s come up with a catchy name for it — Gypsissippi. “My jewelry is the most rapidly expanding item in the store,” she says. “Making jewelry makes me happy.” M

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Carrie Buse produces Grits and Greens products with the help of Lindsey Humber (left) and Kendall McKee (right). Photos by Lauren Wood. mudandmag.com

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When is the best time to start gardening? Nancy Diffee: For annuals, I don’t start until after Easter. I would say the middle of April is the time to start, because I am trying to get everything in by the beginning of May. So, you still have time! What is your favorite flower to grow? Doyce Deas: My favorite is daffodils. I started the project in Tupelo to plant the daffodils all over town. I just love planting bulbs. I also take care of the grounds at First Presbyterian, and we’ve planted thousands of bulbs there over the years. Any true gardener pines for sunshine, and daffodils are the first harbinger of spring. They give me hope of renewal in the Earth. Each fall, I plant thousands all over Tupelo. What tip would you give a firsttime gardener?

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because I have a pool and like to enjoy the backyard. I can change out my containers with the seasons. I mostly use pots, primarily ceramic and clay. They’re filled right now with pansies, violas, and cabbages. I will change that out for summer plants soon. I also grow herbs in containers, and tomatoes do really well. My parsley, as a matter of fact, wintered over, so it is coming back.

Joan Ball: I think one of the most important things is to find out if you have sun or shade before you think about planting anything. That’s going to determine the plants you have. A great example is my next-door neighbor. Their home was damaged by the tornado, and they went from shade to sun and it completely changed what they could grow. I have sun, and I grow a lot of herbs. I basically stick to perennials. I have never been big on annuals, even though they give you a splash of color, but I want something that has a chance of coming back. I am always digging and moving. You also have to have rich, loose soil and you have to know what your soil’s PH is to know what you can grow. My basic theory of gardening is if it doesn’t make it, I pull it up and plant something else. I have no rhyme or reason to what I plant where. Photo by Lauren Wood

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