Welcome to the place she made.
I’m a devoted homemaker nurturing our family’s roots in the Shendandoah Valley. As a designer and former therapist, I get to help highly intentional mothers cultivate a welcoming heart and home. On this website and on Instagram @theplaceshemade I create and share resources for personal and relational flourishing, home & garden design, and Welcoming lifestyle.
Probably just like you, dear sister, I’m on a journey seeking health, healing and holiness. I have a deep melancholic soul with a real choleric flame, so you can expect a unique blend of intensity and tenderness growing together.
I love nature and hiking and gardening and flowers, ballroom dancing, spiritual reading and psychology books, learning housewifery skills, and renewing all sorts of spaces to bring out their beauty and potential to draw others in to a sense of safety, belonging and joy. I truly believe “making a place” for the other will change the world.
A fun tidbit– our family has a special calling to true Montessori education. Most of our children attend part time at a local Catholic Montessori school on a 23 acre farm campus, where we also pour our hearts into community life.
I want to help to free you from overwhelm so you can flourish as a wife + mother, homemaker, and sister. I’m honored and delighted that you’re here, friend.
Please drop me a note at serraann@theplaceshemade.com to say hello, I’d love to hear your story and walk this journey together.
the main things
The online journal is full of free resources for inspiration and sound support in your homemaking and mothering journey:
I provide design and styling consulting services to beautify spaces, both virtual and in person:
Finally, exciting news…the tpsm shop opens soon.
I’m working hard creating a reservoir of excellent resources and products for you, designed to cultivate peace and make places to welcome the ones we love.
A little note that I may share affiliate links on our site. I may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links. Thank you for supporting the work at theplaceshemade in this way at no cost to you.<3