What goes UP, must come DOWN! January 2, 2023 | No Comments | Christmas, DIY 2 January 2023 Happy New Year. We had a lovely holiday filled with lots of cooking, slicing off the top […]
Twinkle Lights and a Bit of Magic December 23, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, Christmas Like you need yet another Holiday House Tour!!! I’ll confess there are areas of my home where I like it […]
A Christmas Star is Born December 17, 2022 | No Comments | Christmas, Entertaining, Life Wednesday night I had an Open House just for the ladies. When you spend 3 weeks of your life preparing […]
Let’s Talk About Vignettes November 6, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, Dishes, Vignettes As a designer this is a word I use a lot. It’s one of my many “designer buzz words” like […]
Favorite Pottery Barn Clara Quilt for the Holidays November 3, 2022 | No Comments | Bedding Have you ever walked into a store and seen something that takes your breath away? This happened to me last […]
JUST BREATHE – Beyond Van Gogh June 26, 2022 | No Comments | Life, Travel My daughter and I, plus the grand boys, set out Friday morning for the long journey over to Iowa. A […]
A Walk Through Middleton Place, South Carolina June 10, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, Collecting, Garden, Life, Travel As I look back on our trip we took last fall, I realize it was a sprint across the south. […]
Last Goodbye’s and Simple Gifts May 28, 2022 | No Comments | Life After 3 challenging weeks we said goodbye to my father-in-law yesterday. A day that I think he would have approved […]
“The Un-Kitchen” / For the Love of Kitchens May 2, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, DIY, Entertaining, Kitchen Have you heard the term un-kitchen. What is it and where did it come from? I’ve been hearing this term […]
What Makes The Magic? January 1, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, Christmas, Collecting, DIY, Life his post started out as Boxes, Trunks, and Containers or Why I Collect so Many! I do collect a lot of […]
Christmas Candle Light Tour December 24, 2021 | No Comments | Antiques, Christmas, Collecting, Dishes, Entertaining, Fabric & Upholstery, Kitchen, Tablescapes, Tableware, Vignettes Well there are just two more sleeps until Christmas. Last evening my daughter and I had a memorable evening. We […]
Embracing the Blue and Lower Level Christmas Reveal December 18, 2021 | No Comments | Antiques, Architectural Salvage, Christmas, Collecting, Salvage, Vignettes I have been trying to embrace the blue in my lower level room for a couple of years. Don’t get […]
The Christmas Tree December 15, 2021 | No Comments | Christmas, DIY Do you ever suffer from massive indecision even when the answer is right in front of your face? Such is […]
2020 Things Accomplished, Hard Decisions, and Small Victories December 29, 2020 | No Comments | Antiques, Architectural Salvage, Bedroom, Collecting, Decorating, Dishes, DIY, Inheritance, Life, Paint, Salvage, Tableware, Vignettes After losing my mom in May of 2019 life changed quite a bit. I had to resign my design position […]
Wrapping Paper Wars – A United Nations for Wrapping Paper December 23, 2020 | No Comments | Christmas, Life Does anybody else have this problem? You start out with a curated design idea and then you have to select […]
A Table for Two November 28, 2020 | No Comments | Antiques, Collecting, Dishes, Tablescapes, Tableware, Thanksgiving Well like everyone this is not the table I planned to set for Thanksgiving but after much discussion and pondering […]
