A Venison Recipe to Ease into Winter January 18, 2025 | No Comments | Christmas, Decorating, Entertaining, Interior Design, Life We had our last holiday meal on the 5th of January! I made a delicious venison roast recipe with potatoes […]
A Few Last Bits of Christmas December 31, 2024 | 1 Comment | Christmas, Decorating, Entertaining, Interior Design, Life, Tablescapes, Vignettes As the fireworks explode and the “Happy New Year” wishes are called out, I wanted to share a few last […]
Ah, the Christmas Tree December 24, 2024 | No Comments | Christmas, Decorating, Interior Design I remember years ago my mom saying to me “I’m not going to put up a Christmas tree anymore”. She […]
Words to Live By September 16, 2024 | No Comments | Life After I lost my Dad in 2007, I realized that it would be important for me to be able to […]
Life Influencers and the People Who Make Us February 11, 2024 | 4 Comments | Interior Design, Life, Vignettes I was watching Martha Stewart on CNN the other night and it got me thinking about life influencers. Who were […]
Favorite Projects of 2023 January 21, 2024 | 5 Comments | Bedding, Decorating, Fabric & Upholstery, Life, Tablescapes As I look back on 2023 I thought to myself what did I do? What are some of my favorite […]
Indian Cave State Park: An Anniversary to Remember October 29, 2023 | No Comments | Travel Last Friday was our 50th. No there was no big party to celebrate, no fantastic trip to destinations unknown. Just […]
Birthdays, Baby Showers and Chasing Elephants October 6, 2023 | No Comments | Bernina, Fabric & Upholstery, Life Last Friday was my oldest daughters birthday. We don’t get to celebrate with her often now that she is living […]
A Cabin in the Woods Gatlinburg TN July 13, 2023 | No Comments | Life, Travel As we made the turn to start up the mountain, we had no idea what was in store for us. […]
Walk with me thru Cheekwood Gardens June 27, 2023 | No Comments | Antiques, Garden, Inheritance, Life, Travel Cheekwood Gardens is located in Nashville TN. I first learned about this garden while watching episodes of Antiques Roadshow on […]
Ste Genevieve MO June 14, 2023 | No Comments | Antiques, Collecting, Life, Travel The first leg of our journey was a days drive from Omaha. Ste Genevieve is the oldest European Settlement west […]
Tennessee or Bust May 29, 2023 | No Comments | Life, Travel Finally after months of planning we will be leaving for our vacation in the Smokey Mountains! Our daughters put their […]
It Happened One Friday Afternoon January 28, 2023 | 1 Comment | Life, Trends It actually happened again! This is my year for reconnecting with people. Anybody out there ever had a friend boy? […]
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 […]
Christmas Kitchen December 16, 2022 | No Comments | Antiques, Christmas, Kitchen As we were cleaning up after Thanksgiving, wait wasn’t that years ago! The thought crossed my mind about leaving the […]
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 […]
Random Acts of Kindness May 22, 2022 | No Comments | Life We lost my father-in-law on Thursday morning. We got the phone call at 4:26 AM and off we went to […]
Hard Days May 18, 2022 | No Comments | Life My father in law is at Hospice House. In September, he was diagnosed with an aggressive Bladder Cancer, he is […]
The Wind and The Tale of Four Sterling Silver Patterns April 23, 2022 | No Comments | Collecting, Life, Tablescapes, Tableware, Weather Is anybody out their tired of the wind? The wind howling, blowing thru your hair (straight up), combing thru said […]
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 […]
Grand Boys, Sunflowers and a Clear Blue Sky August 19, 2021 | No Comments | Garden, Life, Travel My daughter suggested that we take the grand boys to the Nelson Sunflower Festival. I had never heard of this, […]
Vintage Ship Sails Again June 18, 2021 | No Comments | Antiques, Architectural Salvage, DIY, Garden, Salvage Rescued from the rooftop of my parents home this weathervane proudly sails again!!! Many years ago my dad was on […]
Birthday Lunch at an Old Omaha Landmark and a Day with My Sister June 6, 2021 | No Comments | Antiques, Collecting, Life, Restore, Salvage Yesterday was my birthday and even though the husband was under the weather my daughter and grandsons made it a […]
A Frisbee, 2 Grand Boys on a Thursday Afternoon May 8, 2021 | No Comments | Life Every once in awhile something magical happens on an average Thursday afternoon. My daughter had asked us to watch the […]
Creating a 4:00 Snack Under the Tree May 3, 2021 | No Comments | Garden, Life Last week was a week of beautiful weather with temperatures in the high 70’s and low 80’s. Today well back […]
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 […]
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 […]
