I've told you how much I love to find treasures... vintage finds are so fun. I love to imagine the story of history behind the piece. I used to go to every garage sale I could find, but now I find my time, (and energy LOL) is more limited. Something I learned when I do go is to not only shop for myself, but to shop for others... If I see an interesting vintage ... Keep Reading...
SIMPLE DECORATING TIPS
Rustic Creche
Do you have a Christmas nativity displayed in your home? I have several! In fact, I keep collecting them. I love all the different styles that I see. My favorites are the vintage and homemade ones I've collected over the years. Here is a post I wrote a few years back showcasing some of my nativity collections, I've added to it since then! Here is a DIY felt ... Keep Reading...
How to Clean Spilled Wax
It is candle season, and with candle season, comes melted wax that sometimes ends up where it doesn't belong! This just happened to me a couple weeks ago. I had some wonderful essential oil votive candles burning on a saucer and before I knew it, they had melted down to a puddle that over flowed the saucer... then spilled over the side onto the linen runner when ... Keep Reading...
Simple DIY Curtain, using vintage fabric
I love vintage Mid-Century Colonial Revival style. I can still see the living room of my childhood, with an oval braided rug anchoring the colonial maple furniture. That vision evokes many fond remembrances of sweet days for me. When I found some vintage fabric from that same time period, (in excellent condition! I might add), I decided that it would be perfect ... Keep Reading...
Tiling the Bathroom Floor
Our house has a few bathrooms, (4 1/2 to be exact!) It sounds like a lot, but that number is sort of deceiving, because the house has a finished lower level, and a lower level apartment to boot, so that's 2 bathrooms, one of which won't be assessible to us once the apartment is rented. Then, the back entry has a 1/2 bath in the mudroom. Both the mudroom and the ... Keep Reading...
Halloween Confession
I have a confession... I actually have lots of confessions I could make, but this one is about a pretty big mistake I made with Halloween. I used to love Halloween! (wait, that's not the confession, read on...) When I was a little girl , Halloween evoked lots and lots of creative and spooky fun for me. So many imaginative thoughts. I loved creating my ... Keep Reading...
Super Simple Stencil Project with a Giveaway!
Hello! I'm back inside from a summer that was FULL of landscaping and gardening projects. Now, finally, I have time to write and share with you, (and hopefully inspire you with) many more projects... including details of our home we totally renovated. It's a Mid-Century that had very little character we transformed into Colonial-Revival Cottage style! You can ... Keep Reading...
Halloween Centerpiece
I don't do much decorating for Halloween, do you? I know some people really get into it. We have a friend that takes time off work to transform his house, both inside and out with amazingly detailed Halloween decor. He creates a spooky scene in the woods beyond his front yard, and has 'haunted' tunnels the trick-or-treaters enter through to gain access to the ... Keep Reading...
Coming Back with a Kick-Off Giveaway!
Hi! I'm still here, and getting ready to start the blogging season! Yay!! This summer has totally flown by... every year I get older and the time goes faster and faster... I can't believe it's already October! What did you do this summer? I spent many, many days outside taming the landscape and gardens around our newly purchased house, (actually bought it 2 ... Keep Reading...
Simple Deer Proofing
Gardening can be so rewarding. You plant the tiny seeds and baby plants, carefully watering them and with gentle care you see them grow and are compensated with delicious fruit and vegetables. Sometimes something goes wrong though... something you just weren't expecting... That's exactly what happened to us this week. The day started out calm and sweet... I had ... Keep Reading...
2 Pergolas and a Garden Update
I may be setting a summer pattern... getting a post published every other week is about all I seem to be able to have time for... but that's probably all you have time to read as well! Summer is such a few short months, to waste it indoor is just that... a waste! In this post I'm going to share with you 2 pergolas and a garden update... one of the pergolas is at ... Keep Reading...
Before & After Formal Cottage Garden
In the summer it is so hard for me to stay inside long enough to write a post! (sorry I missed last Monday's post!) I love being outside in this weather. Gardening and landscaping have totally taken front and center for me this spring. The gardens at our house were in desperate need of garden work. Last year we were so preoccupied with the renovations to the ... Keep Reading...
Raised Bed Container Gardening
***UPDATE: To see an update on how these planters have worked so far, check out this mid summer post. I haven't been able to put in a vegetable garden for a few years, and now at our new house, I really wanted to have one again. Then I stumbled across these raised bed planters, (see shopping link for them at the end) and they really looked like the perfect ... Keep Reading...
Before and After Terraced Garden
This has been a great spring for getting the landscape and gardens redone, at least for me. It's been cooler, and I like that for working outside... hot weather fatigues me! We bought our house a year and half ago, and immediately started renovating both levels inside and the outside of it as well. The wait for landscaping has felt long, so it's been fun for me ... Keep Reading...
DIY Brick Edging
An angled brick edging adds a nice cottage charm to the planting beds, but also serves a purpose. As you can see in the 'before' picture below, the soil and mulch of the circular garden I just finished re-doing, (you can read that 'Before and After Circular Garden' post here) easily spilled over the edge onto the sidewalk before I put in a brick ... Keep Reading...