Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
There’s an exclusive, yet little known, place I love to shop for vintage finds and antiques for my house. It’s where I found this blue seltzer bottle, the antlers and the framed World War II love letter. And the vintage silver champagne bucket and the antler picture frame. The prices are to-die-for. This crusty old [...]
It all started with a shopping trip. A little more than a month ago, some of my blogging friends and I met up in the quaint North Carolina downtown of Mebane to go “junking.” It’s often at these marathon shopping and lunching sessions that the greatest ideas are hatched. Things like bloggers conference. Fun thrifting [...]
Glitter on noses and tinsel in kitchens. Handwoven baskets and polka dot ribbon. Cute paper pinwheels tied up with strings These are a few of my crafty offerings… Many, many apologies to Julie Andrews. And just be thankful that you couldn’t hear me singing. Now I know it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but when you’re [...]
Shh! Don’t tell anyone, but a few of us bloggers played hooky from our regular lives and went shopping together. Junking, that is. Treasure hunting and inspiration seeking at some of my favorite places in and around Greensboro, N.C. And in the middle of the week, no less. Meet my fellow shoppers: Suzy of Worthing [...]
For as long as I can remember, Saturdays have been about yard sales. I’ve been going to yard sales, garage sales, tag sales — whatever you want to call them — with my mom since I was a little girl. Yes, it means getting up early on a day when I could be sleeping late. [...]
I live in the suburbs, just seven miles from two different Target stores. Not in the city limits, but close enough. But there are enough vestiges of rural life surrounding us that sometimes I pretend I live in the country. I find lots to inspire me as I make the daily drive to and from [...]
It’s no secret — we are into dinosaurs in a major way. If you think dinosaurs are extinct, you haven’t seen Jackson’s room. They’re everywhere — on the the bed, on the walls, on the furniture, on the built-ins and ALWAYS strewn on the floor. His love of dinos — and my love for [...]
Happy Independence Day! The holiday has put me in a red-white-and-blue mood. The Union Jack is all the rage in design, but in my opinion, Old Glory never goes out of style. So, I thought I’d share some of my favorite patriotic furniture ideas from the web, starting with my own Betsy Ross flag painted chair. (This [...]
My friend, Robin, is the most creative and gracious hostess. Robin and her family live in a quaint English cottage that is nestled in the woods of an ordinary suburban neighborhood. It is charming and anachronistic. The house — called Deer Cottage — is filed with antiques and treasured family pieces, the walls are hung with [...]
