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’s no secret that I like to change things up around my house. But that means things are constantly going on and off display. My office and the guest bedroom closet, plus a drawer here and a drawer there had been functioning as a dumping ground makeshift storage, and that wasn’t working for me. I [...]
Is there a room that sold you on your house? There was for us. The instant we all saw this room, we knew this was the house that would become our home. A dream bedroom and playroom, custom made for a little boy and with features like built-in storage and bookshelves, an adorable mural, a [...]
I may have told a slight fib when I said I’d taken down all our Christmas decor. Yes, the tree and the glitter are gone. But I kept a few Christmas decorations out and repurposed them for use in my winter decor. And I used the excuse of the after-Christmas clearance sales to buy a [...]
This post may well be a cautionary tale for husbands. Mine broke a light fixture — or mangled it, but not beyond repurposing, as it turned out — and that prompted me to embark on a redo of our downstairs powder room. Truth be told, I’d always thought the blank-slate builder beige room was kinda [...]
Christmas is but a memory. The decorations, ornaments and ribbon are all packed away in the attic for another year. After the glitz and glitter that was Christmas, I was really ready to put away and start with a clean slate. Something simpler and closer to nature, but fitting for the season. I have a [...]
What a busy and project-filled year it’s been. Biggest project of all? I started this blog. What an interesting journey that has been. I’ve learned a lot. Doubted a lot. Done a lot. Worried a lot. Changed a lot. Planned a lot. Dreamed a lot. Posted a lot. As we say farewell to 2012, [...]
It’s Christmas Eve. The stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and my little one is nestled all snug in his bed, with visions of Christmas morning swirling through his head, I’m sure. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying the last few hours of decorated bliss. The sparkling lights. The glittering glitter. The pretty packages. Before our [...]
Once upon a time, there were five bloggers who put out a call to their creative cohorts around the Internet. Show us how you do it up for Christmas? What do you make? What do you bake? How do you decorate? How do you celebrate? Inspire us. Wow! You certainly did. And today, we are [...]
