I love French chairs. I mean I really, really love them. One reader corrected me and said I can’t LOVE a chair, I can only admire or appreciate it. I don’t know about that. I mean a musician can love a beautiful song, and a painter can love a painting, right? It’s all about perspective. […]
Archives for September 2014
12 Simple Bathroom Ideas
Bathrooms are small spaces, but it’s amazing what you can do here to spruce them up. Because they are smaller than other rooms in the house, every little detail counts. Here are 12 simple bathroom ideas. 1. Crystal pitcher used as a vase to hold fresh Peonies 2. Vintage trophy to hold soaps and bath […]
Easy Fall Touches and a Fall Picnic
I’ve already shown you fall at my city house here, so I thought I would take you to the farm today. I actually set up a little tent so I could relax in the pasture and enjoy a slow afternoon. I know you probably don’t have a big bale of hay in your […]
Grain Sacks Used 10 Ways
I love grain sacks. I use them everywhere I can. This isn’t even all of them, but I wanted to reveal all of these projects here in one post. Ready? Here we go! 1. I used grain sacks to reupholster these French bergere chairs. The back with the blue stripes is vintage grain sack fabric. […]
Display your Wedding Dress
I’ve talked before about how I love to display my mother-in-law’s wedding dress. Well then I thought, why not display mine as well? It may not be an antique, but it certainly is vintage. I got married a little bit after Princess Diana got married. I was still in college. So if the […]
Fast and Easy Fall Decorating
I admit it. I don’t have a lot of time for fall decorating, but I suspect you don’t either. Compound that with the fact that I live in South Texas, and you might understand why I can’t just grab some fall foliage from the farm. We do get fall color, but it comes in late […]
5 Ways I Hide TV’s
I really don’t like seeing the TV unless it is on. And then, often I still don’t want to see it. That’s right, I’m one of THOSE PEOPLE. I used to watch a lot of TV, really WAY TOO much. I knew everything that was going on. Now, I haven’t a clue. Friends often […]
My 3 Most Popular Posts
It’s always fun for me to see what posts were the most popular ones. As a blogger, it’s important for me to know what you like, so I can provide more. One of the things I get is that you want to walk away with usable information, not just pretty pictures. With that […]