Happy Holidays! I am so excited to be apart of the Home for the Holidays Holiday tour this week. I am sharing my festive decor on Friday, and can not wait to have you back. Until then, you are in for a treat with 29 other bloggers sharing some wonderful holiday homes and inspiration. The…
It’s starting to look very fallish around here. The first festivals started over the weekend, there is a bit more chill in the air at night, and pumpkins…..real and burlap, sit at my front door to greet you…..yet still no color on the trees. But like a lot of things that seem to race right…
I just can’t help but think of the word Amazing when I look at some of the ideas that I find on Pinterest these days. But in the spirit of not over using the word amazing when I show you a few amazing ideas that amazed me, I have come up with a few other words to help…
So long summer, it’s been a great few months. And while we are getting ready to welcome the first day of Autumn in a few days, I wanted to leave you with a few images from around Duke Manor that capture the essence of summer on our property. We are looking forward to fall…….
Before we moved to the country, I would have classified myself as a pretty impatient gardener. Well, make that really impatient. On the weekends, I would run to the Garden center for my flats of flowers, shrubs and trees, come home put them in the ground and expect overnight maturity and beauty. But something had to change when…
Do you ever get ahead of yourself…. and fall behind at the same time? Chomping at the bit to start a new project, only to look around at all the unfinished one’s? So that be me…and my family room. The hangout. The hub. The place where the family congregates. The place where I have no chance…
What a year! I have enjoyed this journey of 2012- Immensely! I have appreciated the support you have provided by taking the time to visit me, chat with me and laugh with me and for letting me inspire you through my projects, thoughts and ideas. Here’s a snapshot of what 2012 looked like here at …
Christmas Eve candle-lite service, caroling, hot chocolate, reading the Christmas story from the bible and the smell of a fresh cut pine tree Elf on the shelf, Wisemen and Angels in the Christmas play at church, singing your hearts out at the school holiday concert and displaying the only stocking you had since you were a child Sprinkling reindeer food on the front…
I should have been making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, but instead I was painting my mantel I should have been eating my doritos but instead I was distressing over two coats of Old White Chalk paint I should have been eating my fruit instead of admiring how beautiful the mantel turned…
I know most of you have heard the saying “fear is not an option” but in my household we say something a tad bit different….. Particularly when it comes to painting walls in our Kitchen and Family Room. We say “Heights are not an option” Not an option, not here in this house. You see,…