I must admit, I am sitting back with holiday tunes cranked, sipping a warm cocoa overflowing with whipped cream and just enjoying the season, since I went the route of simple this year with my holiday decor….just ask my holiday kitchen …..it will vouch for me. In fact this 3rd month of the decorating your…
Today it’s all about how to add touches of red to your white holiday kitchen, and I am excited to share it with you on the …… This week I am joining a group of talented bloggers who will be sharing some of their favorite holiday rooms. Hosted by The Everyday Home and Town and…
This may sound a bit strange, but we are a house that is pumpkin divided….traditional orange and other. Me and my Kitchen Fall Mantel say other….. while the other mantel and the rest of the family says traditional orange.  To see my fall mantel in the breakfast room you can go here to see how I…
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! With the hustle and bustle of end of school year activities, I am looking forward to just chillin out for the long weekend. It’s funny how the last 152 days of the school year just kind of snuck right up there, and then in the last couple of weeks…… elevated levels of…
Happy Weekend. Last week while I was on Spring Break, I changed zip codes to www.topthistopthat.com and never got a chance to tell you. I have a feeling something may have gotten lost in translation with the changes updating my feeds, so I wanted to share a few posts that went out after the change,…
I feel like a kept woman in my kitchen these days. Spoiled….just like a queen. Especially when I am standing right in this spot, at the kitchen sink. Today, I want to share the two gadgets that are spoiling me in the kitchen….so you can feel like a queen or king too! The faucet switcheroo probably…
One of the biggest complements I can share with my children, is to display their art work. The sense of pride and accomplishment for their expression and creativity is repeated each time they look at their images hanging throughout the house. Today, I wanted to share with you how I decorated my spring kitchen mantel using kids artwork. …
4 Things Every Kitchen Should Have I must admit that I am thoroughly enjoying my newly painted kitchen. Even the mere sight of it, almost makes me want to cook….. almost. One thing that I am sure about though, are 4 things in my kitchen that I absolutely can’t live without….. nor can my kitchen. 4 Things Every…
The finished kitchen at Duke Manor Farm….sorta… kind of… well almost. So, after many months of contemplating whether to paint the cabinets ( after 11 years it was time to address the wear and tear), researching how to paint them, choosing paint colors, painting the back splash, sanding every square inch, priming every square inch, and painting the cabinets,…
Whoever came up with the saying ““in like a lion” and going “out like a lamb” must not have seen me or my house during the month of March. To say that the Kitchen project here was beginning to slightly kick my …….. is right on. We actually worked like Lions this weekend to finish…
I am sure you have all heard the expression putting the ‘ Cart Before the horse’…. You know the figure of speech that means doing things the wrong way or in the wrong order. Well, I have been known to put the cart before the horse a time or two, but never have I put…
Well, the cloud of latex paint that surrounds the kitchen area has cleared up,so I can find my way to my office and sit down to share an update on the progress of the kitchen cabinets. What a job…no joke. This is the most labor intensive project that I have ever done….not including when…