Dressing up a kitchen window with some garden shop pansies is as easy as breaking apart
a six pack of these cute little johnny jump ups and plopping into little dishes.
The purple and yellow faces look so happy, and they are a harbinger of spring, which seems
to be holding off just a little bit longer. So while I have planted some outdoors, these little
guys will bring cheer inside for the time being.
My colors are purple and green in the kitchen, and so I used purple transferware...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Designing French Home Accessories and Magazine Secrets
2017 has been an incredible year for me as far as magazine features goes! It never gets old
to know that my home or yard is going to be inside a magazine, and never did I think I would
get a cover. Until the day that Fifi O'Neill came to do my house for Romantic Country Spring 2017
issue and the photographer, Mark Lohman said to her, "This is going to be a cover try", as he
pointed to my living room and where he planned to take a photo. Um...what???...
Friday, April 14, 2017
Tips for a beautiful Easter table, and the Pink Linen arrives
My Easter table is always a fun one for me, as I have lots of pastels
in my decor, which just goes with this holiday. I wanted to share a few
of my easy tips to creating a special looking table for your guests.
Easy is the way to go, in my book, and this couldn't have been easier.
I used two colors for the setting, purple and blue. The purple from my
transferware dishes and the blue from my wine glasses. Pick one or two
colors from your china cabinet...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Pink Linen, and Wishing I never sold these things!!
The funny thing that happened to me when I began selling things, was that
I didn't seem to care about possessing things anymore. Many wonderful antiques
and vintage items went through my hands. I had admired many of these items from
the pages of magazines or in online images, and suddenly as I began selling old things,
these amazing old things came to me. This pair of antique brass altar sticks was an
amazing find, brought to me by my picker. My picker knew...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Outdoor Boxwood Balls and our Easter Egg hunt for the big kids
The warm weather finally arrived this week, and it sent me heading out to
the garden nursery to pick up some pansies for the containers and urns.
A new ruffled variety of pansy is all the talk of the garden town, which
I helped myself to a double twelve pack, and then threw in a six pack of tiny
pink and purple violas. They are the first thing I plant after our long New England
winter is over, and if there is any cool weather to come, the pansies are hardy
enough...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Easter ideas from yesteryear, Silver baby cups and its a Girl!
A few years back, an Easter table set with my favorite blue opaline glasses and
little silver baby cups at each table setting, on top of an old embroidered cloth
I was given from my mom and dad.
One of my favorite Easter ideas was to reinvent baby cups into
a mini Easter baskets at each table setting. I had cups for my sons, and then
started collecting them over the years, and they are good for so many things.
Filling them with garden herbs for the kitchen...
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