Hello everyone, I’m in between projects today with a few different things going on so here’s a list of random thoughts and miscellaneous updates. But first if anyone is seeing a old gray header on the site up above from 2009, please just hit Control + F5 to refresh your screen. 1. I’m a pinning…
Hello hello, happy Monday to you! Hope your weekend was swell, we didn’t do much other than little things around the house, but I did finish up an end table project I started a week ago. I was able to complete this makeover with a product I heard about last year called Overlays. This fretwork…
Hello all, happy Friday! I’m trying to recover from the mild headache I’ve had this past week every time I try to make a decision on what kind of tile to choose for the hallway bathroom project we’re starting. This hall bathroom is the most ambitious project on my Home Goals list so I’m getting…
Hello everyone, time again for another round of great projects in our continuing ‘Best of the Blogosphere’ series. Amanda and I teamed up to bring you our favorite links we’ve collected from the past two weeks, enjoy! Upholster a piped box cushion for a coffee table turned ottoman with some fantastic instructions from Amanda at…
Hello. There’s so much going on in my little world right now. My daughter turned eight yesterday and that just makes my head spin. My husband started growing a goatee for no reason and I’m really not happy about it and so I’m strategizing how to get him to shave it off ASAP. My five…
For the longest time I’ve been wanting to paint a piece of furniture bright Kelly green. It started when I found this Reed & Barton color glazed silver bowl from the 1960’s in a thrift shop for a dollar. A dollar for this beauty! So I wanted to bring this fun color into our home…
Did y’all ever see the movie Auntie Mame? It’s one of my top ten favorite movies of all time, the book is hilarious too. Rosalind Russell is so brilliant in this role as the eccentric yet glamorous Mame Dennis who is assigned the caretaker for her orphaned ten year old nephew Patrick in 1920’s New…
One thing is undeniable in the DIY and design world, brass hardware is back and lately I’m totally loving it on furniture. As a child of the 80’s I admit shiny lacquered brass fixtures still don’t appeal to me, but I am drawn to the golden glow of real or antiqued brass with its warmer…
I go through phases where I obsess over certain colors, and the color of the month for me is sea green – I’m totally crushing on it. I’m not sure I’d be brave enough to paint my own walls or cabinets in this shade even though these spaces pull if off well. Perhaps I’ll stick…
Hey y’all, it’s February, how did that happen? Crazy crazy how time does fly! I decided to do a monthly recaps of readers’ favorite posts from each month so I have something to refer to at the end of the year. Here are the Top Ten posts of January not to miss! 1. Stamped Tea…
I mentioned we’re having an unusually mild winter so far and when the sun shines in January, we get the itch to go exploring. So Sunday the family and I headed to the Big City to chase those rare blue skies and spent a splendid afternoon in North Beach. It was one of those weekends…
Greetings all, it’s time for yet another round of ‘best of the blogosphere’ and this weekend Amanda and I teamed up to bring you some of our favorites, enjoy! Here’s a clever way to turn your wedding song into artwork, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Jesse’s tutorial is available at Scout and Nimble. …
I’ve written before about my hometown of Petaluma in Sonoma County, California. It’s a really wonderful place to live, filled with antique shops, close to the coast and San Francisco, and we’re in the Wine Country too. A few days ago I was interviewed for an article in the local paper, and woke up this…
It has been said to me by my mate on more than one occasion that when it comes to decor I have champagne taste on a beer budget. You’ll get no denial from me. I’ve long been in love with lacquer nesting boxes like these and these ~ they are such glamorous little vessels for…