by Marian Parsons | May 13, 2025 | 1970 home renovation, All Things Home, Exterior, Gardening, My House
I feel like I’m way behind with gardening chores and projects, but when I looked back at last year to see when I did most of my gardening work, I’m pretty much on schedule. I might just be a week or two behind, but not as far behind as I feel! My two...
by Marian Parsons | May 12, 2025 | Art, Artistic Endeavors, Oil Painting
Late last summer, I received a message from some Instagram friends I met through the Lucketts Fall & Spring Markets. “Would you like to sell some of your original oil paintings in our space?” I had considered getting a booth to sell some original oil...
by Marian Parsons | May 8, 2025 | a slice of life, Favorite Things
I always forget how busy May is with Mother’s Day, end-of-the-year school events and projects, a birthday in our house, and I seem to end up scheduling too many maintenance appointments during an already busy month. I keep reminding myself and the boys that the...
by Marian Parsons | May 7, 2025 | a slice of life, Art Supplies, Favorite Things, Writing
I’ve been promising this post on Instagram for a while, and it’s finally here – a round-up of beautiful, refillable, and relatively affordable ballpoint and rollerball pens. I say relatively affordable because, like fountain pens, rollerball and...
by Marian Parsons | May 6, 2025 | All Things Home, Organizing
As I’ve been sharing my organizing and purging efforts, I have been asked by several blog readers how I decide what to keep and what to get rid of. One reader expressed hesitancy to get rid of something for fear she might need it down the road. So, I thought I...
by Marian Parsons | May 5, 2025 | Decorating, Organizing
The living room shelves were one area that made me decide it was time to thin down my ironstone collection and other antiques from my stash. I put ironstone casseroles on the top shelf because I had nowhere else to put them. Since I’ve displayed all sorts of...
by Marian Parsons | May 1, 2025 | a slice of life, Favorite Things
Another week of reading, watching, discovering things I love, and working. It’s been a busy week, and I’ve admittedly been trying to cram too many things into each day, but that is how I usually operate! Here are my four things for the last few days of...
by Marian Parsons | Apr 30, 2025 | All Things Home, Gardening, spring
Earlier this year, our family worked together to trim down the abelia hedge as part of the first phase of getting this garden bed under control. You can tell it used to be a beautiful garden bed – a semi-circular hedge of flowering abelia bushes framing a lilac...