Original Oil Paintings Available at Lucketts
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...
four things | twenty-nine
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...
refillable ballpoint & rollerball pens
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...
what to get rid of, what to keep | 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...
the mediumalized living room shelves
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...
four things | twenty-eight
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...
tackling the side garden
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...Hello!
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- tackling the side garden
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… Read more: tackling the side garden - preserving cuttings in my gardening notebook
Do you remember the gardening notebook I put together in the spring? You can read about it HERE if you missed it. I thought it would be fun to keep… Read more: preserving cuttings in my gardening notebook - classy rain gauge
Well, it happened and, perhaps, was inevitable. I bought a rain gauge. I was already gardening, birdwatching, seeing a cardiologist, and telling stories of the good old days, so I… Read more: classy rain gauge - antique iron plant stand
One of the things on my Lucketts shopping wishlist was a plant stand. I was open to the style of plant stand, but I envisioned a tiered wrought iron plant… Read more: antique iron plant stand
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