We bought our house in the late summer, so it wasn't until the next spring that I was surprised by the beautiful white blooms on an overgrown bush in our side yard. To say it's overgrown would be a...
mock orange blossoms
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Lucketts Spring Market 2025 Purchases
I must say, I was pretty proud of myself for the restraint I showed while shopping the Lucketts Spring Market. With the exception of one piece, I stuck to my list (you can find my list HERE) and...
Lucketts Spring Market 2025 Recap
The Lucketts Spring Market 2025 is in the books! Oh man, what a special group of people who work so hard to put on an amazing event for their customers. I'm constantly impressed with their...
Lucketts Spring Market 2025 wish list
It's time for another Lucketts Spring Market! Right on cue, the rains have come in just as vendors are setting up, and there is more rain in the forecast. If an area is ever experiencing a...
planting the front garden bed | part one
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
sheet organizers
About a year and a half ago, I worked on organizing our linen closets. I had just dumped everything in them when we moved in, and they were consistently a mess. I did a pretty good job at the time...
organizing the guest room/sewing room
As I've been organizing, I've done a terrible job photographing how closets, drawers, and cabinets looked before! I sort of hop around, working on multiple spaces at once, and get a closet half...
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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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