A few months ago, I had the opportunity to curate a collection for Joss & Main.  When they recently asked me if I would like to do another one, it was a no-brainer.  YES!  Of Course!  I had such a good time shopping for things that captured my style in order to make them available to my readers.   This collection is still centered around the staples of my look…blue & white, a little farm house, a little French country, a little bit of the rest of Europe thrown in and, of course, everything has a vintage feel. Since I’ve completed a couple of rooms since my last collection, we were able to include finds that would be right at home in my kitchen… (like this preserved boxwood wreath…)     (…and x-back chairs) …and my master bedroom. We were even able to include the exact Park Hill bedding that’s

I had grander plans for my post today, but you know how plans can change.  I was called around lunch to pick up one of my boys from school, because he had a swollen eye.  I figured he had poked it or rubbed it or something like that.  Well, when I got to school, I saw that his actually eye ball was swollen!  That turned my plans on end.  That mommy thing that drops you heart into your gut kicked in and I took him straight to the ER.  His eye got even bigger as we drove to the hospital, to the point where he couldn’t close it.  They took us straight to a doctor to check it out (even the nurse hadn’t seen anything like it.)  He was having an allergic reaction to something, so they treated the acute symptoms and we’ll have to get him tested to see

 As I shared in my last post, I spent a few days on Long Island, New York with a group of teenagers working on Hurricane Sandy relief projects.  While preparing for the trip, I tried to think of ways I could use some of the relationships I’ve established through my blog to help.  I didn’t know what the church and parsonage needed, so I didn’t try to get any specific products, but one thing I have a lot of was Frog Tape.  They just sent me two huge boxes to giveaway as freebies at the Lucketts Antique Market.  So, I grabbed a small box of eight rolls on the way out the door.  I was certain it would come in handy. The box of Frog Tape was packed under the seats of the van, so I forgot about it as the group started to bag trash, hang new doors and lay

I’m on Long Island, New York this weekend with a group from our church to help out another church that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.  The canals flooded, bringing 3 feet of dirty water and debris into their church building. The building doesn’t look too bad from the outside…it’s actually a very charming church and I was immediately in love with the shingles. My team of three teenage girls and I spent the morning cleaning  up trash from the building, the property and the parsonage.  And we got a pretty healthy pile built up over the course of the day.  Trash sitting around is sort of a pet peeve of mine, so that’s the kind of work I can really plow into.  This corner was full of canoes, trash, leaves, branches, etc. and now it’s cleaned up…   We then sanded the drywall to prep for priming and painting…