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 or two behind, but not as far behind as I feel! My two biggest garden […]
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 paintings in antique frames, but I would get overwhelmed at […]
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 end of the school year is right around the corner, […]
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 ballpoint pens can get very, very expensive depending on the brand and materials used. I never thought I […]
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 would share some 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 had nowhere else to put them. Since I’ve displayed all sorts of ironstone pieces all over my house for […]
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 April – Getting an artistic talking to, motorbikes […]
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 tree that offered some privacy to the […]