the perfect place for a gift…
Today I was getting ready for my trip to Toronto. It suddenly occurred to me yesterday that even though I’m driving about the distance I would to visit family in Raleigh, I am going to another country! I needed to call my bank and cell phone provider and get everything lined up, so my credit […]
why you always, always ask…
The other day, I was working at the studio without a car, so I needed my dad to give me a ride home. We had a bag of trash to drop off at the dumpster and, on the way there, something caught my eye. It sort of looked like a large, wood box…maybe something on […]
getting my house back
As many of you know, we put our house on the market back in April and it didn’t sell. We didn’t even get an offer. So, we decided to stay put, work towards some goals and look for a commercial space to use as a studio for our business. We found an awesome one and […]
chandeliers, margot & toledo
My dad showed up bright and early (which is around 9:00 in my book) to make sure all my chandeliers were ready to hang. They all needed a little tweaking and some additional hardware. It took a couple trips to the hardware store, but my dad was able to get two of them hung and […]
furniture feature friday | favorites & link party
I can’t believe that I totally forgot FFF again! I was very focused on things I needed to do before my trip and I lost track of the day of the week and posted something else. Well, FFF is usually posted on a Thursday, so this week, we’re having FFF truly on a Friday! I’ll […]
toronto trip & studio tables
This has been such a full week so far and a lot of things have been going on in the studio. It’s been so exciting seeing my vision take shape and it’s still hitting me afresh every day how much I needed a space outside of my home. While I have been spending a lot of […]
hand painted empire buffet | take two
I showed yesterday how I styled the hand painted empire buffet as a piece for a nursery or kid’s room. In this post, I’m going to show the piece styled as a buffet… Kriste and I grabbed what we had around the studio…pieces in the studio “prop stash”, things waiting for tags for the Chapel Market […]
hand painted buffet makeover
I have always loved sharing my furniture makeovers here and I know they are what put my blog on the map, so to speak. Now that I have this new space to work in, I’m more inspired than ever to work on pieces in my stash and it feels good. I started working on this empire buffet […]