Snow Day Mistreatments

This is the view from my cottage today.So I decided to dust off this friend who does not get much use around my house.While snacking on these....I made some slipcover mistreatments for my stools. I used a vintage grain sack that I purchased last summer. I don't know if I am totally crazy about the outcome - I may add some vintage buttons on the back for an extra detail. This is one of those projects...

A Great Way to Display Pictures

While I was visiting a friend recently, she asked me to help her tackle the BIG job of hanging favorite photos. I LOVE arranging a photo wall - call me crazy but I really love mixing the new photos with other pictures and fun vintage drawings/botanicals/silhouettes/mounted letters etc... My friend had purchased these wonderful old window frames at a flea market. They were originally installed in...

Hunting

While I do live in Minnesota, I don't mean the kind where you dress in bright orange and go sit in a tree waiting to kill some poor unsuspecting deer.For me, its all about hunting for treasures for my home. This morning I had some spare time and headed to an "occasional sale" - that's what they call a open-only-3 days-a-month selling good junk and antiques sale. I pulled up right when they opened...

A Friend's Home

While in Portland I stayed with one of my very good girlfriends, Carrie. Carrie and I met while hugely pregnant with our first daughters (I have two now, thank you - Carrie has FOUR, count em, FOUR!). Anyway, Carrie has been a great partner in crime when it comes to antiquing, flea marketing and all things house-related (just ask our husbands!). Carrie and her husband purchased their home about...

Happy to be Home

Indeed it is good to be home. Every mommy out there NEEDS to getaway once in awhile, escape the duties and obligations of motherhood, of being a wife and running a household. In my mind, girlfriends are a necessity to being a mom - only they know the work and rewards and can celebrate the joys with you along with the challenges that ultimately do come.Thank God my girlfriends are also great antiquing...

I am leaving on a jet plane!

I will be heading to Portland Oregon this weekend for a visit with my best girlfriends. I am looking forward to seeing my friend Carrie's newly remodeled home (including lots of new fun French/vintage furniture), antiquing with my best "hunting" pals, and enjoying the company of good friends. I promise to post pictures upon my retu...

Say it isn't so...

Another favorite magazine will no longer published.Domino.I loved that magazine for its modern, boho chic, eclectic, hip decorating. The rooms featured were the perfect combination of contemporary and comfortable yet never pretentious. What am I going to do? These magazines were some of the small indulgences in my mom-in-the-suburbs life. Often when the man was out of town, the girls were put...

Boy do I need to take better pictures. Just looked at the close-up of my kitchen - trust me - go check out the magazine, it looks MUCH better. No worries that my photography "skills" will be called upon anytime soon....

A Fun Surprise!

This blog is really quite new, but I think I have shared a bit about the sweet cottage that we live in. We purchased the home from our neighbor next door who had completely gutted the house and built it back up, restoring lots of the original vintage character. During the process, the kitchen of the home was used in an episode of HGTV's "Kitchen Renovations" and along with that was photographed...