holiday craft from an un-crafty gal......

Don't get me wrong, I love gettin' my glue gun on as much as the next gal...... what I lack in patience, I make up for with desire.....I wish I was more crafty!  I am results, not process, oriented. My friend Jane Hall, owner of Mustard Moon, a crazy good occassional sale shop, is more optimistic than I when it comes to my crafting skills.  When Jane heard I had broken my ankle and may...

Ikat

Always about this time of year I find my mind dreaming of house projects, mostly changes and tweaks I want to make in the new year.    Perhaps it's the weather and the amount of time spent indoors?  Whatever it is, this year I find myself craving more color in my home.  I am not talking crazy color, like a red sofa or anything.  More like a move beyond the linen,...

thankful....

photo from Country Living Lord be with us on this day of thanksgivinghelp us make the most of this life we are livingAs we are about to partake of this boutiful mealLet us not forget the needy and the hunger they feelHelp us to show compassion in all that we doAnd for all our many blessings we say thank you ~Helen Latham Among my many blessings, I count all of you.  Happy Thanksgiving to...

preparations.....

Remember my "bah humbug" post from last week?  I failed to mention that in addition to receiving Christmas cards, I really like the process of creating our family's card.  When I learned that Shutterfly, my go-to source for our family's Christmas card {for at least the last five years}, was giving 50 free cards to bloggers who posted about Shutterfly I said, "shut the front door, where do...

~ Giveaway Alerts!

Head on over to my friend's Joe and Jermonne's Barn House blog to enter a super Barn House Marketplace giveaway! Then head over to my friend Ki Nassauer's Junk Camp blog and enter for a chance to win $100 in her Junk Revolution store! Have a great weeke...

holiday compartments~

Generally, I have discovered that I tend to compartmentalize in my life...finishing one thing before moving on to something else...and I tend to do this naturally and sometimes it works and sometimes it completely backfires and I am left unprepared for something because I have been so busy tending to other tasks....{like that run-on sentence?}.... As for the holidays, my crazy compartmentalizing...

Forever*Cottage Tag Sale....

Welcome to my tag sale!  My broken ankle, while incredibly inconvenient, provided me alot of time in my home and I vowed to be productive {can't say that I was entirely successful at that - unless you count  watching Nate Berkus and the Real Housewives count as "productivity"}.  But I did manage to cleane out closets and purge unwanted items.  I thought  some items were...

~ found

 Found......... at Michael's.......in the dollar bins {do the happy dance}...... p.s. - it snowed this weekend....and still hasn't melted.....winter has officially begun.....NOT too happy about that fact.  Must make hot cocoa in my stylish new mugs.....

{what i'm collecting now}

I may be late to this party but, I am loving the silver and silverplated pieces I have purchased recently.  You can use the small footed bowls for holding lavendar, sea shells, jewelry or whatever your little heart desires.  In my humble opinion, anything looks better in a little silver bowl! My ironstone and brown transferware collections are a great compliment to the silver, if...

An Ideas House to Inspire Your Own Holiday Home

I had a serious case of cabin fever last week after breaking my ankle and literally being forced to stay home and take it easy. In addition to not recommending breaking one's ankle for all the obvious reasons, sitting so long in ones own home can also be harmful, especially to those of us with a serious case of design ADD....oh, the plans I hatched while sitting on my couch!Anyway.....I had planned...

Sitting in reverie....

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind" ~ Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFate and dumb luck have forced me to "sit in reverie", which more accurately could be described as .....sitting on the couch with my ankle elevated and on ice, daydreaming and watching Nate Berkus.And while on many days I have wished for the opportunity to just sit and...

how i got out of trick o' treating.....{don't try this at home}

It was an interesting Halloween....and definitely did not go as planned.Just in case you are wondering, yes, that's my foot {in bad need of a pedi}. I took quite a spill on Saturday night in the dark front yard of a friend while picking up my daughter at a birthday party. I knew immediately that I had done something serious. An emergency room x-ray Halloween morning confirmed a fractured ankle.The...