Progress.......

Good afternoon.....

I have been working hard since Friday, the day our moving truck showed up

at our new cottage with all 3, 403,567,499 boxes of our STUFF.

I always secretly wonder what these moving company workers think when

they pack up and move someone like me...

I am certain I am their favorite kind of customer, with my 500 pillows, vintage clock collection, 

ironstone collection, oodles of paintings and pictures, lots of chippy birdcages, architectural pieces that 

to regular folk have no real purpose in a home......I am most certain

they spend the unloading day thinking to themselves, "why does this lady have 

so much crap?".......

Oh well, boy has it been fun unwrapping all my "crap" treasures.  Sort of

like Christmas!  

The two pictures above are of our "great room" - basically kitchen/family room/dining room.  I 

am really happy how it is coming together.  I had all the furniture in our former

cottage - but much of it is being used differently in this home.  The European pine

cabinet between the sliding doors was used to store linens in our upstairs hallway

in our cottage.  It is a piece I love so I was happy that I could use it in our main living space.

The big multi-colored pillow on the couch is from Anthropologie and really inspired

the color palette.  Although I knew I wanted to feature my blue and white collections, this

pillow makes the blue and white look more fresh{in my opinion}.  The striped pillow

is from Pottery Barn.

Many of you asked - yes, the lantern hanging over the dining table is from

Ballard Design.  I love it!  It is big and scrumptious!

My camera is giving me fits so I just could not post more pictures as 

they were SO blurry.   More to come.....