If you want to make a different kind of potato salad this weekend I have a couple great potato salad recipes for you. Sure you can make the same old same old potato salad you've brought to the family get-together for the last 15 years (yawn). Or you can vary it up a bit and...
Festive Summer Planter Combination
Even though it was colder than a witch's you know what here this weekend, I did manage to get one of my summer planter containers planted. I usually have a set plan on what I want in my containers, but this year it's all about flying by the seat of my yoga pants. Creating A...
Avocado Green Planters Are Hip Again
I like to call this color Brady Bunch green. I think the technical term is avocado green though. I see these types of planters all the time in the thrift stores. They have a sort of retro hip vibe to them now, I think. I guess you can't actually call this an "upcycle" or "repurpose"...
Vintage Snack Set Bird Feeder
I run across these vintage glass snack sets at the thrift stores. All. The. Time. The day I picked this one up, I had at least 40 to choose from. It was a regular glass-a-palooza. They were made by Hazel Atlas, Federal Glass, Anchor Hocking and probably every other glass type company back in the...
My Little Buddy
I was holding out on you when I showed you my latest thrifty finds. I thought Buddy deserved his own post. See. Right there. It says his name is Buddy. I didn't find him at a thrift store though, I found him at a little vintage shop not far from here. One look at him...
Tweet, Tweet And Hubba, Hubba
I think I may have found a new mascot for Twitter. Isn't he about the cutest birdie vase you've ever seen! I found him at a church rummage sale on Saturday. He's actually quite petite. The whole vase is only 4 ½" tall. I only went to two sales this weekend. Two. Count them with...
How To Decorate Your Porch In 39 Easy Steps
When I showed you my porch the other day, it occurred to me that you might be interested to see how I went about "designing" it. Well it starts with a vision in your head. And then you put that vision down on a mood board. And then you go out shopping at all the...
Colorful Spring Front Porch
I wanted to do a little something different with my porch this spring. Shake it up a bit. Truth be told (and why in the heck wouldn't I tell the truth) I don't normally decorate the porch for spring per se. I'm normally a summer, fall and winter porch decorator. Or would that be porch-orator?...
A Church Rummage Sale
I went to a church rummage sale today and all I got was this t-shirt set of badminton rackets and a box of Shiny Brites. And who knew badminton had that weird "n" thrown in the middle? I've always pronounced it bad-mitten. Like a fuzzy hand covering that steals your lunch money. But, really. This...