I see so many cloches in decorating, but I've never had a real cloche myself. I must say that I've been having a little cloche envy. I still don't own a real cloche, but I do have the glass cake dome that I bought at a garage sale a few weeks ago and a footed...
Back From Camp
My son is back from summer camp in one piece and it appears that he had a great time. He got to go canoeing, fishing and play archery. According to the counselor, swimming was his favorite activity in the whole wide world (which we pretty much knew it would be). He even got an award...
I'm Lost
My husband and I dropped my son off at summer camp today. It's a special camp for kids with all sorts of different disabilities (or abilities, depending on how you look at it). They have numerous counselors, therapists, nurses and volunteers on staff, so he'll never be alone and I feel fully confident in their...
Thrifty Finds And Lemonade
All the moons seemed to be in alignment for my garage sale-ing excursion on Friday. I hadn't carelessly made any appointments for Friday morning (I need to permanently mark off Fridays on my calendar from now on), the rain from early in the morning had finally cleared up, and I was all caught up on...
Old Thrifty Finds
Can you believe that I didn't get to do any garage sale shopping this weekend at all! With my son being out of school for the summer, I'm not as free to dig around in thrift stores and wander around garage sales as I used to be. He doesn't share my cheap gene, so he...
Seasonal Yard Sale Finds
I love this time of year. Gingerbread cookies baking in the oven. A roaring fire in the fireplace. Snow gently covering the countryside. Wrong season? Well, take a little sip of eggnog, because Christmas has arrived! Last weekend, our town had their annual yard sale weekend and I seemed to have a Christmas theme going....
A Purple Dahlia
This is the area right outside my patio door. I can see it from the living room and is an area that I change around quite often. Right now we're having a purple-flower-bunny-roller coaster theme. I am totally in love with my purple dahlia. This was a Mother's Day present to myself (I'm quite the...
Summer On The Porch
The staining of the deck is done. The staining of my arms and legs is done. I can paint all day in a formal ball gown, but put stain on my paintbrush and all of the sudden I'm a drippy girl. But enough about the back deck, which I'll show you some other day, today...
Birdbath or Planter?
I love my birdbath. It was my Grandma's. Well, at least the bottom was. When I was a kid, my brother and I smashed into the birdbath in an epic sledding accident and the top was broken in two. I was able to find an almost identical replacement top at a pottery store in Zanesville,...