And the Winner is . . .

The winner of the handmade linen dinner napkins from Ruffled Linens is Katie Foss from South Florida! Katie, please contact me with your mailing address so I can send these lovelies on down to you! Do you live near the beach? Because I might just drive them down to...

Dinner with Dead Presidents – A Patriotic Dinner

As many of my readers know, I am a member of a fabulous Cooking Club. Twelve ladies get together once a month for a themed dinner party sans husbands and kids. Heaven, I tell you! Anyway, it was my turn in November to host. I was inspired by the fact that the...

Upcycled Cottage-Style Furniture

Good morning, lovely ladies (and charming gents, I'm sure)! Today I'm sharing a few fun upcycling projects from Better Homes and Gardens. This first one is a cottage-style medicine cabinet fashioned from an old dresser drawer. Vintage wallpaper in the bottom of the...

How Light Affects Paint Colors

Have you ever been in someone's home and decided you absolutely had to have their wall color in your own home? But when you painted your own room, the color looked quite different? What's up with that? Metamerism. Yes, metamerism. That's because light affects...

Jewelry Display Project by ArteStyling!

I just have to share this awesome jewelry display project by lovely and gracious fellow blogger, Kelly Berg, over at Arte Styling. It involves a few of my favorite things: collections, vintage jewelry, and retro wallpaper. Kelly's dilemma: how to organize and...

A Doll Birthday Party

What little girl doesn't like dolls? I hosted this birthday party for my youngest's 6th birthday back in the summer. A classic theme for a little girl, and I had almost everything I needed already in my own house. I decided not to be too specific about it. You...

Decorating Around the Television

I've had several people ask me to write a post about decorating around the television. It can definitely be a problem when you really don't want the focal point of the room to be a soul-less tv set. The most obvious solution is mounting a flatscreen above the...

Are You Listening to Your Chairs?

Remember those chairs I painted a couple of weeks ago? Below is a "before" of one of them. I wish I had a real "before" of when I first bought her. She sported a brown walnut stain and a burgundy seat cover. When I found her she told me, "I'm tired of being one...

Decoupaged Child’s Table

This table belonged to my sisters and I as children. When it passed to me, it was this same wood stain and could have used refinishing or painting. Rather than doing either, I decided to decoupage the top with paper doll clothes. I found these in back issues I had...

Living In and Loving a Small Space

I wanted to share the cool home of Lizzy Carnie, a designer with EuroTrash. EuroTrash in the brainchild of my best friend, Annie Brahler. Ok, Annie doesn't know I exist, but I think she's divine! Her home is my favorite house ever (to see why, check it out here). ...