Category: Around the House

I have been buying dishes.  I do not know what it is about china, but it makes me so happy to acquire it.  I have seen these dishes in a couple of places–Susan of Blackberry Creek has at least one, and Wspersweetly of Cottages has an entire set that she used for her 4th of July tablescape.  […]

Every Thursday I check out a blog called Between Naps on the Porch.  Susan has a wonderful blogsite, and every Thursday she hosts something she calls Tablescape Thursday, where she photographs her tablescape of the week and links to other blog sites that are doing the same.  It is so much fun to see the creative […]

Isn't this a pretty tablescape?  I just love decorating for any holiday.  That being said, that is not my table shown above, and I haven't done any decorating for the 4th of July.  I have however been extremely inspired by a few blog sites where very creative folks have done so.  Please join me for […]

Did you ever get home from a vacation and find yourself incapable of doing much of anything?  I'd say this week has been pretty much a complete waste, except that I did meet with a real estate agent about selling our house.  She liked the house but thought the yard was messy.  I told her […]

Now this is a novel concept.  Not sure if it would work for me so much, but interesting idea.  There have just been too many men in my house this week.  The place is teaming with testosterone.  The men are very nice, but they are just so, so, masculine.   They joke around, laugh loudly, bang […]

  The tile men came to re-do the master bath floors.  They put down new concrete to even things out and left for lunch. Sophie got away from me and before I could catch her, she ran through all the wet concrete.  She ruined their beautiful smooth work. Why do I have dogs?  Does anyone […]

Here is my poor living room, almost empty.  We are preparing to have the floors redone and had to move all the furniture out.  My gosh, that room is as big as a barn without any furniture.  So where's the furniture? Why stacked up in the garage, naturally.  See those boxes in the foreground?  They […]

Hey, Sandy from The Textile House, also known as Strlady!  You won those honey buns!  Congratulations.  Thanks to all of you for your comments during my Giveaway, I appreciate you so much.   I will be having my best Giveaways yet once my house sells, so stay tuned for the next one–hopefully in the next month […]