Categotry Archives: Decorating

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A customer shares

I love it when a customer graciously shares pictures of something they’ve bought from my store. Seeing items in their new home is a feeling akin to finding a loving home for a kitten you can’t keep no matter how much you’d like to. CM bought some Lucite candlesticks and shared photos of them in his home. Here they are, all the way from England……… Don’t you love the windows and other collections? Thank you Craig for allowing me to [...]

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Peeks at the new craft room

Only peeks, though. I’m far, far, far from ready to show it. There’s still a filing cabinet in here that doesn’t belong and I don’t have everything arranged. There’s also a piece I want to use in here where the filing cabinet is now. I was given, yes given this old, hand made cabinet. It’s on an iron refrigerator base that stands, oh, 2-1/2′ tall or so. The total height of the cabinet is about 6′ and it’s over 3′ [...]

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Redecorating the pantry

There’s this little room next to the kitchen. I believe when the house was built it was a porch and next to it was a carport and next to that was the  laundry room. A previous owner made the carport into a “playroom”, left the laundry room where it was which then opened into the playroom and turned the porch into a… hmmm… well…. we always called it a breakfast room but it was/is much too small for that. I [...]

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A new collection?

Thought I’d share one of the things I bought for myself this weekend. It used to be a fan. See the notch out of the bottom? The wooden fan handle was stapled there. I thought they might enjoy living next door to these young girls I already have. I just don’t know how to frame the oddly shaped fan so that it will coordinate with the picture I already have. And, the colors are so very different. Hmmmm…. Any suggestions? [...]

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Bah humbug

This is nuts! I simply cannot get into Christmas decorating mode this year. I’ve spent the last who knows how many days cleaning and straightening the house just to get it ready to decorate. And I’m still at it. With a couple more rooms yet to go. I won’t go into all the excuses valid reasons the house was so intolerable that I had to spend this much time on it first, but it was required. And I’ve been enjoying [...]

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Somebody help! It’s almost Christmas!

Am I the only one having a hard time getting in the mood to decorate for Christmas? I love Christmas! I love to get all the decorations out and place them! So what’s wrong with me this year? I just plain ol’ don’t wanna bother with it. But Erin came up yesterday and we were going to decorate. I’d gone to her house Saturday and we got one of her trees decorated and she was going to help me get [...]

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How can a kitchen timer make me so happy?

I’ve been looking for a good kitchen timer for several years now. It had to look good and it had to work. I’ve bought several cheapies just to do the job until I could find The One and they always end up in the garbage. Oh, my stove timer works fine, but it’s a soft button you press then hold. And hold and hold and hold and hold…. And hold and hold and hold… Annnndddd hold and hold and hold. [...]

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A new crackled white stool

  A couple of months ago I bought this stool. (Ruth D., this is the one you said you wanted to see.) The most fierce competition had already been to the yard sale and bought up most everything. There were still some furniture pieces with sold signs on them. Somewhat unattractive furniture pieces at that. But oddly, this stool was still hanging around. Am I the only one in this area who appreciates naturally aged, painted furniture? Probably. Anyway, my [...]

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Yesterday. I bought a bed.

You might recall that my daughter took her twin bed home with her for her tiny guest bedroom. That basically left her old bedroom here a blank canvas. Fun! But it does call for decisions. The only thing I knew was that I thought I wanted the walls light gray and use mostly whites with mint green accents and silver accessories. Why that particular combination? First, I wanted a low color room. Our whole house is color, color, color. I [...]

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One man’s trash….

Many, many moons ago, my husband brought home a green, plywood box on legs. It had been in either the electrical shop or the machine shop where he worked. Apparently, the guys got something better and were throwing this box out. I think Ricky brought it home for himself for a tool box, but we needed a coffee table and I quickly claimed it. This was way back in the day, I tell ya. Wayyyy back. I’m sure there are [...]

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