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About a year ago, I found this ottoman in my neighbor’s trash…
It was in pretty bad shape, but sturdy nonetheless…
Obviously trash picked, since there was even garbage in the springs…
Gross, but salvagable! So, . . . → Read More: ottoman before & after In the office of my home there is a large and boring wall that’s been crying out for help for some time now.
It really needs some paint, but that’s not happening this week. I already started to give the wall a bit of flair with this fabulous . . . → Read More: spinning a yarn Lookee what I found on Craigslist for 30 clams!
A beautiful chandelier that I’m going to paint and put in my bedroom. (That is after it “cures” for a while in my garage with my other projects-in-waiting.) Can’t decide…white, black or other? Don’t want it to be . . . → Read More: lookee what i found! A while back, I found this in the trash in my neighborhood…
It was a sweet gift from the decorating gods, because I had recently seen what Donna over at Funky Junk Interiors had done with a mattress spring, and I wanted to try my hand at decorating . . . → Read More: lookie what i found This Thanksgiving I hosted the Thanksgiving dinner and had a total of 11 guests. Not a huge production, but certainly more than my usual 3 person deal. As always, I wanted to create a special tablescape, but using things that I have around the house. Plus, this year, in addition to making it . . . → Read More: thanksgiving table
A great low-cost decorating trick is to use twigs & branches that you can gather up on a walk in your neighborhood. Imagine that – decorating as exercise! That’s my kind of workout! I picked up the large branch in this vignette after a windy fall day in our neighborhood… . . . → Read More: twig decor
Because I live in a land where backpacks, purses, viola, suitcase-sized-5th-grade-zipper-binder-almost-as-large-as-said-5th-grader, and other various & sundry items litter the kitchen table and the bar stools and the breakfast bar, I need some sort of storage solution. We do have a coat closet with a shelf for each person, however, that . . . → Read More: benched Recently, a dear friend who lives in New York came to visit me in Ohio. After his visit, because I have a collection of masks like this…
And this…
He sent me these…
He suggested that I frame them, which I thought . . . → Read More: when you said to frame it, is this what you meant? Home decorating magazines are my guilty pleasure, but I’ve become discouraged with how much the decorating mags are about buy, buy, buy. Consumption of more and more new stuff. However, many are beginning to sing the green song, and I am thrilled when I see vintage pieces being reused or repurposed. Like these . . . → Read More: mod bell  |
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