I know I love the Scoop where I get to see so many blogger projects, but what if you want to share your house with the world, but you don’t have a blog? Today you can upload your photos of your house here. And I’ll be featuring some of the photos next week! In my facebook […]
The Day my World was Shattered
My blog is about design, and making a room beautiful. Some would say it’s about rainbows and unicorns, sugar and spice and everything nice, where the skies are not cloudy all day. But that’s not reality is it? I’ve found that the people with a driving passion have often experienced their own private tragedy. I am […]
Farmhouse French Friday Tip 18
Today we’re talking about farmhouse French tables. If you have a table you are stuck with that isn’t farmhouse French is there anything you can do? Yes! One thing you can do is paint it if you like. The other thing is much simpler – put a tablecloth on it. Seriously, it’s that easy. I […]
Stenciled Basket
Have you ever stenciled a basket? It’s a bit more difficult than using it on a flat surface but it’s looks great. Case in point, this fabulous Fortnum and Mason basket from London. It came like that. Doesn’t it look fabulously luxurious? I decided to try my hand at painting my own. I taped on […]
New Feature in Country French magazine
When Country French magazine chose my breakfast room to be on the cover of their Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 (which was a reprint) issue it was a dream come true. Well maybe not a dream come true, because I never would have dared dreamed it. Then our farm was on the cover of Prairie […]
What I Wish I had Know Then
I remember an episode of Northern Exposure that was so profound for me. Maggie found a letter she had written at 15 to her older self. She had forgotten about it, but her mom found it, and mailed it to her in Alaska. In the episode it was shown as the two Maggies (the younger and the […]
Farmhouse French Friday Tip 17
Today we are talking about French lamps. Not all of these lamps are French per se, but they all work with farmhouse French style. The podcast episode is How to Freshen up Your Home in Ten Minutes. You can listen below. Now back to the lamps. This first one is actually quite tall, has […]
Deck Before and After
I might have mentioned a time or two or a hundred times that we now have a mountain retreat. When we first came to the house in the spring, we set up the house so we could stay here and also to get it ready for vacation rentals. This was our first visit since the spring. […]
