When people go out of town for spring break, I think of skiing trips and trips to tropical places. We are drawn to our place in the mountains of North Carolina, near Asheville. It was warm when we left Houston, but not so in the mountains. We had a pj day and drank hot tea […]
More Work on Texas Flip N Move
Happy Thanksgiving my dear friend! I hope you have a very blessed Thanksgiving, and that you get to enjoy it with your family and friends. We’ll have a quiet holiday with just the four of us, but I hope to visit some friends too during the time off. I just came home from another stint on […]
Hurricane Harvey Update
Midnight Tuesday – I wrote this post early on Tuesday. Since I wrote it, the sun came out, and we walked around the neighborhood. After being stuck in the house for days, it was great to be outdoors. Everything is still wet, but it was great to get out of the house. There were no […]
What Would YOU tell your younger self – RESPONSES
Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. I’ve been married over 30 years. We were very young… clearly. So to mark the special occasion last year, I took a walk down memory lane. Earlier, I posed a question, “What would you tell your younger self?” That post can be found HERE. I shared what I would tell myself […]
Exciting News and the Back Story
Exciting news – Rug challenge results First of all I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your votes on the Dash and Albert rug design challenge. It’s over, so I’m no longer asking for votes. The big news is…. we won!!!! Yes ‘WE’ won! It’s your design too. You are the ones who made […]
See you at Haven
I normally show pictures of interior decorating projects, but today I wanted to let you know I’ll be a mentor at the Haven Conference for bloggers this summer. The Haven conference has been around since 2011, but my first time was 2015. If you are a blogger in the DIY/Home Decor space this is valuable […]
Today is My Birthday
Today is my birthday. And I’m a woman ‘of a certain age’ but you knew that, right? I was told I couldn’t make a living as a creative. I was told I was NOT creative. I was told I was unattractive. I told that my house wasn’t good enough to make it into a magazine. […]
The Day my World was Shattered Part III
“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.” Karen Blixen This is a multi-part story. As a quick recap, my first child, Elise, had been born with Down Syndrome. This is about her birth, open-heart surgery and about that hard […]
