During the darker, shorter days of winter, don’t you just love low warm lighting…kinda like a fireplace? I do. I think it almost, convinces my mind, to be warm. Okay, so maybe I’m easily influenced…I don’t know, but it really matters not to me, chandeliers, candles, rusty and shinny….lights are just a really goo thing, […]
2013 A Year in Review
Well…here we are again… looking at another year in the rear view mirror. It’s hard to believe we’ve entered into 2014. I just now learned to write 2013…now I have to remember 2014. My mind and memory just isn’t that good any more. Do you ever feel like you just didn’t accomplish what you’d hoped? […]
Three fun Mason Jar Luminaries
Mason Jar Luminaries Don’t you just Love Mason Jars? I think they have to be one of the most fun items to play with. Why? Mostly because everyone has them. If you don’t…there’s probably one in your pantry with something in it…like spaghetti sauce or the likes. Mason Jar luminaries are the latest in […]
Creating Christmas Under Glass Woodland Style
Bamboo Lamp Redesign
Bamboo Lamp Lately I’ve had an obsession with bamboo. I haven’t always….but I’ve come to appreciate the organic qualities it offers. Here while back I found a really ugly thrift store lamp. It was the notorious golden harvest that speaks seventies style loud and clear. Between harvest gold and avocado green…seventies just has to be […]
Decanter chandelier
Best of 2012 Top 10
Best of 2012 posts and home decorating ideas As I sit here thinking about this last year, I’m amazed at how many different projects I have written about. My posts have grown over this year. I can’t believe that I’ve been writing that long. Actually a little longer…but I didn’t get REALLY serious about writing […]
Oh Sissy Tree…Oh Sissy Tree…(My Sister’s Christmas Tree)
The Story of how my sister’s Christmas tree became Several years back my sister and I decided instead of getting each other gifts for Christmas….that we’d just start giving each other Christmas Ornaments. She was coming to visit just a few short days after we decided this….and I was feeling really pressured to make the […]
Shining Stars
Oh Holy Night….the stars are brightly shining. I LOVE that carol! It might be one of my favorites. There is something so beautiful and enchanting about a night sky full of twinkling, shining stars. In the South, this time of year, and again in the spring, the skies are clear and crisp. It seems as […]
Black Chandelier It’s Not a Horse…But Does Seem Like a Fairy Tale
Black Chandelier Okay…the other day I did the post on the faux mercury chandelier….If you’ll recall….I told Y’all I had two of them….Well, this is numero duce. The black chandelier! I was just about to burst to do this little darling too!!! I know…again with my chandelier fetishes. I know I have a problem, but […]