I will be in Collingswood ,NJ on August 19th and 20th for the Collingswood Fine Art and Crafts Festival. I’m excited to debut my pumpkins outside of my usual geographic area!
Category: using pretty stuff
Christmas starts too darn early. Can we all agree on that? I love this time of year and I don’t want to speed through it. Autumn! It has finally come to Philadelphia with a major storm -taking all of the leaves and a lot of people’s power for a few days -ushering in crisp and […]
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I have found it. It was 2 dollars at a thrift store. Not only is it perfectly sized, shallow, smooth, perfect weight- it has robin’s egg blue on the INSIDE of the cup. I love that kind of detail. I haven’t been feeling so great lately, so busy driving kids and working a lot, and […]
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I know I could save myself a lot of time if I stopped worrying about how my house and garden look. When we were getting ready to move last year, I had little paper doll pieces of furniture that I moved around for months on graph paper trying to make sure I got the room […]
Oh, I love a nice vintage tray. I always look for them in my travels. They are useful for so many things! Plus if you put everything on a tray, you can just pick up the tray and dust the table underneath it. I look for mid century Japanese trays in plastic or lacquer, vintage […]
My mom would take out her best china cups at Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving only. When I grew up and got real furniture and started collecting nice dishes and cups, I did the same thing. I would never think to use the Johnson Brothers Ironstone vegetable bowl for anything but a Very Special Occasion. Maybe a […]
We moved a year ago and I still feel a little lost in my new neighborhood. We left a tight knit, loving bunch of neighbors who we had called friends. Our old house had many garden beds and over the 18 years we were there, we had added many trees, bushes and countless perennials. This […]