exciting things are happening for My Old Country House!!! but ….first….a  CHARLIE UPDATE… One week ago…Charlie came home from having survived being hit by the car and after having FHO surgery. The road back is long but he is a trooper. It breaks my heart because he is SO not himself. He is very sleepy… Read More THANKS FOR THE MENTION – MY OLD COUNTRY HOUSE IN PRINT

IF YOU POKE AROUND THE BEDROOM PHOTOS ON WEBSITES, BLOGS AND  PINTEREST ENOUGH..AND YOU WILL BEGIN TO SEE THAT THE “QUINTESSENTIAL” PHOTO OF A BED….. IS ACTUALLY IS THAT OF …HALF A BED…WITH THE requisite ingredients:  A GREAT LAMP, A SIMPLE BUT BEAUTIFULLY STYLED DRESSER OR BED SIDE TABLE, perhaps with just a bouquet of fresh… Read More STYLING YOUR BED…AND THE RULE OF THIRDS

NOW WHERE WERE WE? AH YES..Lets talk about BLUE.. While I ADORE PINK… BLUE is the color I have had in every single home I have lived. These are the Top selling Benjamin Moore Blues…I think one day I will have a home of all blues and whites and sort pinks…I could never tire of… Read More YOUR FAVORITE BENJAMIN MOORE BLUES

HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY! THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT LAST WEEK! Your kind words and prayers were felt and Charlie is on the road to recovery. He is finally eating and drinking (took a few days to get an appetite) and  walking -wobbly – yes, but he has gotten up…about 5… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – LIVING ROOM – SEA SALT

CHARLIE got home last night. He is a shadow of his former – happy, follow me to every room, lick your bare legs or your pants  – self…but I will take a shadow of Charlie over NO Charlie any day. He is pretty pitiful…and yet I am amazed at how strong he is..hoisting up the… Read More CHARLIE IS HOME

I wish I had a BIG GIANT “THANK YOU” SIGN ……and that I could come to each of your towns and stand someplace very visible and THANK YOU APPROPRIATELY for your prayers and kind KIND words of support. I honestly was blown away by your compassion and I cannot put into words how it got me… Read More THANK YOU

Last night I hit my own dog, Charlie,  with the car. He is alive with broken bones and a scraped up face but he is alive and he will get better. He is having surgery today and we will know more about his recovery. It was a freak thing and I still am not quite… Read More PRAYERS FOR CHARLIE

I AM NOW IN DEEP…trying to choose a color for the living room. I spent mucho dinero yesterday on samples and then decided to give the BENJAMIN MOORE PERSONAL COLOR VIEWER a whirl… I did not find it the easiest program to navigate… but it is certainly not brain surgery either and finally I got… Read More CHOOSING A COLOR – PERSONAL COLOR VIEWER

For 6 years now these have essentially been our living room colors… …the kids Living room is painted Creamy white and MY living room is PINK CLOUD…but now we are about to make a change….I have been thinking about blue…a very very very pale underwater kind of blue…and here are some possibilities:     OR…GOOD… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – BLUE LIVING ROOM

OBSESSED IS REALLY AN UNDERSTATEMENT….I am on the HUNT. I have my heart set on a spindle or a spool bed. About a month ago…I bid on this one on EBAY….AND LOST…I was going to paint it high gloss black..now I can’t paint it at all…insert sad face here… The tough part is that they… Read More OBSESSED WITH SPINDLE AND SPOOL BEDS!