TAB BACK Drapes  YOU CAN BUY IT HERE! These are about as easy as it gets… …where sewing is involved. and BONUS… ….they LOOK very Polished when done. DISCLAIMER: Despite the fact that I won a Singer Sewing Contest when I was 13 years old… I am the SHORTCUT QUEEN. And when it comes to making something… Read More TUTORIAL – Easy TAB BACK CURTAINS / DRAPES

I LOVE SUBWAY TILE…. I have Loved it for years.. ….ever since my New York City Subway days…  Recently I was “HOUSE CRASHED” John and Sherry Petersik from BY YOUNG HOUSE LOVE – AND I had a very important photo shoot of my home. The kitchen is still awaiting new countertops and appliances…it is what… Read More YES…you CAN… TILE OVER TILE

I LOVE FALL… The temperature drops, and I get the itch to TWEEK… and SOMETIMES….the best changes… are just the very subtle TWEEKS… like….. from this: Annie Sloan – PROVENCE to THIS: Martha Stewart DUCK EGGcolor matched andmade in Benjamin Moore  Pearl Finish and THIS is how it usually looks! IN ACTION!    My Old… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – NEW BLUE ON PEW!

In a few hours… My little family of five will board an airplane and fly to my Fathers’ home,  the town where I rode bikes and horses and went to high school…. and got married… …and we will join All of our family and friends … to  Say Goodbye to My Dad. I am 100%… Read More COMING HOME

I have heard that it can feel like a gyp to have your birthday on a “Holiday” That the child that shares their Birthday with Christmas often feels short changed… and such… Fortunately for Spring and Fall babies…the  Holidays hop around, Spring Babies  might have a few Easter Birthdays in their lifetime or late November… Read More SEPTEMBER 11 BABY

      I have been digging, for letters and pictures, emails and  notes  from my Dad. Pieces of him and who he was to ME…      This one I wrote to the grandparents on the first day of school….4 years ago….. 2008 August 21, 2008 Dear Nannie and Pop Pop,        … Read More LETTERS

My Dad, sent me this when I was a Freshman in College…

My Dad used to love to tell me the story..of when we first met. It was back in the “olden days”, when dads waited out in the waiting room…  probably smoking cigarettes and pacing.  The Moms off somewhere else, having a baby. He was waiting…someone was taking care of my older brother, probably his grandparents. … Read More THE FIRST SUNDAY

A slide show of my Dads life is being put together ….and as the family “photographer”,   I have been asked to share photos of my Dad. I spent much of yesterday, in my bedroom, pulling the boxes of photos down from the closet shelf. Remembering, crying, remembering laughing and crying and remembering. Some of my… Read More LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Toward the end of my Dads life, he had a very difficult time speaking. He could mouth words and spell them out on an alphabet board  but the whole process was  extremely frustrating for him. One day, when I was visiting him he looked at me and he patted the bed next to his side and… Read More PUPPY LOVE – RIGHT BY HIS SIDE