For those of you who missed the cabinet re-do. I spent about 6 months measuring ordering, waiting and installing myself the new cabinet doors, (you can read here, here, here, here, here, and here!) ….keeping the boxes and the layout the same. It was a very tedious and often times overwhelming task, but the results and… Read More The Kitchen makeover Update
Once upon a time…we didn’t live in My Old Country House. We didn’t even live in the Country. We lived in the booming metropolis called Charlottesville, VA. What brought us here you ask? Sadly, it was not some long held yearning to get back to some form of a simpler life…see, Charlottesville was simple enough… Read More BEFORE THE BEFORE! PHOTOS of My Old Country House before we began…
The “RETURN of COLOR!” ….we see it everywhere. Funny. I did not know it went away!. I think the return, actually means that color is now “en vogue” Popular and sought after. ll goes in waves, and like they say.. “everything old is new again.” For me, color will never get old, even if I… Read More BACK in the OLD DAYS of COLOR!!! – 2005 -Found Photos of My Old Country House BEFORE
I wish that the internet existed when my 3 kid were babies… it was there but NOTHING like it is now…nothing… it would have been so much easier to keep everyone updated one their every move. As it was, I had a photo album every month for 5 years… and I am proud of it! Thank GOD… Read More 2012 DREAMS – She Believed she Could…so She DID.
I love surprises. Yes, some surprises are not so good, but many are wonderful and life changing. For example, had you told me, one year ago, that I would end the year 2011 having established a little Blog following and be doing Custom Pet Portraits for customers all over the world…I would have.. …well I… Read More The DOGS of 2011 – Life is full of Surprises…painting the Best Friends.
…the other day, recovering from my separated shoulder…and loopy from pain medicine…I took a nap and I had a dream, and in the dream…I was in a New York City Loft … a huge Loft?…or was it a giant renovated barn? with just a few rooms, …all spilling into each other… and there was a big… Read More Anthropologie Dreams….would that they could come true…
YES, yes, You are in the right place. I have some extra down time on my hands with this durn ripped shoulder and so I am seizing the opportunity to fiddle with my BLOGs APPEARANCE… I found a great Blog Design site called shabbyblogs.com with an even greater Blog called “Shabbyblogsblog.com” I LOVE her point… Read More CHANGE IS GOOD!
It’s Overwhelming… A whole brand New Year right in front of me like a blank sheet of paper …where do I begin? How should I begin? I am a tad limited in my options, what with the dislocated shoulder and all… a souvenir of our recent ski trip.. on the other hand,,, I see this… Read More And so We Begin…
Today, I received my 3rd and final request for a short contribution to the annual family newsletter and thought, rather than to re-invent the wheel, that today, as we Welcome a NEW YEAR I would share my “piece” with you. When the ball dropped last night…my 13 year old daughter sighed and said …”Such… Read More HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2012 HAPPY NEW YEAR! I begin the new year with my arm in a sling from a ski accident. My right arm. My painting arm. My writing arm. It will get better and thank goodness, it was not worse…I can type! When I was driving down the mountain, I thought to myself “this is bound… Read More HAPPY NEW YEAR!
