TIP #5 – An solid old piece of furniture, even one you need to refinish…is often a better investment than a cheap shiny New piece.   case in point…..In my entire adult life, I have bought NEW – less than 10 pieces of furniture.They are 2 sofas,  a Ballard Designs coffee table I just got,  a… Read More Tip #5 – REUSE RECYCLE REUSE RECYCLE!!!

My Goddaugther is 9 years old today. Happy Birthday Molly.  Others peoples children seem to grow up EVEN faster than your own,  and that is almost a scientific impossibility, because my own children  are growing up at lightening speed.       The other day, I was somewhere, oh yes, on the soccer field, and a… Read More The Gift of God Parenting…

 Okay, so please don’t hate me,  but I read that people (myself included) are so silly that words like “moron” and “idiot”  generate the most traffic to any article on any subject!!! I was curious to see if using those words would bring more folks to my Blog? Now that I got you here… Lets… Read More Only a MORON….would be such an IDIOT!!!…and DECORATING Tip #4

     A writer from the Washinton Post Express,Beth Luberecki, interviewed me a few months ago about the “return of country decor”. Or maybe it was the return TO Country decor? At any rate, she was working up a piece which would discuss the influences of Country on decor… and posing the question  “Is Country Making a  comeback?”Hmmmm?  Right… Read More COUNTRY DECOR COMEBACK AND THE WASHINGTON POST!

Off to school they go….  A million years ago, well maybe 10, but in another lifetime, my firstborn child, my baby boy went to his first day of school…well, preschool. He was all of Two. I called my Mom in tears.  I wept and whined and said “I can’t believe my baby is getting SO old!”. Having… Read More When my blogs grows up…the first Day of School

 Needless to say…the week got away from me. What with school starting, and the earthquake, and the aftershock and the cleaning and the cleaning and  the mimosas with some other New Moms of High schoolers… I just feel drastically behind. But you know what I FINALLY finished? The kitchen cabinets!  seems only fitting, I started… Read More KiTCHEN CABINET UPDATE PART 5!!! or… the incredible journey…

Look at this gorgeous kitchen I stumbled upon, looking at kitchen counter top options. GORGEOUS! There is that color I told you about.           Todays post is short and sweet –   Here we are…the VERY last day of summer vacation.  The end and the beginning of SO much.  I have have a… Read More LAGOON Blue is everywhere…

First of all let me just start by saying ….it is One AM.  We just got home from a concert,  American Idol Live! one hour away,  I chugged an energy drink on the way home and my head and my ears are still buzzing. The concert was fantastic, I cried when Lauren sang “Like my… Read More HOME BY NOVOGRATZ by ME!!!