Versatile Blogger Award!

  Don’t ya just love it when someone says “thanks” in an usual way!  Kelly over at Kelly Bernier Designs  nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award!  Kelly’s blog is totally fun and creative and like me, Kelly does redesign (redecorating) too.  Ahhhh…two minds with similar thoughts! Kelly kindly comments often on my blog too! This [...]

A Quick Online “Research” Tip

In my last post I mentioned how I sorta “discovered” how to find knock-offs of famous name designer furniture doing a google search “knock off of _________”.  I’m sure some people said “Yeahhhhh…duh!?!?! Like um, everybody knows that! What, are you old or something?”  LOL   (Hey. I protest!  I am not old!  They say [...]

The View out my bedroom window and….

While working on a decorating project for a client and waiting for lots of items to be shipped, I’m fortunate to have some time to enjoy our backyard with my husband and our two dogs. We’ve had some wonderful perfect summer time weather lately! These photos were taken right through the screen of our bedroom’s [...]

The evolution of our yard

Hello!  This post will be purely “eye candy” for those of you who like to view pretty yards.  I had always planned to do a follow-up post about our pretty cottage plantings yard as it grew and evolved from spring to summer.  And so here it is!  However, I can’t type much or for very [...]

So….you’d like more yard photos?

OK, not everyone wants to see a ton of photos on a blog.  But if you read my last blog with the yard photos and would like to see more, you can go to this link.  There are two pages. I took a whole bunch and honestly, I didn’t even put all of the photos [...]

…And here’s our own yard!

Oh my, what a wonderful week we had!  Our son and daughter-in-law’s wedding was superb!  A gorgeous outdoor wedding with the Colorado Rockies as the backdrop.  Can you say lovely, magical, stunning, enchanted….?  What a blessed event!  We couldn’t be more proud of our two sons and their beautiful and wonderful wives.  And we got [...]

Decorating or…. ?

Hello All! I’ve been absent from the blog world (including reading other’s blogs) due to some very important things in our lives.  The month of June this year is filled with weddings and anniversaries which are always fun! Eric and I celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary in early June!  Our celebrating hasn’t “officially” been done [...]

A Terrific find!

I’ve been looking (and waiting!) for a backyard patio set.  We’ve been using simple white resin chairs with an old vintage metal round table that was my grandfather and grandmother’s. But the rust on the table is getting so bad underneath I’m afraid some day I’m going to lose my glass right through it! Nevertheless, [...]

Our Cottage….

This is our home…our cottage…our sanctuary.   It’s little; it’s aging.  But we’re proud to say it’s ours!  This was taken last fall after the “matching” tree had to be removed due to disease.  (You can see the teeny stump in the lawn.) Our backyard will be featured (hopefully!) later on this summer when all [...]