I receive daily questions about our large wooden lamps.  You have probably seen several pictures of them here and on social media.  They were in the House on Winchester, the rental, and the cottage for awhile.  And now they are here at the house.  But, I realized that I have never shared the story behind […]

I love a great story.  And, I love to share them.  I’ve been around the block for 57 years so I have many of them.  Yesterday I shared a small little antique haul that we found this past week.  It included a yellow ware lid to something. I’m not sure if it’s old or new […]

I shared a recent post on 5 tips on how to display and use your antique dishes.  And it got me thinking that I have never shared the story behind our pink Mason’s Vista dishes.   If you just stumbled upon my site, I have a series that I regularly share here.  Our antique pieces have […]

You are probably thinking to yourselves, what the heck is a candle cabinet.  ????  I didn’t know what else to call it except that.  We store all of our candles in this cabinet here in the cottage.  It had several different lives before being our candle cabinet.  In fact, we used to call it a […]

I have been sharing the story behind random pieces that we have been adding to the cottage.  Some of them we have had for YEARS and have been in several of our homes.  Some are new as of the last several years.  But, all of them have a story behind them.  If you have missed […]

I have been sharing in a new series here on my site all of the stories behind our pieces.  I usually share one, possibly two, posts a week.  We have so many great pieces that we have had forever, and some newer pieces.  They all have such great stories.  Therefore, this series began.  You can […]

Whenever I look at our pieces, I think a lot about the story of finding them, what they looked like before, how much we paid, etc.  I have been sharing our antiques in a new series called The Story behind our Pieces.  I have shared an antique wardrobe, our bathroom medicine cabinet, our linen cabinet, […]

  I have heard from so many of you that you are loving this new series,  The Story Behind our Pieces.  If you have missed some of them, just search up top in the search bar those words and all of the posts will pop up.  I am really enjoying sharing them. This week, I […]