The moment my friends over on Instagram asked me if I wanted to be a part of this little blog hop showing you some different ideas using bottle brush trees, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.   All of my bottle brush trees are reproductions but the true vintage ones are dated back to […]

Well we did it.  Yesterday we tackled moving the big ass pieces of furniture around in our dining room.  Some of the cabinets are HUGE.  Not to mention, they are filled with some of the 1.5 million dishes that I collect. ????  But, if you are new here, you need to read the post on […]

Whew…. FINALLY, the dining room reveal.  Yay! I started talking about the dining room 100 years ago but then Project Backyard and Project Pergola kind of took center stage.  Here in Indiana, we only have so many months to enjoy the weather outside.  We are finally to the point on the pergola to be able […]

Wow… Life has been a little chaotic over the last several weeks. ???? If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you have had lots of updates regarding the surgery I had on my shin.  You’ve probably heard more than you bargained for when you signed up to follow me.  ????

OMG…..   I’ve had kind of an “off week.”  We’ve been very busy with a few jobs and then throw a holiday in there….with a million “neighborhood” fireworks – while Ivy paces back and forth inside the house – when we are trying to sleep at night.  It’s been a rough week.  UGH!  This holiday […]

I told you last week that the next room I was going to show you was our dining room.  It’s a room that unbelievably we use all of the time, even with just the two of us.