One of my favorite things to decorate is our fireplace mantel.  Did you know that our new house will have FOUR fireplaces?  Two double ones: one between the kitchen and dining room and one between the living room and master bedroom.  I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love that. (See layout […]

We don’t have a large enough space to make a real coffee bar here at the cottage.   So I recently decided to create a small coffee station.  It’s actually a corner, but that’s all we need.  I wanted to keep all of our coffee supplies together and add some decor to make it look pretty.   […]

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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 know how much we love our outdoor spaces.  Well, I have been working really hard on getting the porch comfy and cozy.  As we spend so much time out there.  I will be sharing all of the details of that really soon.  While I was adding different seating areas, pillows on the swing, and […]

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 […]

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, […]

Hello 2021.  You are gladly welcomed! I wanted to take this moment to thank every one of you for reading these little old posts of mine and following along on social media.  Every comment and LIKE is GREATLY appreciated.  Without all of you, this gig would not be possible.  Last year, I remember sharing lots […]