When we moved into Fieldstone Hill 6 years ago, the back of our historic home looked like this. Check out the back door {that is kinda what this post is about 🙂 } From another angle, you can see the “large and loud” 3 car, concrete block garage out back, and the {very} large deck […]

Not quite free,but you can easily get some “for a song.” I love ball jars.beauty and purity and practicality, all in one. these sit in my kitchen windowsill. happily soaking in the sun, andwaiting for the first bundles of spring daffodils.Bare, and in a set of three, I like to think that they are an […]

You may remember this amazing space from my last post. It is a stunning office designed by Amanda Nisbet.So ditto-worthy! ditto :: {what I would steal from this space}: coral and navy and lime. simply a fantastic combination! This combo takes guts, but the colors are used judiciously, and balanced with large, neutral pieces. I […]

My grandmother Nellie was a classy lady… or a “fancy” lady as my great-grandma Anna used to say. Throughout my life, I have found it fascinating that I have always tended to love similar things that grandma Nellie loved… even the same color combinations. While in her bedroom, together shuffling through the goodies in her […]