WE MAY EARN A SMALL COMMISSION AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU FROM LINKS IN THIS POST Foster spring’s sweetest blooms to take root in your home without the fuss of potting soil or shovels. From enchanting chintz to clean block prints, flowers are in bloom year-round in Southern homes, demonstrating that decorating with florals and botanicals is…
Happy New Year and Hello 2020! A Message from Me to YOU… As we have officially turned the clocks unto a new decade, I wanted to deliver to each of you my friendship, gratitude, and a New Year’s Blessing! It has been a busy year of learning, meeting new friends, growing, and certainly many, many changes.…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Overall, clearing my decks has been an exercise in both happiness and organization. In the fall and just before the holidays, all I ever wanted was to be able to kick back and enjoy the season, but this ‘detachment’ involved wrapping up and winding down from the current year, 2019. All too often,…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin groaning board noun (archaic) A table weighed down with very generous supplies of food and libation… You’ve never heard it referred to as the Holiday Groaning Board you say? I’ve known this term since I was a child, not only because it was used at home when my Mom would dress the holiday buffet with fresh baked breads and pastries and wine, but because a…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Get Holiday Gifting with Our Holiday Gift Guide Shopping for friends, family members, or colleagues can sometimes prove tricky, but with a bit of luck, this distinctive holiday gift guide can help you to navigate the unending options for that hard-to-buy-for someone on your holiday list. Having a few holiday gifts on hand,…
This, our American holiday that is Thanksgiving, is about gratitude. For most of us, Thanksgiving brings to mind a big savory turkey, spoonfuls of sweet potato casserole, or maybe pumpkin pie. It also means that family we see every day, and some we may see only once each year, travel great distances to share this homespun annual repast with…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Mom and I began the arduous task of ‘lightening’ her butlers pantry and her cupboards of unused china collections and serviceware recently, I thought in an effort to thin out her collections… A Thanksgiving Tablescape is the PERFECT occasion to show off family heirlooms or a collection of seasonal objects. Over the years, I have accumulated…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin This eye-catching fall inspired dining room tablescape can be a perfect seasonal masterpiece for your home, and screams Harvest. Brimming with inspiration I found on Instagram, I’ve created an eye-catching Fall Inspired Tablescape. Instagram is dangerous. Before becoming a blogger, I did little if anything on Instagram. Now, I post and browse others posts…
Autumn is my season of pure organic joy, and the ability to recognize this no matter where I find it or who shares it with me, is a priceless gift. Everything and everybody has their season, a time when the purest organic joy that life embodies seems to peak. Autumn is my season for pure organic joy. It…
Thank you to Yard Sale Treasure Hunt App for sponsoring this post. It’s yard sale and flea market season, and that means one thing…it’s time to treasure hunt. It’s sort of like farmer’s market season…but stumbling upon a gem of a sale is slightly less Instagram-able and oftentimes boasting a hoard of somebody’s old and battered VHS tapes. For me…