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 truly timeless. There's a certain forget-me-not charisma in faded floral artwork, and I...
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Friendship, Gratitude and a New Year’s Blessing
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,...
Wrapping Up and Winding Down 2019
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, I...
The Holiday Groaning Board
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...
Holiday Gift Guide
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, or...
Thanksgiving
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...
A Thanksgiving Tablescape
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...
An Eye-catching Fall Inspired Tablescape
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 throughout...
Autumn, My Season of Pure Organic Joy
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...
"Flea Chic" - A Yard Saler's Eye For The Best Vintage Chachka
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...
La Jolie Muse Ceramic Salad Bowl Product Review
Feeling the urgency to share my thoughts on this new kitchen tool that arrived today. I already LOVE IT, but for more reasons that just it being beautiful and a PERFECT size! The La Jolie Muse ceramic salad bowl which comes with the sweet little wooden salad forks pictured (3 piece set), is an Amazon...
Mother's Day Gifts To Spoil The Deserving Women In Your Life, Including Yourself
Mothers...they raised us, along with all of the boo-boos, broken hearts, and royal messes we created. We probably already show and tell Mom how much she means to us year round, but it's that time again when we need to up our game some! Mother’s Day is only 20 days away, May 12th, and if...
Verdant Green
I am only in the wee early days of my house hunting adventures, and already I am excited to be putting together a cut-file of fresh design ideas for both inside and out. I am a huge fan of blue and white, and everyone who has visited my previous homes is familiar with my ever...
Life; The Art Of Drawing Without An Eraser
Yes. I know. I was missing in action for a smidgen, but the truth of the matter is, life goes on ready or not, behind the publishing of Not Entirely Average. So much 'wonderful' has happened these past six months, including my reason for being absent. I made changes. No, not a midlife crisis sized...
Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Her
Hallmark’s favorite holiday, Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us! I don’t go all out for Valentine’s Day because I think it can be gimmicky at times. Gifts to my girlfriends and my Mom are usually small and thoughtful and hopefully something 'pretty' they would not have otherwise purchased for themselves. Whether your plans are...
Stitches in Time - My Crisscrossed Life Between Basking Ridge and Charleston
Growing up, very dear friends of our family who lived in Bernardsville, were instrumental in my decision to attend school for design and architecture. More specifically, it was a raw passion for everything 'American' in terms of furniture and building processes and designers which my 'Aunt' Carole Gronros wanted to impart to me, largely because...
Junkin'
I can conquer a yard sale. I love ‘em. Some sales are legitimately lifetimes of people’s stuff waiting to go to a good home and be purposed, and other sales are just people trying to sell junk they paid too much for in the first place. I can sniff out the difference between the two....
Emma
Sometimes, the things left behind by a person are the only clues you have to who they were inside, and how they lived their life. Such is the case of Emma Cox, the sweet lady from whom my parents bought our little house on Madisonville Road. From even before I was old enough to process...
Marjorie
I sometimes become wistful thinking about the way things used to be, not because my early years were bad in any way, rather how empty my life feels sometimes because I am missing those who shaped me into the person I am today. Death is an ugly sort. It comes suddenly and steals precious words...
Babs
I was one of dozens of kids in my neighborhood. Really, our neighborhood consisted of two streets worth of families, so everybody knew everybody despite a gap in ages from toddler to high school. And we kids had room to roam! From yard to yard and field to field, we knew all of the secret...
