Ma'am Cave and Not Entirely Average, a blog collaboration! If you are a gal who 'owns' your grays, your wrinkles, and your sags proudly, then you will embrace the witty writings and confident advice from friend and fellow blogger Debra Blair and her website, Ma'am Cave! Debra hails from the great state of Massachusetts where...
Lifestyle
Decorating With Florals & Botanicals
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Friendship, Gratitude and a New Year’s Blessing
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Wrapping Up and Winding Down 2019
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
The Holiday Groaning Board
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Holiday Gift Guide
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Thanksgiving
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
A Thanksgiving Tablescape
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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......
An Eye-catching Fall Inspired Tablescape
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Autumn, My Season of Pure Organic Joy
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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....
"Flea Chic" - A Yard Saler's Eye For The Best Vintage Chachka
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
La Jolie Muse Ceramic Salad Bowl Product Review
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
Mother's Day Gifts To Spoil The Deserving Women In Your Life, Including Yourself
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 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...
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...
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...
