Author: Linda

Family Room

I “so” DO NOT SEW ~ and new pillows!

Remember my new leather ottoman that I covered with the pretty plaid fabric? If you’d like to be reminded you can see the project here. I’ve mentioned before that I “so” do not sew! But I really wanted to make coordinating pillows for the eggplant colored couch to match the ottoman. I was in a dilemma. […]

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KEEP ON DECORATING…No stop it!

polina_swan ari kytsya video As I told you in my last post, our family decorates early so we can celebrate Christmas during a Thanksgiving visit from out of town family. For the next month after they leave, I continue decorating, and decorating, and decorating!! Here’s some fun stuff I’ve been working on: One of our […]

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GUEST ROOM TO NC STATE ROOM ~ Surprise!!

When we built our present house, we built a guest room on the first floor for my mother to stay when she came to visit. Her health was declining and she lived alone in Florida. I wanted her to live with us so I could spoil her rotten. It wasn’t meant to be. As she […]

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Christmas Decorating ~ for Thanksgiving?

For the last few years we have had the honor of entertaining my husband’s family for Thanksgiving. Because they all live out of the state, we celebrate Christmas during their visit. We decorate our house and exchange Christmas gifts. The downside of our decorating early is….I KEEP decorating until Christmas!! Every day I change something […]

Family

APPRECIATION ~ and focus

Have you ever seen something in the distance and you just weren’t sure what it was because it wasn’t in focus? You can see a blurry shape but can’t quite see the details.  As you get closer to the object, it becomes clearer and more defined. Then you get close enough that you can see […]

Dining Room

MY DINING ROOM IS COMPLETE ~ finally!

Talk about a project that never ends! Well, that’s my dining room. To recap… we want to sell our house someday so we had a stager walk through our house and give us advice on how to fix it up so we can get the most for our house. One of her tips was to […]