Real Decorating for Real People
Don’t listen to those scary movies about bats getting caught in your hair and remeber that having these creatures around is actually good for you – put up a bat house and prove it! Did you know that insect-eating bats eat billions of tons of insects each summer? They protect our crops and keep our costs…
Who says artwork is only for walls? How about using some of your handiwork on your floors with a hand painted floor cloth? Well, a painted floor cloth is a wonderful way to bring pattern and color into a room with hard surface floorings. They are easy to clean up, and their value isn’t in…
A baker’s rack is one of those pieces that will fit in any room in your home, and who doesn’t need versatility like that? I guess everyone doesn’t need a baker’s rack, but if you have a kitchen with a little extra wall space, or a porch, entry or dining room — heck, even a…
Appliques are fun to do, especially when you are working on a sampler quilt and getting tired of putting together tones of little squares and triangles! With an applique, you add a design to a full background square. Hooray, hooray this is the last block in our Year Long Sampler Quilt. Not that I want…
There’s something for everyone in a shrimp and sausage boil from a variety of meats to potatoes and veggies too! I found a recipe similar to this in one of my old magazines and had it clipped out and saved forever! So, this Fourth of July I decided to give it a try. It was…
I didn’t say it was low in calories, I said it was the best chicken salad ever and I mean it! I seem to be surrounded by girlfriends who really know how to cook. I know I’ve mentioned my friend Sharlee before and have shared some of her recipes with you. Well, this chicken salad…
Italy has so many fantastic places to go, but make sure Tuscany and it’s hill towns are one of the areas you visit! This is the second half of the story about my trip to Italy. I can’t say this was my favorite part of the trip because Rome is…well…ROME!! Nothing can compare to it! …
During the course of a year, there has to be a tree to celebrate special ocassions like birthdays, anniversaries, weddings or new babies, and the month of August holds all of my family’s birthdays! Believe it or not, I’m still creating trees for the months of the year. Actually for August you might say I’m…
Flag banners can be stretched across your rooms for a festive look on that special ocassion, but be prepared, you might like them so much you won’t want to take them down! Now doesn’t this say summer to you? It sure does to me, and the pretty blue plaid fabrics seem fresh and cooling. This…
Sometimes all it takes is one photo to get you started on something new and that happened to me with a magazine photo showing a new color combination. Matt visits my house once every two or three months. We do some taping and going out to eat and then he heads for home. In the…
