A Storybook Life

With the colorful autumn season upon us, most of us get an inner urge to fill our homes with beautiful natural items that will warm our hearts during the cold months ahead.
This year, instead of spending large amounts of money on decorator items from department stores, why not use the very materials that are in […]

Autumn is the most wonderful, and brilliantly colorful time of year. Evenings are spent in front of the fireplace with a cup of cocoa, fuzzy slippers, grandma’s quilt, and fond recollections of the days events. This Autumn, as in previous years, our family spent a day at the apple orchard. Every year memories are made, […]

Growing up in the south, we never really mixed fruit directly into our recipes, however, over the past year or so, I have started to aquire a taste for these new recipe ideas!
This week I put together a chicken salad something like one that I had at a local reasteraunt.
Although you can feel free […]

I bought this vintage pine cupboard approx. 16 years ago for $2 at a yard sale! I’m getting ready to paint it a deep shade of red - with a cream color on the inside.
I like to use it to display lots of dishes in my dinning room. I think the deep red will […]

No matter what the weather is like outside (it’s been raining here for several days), you can always find comfort in a cozy place to sit, read, and meditate on the issues of the day.
I thought I would show you my favorite place to get comfortable in our home. This sofa was one that I […]