I’ve teamed up with 22 bloggers to help bring awareness to a topic that is near and dear to my heart, animal rescue. I’ve always considered myself an animal lover but didn’t know true animal love until we adopted our dog Sherman from the Campbell County Humane Society. Sherman was just a few months…
This is an exciting week for fellow lovers of fabric and home decor. Over the next four days, nineteen blogging friends are sharing DIY decorator pillows made with gorgeous fabrics from OnlineFabricStore. Pillows are one of the easiest ways to change the look of a sofa, chair or bed. Making a DIY decorator pillow isn’t…
Did you know that you don’t have to throw away your gourds after you have finished using them for decorating? I’ve been preserving mine for years and now have box upon box of preserved gourds to use for fall decorating? How do you preserved gourds? It’s easy! After Thanksgiving I put them on newspaper…
In my area of Virginia it is finally looking and feeling like fall. Some of the leaves are starting to change and we’ve had delightfully cold night time temperatures followed by cool days with a warm sun. It’s been just about perfect! My living room has been decorated for fall for a few weeks…
Sunday was the Lynchburg Historical Foundation’s annual historic homes tour. I love a home tour and this one is my favorite of the year because it focuses on historic homes in my area. My mom, aunts, and cousin joined me for this year’s tour. You’ll want to visit my recaps from the 2009, 2010, 2011,…
It’s time for another knockoff tour! Back in the spring a group of my blogging friends decided to challenge each other to knockoff a project from a popular design store or catalog. My project for was a knockoff of Plow and Hearth’s Chevron End Table. For this fall’s second knockoff tour, I was inspired…
It’s Themed Furniture Makeover Day! This month the them is two tone. I had to think a bit before I came up with an idea for this project. After a tiny bit of persuasion, Mr. SP agreed to let me give the Lane cedar chest that he purchased in the early 1990’s a two tone…
It’s finally fall, the perfect time for a dessert with one of fall’s food pleasures, apples. Caramel Apple Pound Cake gets its caramel flavor from brown sugar in the batter. Granny Smith apples and plenty of butter make this a super moist cake that I honestly can’t get enough of! After the batter is made,…
Can you believe it? It’s finally fall! Are you ready for cooler temperatures and the beauty of the changing leaves? Here in Virginia the temperatures are already cooler and last night it was almost chilly. Cool night temperatures are definitely a fall favorite for me. In celebration of a new season, I’ve joined with blogging…
Most of you know that one of my passions is DIY. I truly think doing it myself is in my genes. I watched my mom and dad make improvement after improvement on their home and my grandparents did the same thing. I married a handy man and we continue the DIY tradition. Mr. SP and…
We love cookies at our house. A recipe for Maple Vanilla Chip Cookies has been in my files for many years. Like my mother and grandmother, I like to write notes beside my recipes when I serve them for various occasions. The first two notes by this recipe are marked, “6/22/01 – Beach” and…
When I stop to think about it, my front door has seen a lot of wreaths over the years. I get so much enjoyment out of making wreaths to adorn my door. A preserved gourd wreath crafted from gourds that I dried and stained graced my front door in 2012 and then again in…