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My kitchen makeover, to rid ourselves of the fifty shades of brown, is trekking along. Until it stopped. It stopped because I could not find handles or drawer pulls in the big box stores that I loved. My cabinets and drawers originally had no handles, pulls, or knobs. Just indentions to open them. I wanted…
The kitchen in our little cottage in the city was not too fondly referred to as the fifty shades of brown kitchen. It was not a happy place, it didn’t inspire me to want to cook let alone decorate it! It was a sad combination of honey oak, fake granite counter tops, a stone backsplash…
I want to show you how to make your miniature envelopes. I’ve seen these referred to as a coin envelope size and we are going to make them from larger 6 X 9 envelopes. I came up with this tutorial out of desperation for the advent calendar. Small envelopes are hard to find or the…
While we were attending Vintage Market Days in San Antonio at the beginning of November Amory and I had the chance to meet our cousins in Castroville. Castroville, Known as “The Little Alsace of Texas” is a small town with a rich cultural heritage just 20 miles west of San Antonio. On the day we went…
I’m slowly doing the necessary makeovers on the furniture that we took from our old life into this new and wonderful life. This pie safe needed a makeover – it wasn’t my style anymore. I was also excited to try and see if a candle and packing tape method to distress would work. (Spoiler alert…
When I created these spiders they needed a home. A place to call their very own. And that’s how a bike wheel rim gets a new life as a web on this Halloween mantel. I actually began with a large embroidery hoop from my craft closet but could not get the middle strings to stay…
