Tucked in a hillside in the Pennsylvania Laurel Highland’s is Kentuck Knob, one of the crown jewel homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, premier American architect. ‘No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.’ Frank Lloyd…
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Happy Easter Table
easter is a happy season Easter tables need color and other seasonable symbolic elements like eggs, chicks and bunnies. Colors can be natural, embracing gardens and a woodsy feel. You may want to be monochromic. Colors often seen are soft pastels or saturated reflecting more bold colors. That’s not as hard or as formal as it sounds. Easter is in…
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Easter Pysanka Ukranian Eggs
I love these beautifully painted wooden eggs. They are called pysanky, the Ukrainian word meaning ‘to write’. I bought them years ago at German flea markets and bazzars when Jim was stationed there plus the family. People from eastern countires were bring handicrafts and other goods across the border after the Berlin Wall collapsed in November of 1989 to sell….
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Shrimp & Sprouts
Jessica, the future daughter in law is already a part of our family. Admittedly as the mom of her honey, the relationship is still new and I do not ever want to be the mom in law bloggers write about or the one who is the target or jokes or… I just want a rich relationship with Jessica that is…
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Whimsical Easter Centerpiece
It is a time of whimsy! Bunnies hiding eggs? That is whimsy! using skill and creativity Many of my blogger friends are amazing who are so skilled in floral arranging. I’m am not! Simple bouquets in short vases are more within my skill group! Lacking that skill means I have to come up with other ways to create my centerpieces….
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