It was a dreary rainy Saturday but that didn’t stop us having a wonderful time together. It was a special day to celebrate Mother’s Day but the truth is we get together often but today, this particular day it was just the four of us; my three daughters and me. We dressed up a bit for the lunch. We went to…
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Summer Refresh…Our Living Room
Summer refresh of our living room was needed so I added a rug. Actually, it is for all seasons but a few more things were done to make this summer refresh. For weeks I pondered how bring a refresh to our living room. Without costing LOTS of money! What was needed to bring out the color from our Chinese peasant…
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Saturday Breakfast
Saturday Table with Soup Plates Saturday morning breakfast are a big deal in our house! After a busy week this is often the only time we linger over a meal. When the big kids and their families are here it is a relaxing meal time. It’s more fun for the little ones too. We over run the kitchen…
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Kentuck Knob…A Frank Lloyd Wright Home
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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