the collected home
We have had a really early Spring this year here in the mountains of western North Carolina. And it seems that this weekend it’s gone straight to Summer. It has been in the 80’s for most of this week. We have been pretty busy with our yard and other outdoor spaces that our actual home has been a bit neglected. So yesterday…
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I am here to tell ya’ll I have been looking for a cheap way to DIY a finial of some kind for all the lamps I pain for years. Those thing are not cheap. And not always pretty either. It all started with my latest lamp base acquisition. Just prior to VMD Asheville back in mid March my little friend…
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I’ve been slowly cleaning up/out our front porch, with warmer and warmer weather encouraging me:) It’s not big porch and it’s quite narrow but it is covered and we really enjoy early mornings out there. When the midday sun gets too hot we leave the deck out back and retreat to the cool shade of the front porch. I…
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It happens every year. We have just enough unseasonably warm weather to make me loose my mind. I just want to sit out in the sun. I want to get some sun! Last week I really had Spring Fever. I cleaned the front porch both off & up and had a nice glass of wine out there one evening after work. That’s…
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I really love our guest room. The bed is always made and the light is beautiful. I love to go in there and read or just take a nap. When it snows the view from the the bed is amazing. I’ve been playing around in there lately. Nothing major, just switching out some stuff I either had stored to…
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About a month ago I spotted this at my neighborhood Goodwill. Could paint up pretty cute 🙂 $60.00 So there’s that. And keeping with the Dingbat that I am, I drove straight home to talk to Big Daddy about it. Why? Because I wanted to keep it. My Mother in law had given me a set of vintage china in…
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