the collected home
Oh Hydrangea Season how I love you! It took me years, I mean y e a r s to get one to live, let alone bloom. I must have killed 3 or 4 of them before I was able to get one to come back in the Spring. So now that I can actually grow them with a modicum of success I seriously…
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Y’all the weather has been so nice and my yard so green and the perennials are just lovely this year! Two of my hydrangea are loaded with blooms………for the first time, I might add!!! I feel like taking out an ad on a billboard on I40 :))) BUT it rained an exorbitant about this weekend and I was forced to play…
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Back in February I shared my latest Etsy find, a silver plated pheasant. On the first of March her mate arrived from France 🙂 Big Daddy got him for me for Valentin’s Day. We found him on Ebay . Since then I have seen them in singles and pairs all over the place. There are at least eight pairs on…
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In the warmer months, Spring and Summer I set my dining tables a little differently. In a word? Lighter. Lighter in color and less the table. I don’t used as much silver as I do in the Fall and Winter months. The flowers I use are minimal and from my yard, the deserts usually involve local fruit of some…
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How this one got by me I will never know. I ran in Trader Joe’s the other day for their $3.99 coffee (which I LOVE!) and $40 later I walked out with two bags of stuff. This is how it goes for me every time I walk in that joint. It doesn’t help at all the their otherworldly floral department is…
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Our entire home is really quite neutral, gray, white, brown and black. I truly love these light, soothing colors. But now and again I want to add a bit of an accent color. My theory about working in an accent color to a neutral living space is pretty simple. The neutral vibe in our home is pretty important to me….
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