It’s a chilly, rainy, fall day here in Virginia – perfect weather for reminiscing about a summer wedding, don’t you think? Several of you have asked for post about my wedding flowers, and I’ll tell you: it all started with the lavender. I don’t remember when I mentioned to Habou my idea of using lots… Read More »
In which I get going again, starting with a yard sale.
It’s easy when I’ve been chatting with you to go on chatting with you, and a little hard to jump back in when I’ve been gone.I feel like there’s so much that’s happened, and here I am with hardly any pictures to show for it all! Yet. Rosie is working on getting her real official… Read More »
Speaking of quilts…a handmade wedding gift.
Are you wanting to see wedding pictures, or mystified as to why I am still blogging about it a month later? The fact is, we are only now sorting things out. What with the Chief’s mother falling ill and passing away, not to mention the late summer exigencies brought on by college preparations, job hunting,… Read More »
Wedding Album Quilt
We have known the family of Rosie’s new husband, Philip, for quite a while. We met a bit before we first moved out here, more than ten years ago, when the kids were all… kids. We are all friends, and Philip’s sister, Annie, has been a good friend of our girls for all that time.… Read More »
Homemade Anthropologie, or my chandelier challenge works out somehow!
Beyond this hall is the entry way of our house. (Please note the bit of molding you see there — the Chief’s handiwork after ripping out the godforsaken louvered doors of ill proportions. He did an awesome job.) This entry is the same age as our house — from the second half of the nineteenth… Read More »