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Vintage Wicker Easy Sew Cushions Tutorial

We have a wonderful porch on our 100 year old house that after my 1st failed attempt in placing furniture on it, I realized it needed vintage wicker. Once I found the right wicker furniture I then realized the cushions needed a bit of tweaking… Here I share with you the step by step, vintage wicker easy sew cushions tutorial… Sewing new cushions may not be as difficult as you think. Here are a few tips and shortcuts to make it as quick and easy as possible.

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Serving Up a Romantic Centerpiece for Valentine’s Day

All the Christmas decorations have been put away for a few weeks, and now I’m ready to get a little Valentine’s Day decor out. However, I’m really not in the mood for a bunch of hearts and ‘busy stuff’ this year. I decided instead to do a romantic centerpiece, that certainly works for Valentine’s day decor, but also will just look lovely on the table for the next month regardless of the upcoming holiday. (And a trip through HomeGoods helped with the inspiration. After 3 times around the store, I started to visualize a lovely centerpiece) Read the rest of this entry

Library Ceiling… So Long Popcorn, Hello Wicker???

When we bought ‘Our House’ over 15 years ago, being as it was built in the late 1980’s every ceiling on the main level was finished with a popcorn finish… not my favorite. At first glance, I knew in my head that I would be, in one way or another, getting rid of all that popcorn.

What we now call the library or piano room was originally designed to be the dining room, but we never used this quaint sized room for that purpose, and it too had a popcorn treatment on the ceiling.

I recently told you about the track lighting I installed in this library room, incorporating a chandy I bought online from Ballard Designs estate sale by using the clever chandelier adapter for track lighting.

Because of that post and the number of comments asking about what the ceiling was, I’m writing this post about how I did that library ceiling. READ ON…

Our House: Main Porch, it’s the Details that Make it Special!

A couple days ago I showed you the finished project of the main porch at ‘Our House’, (that used to be a pergola) so today I thought I take a little time to highlight some of the details on that porch.

Here’s the finished porch. To see the way it looked before, when it was still a pergola, click here.

So let’s pretend you can step up the two steps and get a feel for it: READ ON…

My Second Favorite Animal is a Songbird… Painting this Table Shows It

My 7 year old granddaughter always asks me what my favorite animal is… I always answer with ‘dog’. But now, she’s starting asking me what my ‘second’ favorite animal is since she knows ‘dog’ is my ‘first’. I love a lot of animals, elephants are for sure way up at the top of my list, but they don’t live around me, so picking an animal that is influencing my daily life, I think I’d have to say my ‘second’ favorite is/are songbirds.

I love the security of the promise Jesus tells us in Matthew 6: 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”

 

So when I decided to paint a wicker side table, that has a wooden round top, I decided that an American Redstart songbird would be the design in the center. READ ON…

A Little More Lightening Up

While I was shuffling furniture from one room to another, I showed you in a previous post how I replaced this black bench with the white gateleg table. To the left of the bench, was this Home Goods purchased cupboard,

I took it from this corner and put it Read on…