My Lilac bush has not bloomed yet this year.And since it was a lovely day on Saturday I decided to go to our farmers market.While I was there I  spotted these lovely Lilac flowers in this beautiful arrangement. I knew this lilac arrangement would look perfect on my farmhouse table! This particular vendor is there every week.I love all of her flower arrangements.This week she only had these beautiful Lilac flowers in beautiful ball glass jar arrangements. It is usually a bit more to take the jar.So I opted not to and decided to bring these lovely lilacs home and use my own jar.She did have a recycled tomato sauce jar with water so it would stay well until I drove home. I love this big lilac flower arrangement.It is so nice and full and the aroma is ... View Post

Many years ago while browsing through a flea market I came across my first look at sea glass. I thought it was the most beautiful color I had ever seen. A soft bluish green with a bit of a haze. The lady I bought them from told me that if I washed the sea glass bottles  really good all that would be clean. Now why would I want to do that. The soft haze is part of the patina on this glass. My collection is quite small but I love grouping them together. I prefer to keep them just as. Believe it or not I have never used these bottles as vases. I guess I am taken with the beauty of the sea glass color all alone. But as you can see a pink rose does look really sweet with these petite sea glass bottles. I also love finding the vintage clear glass ... View Post

I have been searching for a while  to find metal gym lockers for our mud room/laundry room. It is quite narrow and I needed a better solution for our coats and shoes. Although there are only three of us in this house it still can get very messy. Plain and simple it was driving me nuts! Shoes were piled on a shoe tray and coats hung on a coat rack that was mounted to the wall. It never looked neat it was always an unorganized mess. Does this sound familiar to any of you? As I  was searching for vintage metal gym  lockers they were either way out of my price range or I would only find one or two. Just recently while out shopping with a friend at a garage sale I found this set of vintage metal gym lockers for 50.00! Actually they were 60.00 but I talked him down ... View Post

Star Wars. I am thrilled to share a special feature today. Nope it's not about me or about home decorating. My two great nieces were featured in one of there favorite magazines! Grace is a HUGE Star Wars fan! Her Mom has been a fan since she saw it for the first time. And a few years ago Grace watched it for the first time and really connected with the characters and the story. Her sister Glory watched Clone Wars at a friends house and was soon hooked herself. Grace has a blog called To Thine Own Self Be True . She is an amazing writer! One of her favorite subjects to write about is.....Star Wars! Being featured in this magazine is HUGE especially if you are Star Wars fan! I am so proud of her! I hope you will go on over and check out her ... View Post

Recently when I guest hosted on Jennifer Rizzo's blog I shared how I love adding fresh flowers to my home and  how I like to use  unique vintage  items as vases. Today while I was at our market Jewel they had a dozen roses on sale for 6.00. Of course I scooped them up brought them home. I remembered I had an old tea kettle that I could use. That spout is perfect for adding more water when I need to! I was inspired when I saw this on Becky's sweet blog buckets of burlap sometime ago. After adding these roses I knew I had the perfect spot for them. I decided to change my centerpiece I had on my farmhouse table. Remembering I also had a pretty blue tray I added the tea kettle on top of the tray and placed it on the table. But it was missing something. Ah ... View Post