• Love Potion Valentine’s Day Vignette

    February is here and it’s the season of love! I am joining several talented blogging friends today to bring you another installment of Town and Country Living’s Cozy Living Series. I’m excited to share with you how I’ve brought some cozy romance into our home this month. This post contains some affiliate links. I may receive a small commission for any sales made through them. The cost to you does not change. We love holidays around here, so I couldn’t resist bringing some Valentine’s decorating into our dining room with what I have coined as a love potion vignette. The perfect recipe for romance: soft music, chocolates and a whole lotta love. …

  • Holiday Home 2017

    It’s a little late to share a holiday home tour, I know, but better late than never right? My focus the past few Christmases has been on making our home cozy, inviting and festive to create lasting memories for my little ones. Which meant this year, I was going to take the pressure off getting the house camera ready for a holiday home tour post. I signed up for one, but ended up backing out when I knew it was just going to add stress. So here we are…the first week of January and you get to see how I did up our home for the holidays! Haha. I can’t…

  • Christmas Village Display

    Merry Christmas! This month has flown by hasn’t it? I have been busy making our home festive and filled with wonder and excitement. We are keeping things relaxed around here this year for the holidays, so I didn’t share a big “holiday home tour” post earlier in the month. I might share some snippets of how we decorated after the rush has passed, but today, I have one vignette that I really wanted to share with you. I have always loved Christmas villages ever since I was little. The individual pieces are often quite  pricey, so it always seemed out of the realm of possibility for my holiday décor. I…

  • White Farmhouse Christmas Dining Room

    Today, I am taking you back in time again to Christmas 2010. I shared the photographs in this post on my former Typepad blog but never ended up transferring several of those posts here when I moved back to Blogger in 2013. This year for Christmas, I am not looking to make things “picture perfect” but rather to make memories for my little ones, so I am taking my time getting our house done for the holidays. It is all a work in progress with fun vignettes here and there and will probably be rearranged by little hands several times over before Christmas. As I focus on making our new…

  • How We Gave Thanks

    I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving last week had a wonderful time with family and friends! We hosted for the first time in our new home with my mom, step-dad and aunt and uncle. It was a  small gathering compared to what we are used to, but it was a great time overall. Not stressful or hurried. Just peaceful and filled with good food, kindness, laughter and joy. The kids were very excited to wake up and watch the parade. A tradition I have always enjoyed. Even if I don’t fully watch it, I like it on in the background. Hazel and Owen love the balloons. So much so that…

  • Vintage Camera Fall Tablescape

    Back in October of 2010, I shared a post about a table setting that I did for our 4th wedding anniversary. Since, we are hosting Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, I am busy getting my house cleaned up, so I don’t have any new content to share just yet. I thought it would be fun to pull these photos from the archives to share with you today. I can’t believe this post is now seven years old. Or that I have been blogging since 2006. Crazy! It never transferred when I made the switch from Typepad to Blogger so many of my new followers probably haven’t seen it. I reedited the photos…