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Vintage Console and Oh Hello, I am back!
Hello. I am back and yes still alive and kicking. The girls and I got back from Myanmar a week ago and we are still fighting jet lag. It has been a whirlwind month for us and I have to tell you, it...
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Death has a way of waking my senses and clearing my blurred vision. You are probably wondering why my post about Burma would start with death. Well, it is because death was on my mind as I packed our...
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Step by Step Tutorial On Creating A Faux Gilded Antique French Mirror
Hello Fall, how I adore you. Something about cool crisp air always awaken my creativity and you know once I start something, I can't stop. For the last few weeks, I have been slowly working on...
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Bohemian Velvet Floor Pillows
I am on a DIY kick. Like most artists, I go through my highs and my lows. Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed with inspirations and other times I am grasping for creativity. Aren't we all a little...
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Every six years old needs a chic black room??
If you have been reading my blog for awhile, then you probably know that our house is as feminine as they come. Almost everything is gilded or covered in faded velvet. The house is filled with...
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Living outside the box and vintage carousal horse
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce I am a true believer in your home should represents who you are as a person. It should tell the story of your...
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Weekend Musings.
Greeting from this bed of mine. Every weekend I tell myself how much work I am going to get done and then BAM! I am in bed...sick...whiny...hungry always hungry. Most of you know when the only...
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A Day of Apple Picking and Mini Apple Loaf Cakes
Is there anything more Fall than apple picking? I have been living in New England for seventeen years and I never went apple picking until I had kids. I think simplest things become so much more...
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Sometimes a girl just have to paint...
Sometimes, after I put the girls to bed for the night, I find myself feeling restless.Of course there are lots of things I should be and could be doing. Last night was one of those nights. I had...
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Books Covered Art Case Tutorial
Lets be curious. That I am. Always curious. My mind is a jumble of ideas, questions, and thoughts. Once I have an idea stuck in my head, I will stop at nothing to make it happen. To be able to...
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Cranberry Walnut Scones
My love for any kind of bake goods knows no boundaries. I mean I am kind of a dessert snob though. If I am going to consume that much amount of sugar and butter, it has better be the best dessert I...
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Weekend Thoughts
How quickly weekend flies by. The girls and I had a busy weekend of wedding and cupcakes. On Saturday we drove into Boston for my cousin's wedding. I love weddings....I cry at every wedding. It is...
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Autumn
There is a little corner of magic at our local library. I took these pictures with my phone. It really felt like you walked into another world. The sky above is just canopy of golden leaves. Below...
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Quiet Sunday Morning
It is starting to feel like Christmas. Well at least it is starting to feel like it inside. I love Christmas. I start listening to Christmas music probably before Halloween. The girls and I tried...
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When life gives you a $15 bed frame and a sneak peek of Bella's Black room
When life gives you a $15 bed frame from Savers, you dress it up with some luscious velvet. I mean did you expect anything else? Here is the before. A friend from my upholstery class found it at a...
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Community Dinner Party
Do you sometimes feel like we all live inside bubbles? The kind of bubbles we built for ourselves to feel safe and comfortable...but at the same time, we get too comfortable that we lose our sense of...
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Crazy Chair Lady
I think it might be fair to say that I am turning into a crazy chair lady. I have chairs. I collect chairs. People give me chairs. Chairs remind people of me. So this was the case with this little...
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Living with Art
I didn't grow up with Art. There are no artists in my family and in my culture, most artists come from poor families because that was the only way they could support themselves. Art was never...
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Turban on. Turban off
I have to tell you. I have been wanting to write this post for a very long time. It is about turbans and my love for them. Everytime I start writing it, I get overwhelmed with excitement and I can't...
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Saturday
As the first ray of day light slowly drifts through the living room, my bare feet move through the shadows. All is quiet except for the noise of this old house waking itself up slowly and the...
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Stories of my grandmothers
I have two sets of grandparents just from my mother's side. It is an interesting story that if I invest enough time, it would makes for a great novel. From snippets of story and through...
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January
January. When did you arrive and where did you go? Our life has been a quiet one here. I have been fighting this cold for half of the month. I am sure I have coughed more than I have talked. Here...
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Ode to Frida
My love for Frida Kahlo started like how most of my other passions started...through my grandmother. I don't remember when or how the love affair began but it did. I appreciate her strong sense of...
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Books and more books
Hello, friends. I know I have been away for so long. Life here has been wonderful. It is quiet. There are lots of reading and just simply living involved. I really haven't done much...
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Hello
Can you believe it is almost summer? It doesn't even feel like spring at all here. Every morning we wake up and are greeted with dark sky and rain. I guess mother nature is telling me to put down my...
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