Our front porch is decorated and lit up for Halloween with candle light and the warm glow of Edison bulbs in our old lanterns. As the days get shorter I realize that our front steps are quite dark. So I've added a few jars with candles and not only does it add a little extra light, but it makes a very warm welcome too! I've used my Sharpie paint pen on the glass door and wrote trick-or-treat at ...
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I’m getting ready for Halloween…
It may be a little early to be ready for trick-or-treaters, but there's plenty of candy in the stores and I loved these adorable treat sacks I found at The Container Store. Halloween is kind of a big deal in our area if you live "in town." People come from all over to trick-or-treat with their little ones on our quaint streets that are decked out for the night on October 31st. I filled each bag ...
A DIY Gift Wrap Idea
This post was featured today on the tinyprints blog. I love these gift tag stickers from tinyprints. There are more photos right here. I'm also working on a post featuring the new line of tinyprints holiday cards that gives you ideas on how to display all those pretty photo cards. More on that later, but check out the beautiful new cards at tinyprints.com. ...
celebrations & school colors
Our daughter graduated from High School this week. We celebrated with dinner at one of her favorite restaurants in the city, Butter.  We still had a little celebration at home that included a cake in school colors and candles from Party City that I had to spray paint black and even her presents were wrapped in black and red. It was prefect and the kind of day that she said it was so great she ...
identical twins
Happy birthday to my twin sister Lynn! I adore that we share our birthday and of course we wish we were in the same city/state so we could celebrate together. A while back I saw this print on Design Mom. Gabrielle finds the greatest stuff from all over the world. The illustrator, Judy Kauffman is from Barcelona and when I mentioned that I am an identical twin, she sent me two! One for me and ...
The Louvre in the afternoon sunlight
A rather quick visit to The Louvre before heading home. The great thing about getting away is how wonderful home sounds. And it's impossible not to think of all those affected by the terrible events in Boston as well as those suffering in Texas. ...