I'm getting ready for Halloween. October 31st is a pretty big deal in our New England town, especially if you happen to live on an "in-town" street. Our house is black and white, very old and in the middle of town. Halloween decorations are quite perfect for this little house. The first thing I did was erase the usual "hello" from my front door and use a black sharpie water-based paint marker ...
Creating a Gallery Wall
Over the next few weeks I'll be joining Mary Ann of Classic . Casual . Home and Cindy of Rough Luxe Lifestyle and a group of bloggers with our tips on how to create a gallery wall. I have always admired the look of gallery or collage walls, but it wasn't until my current home that I actually created one. I've been collecting images on my Pinterest board, Beautiful Walls and Art for a couple ...
We found the perfect resort in the hills of Tuscany
We found the perfect resort in the hills of Tuscany. I decided that I needed to do one more post on Italy because the place where we stayed deserves its own post. It was pretty amazing! How we found Borgo Scopeto Relais in the hills of Tuscany I found it through the usual means of research….I googled “What’s the name of the resort in Letters to Juliet?” Yes, we are those Americans that went all ...
Sunflower Fields + Tuscany
When we arrived in Rome we had about a four hour drive to the first place we would stay for a few days. I wasn't sure if driving approximately 320 km was the best planning on my part since we had just lost a nights sleep, but within 20 minutes of FCO we were driving along the coast line and fields of sunflowers were everywhere. It was the shortest long drive ever. The countryside was ...
geraniums + Italy
Summer in Italy and every house has potted geraniums. Bright red and pink and overflowing. We noticed if someone had a larger piece of property it was almost certain they had a proper garden. But even those living in stone or brick apartment buildings with maybe a window or two had geraniums. There were window boxes, pots on balconies and often basil plants were tucked in between the flowers. ...
July 4th decorations
I'm getting ready for the 4th starting with the front door. Last year I used my Sharpie paint pen to write a quick message on my glass front door and it has been all over Pinterest. I wanted to do it again and this time my house has a fresh coat of white paint so I think it looks even better! I took this same design and made a stencil to decorate a pan of brownies. Using the same idea as ...