This year for our Thanksgiving table I am staying with my usual color (or maybe lack of color) scheme. In the New york Times SundayStyle section, Bill Cunningham's "On the Street" calls it "Autumnal Mood, moody combinations of black, white and gray." That pretty much describes how I dress and the way my house looks. I used my everyday white dishes because I ...
Front porch pots + winter
Company is coming next week and the porch needed a little attention. Last week Mary Ann was here and I managed to eke out one more week with mums planted in my front porch pots, but now they are officially done for the season. I thought about pumpkins, but really I'm in the winter mind set. I know....crazy! I went to Valley View Greenhouses in South Salem, NY in search of boxwoods, but they had ...
Halloween Decorations
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 ...