Decorating

Get Your Guest Room Guest Ready

Tip of the Week: Get Your Guest Room Guest Ready!
Last holiday season, I offered readers a set of suggestions to create a Five Star Guest Room, with ideas that worked whether or not you actually had a guest room! The tip covered the basics like special sheets, towels and more thoughtful touches like reading materials... Read more »

Vintage Halloween Decorations

Vintage Halloween Decorations!
I just can’t seem to shake my love for decorations with a vintage flair and Halloween is no exception! Here are a few of the retro decorations that I found this fall!
Vintage Halloween Table Linens

From Gooseberry Patch, this 100% cotton tablecloth features jack o’lanterns wearing witch hats with a 1950’s vibe!
Retro Halloween Candles

Exclusively... Read more »

Fun Art at Art-O-Mat!

Tip of the Week – Art-O-Mat!

Those gumball, trinket and candy machines that line the exit of your local supermarket are endlessly fascinating to kids and I do (more often than I should!) relent to my youngest child’s request for spare change to see what “treasure” emerges after a turn of the knob. Now picture an... Read more »

From Simple Digital Photo to Original Artwork!

Look What I Found – Custom Art Work from Photofiddle!
Just in time for holiday gift giving, Photofiddle allows you to choose a favorite photo from those many, many that are surely stored on your home computer and easily turn it into a work of art! At the Photofiddle site, just download your selected photo and... Read more »

Clever Ways to Display and Enjoy Vacation Memories!

Displaying and Enjoying Vacation Memories!
I’m part of a family that loves souvenirs and I often wonder if the gift shop isn’t why we went somewhere in the first place! And in addition to the gift shop purchases, we also love to gather all sorts of other memorabilia – from shells, to rocks, to room keys... Read more »

Decorating Your Patio or Home with Unique Tin Lanterns!

Tin Lanterns for Your Home or Patio!
Consider a Collection
Last summer, I fell in love with tin lanterns that had been hand crafted using recycled soda cans and canned foods! And of course, I needed not one, but five of these! Outdoors, I hung them from the arms of my patio table umbrella and later, inside,... Read more »

Repurposing Old Vases

Tip of the Week – Repurposing Old Vases
As you might have guessed from my earlier article on this year’s enamel bangle trend, I fell for these bracelets in a big way! Different widths, colors and designs – I needed them all (see Trendy Bangle Bracelets)! And once those bangles joined my jewelry collection, they also... Read more »