I promised some short, sweet vignette posts for Christmas. My first one was last week’s post about the dining room buffet, and I got a lot of great feedback, so thank you! Today, I’m going to highlight an area of my office that doesn’t get a lot of attention. It’s my bookshelf and recently it’s just been sort of a… View Post
Ever heard of gleaning the fields? It’s when people collect the leftover crops after a field has been harvested. Turns out, our neighborhood is great for gleaning. We may not have any farmers these days (the entire Silicon Valley used to be full of orchards of all kinds…) but we’ve scored some sweet finds from what people are throwing away…. View Post
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to share all of my Christmas vignettes…some are finished, some are still “in progress”. I’ve really gotten the Christmas decorating bug this year and I’m not sure what’s so different about this year than any other year besides the fact that I’ve been immersed in Pinterest and Instagram for the blog and… View Post
I’m sure if you’re hosting Thanksgiving you’ve already got your whole menu planned out. But just in case you tend to procrastinate, or your plans have changed and now you’re planning a sort of last minute Thanksgiving meal (me!!) then you’re in luck! I love Thanksgiving. I know a lot of people get stressed out about it, but over the… View Post
Our dining room table is around 13 years old. It was our first purchase for our starter home back in 2004. Even though we technically didn’t have a dining room, I insisted that we have a table. It ended up working out because we had a bi-level home and the family room was in the lower level so we put… View Post
Andria’s Christmas list got me thinking about what I want, and Seth has been asking me for ideas. So, I figured it was time to nail down what I want (other than those amazing Belgian waffles Seth brought me home from one of last year’s Christmas parties…Yum.) Unfortunately, half of the things I want are on the pricier side (sorry,… View Post