My Creative Blog: 10/29/16

Fall Gingerbread and Transferware

O ne of my favorite fall breads is gingerbread. There's just something about ginger, cinnamon, cloves and rich molasses that make it so delicious.I love to pair fall foods with my brown transferware. I'm certain it makes everything taste better. I purchased the transferware several years ago when I came across them at Home Goods. …
All-Hallows-Eve

When the winds are howling and darkness falls remember this....the Celtics called this day Samhain which is old Irish and means "summers end".It marks the end of the "lighter half" of the year and starts the "darker half" of the year.The Celts believed that the border between this world and the otherworld became thin on Samhain, a…
My grass is really green today...

Last night I dreamed we sold our house for a lot of money and moved into a huge old house in our former neighborhood (that I adored) in another city. And guess what our first project was....? Re-doing a bathroom.Picture this: really big sections of cardboard covered big holes in the plaster walls. Workers had to break all the fixt…
Marbled Paper Art

I don't know about you, but for me, decorating is such a process. I am not one of those people who can pull a room together in one day. The design for a room sort of evolves over time in my house, because- let's be honest- I change my mind A LOT. We also watch our wallet pretty closely, so sometimes, I'll do something in a room us…

My Creative Blog [10/29/16]