Well, it’s about time. Here it is at the end of June, and I have just now managed to get my side porch ready for summer. There was the pollen issue and probably, if truth be told, a few Christmas tree pine needles scattered about. I’m not showing a before picture because it is just too [...]
One of Allison’s friends, Sarah, got married last weekend. They have known each other since elementary school. In fact, Sarah is the one that first introduced Allison to her hubby, Jon. Sarah was having a family-only wedding so she didn’t need a tremendous amount of flowers, just a few bouquets, a boutonniere for her groom, a table arrangement [...]
The past weekend we did flowers for a bride who was married at The Williamsburg Lodge. Since it was a holiday week, we had to get the flowers in on Wednesday. They arrive in large, flat cardboard boxes, usually with exotic labels from places like Columbia or Nicaragua. I had a picture of the boxes all [...]
When I have a moment, or when I want to escape someone or something, I get online and read the blogs I subscribe to. Now, once I learned about blogs and what great information/fun they were, I was hooked. I subscribed, and subscribed, and subscribed to any and all. Then, I realized that my inbox was [...]
This past Sunday, I headed out to Farmville, Virginia to help my son, Watson, get his little cottage organized and spiffed up. He lives on an 800 acre farm in a little house. It is planted in soybeans now, but it used to have cows. The cowpies could be a problem since they could come right [...]
I didn’t really mean to leave y’all hanging on seeing the before and after pictures of Watson’s house. I just kind of ran out of space and time ???? I left Sunday morning. Since I was travelling I, of course, had to have some sustenance and Hardee’s was on the way. With sausage biscuit and Diet [...]
OK, last post about the little cottage that could. The bathroom is up next. Plain vanilla—and the store brand of vanilla, not the good kind. There are some things we can’t change, like the almond Formica counter top. There was never anything covering the window which is fine 99% of the time. But that 1% when someone needs to use [...]
I’m not sure you can be in this business if you don’t get excited about making something old, new or better, or cleaner or more functional. We see potential in nearly everything. Since our storage space and free time are both very limited, that can be a potential problem. No need to call TLC and report [...]
I know, I know, I know—-we have been super slack about blogging. Mostly with good reason though. I had a MAJOR birthday in July and I have been taking birthday trips. My friend, Renee, took me to Raleigh. We stayed with her daughter, Elizabeth, at her cute place. I’m just saying—-there was ALOT of eating, shopping [...]
The Garden Club of Virginia annual Historic Garden Week hosts garden tours throughout the state during the third week of April each year. Member clubs in the different cities and localities in the state host these tours. This year’s local tour was in the Brandon Heights area of Newport News. There were six homes and St. Andrew’s [...]
