Category: decor

  • Family Treasure

    Family Treasure

    Some time ago my mother-in-law gave me a couple of doilies that she had found amongst some old thing of my husbands paternal grandmothers. We don’t know if she made them or not but we don’t have a lot of things that belong to her so that makes them a “Treasure”. We were sorting out…

  • Painted Floor Tutorial

    Painted Floor Tutorial

    What do you do when your cat gets sick all over your light colored carpet while you’re on vacation and stains it? Well this happened to us. We didn’t want to re-carpet and couldn’t really afford the wood floor, that will eventually come, so we ripped out the carpet and painted the floor. Now this…

  • DYI Message Center

    DYI Message Center

    DIY  In my kitchen/great room I had this small quite useless set of shelves. They were really to small for most books and ended up collecting whatever.    In the process of remodeling my kitchen (which will be another post) I decided that I was tired of this space and my husband and I came…

  • Fabric Apples

    Fabric Apples

     In my Americana Welcome, I mentioned that I would write a post about the “Fabric Apple“, well here it is. They are fun an easy to make and can be made to match all colors of decor. These sit my Americana Bathroom. Things you need:  Fabric piece about 8 1/2″ X 15″ Poly fiber fill…

  • Lady Bug Door Stop

    Lady Bug Door Stop

    This time of year I love to open the windows and feel the breeze through the house. Most days however I will be enjoying  the cool air and then “SLAM” a door blows shut. We use all sorts of things to block the doors only to step on them or trip over them in the…