Richard and I enjoy the nostalgia of browsing around in antique stores…traipsing up the aisles of flea markets…or making our way through overgrown grasses to barn and estate sales and looking at forgotten treasures. We never know what we’re going to find on our adventures and it’s always exhilarating whenever “our finds” are also wonderful bargains.
Continue reading “Antique and Flea Market Finds”I like adventures, and I going to find some. ~Louisa May Alcott
~ by Trenda
It’s that cozy, all things pumpkin, sweater weather, cider sipping time of year…and time to decorate Cottage Green for autumn. Seeing the shadows of autumn sunshine coming through our shutters, while smelling the apple cider fragrance in our diffuser, I was inspired to make a woodland swag. A swag that looked like it was made with treasures found during a walk in an autumn forest…some bittersweet, wild blossoms, red, golden, and orange leaves, pinecones, wild grapes, and hawthorn berries, all weaved into a fir garland and mixed with discarded pheasant feathers and antlers shed from the deer in autumn.
Continue reading “DIY Woodland Swag and Autumn Tablescape”Where the heart is the mind works best.
Louisa May Alcott
