my mother's childhood lamp

this lamp was in my mother's bedroom when she was a child. it sat across town in Honolulu during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. my mother ...

tractor love!

me mowing! Dan grew up on a dairy farm in Oregon. Tractors are in his blood. At the age of three and a half, yes three and a half , he was d...

Mantel love... part II

Last weekend we stopped into a new, very small antique shop down the street from a regular antique haunt of ours in Keene (home of the worl...

if we had known then...

Just weeks before we closed on this house I read an article in a shelter magazine where a couple had painstakingly restored an antique home....

this is Mary

(disclaimer: I know this is a silly post, but hey I'm unpacking!) I just found a box that holds my childhood dolls (it resides in a clo...

Mantel love...

In our last house we had one fireplace, but no mantle... now I have not one, but four mantels , and most likely a fifth one when we do th...

see anything wrong??

No, not that the top drawer is missing. No, not the squiggly line on the beadboard (I'll address that at the end of this post), though t...

unpacking a bunch of grapes

Bunches and bunches of vintage alabaster grapes! I would buy the creams, golds and whites in varying sizes. If you've ever priced thes...