Rosemary Christmas Tree

It has been a whole week since I posted because it has been a very busy week with lots of houseguests, food preparation, and so on.  Well worth the effort — it was really fun to have everyone gather here — but I am looking forward to some downtime as well.
A week ago [...]

Mini-Lena Curtiss

So this past week, being the week before Thanksgiving and all (eight guests due in beginning tomorrow), I had a laundry list of things to do — all of which involved driving somewhere.  But instead we had to be here for the heating and electrical people.
Remember when I said last week how smoothly the [...]

Found Cabinet Door

In the past I’ve mentioned how fortunate it is for us that previous owners have left quite a few items — mostly stored in the attic — from various house remodeling efforts over the years.
We have quite a few old saved doors, six or seven anyway, of differing measurements.  This is really fortunate [...]

Cushion Fabric

Last week I posted about my somewhat uncertain purchase of two chairs via Craigslist.  I was uncertain about the wisdom of the purchase because one needs a rip/tear repaired in the seat area, and neither chair has a seat cushion, though one empty chair cushion cover came with the lot. Not being in NYC [...]