FOR YOUR HOME
I’ve been wanting for some time now to smuggle some of my son’s plastic animal toys and use them to make a craft or two, inspired by the ones I’ve seen online. Unfortunately, at the age of ten, you don’t find that many left in a kid’s room and although I had big plans, I did not quite get the selection… Continue Reading
At the hardware store, I found a stand with pre-cut metallic sheets that are used as radiator covers. There were many styles with various patterns and sizes and in a couple of different metals, too. The best part, however, was that they had a finished end, so they were ready for use. Their price ranged from affordable to a… Continue Reading
As per the Greek tradition, the first day of the year is celebrated with family and friends, sharing a well cooked meal and cutting the New Year’s Pie (Vassilopitta) which has a hidden coin for the lucky one of the year. This year, it will only be the four of us, but this is not keeping… Continue Reading
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! While all were out shopping on Black Friday (I admit doing just a little shopping myself!), I stayed in and finished up this project which I have been working on for a little too long. Back in October, I found this table left outside a house in a San Mateo, California… Continue Reading
This pinecone topiary is created from natural pinecone scales and is entirely hand made from top to bottom! All the pine cones used for this project were collected from around the neighborhood, then washed and dried. Every single scale was detached from the pinecone and then placed onto a base that I also made from scratch. My new oversize pinecone sits on… Continue Reading
Bloomingdale’s in Palo Alto, California just recently relocated to a new building. The old store, remained open to the public for a few more days selling fixtures, equipment and some of the furniture that the various brands had brought in over the time. Wandering through the deserted store was a rather sad experience, but everything was on sale and at… Continue Reading
Who said that a lavender sachet has to be small and puffy? Although I love the scent and I find that the pouches that lavender come in are almost always adorable, I honestly don’t think that their size is actually very convenient. As much as I love them on the store’s display shelf, they seem to get in the way when… Continue Reading
If you don’t have at least one hanging in your house, I’m sure you ‘ll find one somewhere in your basement or maybe forgotten in the garage. I actually have not only one, but two of them. Two identical plastic, inexpensive, green clocks that don’t look good with the rest of the decor anymore. One is hanging in the… Continue Reading
To me, fall decoration is mostly about making my home cozy, warm, and inviting. Adding some decor elements is of course part of that process. Rather than having multiple displays around the house, as I do for Christmas and Easter, I’d rather do one grand centerpiece in a central part of the house. Last year, I filled an oversized basket… Continue Reading
Over the past weekend, while we were shopping for some good Napa Valley wine, I asked the store owner if he had any empty wooden wine crates that I could take home. They are quite difficult to find nowadays, as most producers have lowered their cost by packaging and shipping wine in carton boxes. But, some wineries continue… Continue Reading