With the rustic adult table all set, it’s time to get the kids table ready. The centerpiece is a fun paper bag turkey that looks amazingly like the real bird! He’s stuffed with popcorn and will be “carved” when all the kids arrive to reveal the munchies inside (cut a slit in the top and the kids can dig right in). All you…
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New Ways to Stay in Touch!
I am loving this whole blogging experience and am learning so much (and making a bunch of mistakes!) as I go. Here are some new ways to follow the fun. Check the sidebar and choose your favorite. Facebook – please like me as I am very insecure! And, lots of fun stuff that’s not on the blog. Emails – they’ll come straight…
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Sugar & S’mores Birthday Party
My babies turned 12 yesterday (I know, you’re thinking, she must have had them at a very young age!!) and requested chicken lettuce cups and s’mores for dinner! Their wish is my command (actually, The Hubs whipped up dinner). That left me with the fun stuff – decorating. Balloons, left over Halloween candy, some gift wrap, a little Hello Kitty…
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Rustic Thanksgiving Table
Menus to plan, shopping to do, slaving over a hot stove … so much to do before the big day! Thought I’d get the table set well in advance (hope it doesn’t collect too much dust from now til Thanksgiving)! Lots of vintage pieces combined in an old wooden toolbox include a variety of corkscrews, Japanese glass fishing buoys, small…
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Dining Room Tour – Fun Art & Five Vintage Collections!
My Dining Room
Historic Site Tag Sale
Screech! With a house that looks like this, nobody in their right mind would pass up a tag sale so of course I pulled over. The Twin Maples is a historical building near my house. A couple of years ago, it was the site of a designer show house and even has an ultra expensive Christoper Peacock kitchen. Historic Twin…
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Thanks Banner With Vintage Silver
I broke out my huge scrapbook paper supply and was contemplating making a Christmas banner when my daughter said she wanted to make one for Thanksgiving to hang near the kids table. “Great idea!” I told her, so she debated on what the banner should say (Thanks was the winner since she decided Happy Thanksgiving and Give Thanks were way…
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A Day in Ivy League Princeton
With six days to kill when you have no power and school has been cancelled, you either find fun activities to fill the days or drink excessively and go crazy – I chose the former (ok, a smidge of the latter too)! On a beautiful fall day, the family hopped into the car and drove to the charming little town…
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Milk Glass Collection – It Started Innocently Enough!
As you may have gleaned, I have a collecting problem. If one is good, more is definitely better! This is best illustrated by my milk glass collection in my dining room (I have 5 amazing collections in this room alone)! It started innocently enough. My father in-law gave me a plate (on stand on top shelf). It sat around in my…
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