What could be prettier than delicate, white linens hangingon a clothesline, as the wind softly blows and the sunlight filters through them? I’ve done plenty of drying on a clothesline for my family,but rarely is the sight so pretty.  Ours usually consists of mismatched towels,underwear, and t-shirts.  Right now, I don’t even have a clothesline. My husband took it down to put a pool in its place. But still, the *idea* of white linens on the linecreates a beautiful mental picture, right? {Read More}

Welcome back to the 46th Check out these features from last week’s party. Jean @ Backyard Bungalowshared this absolutely wonderfully chippy little dresser.I LOVE it! We are SO close to having our kitchen remodel finished,but the last few details always seem to take the longest.This gorgeous kitchen remodel byLaura @ The Ironstone Nestwill motivate me to pester my husband to death until it’s done!Check out the before and after: Now look…amazing, right? I love so many of the details, but {Read More}

All antique sheet music is beautiful – especially when the pages have developed that pretty caramel color around the edges. I have a big stock of it that I sell, but what makes a page a keeper for me is when I love the title. I’m not a musician, but I’d love to hear how this “Heart and Hand” song sounds. I wanted to do something special with it, so I pulled out my stock of old buttons in shades {Read More}

One of the least decorative, but necessary items in a kitchen has got to be the trash can.  I’ve always hated to see the trash can at all in the kitchen, but never had a place to hide it.  My family seems to fill it up pretty quickly, so putting a smaller one under the sink where it could be hidden behind a cabinet door wasn’t an option. Since we had to completely gut our kitchen down to the studs {Read More}

Some of the “Get the Look” projects I choosejust to see how closely I can duplicate them, but some I choosebecause I think they’d look good in my home.This week’s project I wanted for my home.The inspiration for it came from thisAntique Farmhouse Refectory Candelabra, which sold for $82 (it has sold out). I decided to create a variation of it using only items I already had on hand. I have lots of old wood and antique glass insulators,so this {Read More}

This image of an Underwood typewriter came from a 1912 Etude magazine advertisement. I have a very similar Underwood typewriter and these things are beasts.Mine is so heavy and actually made the leg of a drum table collapsethat I had it setting on!  Mine is a No. 18 Underwood, so thetop of it is longer than the No. 5. You can see many more images I’ve posted in previous weeks by clicking on the tab “Antique Graphics to Print”, located {Read More}

So, which do you want to know first- – whether my experiment worked, or what my husband said about it? I’ll start with the porch posts.  I’m happy with how they turned out. I’m not sure that they look like chippy, really old porch posts, but they certainly don’t look like I just bought them this week either, which is the look I didn’t want.  I wanted the battered, weathered and aged look. I picked off the larger chunks of {Read More}