{design & decor} the dining nook wall

April 11, 2011

Waaaaaay back in August I was trying to figure out what oh what to put on our dining nook wall… Here’s a pic, pre-paint, pre-cleaning, rotated table arrangement, etc.:   what to do, what to do?! My conundrum with what to do was the scale of the wall and the room’s 12-foot ceilings!  The frontrunner [...]

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{vicksburg} vicksburg on the map!

March 16, 2011

Ummm, so was January 28th *seriously* my last post?!  Poor little blog!  My day job has been insanely busy (try like 13…14…15 hour days for a few weeks in a row)…we fit in a long weekend birthday trip to the Bahamas for Husband…the winter weather has turned into spring weather so I’ve been spending lots [...]

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{giveaway} giveaway winner!

January 28, 2011

Thanks to all 78 of you who entered the $55 gift certificate giveaway to CSN Stores!  The winner is……….. Who is………. Congratulations Heather J!!!  Heather writes a super cute blog, olive & a, and describes herself as “a design enthusiast + wannabe crafter + full time mom who loves to get packages in the mail, [...]

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{our house} old single pane glass windows love

January 25, 2011

It’s a rainyickycoldgross day today in M’ssippi.  The kind of day where you just want to curl up on the couch with a book {Kindle for me…on book 4 of the Outlander series…anyone read that series? – super entertaining but a little gratuitous} or a magazine {the new Southern Living is calling my name} with [...]

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{giveaway} $55 gift certificate to csn stores!

January 21, 2011

***this giveaway is now closed!*** The wonderful people at CSN Stores have decided to give one of you all a $55 gift certificate to CSN Stores!  CSN Stores has over 200 million online stores where you can find everything from contemporary coffee tables to fun pillows to cookware. I myself won a gift certificate to [...]

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{design & decor} new pillows

January 20, 2011

Thanks for all your sweet comments about my drop cloth curtains!  I’m with a lot of you – after living with them for a week now, I think I would have preferred fuller curtains.  Perhaps someday I’ll break out the sewing machine and add to the curtains, but they work for now…because they’re DONE!  When [...]

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{blog love} awww shucks

January 14, 2011

This week I got not only one, but two Stylish Blogger awards from some friends across the blogosphere!  Thank you to Casey at Loft & Cottage and Elizabeth at betsy n co.  Thanks, ladies! Now I’m supposed to share 7 things about myself and then pass it on to other bloggers who I think are [...]

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{design & decor} curtains: DONE!

January 13, 2011

Hello 2011!  No resolutions from me…we were still out of town over New Years so I feel like the yearly start afresh date came and went and I didn’t think much about it.  Maybe February will be my New Years.  Since being back home in M’ssippi, I’ve wrapped up a few projects around the house.  [...]

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{design & decor} christmas decorations

December 24, 2010

I’m still here!  With work travel, personal travel, and the whirlwind of the holidays, poor little bloggie has been neglected.  I have lots of plans for 2011, but I’ll at least leave you with this in 2010: our Christmas decorations. Miss Stella really wanted in on a pic, so here she is out on the [...]

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{design & decor} vintage bar cart!

December 7, 2010

Oh hello there.  I’m still here!  And still working on stuff at the house…sorry for the lack of posts of late.  Last week I took a load of stuff to give away (yay for purging and simplifying!), and decided to stop in a little antique shop on the way back, just to see what they [...]

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