I hope you’ll join me on my never-ending search for beautiful pieces, with history, for your home. Find my curated treasures, in Booth #154, at the Antique Trove, in Roseville, CA. ~ Barbara
Well, here we are. Day 5 of a wonderful week at Lake Tahoe. The weather couldn’t be better. This morning, I’m proud to say that I was quite resourceful, creating a breakfast masterpiece! Is it the mountain air that feeds my voracious appetite? Or it simply a case of the piggies? Either way, it was delicious! Being near the end of our get-away, I had the perfect ingredients on hand. One Serving: One, 1 inch thick piece of sour dough bread 1 egg blended with a fork and two tablespoons of water, because there was no milk. Soak the bread…
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Hello there! I’m up at the family house, at Lake Tahoe, for the week. We’ve just said goodbye to the last friends to visit. I love enjoying the company of good friends and I also love sitting back, enjoying the solitude. This is the best of both worlds! Since I have no furniture projects to paint and limited paper crafts to create, now that my glue stick ran dry, I’m writing today about one of my most favorite childhood memories. This is something we could all write about. In fact, I invite you to do this. Being the middle child,…
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la·bor day Noun A public holiday or day of festivities held in honor of working people, in the US and Canada on the first Monday in September. If I’m not mistaken, for some time, my dad had my mom convinced that Labor Day was in honor of mothers going through labor, during childbirth! God bless all mothers and God bless our workers and those seeking work!
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As the weeks pass, the vision I have for The Treasured Home gets clearer. It’s a slow process, but what’s important to me, is that the vision is as uniquely “mine” as I can possibly manage. I saw this image in my on line adventures and love the table. Mr. Wonderful is going to make a similar table, to use in the back of the shop for a workspace, or place to conduct small crafting classes. The entire look of the room is gorgeous, to me. I also covet the shelving, to hold fabric or other treasures. And how about…
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Back in the early days, in my other life, selling food to restaurants, I helped launch a new line of “fresh” sauces. That was back in my pre-children days, when traveling for a job was a new adventure. Now, just 25 years later, I’m so excited to be riding on Marian’s (aka Miss Mustard Seed) coat strings, as she rolls out her milk paint line! The product is in Marian’s hot little hands and she’ll be stocking up Luckett’s, where she sells her treasures, by this time tomorrow. At the same time, shipments are being staged, in the order we…
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If you’re looking for a great gift idea, a way to display family photos or just need an inexpensive alternative wall art, check this out! If you remember, last spring, I traveled to Italy. Venice was one of my favorite stops along the way! It seemed like every turn I made, brought a prettier site then before. I especially loved the canals and photographed every one of them, I think! So, I finally got around to framing a few of my favorites. First of all, I picked up this frame at Michael’s that had already been pre-matted to show four,…
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If you’re like me, you have an old dusty wreath out in the garage, somewhere. I happen to have one such wreath, full of cobwebs and who knows what else, even though I keep it covered with plastic. So, this morning, after letting Mr. Wonderful know that I would be working many evenings on projects in the next month, just so he would be warned, not expecting a hot meal each evening, I proceeded to spend time on another wreath project. Not for the shop, but for our front door. For the good of our own home! Much needed, of…
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I was happy to hear that my hot pink desk set has found a new home! In a color like hot pink, you never know if someone else will love it as much as you do! A few of my gift show orders have come in and I placed another order today! Sort of like Christmas! I’ve chosen paint colors for the shop, in the greige and mossy green tones. Bob started building a craft “island”, with wheels for the shop. There’s lots to do! We went to mass last night, instead of this morning. I had a hard time…
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What would you do, if you had a couple of yards of fabric left over from a project? I dare say that most of us would neatly tuck that extra fabric into some free cupboard space. Not me. I have come up with 50 ways (nearly), to use blue and white ticking. First and foremost on everyone’s must-have list, are blue-and-white ticking tassels! You do have your blue and white ticking pinwheel, don’t you? And no one’s life is quite complete, without a blue and white sachet. And since more is never enough, one must wrap their lavender in blue…
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Do you know my Blog Sister, Debbie, at Debbiedoo’s? She has a Home Tour every week, over at her place and invited me to join in. (You may wonder how she got her name, “Debbiedoos”. Its not because she does all that she does! It’s simply the moniker she earned as a kid, from her family!) Debbie is a big-hearted mom of two teenage sons, who stays very busy! If I haven’t bored you to tears with our house pictures, I hope you’ll visit both of us at her place! (Painted wine bottles, created by Debbie and her G-friends, while…
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