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
Here we are, at the highly anticipated milk paint reveal! I’m going to ask you to use your imagination and think of her sitting in a beautiful room! According to Marian, aka Miss Mustard Seed, you never know what to expect when painting a piece of furniture with Milk paint. I told her that my finished dresser looked like it had been drug behind a covered wagon, across the prairie, moving west. But, I still love her. As you may remember, I didn’t use the primer that adheres the paint to the wood. I wanted to paint my first piece…
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Greetings! Happy weekend!, For some time, I’ve been thinking about recovering our kitchen window seat cushions. They were here when we moved in, ten years ago. It wasn’t a fabric I would have chosen but the best part about it, was that spots could never be found! Or, could it be that our friends and family are just extremely careful, when they eat? Nope. Don’t think so. No offense. Well, a couple of months ago, the fabric store down the street closed their doors for good. (Fabric stores seem to be going the way of the book stores, sadly.) I…
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You may say that I am “jumping the gun”. But the thing that makes the holidays so stressful, is that it all comes at once! Plus, having a retail shop during the holidays is going to bump everything up a notch! While at the gift show, I saw all sorts of paper crafts that I could make myself. The wholesale prices were very high but the creativity was wonderful! You may have noticed that I’m making more changes to my blog. Besides the new “Become a Blog Sister” tab and the “Our Home” tour, I’ve added “The Workshop” page, where…
Read the rest >>Hello there, Sisters! I was just checking out The New York Times, on line and saw a headline, “Homes for $985,000”. While I’ve never linked to the Times, on my blog before, this is a tour worth taking, if you have the few minutes it will take! Being a Californian, where it’s hard to find anything all that special for $985,000, these are gorgeously decorated homes, if nothing else. Start with the New York, 8 bedroom, lake home, built in the early 1900’s and you’ll be hooked! Enjoy the trip!
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OK. The house has been torn up for approximately three weeks. Fortunately, I haven’t been sitting around, watching the paint dry, but enough already! I did some touch up painting today and Mr. Wonderful is upstairs, as I type, with his super-duper nail gun, nailing baseboard to the studs. I’ve told him he needs to quit his day job, so he can be at my disposal anytime of the night or day, as my personal carpenter. So far, he doesn’t seem to be listening. Progress is being made, and it’s looking great! I’m just hoping to move out of the…
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I had a blast, at today’s San Francisco International Gift Show. I’m looking for a few things I can “sprinkle” through the vintage and antique pieces of my new store. An Asian importer has done a great job, painting pieces in colors pleasing to Western eyes. How about surplus Army satchels and vintage medic bags? I love this beautiful iron flag holder. If I had a grandchild, this is where we’d party! We’ll wrap up our visit tomorrow! Wish us well, as we try to “roll the dice” determining what buyers might like this winter!
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This afternoon, a dear young couple we’e known for a while, are getting married! Heather and Joaquin! Woot! Woot! Having asked the appropriate probing questions, it sounded like money would make the best gift. So, rather than just going to the card shop and dropping a check inside, I wanted to make it a little more special. Their invitation was a piece of art, in itself, so I took it apart and incorporated pieces of it in to their wedding card. I wish I would’ve taken a picture of the original invitation, because it was so pretty! I started with…
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Hello Sisters! Just two weeks ago, Blog Sisters from the United States and Canada started signing up, taking the pledge and being counted! Since then, I’ve nearly jumped out of my skin, in happiness, when visiting a blog and finding a Blog Sister button, sitting pretty, right there on the side bar! If you haven’t been back since we first “rolled out the red carpet” for all of you, you’re invited back for a look-see. Members are arranged by state and the events calendar should be up and running before long! You know I’ll keep you posted! Have a splendid…
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I know it’s been a little quiet, here at the Treasured Home. But, just in case you’re wondering what’s been going on here, I wanted to share our upcoming spread, for House Beautiful! No? You don’t believe me?! Wouldn’t that have been nice!? When the time came to bring everything downstairs, for the upstairs flooring installation, all attempts at organization went out the window. In fact, I could have thrown all of our clothing out the window and It would be in no worse shape than it is right now. I had originally intended to buy those rolling clothes racks,…
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Forty-two years ago, my Mom and Dad found their second home at Lake Tahoe. Back in 1970, you could buy a lake view home, for “peanuts”, by today’s standards. While my two older sisters were off to college, my younger sister, brother and I, would spend every other week up here, with our parents joining us for the weekends. Back then, it was a little 950 square foot home with a big stone fireplace and a beamed ceiling. Our kids grew up here. There’ve been good times and bad, but I focus on the good. It’s all a part of…
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