Monday Blues: Here's A Thought For You

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My little piece of nature!

traditional porch design by new york architect Crisp ArchitectsHave you ever noticed all the ANTLERS in room decor these days? There is a wonderful website with a wealth of beautiful homes called, houzz.com, and you can search photos with anything you are looking for. Since I have seen tons of antlers in room decorating, I decided to do a search and see the UNexpected and expected. See if you ...

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Bright Living Room

What else can I do other than dreaming about this bright and beautiful Living Room this summer. Try to do something like this to make your space ready for summers.Image Source: Click HereHope you spent your week well and wishing you a very happy weekend ahead.......Stay creative friends...

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Sunny Summer Day

Its getting hotter and hotter by the day here in my part of the world. Days are sunny, bright and longer. Blooms from my garden make me smile. I truly love this silver beau...

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ShoeTree

What happens when you marry a wire picture holder with a vintage wooden shoe form?This is what you get...Great for holding pictures, old postcards, notes, recipes and to-do lists to name a few. I simply cut off the wires from the holder of this picture holder...and drilled holes that they would fit into in the wooden shoe form. Simple!See the wire holder that I got last year...

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"Into the Night"

Anyone who knows *Mr. Adventures* and I will tell that we love to entertain!  Whether it's Fall Gatherings ... Christmas parties ... or surprise birthday parties, we love having friends over to share good laughs, spirts and food!  This past weekend was no exception, as we hosted...

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Monday Blues: Here's Thought For You

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Vastu Gyan: Orientation

Earlier I have done one post on Vastu that you can find here. It was an introduction to Vastu. today I am taking this Vastu series forward and this second post will throw light on 'Orientation'. As it is believed that Vastu Shastra is a perfect understanding of geography, direction, environment,...

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Brick Border

What to do with old brick.We had purchased a bunch of old brick from someone that had to get rid of it. And he sold it to us at a very low price...less than 10¢ per brick.Initially, we laid this at the end of our driveway for our daughter to park her car when she began driving. Here is a picture of the basket weave design that I laid. It started off level but this area gets really wet in ...

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Roses, Paint-by-Number!

I picked these, sweetly painted lovelies, up at an estate sale. I have not seen Paint-by-Number art in a long time and thought these were very well done.They would have started out something like these kits...I don't even know if you can buy these any longer, but you would get the paints and a brush and just paint each area by the number that coordinated with the number on the board and paint...

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It's all in the DETAILS!

I wrote a post about our new addition of a two car hobby garage that you can see HERE. However, I wanted to talk about the details that we almost missed...The brick!The brick masons were here and bricked the new garage with the matching brick on the house. When they completed it, there was a bit of brick left-over and our contractor came by to see the progress. He noticed this...See the...

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Spring Buffet ....

As IF I haven't shared our buffet with you enough, I'm sharing it a-GAIN (sorry).  Gone are the reds that were splashed around for Winter and in are more soft colors for Spring!I added a few, inexpensive "newbies" here, too ... can you spot them?Of course, I kept my fleur-de-lis vase from...

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When Creative Juices Flow: Coconut Shell Hanging Planter

This project was on mind since long. Executed it recently. I used coconut shells, twine and bangles.  Put them altogether and outcome is just superb. I am too happy to see it hanging in my garden and it looks so beautiful.I planted different creepers in each coconut shell that is serving...

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