I have been picking up these adorable vintage egg cups throughout the year at yard sales and thrift stores and now have a collection in varying sizes. I couldn’t envision ever using them for their intended purpose of holding a soft-boiled egg but I could envision using them for decorative purposes, especially for Spring. I
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We are getting ready for the upcoming Women’s Retreat which is held annually at the end of February at the Tuscarora Conference Center in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. Each year we like to create a new focal point for our booth — something that will inspire creativity and generate excitement for the women as they check
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Here’s another idea for upcycling a few of those plastic Easter eggs: As much as I love the vibrant colors in these eggs, I don’t want to use them in my decorating. If you’ve been following this blog, you can tell that Debra and I have enjoyed working with paper lately. I decided to try
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After 10+ years of Easter egg hunts, we have amassed quite a collection of these suckers. Like rabbits, they just seem to multiply. I thought I’d try giving these eggs a makeover with some good old jute twine, similar to what I did with plastic fruit in an earlier post. All it takes
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It seems whenever we are working on someone’s home some element of the makeover weaves its way into my own home decor. Working on The Manor House at The Pines was no exception. We spent so many afternoons there, enjoying the woodsy, earthy surroundings as we worked that, almost without realizing it, I began bringing a few nature
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As a 4-year-old, my daughter Greta seems endlessly fascinated with letters. Her greatest accomplishment right now has been learning to write her name. She also loves filling a page with her favorite letters (right now “h” and “i”), then asking me what it says. She thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world when I
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