String o' Pearls

Greetings from upstate NY! After a short stint back home in VA, my husband and I had to make another trip up north to check on our Oyster Ha...

I get such joy from opening up my house up to others.  I think that's actually one of my favorite things in the world to do--to play hos...

I've blogged before about  my paternal grandmother's Victorian mansion  in a small Upstate NY town, where my family lived for about ...

There are few things I enjoy more than puttering around my house, tidying it up here, hanging something new on the wall there.  Aside from w...

That up there is definitely an LOL kind of statement.  Because the truth is that we live in a cookie cutter neighborhood (with an HOA) in a ...