Hen and Chic Vintage at the 40th Annual Mushroom Festival Well, another Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square is on the books, and honestly, I’m still soaking in all the fun—and maybe also recovering from inhaling a lifetime’s worth of sautéed mushrooms. If you were anywhere near Kennett Square this weekend, you probably saw our little…
Back in 2008, I purchased a pair of 19th Century pine obelisks from an auction house in Philadelphia. I spent the beginning of my career at Freeman’s Auction house in Philadelphia. It is America’s oldest auction house. The obelisks unique quality drew me to them. I had never seen anything like these. The painted star…
Behold the bar, cabinet! It’s the one place we can all have fun around and be with friends. That’s exactly what I was thinking when we removed the old bachelor bar, which later down the road become the entertainment center. Everything in our little cottage comes full circle again and gets re-imagined somehow. We wanted…
Entertainment Center Dresser Since moving into our new home here in the fabulous Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, there have been tons of projects Bryan and I have tackled. One being our entertainment center. The dresser, which dates back to the 1970s, was Bryan’s older brother’s when he was a kid. It screamed, “I am old and outdated,…
Let’s kick off Spring with the amazing story of turning vintage utensils into a great piece of art!! I cannot believe it is spring already!! We have been so bogged down with all this snow, wait I need to rephrase, what snow? We have had such a mild winter it feels like an extended autumn.…
Trunk Coffee Table This fabulous trunk coffee table started because Bryan needed a new coffee table. Our original coffee table was scratched, dinged up and in desperate need of updating. We decided the best place to start was Consign and Design in Broomall, PA. Bryan went to college with the owner and the place is…
Old Lamps are now New The story of these lamps start way back in 2001, lets take a moment to reminisce. I know it wasn’t that long ago, but it seems like an eternity. So much has happened since then, I graduated high school, college and graduate school, got jobs and got engaged to a…
The Sewing stand project Have you ever looked at something and thought to yourself, “Man this thing is hideous?” Well, that’s what I was thinking when my mom painted her Victorian sewing stand a poopy brown color. After she was done painting she asked me what I thought, “honestly Mom, I think it looks terrible,…
The S&P shaker spice rack project I have a modest collection of salt and pepper shakers that I have been collecting for a few years. As I write this it seems funny that I have a salt and pepper collection. It all started at a consignment shop right down the road. I went there looking…
The Bookcase project Bryan and I moved in this year and this, obviously, involves combining a lot of stuff. I have a ton of stuff, all of my art history books from college and grad school and my extensive collection of British history novels. Bryan only had one bookcase and it was packed to the…