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Monday, May 30, 2016

It's a red, white & blue kind of week . . .

I love decorating with red, white & blue for summer

It helps that we live in a blue and white house

with a red door.

This adriondack chair sits on the front porch all the time, but a change of pillows gives it a patriotic look.

It was easy for the back porch to get a summer update

by simply changing the flowers to red and white -

flags and a wooden soldier finish off the look.

With no blue flowers in the garden, I had to get creative with my floral arrangements - lavender is combined with red asters and white alyssum.

A few colorful pieces added to the shelves give the kitchen a fresh summery look.

The dining room is always dressed in red, white & blue.

Setting a patriotic table

just requires flags and colorful dishes.

A few flags in the entry

and the guest room finish off the red, white & blue theme for the week.

What about you - do you decorate with red, white & blue this time of year?

Monday, September 9, 2013

My Favorite Color

I was reading Patty's post over at Patty's Pretty Things and she talked about a new swap she had joined at Chaotic Goddess Swaps.

Favorite Color Swap Rules

Packages must contain at least 5 items in your partner's favorite color.
Packages must cost a minimum of $15 and maximum of $25 BEFORE shipping.
Send a package that you, yourself, would like to receive- it should be personalized to fit your partner's preferences and style.
You must respond to emails from the swap hosts within a timely fashion.
You MUST post and link up your swap reveal post after receiving your package. This is non-negotiable.

- See more at: http://www.chairintheshade.com/2013/09/another-chaotic-goddess-swap.html#sthash.J6SxL2C9.dpuf

It sounded like so much fun, that I signed up, but what is my favorite ?

I love COLOR - lots of it!

I went through the house on a search for my favorite color.

I looked in the kitchen

and the dining room.

I looked in the living room

and even in the garden.

Before my hunt, I would have told you my favorite color is yellow,

but the evidence clearly indicates that my favorite color is

R E D.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Don't Mess With the Cook

The kitchen is not my domain, so any time I want to do anything in the kitchen, I have to make Steve think it was his idea.

I wrote about moving things around here and here.

When I painted the shelves a couple of weeks ago, Steve immediately ordered a butcher block for the cabinet.

The butcher block arrived on Thursday and Friday night I got busy painting the cabinet white.

After waxing, I did some sanding and wanted to keep going,

but Steve said it looks fine and believe me, I

There were little yellow and white polka dot knobs on the cabinet when it was red, but I went with silver knobs to match the rest of the kitchen.

Steve likes it because it blends in and he thinks the room looks larger.

The shelves sport my favorite yellow and red bowls and canisters.

I bought the Mason jar shelf years ago at a home decor party I hosted.

It was during my Americana phase so the shelf was slate blue and it was relegated to the garage about 5 years ago.

With a fresh coat of ASCP Old White and some new jars it has a new life in the kitchen.

A salute to Valentine's Day is the conversation hearts and blue Dove hearts in the Mason jars.

I did hang up a little banner I made yesterday.

Steve saw it and put his foot down - not in HIS kitchen.

Since he made me a lovely paella while I wrote this post I saw the wisdom of removing the banner.