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Feature Friday: Serenbe HGTV Green Home Part 2

May 18, 2012
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Back with Part 2 of the Serenbe HGTV Green Home that will be given away to one lucky person this year.  Wouldn’t that be nice? If you missed Part 1, you can catch it here. I know many of you said that this modern style is not your cup of tea, but I can appreciate [...]

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Boxwoods Tables in Buckhead

May 16, 2012
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Another part of Boxwoods Gardens in Buckhead that I didn’t get around to showing you, is the shop next door in a lovely building, featuring tablescapes and lots of dining ideas.  We strolled through there and of course, I couldn’t help but take pics here too. Beautiful chandy in the foyer. Lots of tabletop and [...]

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Feature Friday: HGTV Green Home Tour at Serenbe, Part 1

May 11, 2012
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As promised, I’m back with the inspiring tour of the HGTV Green Home in Serenbe, GA.  What a wonderful visit it was, I came away totally inspired and loved every minute of my visit to this inspiring countryside south of  downtown Atlanta. There was an official ribbon cutting to officially open the house for public [...]

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Feature Friday: The Mustard Ceiling

April 27, 2012
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I’m back with another beautiful house to show you today.  Elizabeth, with The Mustard Ceiling, has a beautiful blog all about the renovation of their fixer-upper 1950’s brick ranch house located in NM.  She says while searching for online inspiration to update their new “old” house, she came upon colors of muted grays, soft whites [...]

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Seaside Sister: Lynn’s Beach House

April 13, 2012
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I have a new friend in Marietta and her name is Lynn.  We met up at the beach last week in Florida.  We actually went to high school together, she was one year behind me, but didn’t know each other.  But, now all these years later, we have connected and I am enjoying getting to [...]

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Spring: Pass it Forward with Bulbs

April 12, 2012
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Just in time for Easter, my mom got a beautiful bouquet of bulbs!  Stop over and see a great gift idea for those loved ones, a living gift of spring bulbs. The gift that keeps on giving!  Click here to see the pretties she got for Easter! Yippee, the house closing is today!!!  It’s almost [...]

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Feature Friday: 11 Magnolia Lane

April 6, 2012
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Welcome three cute bloggers from 11 Magnolia Lane, Amy, Terry and Christy. They tag team on their blog and it is named for one of the houses that Christy lived in and fixed up, a 1920’s beauty in Fayetteville, N.C. that was beautifully redone.  She has since moved on from this house, but it’s worth [...]

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Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and Wax How-to’s

March 22, 2012
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It’s amazing, this blogworld.  Just put the word out that you’re having problems with a product and the right folks show up to help.  Denise and Rhonda are two chalk paint stockists, with Color Me French, here in the Atlanta area and they got the word that my sis and I had some wax problems [...]

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My Sister’s Spring Mantel

March 20, 2012
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Once the holidays were over, my sis and I pulled out some sparkly things and completely redid her mantel into something that spans the seasons for a few months.  We added shiny glass jars, mercury glass pieces and a little preserved greenery in white to lighten and brighten her mantel.  A bit springy! My sis’s [...]

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Feature Friday: Cassie at Hi! Sugarplum

March 16, 2012
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Another fun designing mama, Cassie at Hi Sugarplum has done an amazing job updating their 1980’s builder’s beige home that they bought and have been meticulously upgrading.  The kitchen is one gorgeous space after Cassie got ahold of it and it gives me hope that when I get my fixer-upper house, which will most likely [...]

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Feature Friday: Sarah’s Yellow Cape Cod

March 9, 2012
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Sometimes when I am putting together these Feature Friday stories, it is hard not to be a little envious of the home pics I’m seeing all over blogland.  Today is one of those days.  Oh my gracious, Sarah at The Yellow Cape Cod is one talented mama.  She does this for a living too and [...]

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My Joss and Main Event is Live!

March 8, 2012
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I’m still pinching myself that flash sale site, Joss and Main asked ME to curate an event.  This is such an honor for me to get to do this and the event goes live tonight.  Eeeek, so exciting! It was so much fun to choose items that I would love and use in my home.  [...]

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Overstock: Makeover Takeover with Angelo Surmelis

March 6, 2012
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Just recently, former HGTV personality Angelo Surmelis was in Atlanta for a design event called Makeover Takeover.  A lucky winner was to be the recipient of one of Angelo’s room makeovers, courtesy of the online shopping mega-site, Overstock.com.  Their PR firm contacted me and asked if I’d like to meet Angelo and see the finished [...]

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