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  • Stage Your Own Home for Sale!

    Stage Your Own Home for Sale!

      Selling your home? Everything I can tell you about Design, Style, Decorating, Landscaping and Curb Appeal (taken from my original free Home Staging website) 1. Designer Tricks of the Trade: It’s odd isn’t it? Yes it is odd but odd numbers are the most successful way to decorate with accessories. Unless you are trying…

  • Sunrise – Sunset! My pictures from the Bay and the Beach

    Sunrise – Sunset! My pictures from the Bay and the Beach

    I took these photos with my phone over the past year.  Some were on an I phone some on an android phone.  They were brightened a little with the auto adjuster on Pick Monkey but are very close to the original photos.  The credit goes to God. (No words necessary)

  • Top 30 Curb Appeal Tricks

    Top 30 Curb Appeal Tricks

    Car Stopping Curb Appeal! Top 30 Curb Appeal Tricks Curb appeal is pleasing for the passerby and the homeowner.  An attractive and neat home is the first impression your neighbors and friends have of your home.  But you also can derive satisfaction from arriving home to an appealing and welcoming view. Not every home is an newly constructed…

  • My daughter Emily is helping me!

    My daughter Emily is helping me!

    Since I have been having some medical issues, I have re-enlisted the help of my daughter Emily.  Yes my son’s Jason and John are still helping, as is my trusty husband, Eddie.   Emily is an art teacher and artist.  She is doing alot to help me paint furniture, work on the showroom and select…

  • Farmhouse  STYLE Decorations available for sale online

    Farmhouse STYLE Decorations available for sale online

            Go to the top of this page and pull down the SHOP menu.  Contact me for an appointment for visiting my West Chester Pa. showroom or buy online.  If multiple purchases are made I will reduce the shipping charges. Hope you like my photos of the products!  Email with questions: [email protected] Thanks…

  • Where to buy the products like they use on Fixer upper Farmhouse Style  shows.

    Where to buy the products like they use on Fixer upper Farmhouse Style shows.

      My line of products will help you get that Farmhouse look!  Go to the SHOP menu at the top of the page to see everything.  I am still selling all of the antique and vintage style products that I have carried for the past ten years.

  • 5 Spring Tablescapes

    5 Spring Tablescapes

    Hoping to inspire with some bright spring table settings and ideas! I love this place setting especially because of the little burlap cutlery pocket placed over a napkin which has some tan colors in it. The plate or charger matches the color closely.   Using a coral colored charger behind the floral plate really sets it…

  • DIY Easter Banner

    DIY Easter Banner

    My daughter Emily made this adorable Easter banner for her apartment.  I will try to give the instructions she gave me.   I will try to get more specifics but the first thing she did was print the bunny images she found online.     She pasted the images onto cardstock and cut them out…

  • Spring Decorating is Here!

    Spring Decorating is Here!

      Winter is gone and spring is finally here.  So the first place to make changes is the front door.  The front door is the first thing guests see.  And let’s face it – the first thing you see when coming home.  Make it cheerful and welcoming.   For these planters I always use a…

  • My friend Maryellen’s House- She has the touch!

    My friend Maryellen’s House- She has the touch!

    It is a lucky day when you get invited to my friend Maryellen’s home!  Because you know it will always be a delightful visit.Just inside the door is the beautifully set table.  (Not to be confused with the other dining room table)Maryellen has a wonderful assortment of table cloths, napkins, placemats and napkin rings.  Every…

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