Posts tagged: Tablescape

My Garden Groweth 3/24/25

My Garden Groweth 3/24/25

Hang onto your spring bonnets - this one's a big one.  Welcome happy Monday morning!   I arrived home from my Florida adventure last Monday to be greeted by a sea of hellebores, daffodils, forsythia, camellia and tulip magnolia in full bloom.  Mother Nature's welcome party - WOW thank you!   I dragged my "HEAVY" bags into the front hall, and out the back door I skipped, eager to survey nature's blossoming ladies in waiting. 

Strolling through the garden, I found myself in full conversation, "Oh my how you've grown Miss Camellia, almost halfway up the fence now aren't we?"   I had worried about her and her two sisters during our unusually frigid winter here in Virginia.   READ MORE

Read more

Party Favors 12/11/23

Party Favors 12/11/23
A friend's husband once called me "the gift fairy".  Gifting is definitely my love language.  In my version of heaven, I would just give all of my jewelry away ... "You have the most beautiful auburn hair and hazel eyes, these earrings would be perfect on you".   "Oh, you love the Brindle earrings?  Then have these!"  "Off to Tortuga, Robin? - here!"  Vail, Jane? - "This is for you!"   Can you hear me wistfully sigh now, "if only..."  READ MORE

Read more