
White house interior design
Features tips on decorating living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms using photo galleries and video clips. Includes information about famous designers.
One candle-type light in a little vignette
Lights are
and living room windows.
A small strand of Christmas lights is
The firebox is lit with Christmas twinkle lights
The main bathroom is always illuminated
The kitchen windowsill now hosts a small lamp,


So when I found this vintage glass beauty a while back at the thrift store I felt the need to adopt it. Sure it needed a pretty shade and to be rewired, but that didn't stop me. Lamp kits are available at hardware stores for not much money and rewiring a lamp only takes a few minutes. As for the shade I just kept my eye out at the thrift store until I found the style and size I needed.
I think it looks right at home there.
Unfortunately I have a brown thumb
I am working up the courage to try again this summer.
I've even bought them from the dollar store.
Dollar store hydrangea's displayed en mass on my front door.
I was going to say how the fun of collecting should be in the hunt---the patience of waiting until that certain item comes along that makes you giddy and so thrilled to place it in a prominent spot along with the other items of it's kind.
I wanted to explain how sometimes it's the blemishes in your loved collection that make it even more dear to your heart, like the suitcase with it's original handle at one time replaced with rope as a makeshift luggage hold.
Or the handle so lovingly repaired by my hubby on the small luggage piece found at a New York flea market that had been carefully transported home just to have our sweet granddaughter tear the vintage leather of the grip into small bits.
I planned on showing how even though a pretty piece of pottery has received a chip or two along the way it can still
And how if we concentrate on the small chip
we can forget to
Then it dawned on me, that I was not just talking about collections. I was talking about life. It's okay to live a life that isn't perfect. Why is it that we can sometimes get so overwhelmed with looking for perfection that we forget that it's the flaws and bumps that give character to our life .
A good life is made when we repair the damage that has been done and still go on to serve and bless the lives of others. Life isn't about having everything perfect and in order. Life is about the search, the hunt, the journey. Because it's in the journey where happiness can be found.
Turning bad things into good. Having patience with ourselves as well as with others. Appreciating all that life offers, the wonderful as well as the not so wonderful. And remembering that it's during both of those extremes in our life's journey that beautiful memories can be made,
Life is much like a collection.



