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European Kitchen Progress - Antique Sideboard
We are making slow progress on our European Kitchen design plan. I've begun painting the keeping room portion of our kitchen in Benjamin Moore's White Dove, same as the living room. The soft White...
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A Tale of a Sun Room
The Tale of Our Sunroom Evolution Life is interesting, months, even years of easy going then bam - surprise! Nearly two months ago, Mr. GDC had knee replacement surgery. It happened rather quickly....
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Living Room Update
When we moved to the cottage the end wall of the living room featured built-in bookcases. For some there couldn't be anything better than a wall of built-ins. For someone like me, who enjoys moving...
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Mini Christmas Home Tour
This is our second Christmas in our Corsicana, Texas English style cottage. This has been a whirlwind year of changes; Mr. GDC had both knees replaced, I began a full time job, Jr. is finishing his...
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Living Room Art
I prefer slowly building a room by collecting items on antiquing excursions and estate sale finds. We've been in the cottage a full year, we've made some friends, wandered around discovering are...
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Living Room Vignette
I've been collecting treasures to pair with the print of the girl on the windowsill... she's been with us thirty years, touring about Texas from house to house, making each feel a little more like...
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Wishing you well -
We are practicing social distancing. Luckily we both work from home and are still employed. Jr.'s college is closed, classes are now online. Life has changed greatly over the past few weeks as...
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From Spring rains -
We've experienced an unbelievably wet spring this year, weeks of rainy, cold, damp weather. It hasn't rained lightly, the skies have raged with thunderstorms. Day after day of grey, rainy darkness...
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Happy Mother's Day Everyone
As we distance ourselves from one another, this Mother's Day is very different. I'd like to offer you a little story about an inspirational Mom - For the Love of CharlieThis spring morning had...
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A Memorial Flag BoxMr. GDC is named after his Grandfather, a WWII Naval Veteran. Grandfather fought for our freedom. He returned to his family in Alabama where he lived out his remaining few years,...
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Garden and Door Canopy - A New Vision
We have been toiling in the garden for months. The journey difficult, full of hard choices. The facade covered in "ivy" looked like a fairy tale, although the reality was poison oak, ivy and sumac....
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Inventing a kitchen pantry from an entrance...
When we first visited our cottage I imagined a European Style kitchen created from the small awkward existing kitchen and keeping room that divide the center of the cottage. In my imagination the...
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A little trip to Natchitoches Louisiana
Mr. GDC and I recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. With COVID still active we chose to celebrate simply. We traveled to our cousin's home in Louisiana. Along the trip we stopped in the...
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It began with a rug.... The cottage living room has been evolving over the past few months. Honestly, when we first moved I didn't know what to do with it. The voluminous long living room enveloped...
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Christmas "tour"
This has been an interesting year. When it came time to decorate for Christmas, I must admit my heart wasn't in it. While "decking the halls" has been a great distraction and return to something...
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Home Office Redesign
When we moved in two years ago there was much to do. Mr. GDC's home office has been neglected. He has worked from home over 12 years. But with COVID entered a new phenomenon, the video call. Where...
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Chicken Quiche For Allison, Caroline and Miss Maddie a little breakfast "Tasty Fare" Ingredients:2 Extra Large Eggs Slightly Beaten2 oz Whole Milk1 Cup shredded Kraft Cheddar/Velveeta mix½ Cup Sour...
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Home Office "Finished" No space I dwell within is ever truly "finished", evolution is who I am. Whether changes are different accessories, a rug, or the furniture travelling about the room, evolution...
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Christmas Cheer It has been sometime since last I posted. The challenges of the past year have been great, for some more tragic and difficult than others. As many of you, we've helped what little we...
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Happy 2022
Happy 2022 !I've been thinking about the new year and the tradition of making resolutions; "a firm decision to do or not to do something". Resolution deriving from the word resolute; being admirable,...
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A Bathroom Adventure
A Bathroom Adventure....or was it a nightmare? Last year about this time we discovered standing water under our cottage. After some investigations we determined the downstairs shower was leaking. The...
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Powder Room Reveal
It has felt inappropriate to make this post during war. While it is isn't America's war, it is a war against democracy. A war waged once again against the Jewish people. A war without reason. My heart...
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Exterior Paint and UpdatesWhen we moved into the cottage it looked like a storybook; romantic ivy climbed upon the brick nearly covering it, dressed in pale olive cedar shake shingles, punctuated with...
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Spring and a Special DeliverySpring rains brought May flowers to the cottage -A white panel van with purple and orange letters safely delivered a pair of David Austin Munstead Wood rose bushes to our...
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Happy Independence Day America Homemade (no freezer) Ice Cream Recipe The cottage is dressed in patriotic red, white and blue in honor of America's birthday -Vanilla Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Freezer)...
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