You know I love, love, love a beat up, well worn kitchen table. You can just tell that this table is used for just about everything. Pictures are painted here, bills are paid here, food is loved here. I'm certain that the chairs get moved out of the way regularly for obvious things like rolling out dough and just as often for less obvious things like cutting out patterns & stamping fabric. 
Somehow, somewhere, almost all of our teaspoons have disappeared. We realized one night as the table was being set for dinner that our everyday set of utensils was down to only 3 spoons. I suspect the youngest of our bunch. What she's done with them, I don't know.
If yesterday's feast left you culinarily inspired and hungry for more of such meals, visit Sunday Suppers today.
I'd bring you these flowers were I your guest today for dinner and at the table when it was my turn to say what I'm thankful for, I'd simply say "a lot" because it just seems most accurate. Enjoy your day.
Are you hosting? What's your tabletop scheme?
It's a short week. I lose focus fast. I need a list.
The moon is one of my favorite things. I don't feel like photography captures it's true beauty but I do love these pieces of the phases of the moon. A lot.
What says alot about a person? Why, the number of books they own, the titles of those books and the way in which they are stored. I'm partial to stacks, lots and lots of stacks. 
A house in the country. One we'll have to drive a distance to get to. The furniture will have dust covers and I'll have to head over early to open up the house for the family. We'll stay for the summers. We'll have dinner parties there to open and close the season and invite our friends for long weekends. Sometimes we'll head over just for a weekend as a special treat. It will be dreamy. 
We've broached this subject before but I feel it's important to reiterate my love for the art work of Viv Strauss.
In one of my most often reoccurring fantasies, I am the buyer for our local public library and I ensure for all people like me that the good books with lots of beautiful pictures and the ones with detailed instructions on how to make stuff are always in supply. It's a perfect world.
Here it is! Basic Industry Sewing Class Project #1! You might remember that I set out to copy a JCrew look so I've added a leather belt and a cardigan to make up my ensemble today. This is the first time I've worn the skirt. I'm very pleased. I'm sure that in no time at all I will own this skirt in many different fabrics. It's inevitable. It's how I shop, find something I like that fits (hard to do, I'm tall) and then buy one in every color then wear it until it wears out and start all over again.
Oh, thank goodness Husband hasn't built the backyard guest house/shed yet! I wonder, do we have the room for one like this? I feel I just have to have it. Can you imagine? How fun.
Love these colorful coat racks. Imagine coming in from a dreary day to hang your coat and umbrella here. Wouldn't it be nice?
It's supposed to rain here today. I love the rain. I may have mentioned this before. In our house, we all love the rain. We watch the forecast and look forward to these days, planning our menu around it (chili tonight). We open up the windows as soon as we hear it start so that we can hear it and smell it. The kids have the day off from school today which is even better. We are going to work together to finally get that winter garden in before the rain starts and then do what we like most, baking, eating, movies and nothing else at all.
I am so pleased with the treasures I found this weekend. 6 dozen vintage wooden spools of thread. Some of them still even have thread and the colors of those threads are so beautiful. A book of campfire song book published in 1939 and my most favorite, 2 yards of "The Emperor's Garden", a vintage (I think) Waverly fabric. I'm working hard to learn more about it. If you can give me some direction, please do. I can't tell you how much I love it.
There's a little guy who needs some Christmas cheer early this year (read more here). Please add a stop to the post office to your list of errands.
I can imagine myself sitting here looking out the window as the landscape flies past. My destination, a museum where I will wander admiring beautiful things in quiet and then ride back thinking about all I'd seen. I've ridden a train once long ago. I don't remember what it was like. I'd like to do it again. It seems so romantically academic. Besides, I really love to look at the scenery on trips and that's so hard to do when you are driving.
This might be a fun way to keep the weekly dinner menu and even the grocery list.
This room is beautiful but to make it mine I'd trade the wood art piece for the black cabinet and the chairs shown for the blue armless (I don't like arms on chairs).
Dearest (imaginary) Personal Assistant,
Captured on film, printed on paper, adorning a wrist, or worn in the hair. Even on clothes, I can't get enough of them.
I'm tired. It was a busy weekend plus the time change. This looks like all I'd like to see today, given the choice. There is no choice though. Time to get going!
This blanket is handstiched from vintage Indian fabrics, each one is unique (perfect). 
I'd love it if this space were mine. I'd curl up there on that tufted couch with a blanket and start reading the stack of books. Truth be told, I'd pick up were I left off on any one of those books because I usually have 3-5 going at any given time.
