As you know I shared recently that our family will be relocating to the fabulous southern city of Atlanta! We are sad to be leaving behind our "Old (old being relative here) Kentucky Home" but excited about the new adventures ahead...and heck it's a whole new house to decorate, who doesn't love that?!But first...we gotta get this baby...SOLD! And that's not an easy thing in today's housing market. You have to get creative and come up with ways to bring those buyers to your door. I decided the ... continue reading...
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Cast Iron Skillet Memo Board-Copy Cat Challenge
Copy Cat Cast Iron Skillet Memo BoardI first saw this idea in Southern Living Magazine last yearand I just KNEW I had to do this in my kitchen makeover. I had just the perfect skillet too. One given to me by my sweet, loving (always treated me just like one of her own)...grandmother-in-love...Bama Boy's Mamaw.I inherited this perfectly seasoned and aged cast iron skillet when she passed away, and it is a true treasure to me. One I hope to pass down to "the girl" someday. I hated having it ... continue reading...
Romantic Homes Magazine Feature…. At The Picket Fence
Wow! So can I say, first we (Vanessa and I) are probably the last two people on earth who should be keeping “secrets.” So when the sweet Beth Livesay from Romantic Homes Magazine contacted me in late December informing me that they’d like to feature At The Picket Fence, (really?! our lil ol’ blog!? in their GORGEOUS magazine) along with some photos of my kitchen remodel, it was all we could do not to share with all of you…cause ya know YOU ALL are the first one’s we love to share with! I sent ... continue reading...
The evolution of a powder room…
SourceIt’s amazing how a room (is a bathroom considered a room?) can evolve over the course of living in a home. There’s always the room you inherit, which may be a blank slate, or in our case was NOT a blank slate. Nor our taste. at all.Then, there’s the room you quickly fix up because you’ve just moved and you had to paint EVERY room in your entire house in one week including a magenta room, a navy blue room, a chartreuse green room, a hunter green room and a Sponge Bob bathroom. yes. I do ... continue reading...
Creamy Bell Pepper ‘n’ Tomato Soup
Happy Monday friends! That's not an oxymoron is it? Happy Monday?How about if I help you kick off the week with a fantastic (and easy) recipe?I don't know about you all but I think I'm still feeling slightly twitchy as I come down off of the sugar high that is the holiday season. Can I get an Amen? Ugh... I'm also feeling very rebellious about cooking these days as it seems to be the only thing I have done for the last 2 months. If I never see another cookie again...wait...ummm...I think I just ... continue reading...