Kitchen Remodel Journal: Texas-French Hill Country House
Journal of our kitchen projects over the years: paint, tile, wrought iron, tapestry, seeded glass, beadboard, and new kitchen island table.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
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Master Bathroom Remodel: Texas-French Hill Country House
Designing our master bathroom, my goal was two-fold: French Country style with more practicality than the builder left us.
Gruene Texas for my Birthday
River House Tea Room is unlike any other tea room I’ve visited. Real meals are served, although with the deftly creative and award winning chef, Carol Irwin.
The Intriguing Red Rocks of the Garden of the Gods
Famed for its sedimentary rocks in ranges of deep red, pink, and white, representative of sandstone and limestone, the rocks extend past the park.
Singing Cowboys at the Flying W Ranch
We always get there early because they are like a 1950s amusement park from the cowboy days unique from any location we’ve ever visited.
Horsing Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Playing in the distant meadow, we saw 2 coyotoes, a mom and pup. In the peaceful setting the chipmunk, perched on the boulder nearby, curiously watched us.
Travel Secrets from Colorado Springs to Estes Park
We took a steep downward exit that bordered a rapidly flowing stream spilling over rocks and stones, twisting and turning through the mountains.
Eighth year garden journal: Texas-French Hill Country House
While window shopping in Gruene, I bought a Texas flag holder for our Texas flag, and also a funny historical marker set in 1836.
Seventh year garden journal: Texas-French Hill Country House
The beauty of spring starts early in Texas, when the heady grape fragrance of purple Mountain Laurel wafts through the air in March.
Painting a Flower Garden Mural in my Daughter’s Bedroom
I turned my daughter’s room into a flower garden by painting murals, quilting, and sewing curtains as well as a bedskirt overlayed with flowers in netting.
