Find 14+ Valentine’s Day tablescapes and DIY centerpieces with inspiration for celebrating with your sweetheart, family or friends! You’ll find tips for creating edible centerpieces, candy vase floral arrangements, rose petal ice cubes, an Alice in Wonderland-inspired tea party and more. I love putting together a table or centerpiece to add some fun and whimsy…
Happy Sunday! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and are enjoying a happy holiday week! I’m looking back and sharing some waterviews from Lake Norman and reflections of 2024. We witnessed some beautiful sunrises and sunsets . . . Reflections of water meeting sunkissed clouds . . . And glorious views of lavender water…
Merry Day-Before-Christmas Eve or Merry Eve Eve! Have you finished your Christmas preparations . . . baking, wrapping and shopping? December flew by faster than Santa’s reindeer this year! 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌 With Thanksgiving falling late, I needed to get hopping mid-November, as my Christmas ‘to do’ list was longer than time allowed! I’m wrapping up 2024…
Sophie and Lola are pawsing to be thankful and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! 🐾🐾 They’re wearing turkey headbands in honor of Tom Turkey . . . They both say they’re thankful they only have to wear their headbands for 15 minutes once a year. 🦃 Wishing you plenty of turkey and treats today! 🐾…
Find 20+ recipes to bake your spirits bright and make your holidays extra sweet! Additionally, you’ll find some easy no-bake treats and food gift ideas too. Happy Thanksgiving Week! I know this is a busy week with shopping, cooking or traveling in anticipation of turkey day. I’m kicking off the holiday season with my Baking…
Welcome to Home is Where the Broom Is and The 11th Annual Meeting of The Black Hat Society ! The appeal of Halloween for me is the combination of fantasy, treats and spooky fun, and we all can benefit from a little escape these days, wherever we can find it. . . Following the Halloween…
Happy Sunday! Here’s a weekend waterview from Lake Norman. We’ve enjoyed a break in the heat and humidity this past week with morning temps in the 50s! It’s amazing what a 10 – 15 degree drop in the temperature with humidity levels that don’t mimic those of a tropical rainforest will do for your mental…
Sophie and Lola are popping in to wish you a Happy Independence Day! They’re wearing blingy headbands in celebration and ready for treats! Lola is a diva, so she’s proudly wearing a crown like Lady Liberty. . . And Sophie’s never sure about anything on top of her head! Her headband weighs two ounces and…
Happy Saturday! Here’s a weekend waterview from Lake Norman. We enjoyed our first boat ride of the season this week. Normally, we’d have been boating for several weeks by now, but we got a later start this year with all our May showers. We always look forward to checking on the osprey nests on the…
Happy Sunday! Here’s a weekend waterview from Lake Norman. After several wet and blustery days, we’re forward to a ‘nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina’ kind of week! I have to confess that a high of 70 has more appeal to me than temps in the 80s. Bridal Wreath Spirea has been…