Don't you just love this fabric? I spotted it on eBay and thought it would be perfect for the pot holders I seem to be making a lot of...

There's a scene at the end of the pilot episode of the new ABC show Pan Am with a little girl watching the stewardesses walking down the...

You might ask where I've been all this time, but I've just discovered treasuries on Etsy. I mean, I knew what they were and I've...

You know it's fall when your thoughts turn to soup when planning dinner. It's been very cold here—38 degrees yesterday morning—so so...

Although I haven't had very good luck this summer with flea markets, I am still finding great stuff on Ebay and in local shops. Like th...

Who doesn't love puppies, or any small animals for that matter? I especially love the cute embroidered kind that you find on vintage li...

You're probably wondering why I haven't reported back about my flea market trip last month. It's because the day was a huge disa...

...against the woodchucks who've taken up residence in my yard. First they ate the last picking of peas, then they munched the tops of m...

I realize this isn't the best photo. It was starting to get dark and he'd just knocked over our bird feeders. We were more concern...

I've been searching forever (OK, at least a year) for a small bookcase that's 16-18 inches wide that I can use upstairs, either next...

I spent yesterday treasure hunting in Quakertown, Pennsylvania and it was a whirlwind trip because I went to four different antique malls an...

I knew someone in college who had no sense of smell (the condition is called anosmia), and hence no sense of taste either, since the two are...

When I heard that Pantone's choice for color of the year was Honeysuckle , I immediately thought of the honeysuckle vine that climbed th...

I never ate macaroni and cheese when I was growing up. My father didn't like it so my mother never made it. So, I don't have any his...

or, why water and laptops don't mix. Two days into the new year and I'm working on the coffee table because it's cold upstairs i...

I don't know where this holiday season went - or this entire year for that matter - I just know that it happened much too quickly. We sp...

The Christmas issue of Amy Powers' Inspired Ideas is out and you can view it here . There's a Primrose Design project for an embell...

Last Saturday we drove about 2 hours to an antique mall, one we've been to before with mixed results. As you know, hunting for vintage t...

I'd like to direct you to a new online publication called Amy Powers' Inspired Ideas —it's truly gorgeous. You may know Amy alr...

A few days after we said goodbye to Little Bear another cat appeared at our door. It seems that our area is a prime dumping ground for unw...