Our whole family has a had a really rough week....our cute brother who is the father of eight children (7 boys and 1 girl) and only 46 years old was just diagnosed with colon cancer stage 3. After being in excruciating pain for five days and having to go back and forth to the emergency room they finally admitted him into the hospital...
Went to an amazing model home
By The Style Sisters - Saturday, August 23, 2008
I had a chance to pop into a model home in a neighborhood close to me. The house was....amazing! I think it was close to 6,000 Sq. Ft. ...a "Mcmansion"...I think is the current term for it. Waaaay tooo big for me.....But there were a few things I really liked about it and took a few pics to share with all of you....
Hello fellow bloggies! I am busy working on 4 video projects, creating a website for my mom.....amongst a myriad of other things..... so I haven't been able to post any new, fun or creative things. Hopefully soon I will be posting some of my own creative things. In the meantime take a look at this blog Emmilines and tell me if you aren't...
If you haven't been over to the Dear Daisy Cottage blog (click on the name to go there) you must go now. It is full of deocorating "eye candy" from a little shop she found while traveling in Florida. Called the Rusty Crickett's Costal Cottage.Look at all the fun goodies in this little shop. I want to be there right now checking it...
If your garden is like mine you probably have a ton of basil popping up! Here is a great pesto recipe to make using up your fresh basil.Fresh Basil Pesto RecipeIngredients2 cups fresh basil leaves, packed1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan-Reggiano or Romano cheese1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil1/3 cup pine nuts or walnuts3 medium sized garlic cloves, mincedSalt and freshly ground black pepper...
Breaking Dawn and Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate
By The Style Sisters - Saturday, August 09, 2008
Need I say more...... I didn't have any other chocolates laying around so I opened a package of chocolate chips and I am munching away! :)I am on page 256!!Isn't this so silly how this has taken everyone by storm! I can't believe how many women are reading this crazy vampire book! When my friend Penny told me about this series last year...
Okay Pikes Pickles you gave us a challenge to see if we could come up with some ideas for your dining room and this is the first installment of some ideas that we have come up with. Here is a mosaic of some photos that might help to give you ideas as to what might work. Click on picture to enlarge it. starting...
Help me decide what to do next with my house.
By The Style Sisters - Thursday, August 07, 2008
Okay all my blogger friends I need your advice....After looking at my photos of my living room and dining room and re examining them from a different perspective and checking some of the other awesome blogs that are out there....like nestingplace I have decided that I think I might need some toile! Look at nestingplace's family room/dining/kitchen photo below. I LOVE THIS ROOM...
MAKING DO WITH THRIFT STORE FINDS!!Rhoda at Southern Hospitality is hosting a party and showing all our favorte thrifty finds. Here are a few of mine.I recently found this photo of my living room before I added some color by sewing up some drapes in a plaid fabric of bright yellow, red and green. In this photo you can also see that there...
While on our trip to St. Thomas I noticed many women dressed in their little sun dresses, bikini's, short shorts, tank tops and other beach wear. Some of the women dressed this way were blessed to have rock hard bodies and looked very nice in their beach attire. Others were actually quite large and were wearing these form fitting skin showing outfits, some...
