These trees are quite like something in a fairytale… like they could reach out and shake your hand, or move about and speak to each other. They are graceful yet strong, and stunning in every way!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: TGIF!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Butter Bean Salad Recipe
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Artist to watch… Kevin Beers!
A few years ago we were walking and came upon a few ferns left by the side of the road in the trash. They were beautiful. They were a little tired and thirsty, but nothing that couldn’t be fixed. We took them home, repotted them, gave them water and they have been on our front door step ever since. Absolutely gorgeous and so easy to care for!
They’re called a Bottlebrush Fern (also know as a Fox Tail Fern) they are the coolest plants ever! If you live in a climate where these plants thrive, they are definitely something to think about! They’re beautiful and lush green!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Roasted Sweet Potatoes… Recipe by Tyler Florence!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Featured Artist… Elizabeth Tolley!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Bose Radio – slick as can be!
I know we have nothing to complain about weather-wise… the entire country took quite a beating. Cold temps, wind, ice and snow, snow, snow! We even got dusted with the white stuff here in Charleston a while back… also got some ice… ugh… but now look… the azaleas are blooming and thats not all! It’s going to be a gorgeous Spring!
Today is the first day of it… enjoy! And for those of you where Spring has not officially made its presence known… it won’t be long!! Come visit us in Charleston until it gets nice ;)
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Stacy Barter!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Azaleas in Charleston… Happy Spring!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Edgar Degas Quote!
Sweet, isn’t it? I love African Violets. June, 6, 2007, when our Jack Russell “Reggie” passed away, a sweet neighbor gave us a beautiful violet. The violet florished for years. Then it started to droop seriously. We just repotted it, so I am hopeful. But I have been on the lookout for another. I used to see them everywhere. Grocery stores, Lowes, but all of a sudden… nowhere. Well, one of those sick days last week when Fred was running to the store he ran by Hyam’s Nursery on James Island (SC), and found this. Someone came in and bought every large one, but they had these small ones, and they’re beautiful. He bought a self watering pot which is beautiful, but how do you use it? Do you leave water in it? How much? If not how often do you water? I watered my old one once a week (setting it in a container with water so it could soak in from the bottom)…
It’s a beauty! Thank you Fred!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: X Factor Auditions – Charleston (2013)
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Featured Artist… Robert Spooner!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Richard Diebenkorn Quote
Thank you Fred! You’re the sweetest!
Bless this man’s heart… I was sick, the dog was sick, he’s getting me soup, flowers and popsicles, and trying to take care of Charlie… oh, and work. Just want to let you know how much you are appreciated! xoxo, me
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Jeremy Mann!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Me on a streetcar in San Fran!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Artist to watch… Tim Bell!
High tide… much prettier than low tide. Stunning with these live oak trees with the moss…
Have a great Sunday! Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Tiptoe through the tulips…
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Featured Artist… Kim English!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: A gorgeous kitchen faucet from ELKAY!
I just have to share some of the beauty that we see on our walks… weekends are best because we have time to venture to different areas, all close to the house, and all so beautiful!
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Lorenzo Chavez!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: How to beat your sugar & starch craving…
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Artist to watch… Tim Horn!
I took this photo the other night while I was in the study… after a week of having flu like symptoms (had a flu shot, so not sure what it was), I am still trying to come back to the land of the living. This day I couldn’t make it off the sofa, and food still doesn’t have any appeal whatsoever… whaaaat??!! Yeah, I know. One heck of a diet, ha ha… Anyway, thankful for my phone camera, I saw Fred sitting down to eat, Charlie underneath his feet, the light in the window, the wine glass… this looks perfectly staged, like in a magazine. I’m not here to say it always looks like this, ha ha… it doesn’t. I love this photo!
That’s my post for today… keeping it short the next few days… Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Craig Mitchell!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Gas lantern: A great way to dress up a house!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: 2011 Time Change…
Skillet Tortilla Casserole. All made in the same pan. Too good!!
Let me start off by saying this is a horrible photo… almost didn’t post it because it’s not appetizing at all by the looks of this. But this is so tasty you won’t believe it! A great meatless meal. Fills you up, easy to make, tastes great! And… all made it one pan!
Here are the ingredients… the only thing missing is the sour cream (we used Greek yogurt, tasted fabulous)… Olive oil, onion, frozen whole kernel corn, oregano, cumin, garlic, flour, can of tomatoes, black beans, chopped green chiles, corn tortillas, green onions, cilantro (WHICH I FORGOT!), sharp cheddar cheese, paprika (optional: radishes).
This is a recipe by Cooking Light magazine. It’s one that I’ve been making since 1997 – Here is a link to the recipe from the MYRECIPES.COM website (Cooking Light and several other magazines).
Here is the recipe from that website:
To recap:
It’s easiest if you prep your ingredients first. Chop, measure and get it all ready to go!
Heat oil in a 10-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and saute 5 minutes.
Add the corn (to the onions), and saute another 5 minutes or until corn begins to get lightly browned.
Add oregano, cumin and garlic… saute 30 seconds.
Add flour, and cook one minute, stirring constantly!
Next… add the tomatoes, beans, chiles, and cook 2 minutes or until thick.
Once you’ve cooked this and it starts to thicken, remove from heat…
Spoon mixture into a bowl…
Spread 1/2 cup of the bean mixture over the bottom of the skillet.
Then arrange half of those tortilla’s that you cut in quarters to cover the bean mixture, overlapping slightly…
Spread half of the remaining bean mixture on top…
Sprinkle your green onions (all of them)… this seems like a lot of green onions, but its not!
The final layer of tortilla’s…
The rest of the bean mixture…
Sprinkle the cheese… whoa? Is this 1/2 cup? Oops ;) Sprinkle with paprika.
Bake at 375 for 30 minutes or until throughly heated. Remove from oven and LET STAND 10 MINUTES.
Notice what photo is missing?? Sigh… when will I learn? I’m so excited when it comes out of the oven. I dish it up, make it look beautiful… and then… EAT IT!
Next time… ;)
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Tom Hughes!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Meggett Sunset
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Taco Boy – Charleston, SC
Spring forward, at least in this part of the country… Tonight before you go to bed, set your clocks ahead one hour… also, now is a good time to change batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors!
I usually set one clock (microwave) ahead when I get up, then by evening I will notice that the microwave and the oven don’t match (pet peeve) and that will remind me to change the rest of the clocks…
Happy Saturday to you! Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Bring on the sunshine!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Vanilla Bean Infused Honey…
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Artist to watch… Geer Morton!
Dewy Rose… plan SL1842 available at Southern Living House Plans – this house was designed by architect Mitchell Ginn from Newnan, GA. It’s a creative plan that is a good fit for many with a small lot. The house is approximately 2753 square feet. There are optional layouts, I’m just showing you one… click on the link to see others… This is a nice open floor plan with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. I like that this house has both a front and back porch.
It’s nice that the master bedroom is downstairs, and that there is a PANTRY in the kitchen, woohoo! Nice to screen the back porch and then have the french doors that open into your bedroom and eating area wide open with no bugs, a definite plus!
So nice that the upstairs has attic storage! I would also use maybe the vaulted bonus room as a place for the treadmill and storage of anything that can take the heat (Christmas decorations we learned the hard way…) what are your thoughts on this plan?
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Poor Me, took a sick day… Lucky You… info from G.O.Logic blog!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Indian Chicken Curry Recipe – Sounds good right now!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Edward Hopper quote
And the winner is… Knight’s Armour by Olympic!
Oooh, what a few weeks we’ve had! This paint color thing is starting to make me crazy. The room started out “Kuba” a Ralph Lauren paint color from the Safari Collection which was fabulous. But… like all things fabulous, it was then discontinued. We had it color matched at Benjamin Moore, but it didn’t come out quite right, so we tweaked, and tweaked and tweaked (great guy who helped us)… and it ended up being BETTER than Kuba! So that is what most of the walls in the house are painted. With the exception of our guest room, bathroom and kitchen. It was time for the study to get a fresh coat of paint. I wrote a post about this and there were several great suggestions… one being a coral/tomato red color… Hmmm, that intrigued me, and I couldn’t get it off my mind. So instead of just going with the dark gray “we” (ha ha, I bet you can decide which of us wanted to try this color, ha ha) well… I found a color in the rug that was a pinky coral, I didn’t want another dark room (or so I thought…) the color on the card (AMARYLLIS by Sherwin Williams).. looked good, the guy mixed it exactly right… Now… let me just say this… a coral/tomato color could have been awesome HAD I PICKED THE RIGHT ONE! Sigh… but instead… I picked this corally pink that was in the rug… why? I have no idea. This is what it looks like on the wall (one coat) – S U N G L A S S A L E R T !:
**G A S P **!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmmm, I knew when I opened the sample can…
That this probably wasn’t going to work, but he did say it dried darker… I don’t think it could possibly dry that much darker, but lets give it a whirl… ahhh, N.O.!
I painted a section (and was horrified the entire time… so why did I keep going??) – I thought this would be a nice happy color. Ha… no, this color is irritating and causes anxiety, make my gums feel like they’re swelling and makes me feel like I need some Pepto ;) So back to the grey it is! With one caveat… Fred wanted to paint trim, ceiling and walls all the same color… if we go this dark, I need some white… So we will paint the crown molding and ceiling white… then it will be nice and sharp. Art will look fabulous on this color… (the grey NOT the pink… I couldn’t find a piece of art that looked good on that… not at all). Ok… who has thought on this?? Paint the crown molding, walls and ceiling (leaving the trim around windows and white? Or leave molding and ceiling white and paint ceiling KNIGHTS ARMOR? Or…????
Luckily we still had some paint in those sample cans! Got that pink (notice I didn’t say coral/tomato) covered up… and now… all is well ;) So in the end, it will look like this… but with white molding… (that brown molding color was a previous color that we tried… ) – actually if you look closely, this is two different colors… from the window sill down is a different (but very close color). We’re going with the top color.
So thank you to all who sent suggestions. You never know until you try a color. I LOVE how you can buy sample cans of paint!
Anyway, thanks so much for your suggestions! Let me know what you think about painting the crown molding… the ceiling… thoughts??
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Elizabeth Pollie paints Charlie! Stunning!!!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: View from Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Rubbermaid Modular Canisters = perfection!
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I took this photo last month on Second Sunday on King. A great time to get out in Charleston and walk around King Street with the streets blocked off. Read more about Paolo’s! He’s got a great story! Did you know he was a veterinary surgeon in Italy before taking time off to travel and coming to the United States to discover… no gelato! Tada! Paolo’s was born!
Second Sunday on King is a big time… check it out! If you’re on Facebook, check out Second Sunday on King, it gives you the latest!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Charleston Photo: Bowens Island Boat
T w o Y e a r s A g o: Featured Artist… Brian Blood!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Delicious Oatmeal Cookie Recipe!
Our sweet beast, Charlie! Just wanted to wish you a happy weekend! If you’re in Charleston, SC stop by Galerie on Broad this weekend. Rain or shine, warm or cool, the paintings always look spectacular! Look forward to seeing you…
Catch you back here tomorrow!
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist: Matt Smith!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: The Reed Hanging Light from Circa Lighting!
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Artist to Watch… Colin Page!
For those of you who enjoy a bit more space, I ran across this house plan from Southern Living House Plans. It’s the River House (SL-1829) and was created by the architects at Group 3 Design from the Hilton Head, SC area. This house plan is approximately 3086 square feet, has 2 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. It also boasts quite the garage for those of you who have a boat or an extra vehicle!
I love how the master bedroom is off to itself at the end of the house, then the fabulous open great room and kitchen. What a dream! A nice study tucked away for quiet reading or for working as well as a screened porch.
The bonus room would work well for us for storage, the treadmill, and if I would pick up a paint brush, could be a nice painting spot! So many possibilities! I think I would opt to have a half bath in the bonus room.
How would this plan work for you? What is it you like to see in a house plan? Modern, traditional, coastal, two story, one story, master up or down? So many options! Let me know and that can help me target future house plans!
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ALL IMAGES VIA houseplans.southernliving.com
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O n e Y e a r A g o: Colin Page!
T w o Y e a r s A g o: On a Limb Show…
T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Henri Matisse Quote
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