When we had our interior decorating shop, my granddaughter Alex was always with us on the workroom side. We taught her at a young age how to safely use the sewing machine and scissors. I remember watching how carefully she would hit the knee pedal and watch the fabric go straight at a few years old. As she got older, she had fun making pillows and even a few of her clothes. Then as she got even older, she helped us with the window treatments we made for clients. Fast
There are times I need to go to the beach and have my quiet time. I took these time lapse photos of sending a love note on Wordless Wednesday the other day. As the waves came in, they got closer to my love note and after they carried it out to sea, all there was left was a slight outline. Rich always wrote me little love notes with a rose, now it’s my turn to send little love notes to him.
Back in July 2024 I wrote a blog about The Restaurant. Lia has always had a great imagination and she decided to “own” a restaurant. She started looking through my closet to find a dress and I told her I don’t have anything to fit a 6 year old. LOL So she comes downstairs with one of my dresses she has always loved and a pair of her mommy’s high healed boots. The dress was way too big but we made it work for her. Since Lia loved my dress
Back in October I wrote a blog about The Garage is Done. Well at the time I thought it was but it seems I’m never through organizing things! I had planned on looking for a new home from our 5′ x 12′ worktable we brought home from when we retired our interior decorating shop in 2018. But after rethinking about it, I decided I can’t let it go. Rich and my dad built this back in 1995 when we first moved to South Carolina and opened our retail shop. It’s
Last year or maybe the previous year, I started writing my Sunday blogs and calling them Spiritual Sunday. Sometimes I would write about a passage the Priest talked about at Mass, other times it would be about meditation, special messages or just peace and songs. Today I’m sharing my Spiritual Sunday Angel. A few days before Christmas I drove up to Cherokee like I always to do remember Rich and the anniversary of we met. Christmas day 2025 would have been 60 years when we first met on a blind