It is a beautiful day here today and I thought I would share a fantastic and easy recipe with everyone.   I make this often, sometimes for dinner with something light on the side and many times as an appetizer. Pancetta, eggs and freshly grated parmesan cheese, I mean come on.   Freshly grated cheese…

I’m starting to get back to my love of cooking and baking.  I will be sharing recipes from time to time.  Besides painting and making projects, cooking and baking make me happy.  What can I say, I’m an Italian girl and we love to feed people.  Life is too short and you have to enjoy…

Hi everyone, hope you had a great Tuesday! John and I won this beautiful stained glass window on eBay in an auction several years ago.   It adds a nice touch of old world charm over the French doors on the kitchen leading out to the deck area. The plates you see over the windows…

This small table is in my Living Room (I found it years ago and repainted it) off to the side for a small reading area.  I got the lamp years ago and recently purchased this column base from Ballard Designs.  The cloche from www.elizabethembellishments.com is filled with a small bundle of lavender and there is a…

Hello everyone.   Crazy busy Monday, so just a quick post tonight on our kitchen table and chairs update. As you may see in the before pictures, our kitchen table was very country and the chairs were a plain country oak.   While doing our kitchen project we decided to change them out. I love…

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far, this is another post about the kitchen, this section (I wish that I had a before picture but I don’t have any and I apologize) used to be a desk area.  It was basically a piece of countertop with nothing underneath, so a chair could fit there….