It's All in the Family

Auntie Neck and Ga. What a beautiful evening. I could do this every weekend.

The Intrepid Crew

Boat ride somewhere in Quogue. From left to right we've got Spencer, Lisa, Scott and John. That smudge on the lens is VERY irritating.

Weekend In Quogue

Ok. The picture is crooked, but you get the idea. We spent the weekend visiting my niece in Quogue NY. This is where she lives. Ha Ha.

Buffet and Biden

Last night I went to the Jimmy Buffet concert at Great Woods in Mansfield. It was my first Buffet concert and it was pretty good. We had really good seats in the first section (thanks to our good friends Dan and Nancy Webber) but I found myself watching the jumbotron quite a bit. I had never really seen Jimmy Buffet up close and I kept thinking that he reminded me of someone, but I couldn't place who it was. Then finally it hit me: Joe Biden. Now I know they don't look exactly alike, but there's definitely a resemblance. Come to think of it, I've never seen them together, so how do we KNOW they are really two different people?

Living Room Digs

This is one of the first things John did in walnut. I think that we got the idea from the magazine Early American Life. Although it's hard to see in the picture, this is actually a corner cupboard and it is mounted on a corner of the living room wall.

This is the TV stand (sorry for the flash reflection). The drawers on the bottom are big enough and deep enough to hold our DVDs and CDs. The upper portion of the cabinet is supposed to have doors, but we kind of like it without.

The coffee table. I had seen a similar design at Boston Interiors, but the wood was not right. I decided to design my own and my wonderful husband built it for me out of walnut. You will notice that the second shelf is a slightly different color. That's because the shelves are made of walnut plywood and the drawers and carcass are made of solid walnut. Once we realized that the stain on the plywood was giving different results than the solid walnut, we visited our friends at Willmott's in Middleboro who expertly matched the stain. They did a fabulous job and that's why the top shelf matches the door fronts.

Big shout out to everyone at Wilmott's. This is not the first time they have helped us match a stain in the house. We lived in our house for about 15 years before they created a stain that matched the existing woodwork in our house. That sort of thing is priceless.

Kerin Sylvester's Sketch Challenge

This is my first attempt at using the Parisian
Breeze DSP. I just love it! The colors and the weight of it are fabulous! The inspiration for this card comes from several that I had seen on SCS. I used Kerin Sylvester's sketch challenge for the layout. Find it here. Thanks for looking.

Downstairs Bathroom

These are some pictures of my bathroom downstairs. I got the mirror on sale from Pottery Barn. The lights were on the clearance rack at Home Depot. They are not the exact color I would like (I prefer an oil rubbed bronze), but they'll do for now. The shadows from the window obscure the true color of the walls.

This picture shows the wall color a little better. It's Ben Moore "Charlotte Slate" and I love the way it turned out.

This view is out the window to the side yard. The valance is just a brown toile that I picked up at the now defunct Fabric Place. The window trim is painted with Ben Moore "Gray Mist." It really goes great with the rest of the colors. They all have a nice tone.

This wall shows the Ben Moore "Bennington Gray" paint. You can just see the corner of the new toilet, Kohler's "Memoirs" which I love.