Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

We are still at the lake house, and I've been having so much fun. I've done lots of small projects, and moved things here and there. First off, we rearranged the living room, and I'm liking it so much.  Of course, any kind of change seems to freshen up things. It's hard to tell much about it in these photos, but we switched the chairs to where the love seat formerly was.  This leaves it much more open toward the kitchen.  The love seat faces the sofa.   I bought this candle holder a couple years ago.  It was pink, and over the winter, it had rusted and faded until it looked horrible.  Saturday, I painted it navy and turquoise.  So it has found a place on the coffee table, rather than outside.   This towel was only $1.00 at Dollar General.  It has turquoise butterflies and flowers, and white bird cages on it.   This is a view from above the candle holder and towel. I've had this bronze colored sign for a long t...

I was going through dressers, closets, etc., and came across an envelope filled with probably 80 or more antique photographs. There were 2 postcards, postmarked 1912, and 1914.  I believe the photographs are mid 1800's.  Some of them had the identies of the subjects listed on the back of them, and some said, "unidentified".  That's sad to me.  Some of them say things like, "presumably the daughter of .......".  There are some photos of folks that we know.  My husband's grandfather and uncles, his father's baby picture, which is identical to my husband's baby picture.  They look like identical twins!!  We think that my husband's paternal grandfather probably had this collection of photographs.  Most of them are on the hard card type paper. There are a few tin types. Here are a few of the photographs. Sweet baby picture. Have you ever noticed that in the antique photos, no one smiles?  I can imagine this being an old maid ...

We've been at the lake house since Tuesday evening.  The grass had grown so tall since the last time hubby had come, but he did fertilize and aerate it at that visit so it was expected.  He's a fanatic about his yard, so he could hardly wait to get started on Wednesday morning.  I've had terrible sinusitis and been on 4 prescriptions in addition to two injections which I got before our trip down here, so I haven't felt the best, but you wouldn't know it!  I've been cleaning out closets, dressers, chests of drawers, etc.  So now I will have a yard sale tomorrow.  I've never had one down here, but hope at least some of this stuff gets sold.  I had a sale at home a couple weeks ago and did rather well, especially since I was only open 7 hours. We decided to sell the twin comforters in that guest room, I know they've been around for 12 years, and before that, so it was high time to buy new.  We did the Wal Mart thing, because, quite honestly, there ...

I recently bought some faux forsythia at HL, just a couple of stems.  I had them on the table in the sunroom for a few days then on the breakfast table for a while, even on the coffee table and the mantel.  You all know how that goes.  Always moving things around. I love cobalt blue with the yellow of forsythia, as in this painting I did recently. But I was in Wal Mart last week and saw this wonderful cobalt blue geo mesh.  I bought some, came home, and made a new wreath for my blue front door!  They had a great price of $4.99/roll, just not a lot of colors. This little bit of forsythia has been all over my house, but I like it best with the blue of the wreath. Oh, and since I don't have enough hobbies going on, I've started selling on EBay!  Now that's work, y'all!  If I can ever get this shipping stuff straight, I'll be o.k. I have some great items, lots of Aigner handbags that I've just reduced the prices on,...

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