Shabby Chic–Weathered White

You know when you find those things that make your heart expand and your breaths breathe quicker…. I have loved shabby chic my whole life…. I’ve been collecting those old weathered windows since I was 19… There is this sense of beauty and history, not crumbling away, but cracking and weathering through time. Weathering, such […]

Word of the Day

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge Thomas Carlyle Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet Plato A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech When words become superfluous. Ingrid […]

Random Things I Saw Along The Way

My first upright bicycle came from Mexico.  Every year when Rod and I would come, we would each buy a bicycle and then give them away at the end of our stay.  One year I was so in love with my blue and silver upright bicycle with its basket that I brought it home and […]

Preparing Pasta

There is a beautiful restaurant we pass every night on our walk where the chef is making his fresh pasta for all to see.  I am intrigued by his skill and beauty of the product.  He was making spinach tortellini tonight.  Other nights he is making beautiful linguini and ravioli.  I am going to get […]

Love, love, love…..

There’s something about shabby chic that makes my heart sing…..first, my heart races with that inhale of wonder and then it exhales in the presence of such simple, yet exquisitely elegant beauty.  I am so a shabby chic heart and soul person….   Photographs from Anything && Everything Blogspot