Decorating, Tablescaping, Before and Afters, Thrifty Finds, and Gardening
I'm a total sucker for romantic comedies. Life may not always turn out the way it does in the movies, but it sure is fun to "escape" to a fantasy world where the guy always gets the girl and the girl always gets her Prince Charming, even if he is slightly flawed in the beginning. Sabrina, a 1995 remake of the Billy Wilder 1954 original with Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, is a rom … [Read more...]
Yesterday I was playing around on my iPad and I found an app I had downloaded so long ago I had completely forgotten about it. Scary. I worry about my memory sometimes. Anyway, the app is called Trailers and it's kind of cool because it let's you watch the trailer for pretty much any movie that's out or will be coming out soon. One trailer caught my interest, having just experienced a wedding in my … [Read more...]
When I visit my doctor once a year for a check-up and whine about that 15 lbs I can never seem to lose, he always goes into this big spiel about how I should buy one of those exercise stepper thingies, forgetting we've had this talk before. He pulls out the step he has tucked under the examining table just for these such moments and he demonstrates, stepping up and down, up and down, all the while … [Read more...]
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Christmas Vacation: A Movie House Tour When Christmastime comes around each year, do you and your family have a favorite movie that you just have to watch? Mine without a doubt is the classic, Home Alone. Love the house, love the humor and I can't help but feel a little sentimental when I see it since my son was about Kevin's age when the movie first came out. Another movie that's become a favorite … [Read more...]
Hope your day is going great! It's been gorgeous here...in the 70's, so I've been spending some time out of the porch enjoying the fall colors. I know the cold is coming so I'm trying to fully enjoy these last warm days of fall. A while back I posted a tour of the house in the movie, It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. (That movie house tour is available … [Read more...]
Last October, I posted a movie house tour featuring one of my favorite comedy movies, The Burbs, starring Tom Hanks and Carrie Fischer. The Burbs is a fun movie to watch around Halloween time. It's not scary or gory, just mysterious and funny. When I posted about The Burbs, several folks suggested I post a tour of the Victorian house in the movie, Practical Magic. I couldn't wait to watch the movie … [Read more...]
Welcome to the 159th Tablescape Thursday! A Good Year, Starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard Tablescape Thursday: A few months ago I had the opportunity to see the movie A Good Year starring Russell Crowe as Max Skinner and Marion Cotillard, as Fanny Chenal. A Good Year is a British romantic comedy based on a book by Peter Mayle. He also wrote, A Year in Provence . A Good Year has been … [Read more...]
Take a Tour of the Beautiful, Historic Apartment in the movie, Green Card While putting together a recent post listing a whole bunch of my fave decorating and design books, I came across my copy of The Conservatory Book by Peter Marston. This book is filled with pictures of beautiful greenhouses. The book reminded me of another beautiful greenhouse, the one in one of my favorite movies, Green … [Read more...]
Lauren and Harley's Cottage Home in the movie, It's Complicated A few weeks ago, I took you on a tour of the house/set featured in the Nancy Meyer's movie, It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. (If you missed that tour, you'll find it here: Tour the House in the Movie, It's Complicated. We all pretty much fell in love with Jane's home in the movie, but there was a … [Read more...]
The Movie House in Up is Real! Wow! 221 Amazing "Before and Afters" have been linked so far for yesterday's Metamorphosis Monday! I've been having so much fun clicking on all the links. So many creative, talented souls inhabit this land of Blog! A Most Unusual Home Recently, my friend, Gloria, alerted me to a another very creative individual. It seems a rather unique home has come on the market. … [Read more...]
