they're back!

Posted by Mr Wong at 4:43 PM 0

We paid a visit to our favorite pumpkin lady, Lynne Bonnell, the other day and picked up some new pumpkins for the season.  Can you believe its that time already?  They always go fast, so hurry in to pick out your favorite ones!

Toile and Ticking

Posted by Mr Wong at 2:09 PM 6

I love the combination of toile and ticking stripe.  So, when I went looking for an affordable fabric to buy to make my bedroom curtains with, I looked for gold ticking stripe. 

I already had the toile part covered (no pun intended).  My quilt is a gold toile.

To make thinks a little more French Country and just a wee bit over the top, I am adding a gold and red rooster pattern toile as an attached valance along with a red and gold fringe.  The red and gold rooster fabric is actually curtains that I had in my dining room of my other house.  You can see them as curtains on this post, here.  There are only 4 panels so there were not enough to use as curtains in my bedroom, plus they were too short.  So they will be reworked into valances and more.

You can see there is already an accent pillow on my bed with the red and yellow rooster toile.  I might add that rooster toile to the lampshades on either side of the bed.  I think I might also make pillow shams with the gold ticking stripe.

Mr. Comforts of Home has hung the curtain rods.  The ticking fabric arrived today.  So tomorrow I sew!

Welcome Home,

Penny

sale!

Posted by Mr Wong at 2:08 PM 0

Ok, so for one day only, we decided we were going to put the entire sale room on "extra" sale for 75% off.  Only one day.  And that day just happens to be tomorrow, August 31.  I fully intended to take pictures of all the new stuff that was just unloaded in the sale room, but as that didn't happen, you will just have to get down here to see for yourself.  So, let's go over that one more time.  Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 31, the entire sale room will be 75% off.  That's pretty fantastic.  I am sure we will be seeing lots of you tomorrow!

Beach Boys!

Posted by Mr Wong at 9:36 AM 0

A few evenings ago we saw the Beach Boys in concert at the Biltmore.  This time we had our picnic in the Italian Garden area of the estate.

The Italian Garden is filled with Koi ponds, lilies and beautiful marble statues.  There are benches scattered through out  and we sat on a bench for our picnic.

As the sun set slowly over the mountain tops, the seats began to fill up.

Then the Beach Boys came on stage and sang and played for two hours straight!

When they played Surfer Girl, Mike Love encouraged all of the audience to get out their cell phones and flip them open and use the lights from the phone the way we used to use Bic lighters....  I took a picture of the crowd behind us with the cell phones waving in the air.

It was a great concert.  I am very fortunate to live 15 minutes from the Biltmore Estate and in these beautiful mountains.

Welcome Home,

Penny

rock n couture

Posted by Mr Wong at 5:40 PM 0

Have you seen these amazing bags and pillows made from actual coffee bean bags from local designer Rock N Couture?  We are getting a bunch at the Willows and are so excited about them!  You must come have a peek!

A Misty Morn in the Garden

Posted by Mr Wong at 5:23 PM 0

Hello everyone,

    I hope all is well with you after Hurricane Irene passed through-here we escaped with only a windy day and some rain but I know some of you were hit harder but maybe not as hard as anticipated.

  One morning late last week we arose to a very misty morn so I grabbed my camera and took a few shots around the garden. I loved the look of the angel above with the mist around giving a mystical look.

  

The roses look so pretty in the mist.

I will let you wander around the garden -enjoy the soft mystical  look as you go.

 We have seven of our grandchildren here for a couple of days so we are enjoying the sound of giggles and happy excited little voices in our home once again.
 We are supposed to have beautiful weather here all week so we will happily take it!

I am joining Cielo for show off your cottage Monday at the house in the roses.

Thank you for visiting me,

Carolyn

Projects On My Side Bar

Posted by Mr Wong at 4:41 PM 0

Last January, when I was recovering from my rotator cuff surgery, I posted a list of decorating projects on my side bar that I wanted to get done this year.

I was limited to what I could do for the first 5 months, but Mr. Comforts of Home and I have managed to check some of the projects off the list.

The project for Mr. Comforts of Home this week, is to hang these curtain rods in our master bedroom.

My project this week is to make curtains.  You see, the problem has been that our windows are not standard height. 

 So I can't go to Target, JC Penny, Lowe's, Home Goods, etc and get curtains that are a standard 84 inches.  I have to have 108 inch curtains.

To buy the gold buffalo check curtains above from Country Curtains, would cost me $621.95 for 4 windows!  I love these curtains.  I actually used that same curtain in my previous home in the living room.  See here.

Soooo I found some inexpensive fabric to make my curtains with.  It is not the gold buffalo check, but I like what I have found.  I will show you the fabric when it arrives this week.

What are you doing this week?  Working on any projects?

Welcome Home,

Penny