An Updated Classic Craftsman...
/Do you like to watch the show Rehab Addict? This Craftsman home, the final one we toured on the 21st Annual Home and Garden in Leavenworth, WA, would have been a perfect candidate for that show!
Read MoreDo you like to watch the show Rehab Addict? This Craftsman home, the final one we toured on the 21st Annual Home and Garden in Leavenworth, WA, would have been a perfect candidate for that show!
Read MoreCome along with me and take a look at a lovely Farmhouse style home we visited on the Leavenworth Home and Garden tour! Although the home was originally built be a German immigrant in the early 1900's, the current owners are Scandinavian. Adding a Norwegian stabbur out the back, their home certainly reflects their heritage.
Read MoreEarlier this fall, a friend and I attended the 21st Annual Home and Garden Tour in Leavenworth, a fundraiser for Cascade Medical Foundation. You know I love home tours! Our first stop on the tour had quite a colorful history!
Read MoreDo you remember my story about a man who got a little bored one day, got on his earth moving machine, and began to dig a hole in the ground....a big hole? The hole that grew into a pond and had trouble holding water? Are you ready for an update?
Read MoreAs I promised in my last post on the Street of Dreams in Lake Oswego, OR, I want to share with you a few more photos (ok, maybe more than a few!), of the other homes on the tour. The French farmhouse I shared previously was definitely my favorite, but there were things I loved in some of the other homes as well.
Read MoreFor a number of years, attending the Street of Dreams near Seattle was a fun thing to do for anyone who loved to look at houses and interior design. Then the recession came and the builders in this area no longer held this event. I was bummed!
Read MoreYou know, prior to meeting my husband, I'd never been much of country music fan. My exposure to country was limited to hearing Johnny Cash once in a while on the radio, or having small, down home quartets, that were on a traveling circuit come and sing at our church. They often accompanied their songs with guitar or slide guitar, and their vocals included a lot of swooping up to the note and funny little harmonies.
Read MoreReunions...that's part of what this past summer was all about for me. I attended not one...but three! Two of the reunions were for family...my mother's side and my dad's side. Yet, before both of those, I met up with three friends from our college years, at a cabin in Cable, WI.
Read MoreEver since my visit to Delancey, I've been wanting to experiment with recipes from A Homemade Life and Delancey. Remember I posted the recipe for Molly Wizenberg's meatloaf? So, our son's birthday was coming up and I knew he would want a chocolate cake...his favorite.
Read MoreSaturday I attended a delightful tropical themed bridal shower! The prospective groom is the son of a friend of mine. The wedding will take place in Hawaii in October for a limited groups of family and close friends of the couple, so it was a fun to get a small taste of the tropics now through the decor and food of this shower.
Read MoreThe arrival of summer always means lots of weddings! A special young woman in our church is getting married in July...the daughter of our former pastor. Cassandra, (aka Sandra or Sand) is girlie girl...she loves all things sparkly and pink!
Read MoreA friend and I traveled to southern California (So Cal, as the locals say) several weeks ago. Her son and his wife live in a wonderful loft apartment in downtown Los Angeles. The loft is full of charming touches, so well designed and furnished by this young couple...definitely with an artistic eye.
Read MoreNorwegian Americans love to celebrate...their heritage on Syttende Mai. Falling on the 17th of May each year, Norwegians celebrate the signing of the Norwegian Constitution with parades full of Norskes in their native dress (bunads), many flags flying, and lots of good food!
Read MoreTomorrow is Mother's Day. A day filled with mixed emotions. Feelings of love, gratitude, and pleasure as I spend time with my sons, yet mixed with feelings of grief and longing for my mother, who died as the result of a car accident almost 19 years ago.
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I love comfort food...pure and simple! Perhaps this love comes from my Midwestern roots, I'm not sure, but give me a plate of meat and potatoes and I am a happy girl. Funny fact...when I was pregnant with our first son, that is exactly what I craved...meat and potatoes!
Read MoreI love to read recipes...and read books by people who are lovers of food. There's just something wonderful that happens around a table and I love to read the stories by those who feel the same way.
Read MoreThe thought of cooking dinner when the weather is unseasonably warm just does not excite me. The past two days the temperatures have soared to the high 80's and even 90...almost unheard of for April in the Northwest. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining...I love it!
Read MoreHome alone on Saturday, I was happy to get a call from a friend inviting me to visit the tulip fields with her daughter and grandsons. Though the morning had been overcast and chilly, the sun had broken through the clouds in the early afternoon. Hoping that by arriving late in the afternoon the crowds would be dissipating, we ventured north towards Skagit Valley.
Read MoreHave you ever experienced times in your life when God seems strangely silent? You pray and wait and watch...looking for an inkling that He is working, yet you see no change. Your faith is stretched as never before and all you can do is cling to the promises of God...a God you know to be faithful.
Read MoreDo you remember way last summer when I mentioned that our church was searching for a new Pastor since our former, beloved, Pastor of 16 years had resigned? The search is still in process! Recently we invited a young Pastor and his wife, and baby son, to come out West for an interview.
Read MoreA blog by Gracia Gilbertson, owner of Gracious Offering, an interior design company.
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