adulting with whimsy
Bring whimsy into your home and garden with playful ideas and projects including home decor, garden design, recipes and more inspired by fairytales and Alice in Wonderland.
It’s the day after Christmas, or if you prefer, the start of the season of leftovers. Today my leftover-inspired lunch consisted of a toasted gluten free cranberry ham wrap livened up by a couple of spoonfuls of homemade (husband-made) cranberry sauce. The sweet cheese that you see oozing out of the edges is Giant Eagle […]
Decorative Victorian Switch Plate Cover When you design every detail of your dream kitchen, including a splurge on old-world scalloped back splash tiles, it seems wrong to finish things up with a plain plastic light switch plate cover. Over the years I’ve made more than 50 decorative switch plate covers for other people’s homes and […]
I would like to do a “Small Business Saturday” shout-out to a local, family-owned business: MJC Kitchen and Bath. If you are out and about on Saturday, stop by their showroom at the Antique Depot in Duncansville. We worked with Harry Duey, his wife Mary, and their son Joe on a bathroom remodel a few […]
These rocker-style Peacock Switchplates are for Susan in California. She has a newly decorated wall waiting for them. I thought she might like to see how they are coming along.
One of the greatest things about living in the internet age is that you can type anything into your favorite search engine to find a wealth of “how-to” information. I’m used to seeking information online, but it is rewarding to learn that I’ve helped out someone else with their search. In 2011, I created a […]
Within an hour of sampling my first bubble tea on a weekend trip to Georgetown, I jumped on my iPhone and started to search recipes so that I could replicate it when we got back home to Pennsylvania. I spent the next week “pinning” perfectly photographed tapioca-filled teas that linked to pages with the promise […]
The reason that I hate cleaning is the chemical odor. Two products make cleaning more pleasant for me are Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps and Spiff Cloths.
Larkin Modjeska Bottles These two lovely vintage Larkin bottles from the company’s Modjeska line belonged to my great-grandmother, Ethel. One is the Modjeska toilet water and the other is the sachet powder. They are among the many things that I wish I had asked her about when she gave them to me. I image they […]
Design Board: Retro 40s Bathroom Remodel My husband gave me a rather curious look when I said that I wanted to create a “Hollywood Glam” Art Deco-inspired 1940s bathroom. Creating a design board can go along way in explaining a high-concept theme like this one to your spouse. Collecting visuals allow you and your spouse […]
This colorful Moroccan-inspired salt and pepper shaker set features a blend of metallic and translucent polymer clay that I hand buffed and waxed. There is even a little texture surprise in the teal: course ground pepper! It is a technique called inclusion. It gives a very natural organic feel to the finished piece. Peek-a-boo flower […]
