zoom in

I thought it might be fitting to talk about light on the day we switch our clocks back an hour to get our sunrise a little earlier.  I have always been a daytime person but there are members of my family who hit their stride later in the day. It's just how we're wired.  (I know...bad pun)  I have a friend who keeps her place dimly lit and funtions very well.  That's not me!  Again, I'm on the other end of the spectum.  I need decent light to funtion well.  So I vowed, with this renovation, that I would make sure I had ample light every place that I planned to read, sew, write, craft, cook...pretty much everywhere.  Here are some of my attempts to fulfill that vow. I picked this up at a yard sale.  (Yes, it goes without saying, a long time ago!  Like so much of my "stuff" it has been in that long line of "when-I-get-to-it" items.)   Well, last week I got tuit.  After I bought the lamp, I was de...

I have been making an effort to stay away from thrift stores and other places that might tempt me to accumulate more neat stuff.  Why?  Why would I do that?  Well the fact is, I have my house on the market and it is getting difficult to find places to stash my loot and not look like a hoarder.  But I subscribe to a feed that tells me about estate sales being held within a 60 mile radius.  I rarely travel very far for a sale with the price of gas and all.  However, there was one today that was within a few miles of home and I couldn't tell myself, NO! It was in a 4000 square foot three story building.  Nothing was priced .  It was one of those..."make a pile and we'll quote you a price.  The bigger the pile the better the price."    In fact, that is exactly how they advertised it so I knew the rules before I left home.  Optimist that I am, I was convinced that meant I could make a huge pile and get it really...