I've been playing with my stencil files again. I don't know for sure if I can cut them out with my Cricut, but if I can't, I sus...

I've had a saved search in craigslist for a hand-knotted rug for quite a while now. I was looking to replace the dining room rug which ...

Halloween used to be a big holiday for us. We would have big parties and invite lots of our friends and cook LOTS of weird foods. But it...

Jeff and I finally managed to shuffle the rugs in the living room . I love the new rug! The smaller rug was moved into the library area. ...

I ran across a 1909 embroidery book by Grace Christie a while back but I guess I forgot to share it. It has a bunch of attractive color plat...

This 1912 book, 120 Interiors in Colours Designed by Modern Artists , was a pretty wild find. It includes some really beautiful interiors, a...

Just a quick post because I'm excited! I finally took the time to figure out my cutter software. The last two times I looked at it, I di...

I had a weak moment this morning and I bought another rug. Oops. Clearly I am going to need to do some pretty extreme levels of selling stuf...

The Living Room rug arrived several days ago. Here is the picture from the vendor website. But, in reality, the burgundy and green in th...

With our super crappy weather this spring preventing further work outside and staining the bathroom windows, I think I'm ready to take...

We have been having a terrible time figuring out the rug for our living room. I believe we are actually on our 4th rug (so far). We changed ...

I've been poking around some of the period texts I downloaded a couple years ago and I ran across these black and white pictures of embr...