This Old House: A Before and After (Part One)

Over the past 26 months, there has been a central character in my life story that has not yet been properly introduced. My home. I call it my home deliberately, and not just "my house," as from the moment I walked through the doors and stood in the (then) mustard-yellow entryway, I said, "this is where I ...

What do you see?

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?  I cannot tell you how many times I have said that line, whether it was in reading a bedtime story to my children, teaching a "Baby and Me" or an after school theatre program in my former life as a teacher, or in creating a curriculum aimed at building confidence ...

DIY Powder Room

 Hello, and welcome to my first real DIY Post. Also, this is the first time that I am showing you my Powder Room. I am always posting pictures of my family in my home and #keepinitreal, but this room has remained under wraps. I am sure you can imagine why. Oh yeah A little closer, please. Cardinal Rule ...

Five Things Podcast

Hello! Hi! I've missed you! As you can see from the photos above, I have been busy. SOOO BIZZY. You know, with things like re-doing my bathroom, getting makeovers at my daughter's new salon, taking & printing photos at the dinner table with my girlfriends and dancing at Kellerman's. DIRTY dancing. In all seriousness, the collage above shows ...

A chance for change.

I wanted a grand entryway...  As someone who is obsessed with interior design and home decorating, I love being a Wayfair Homemaker (click here to read my previous Wayfair posts). In the past year, I have used Wayfair to decorate two homes of my own, one carriage house for a friend and purchased more gifts than I can count. When ...

A list

(not to be confused with A-list.) I have written many times before about my love for the lifestyle/style/parenting/food/entertaining/everything blog called Ramshackle Glam . In many ways, I think that RG was my first real experience with the blog world. Jordan, owner and writer of the site, went from someone whose life I watched from afar to a woman whom ...

Mommy, Ever After meets InteriorCrowd

I am not a tease. Please do not accuse me of being one... but, I realize, I kind of deserve it this time. I am SO SO SO (I need a better adjective for soveryextremely) excited to be partnering with InteriorCrowd, a fantastic new online resource that, as their website says "Created for your busy lifestyle, InteriorCrowd is the ...

511 Ever After

As part of my writing here on this site, I have made the decision to let you, my dear readers, into my life and that means, often times, into my home. You see pictures of us dancing on the living room ottoman, snuggling under my soft, white duvet and writing music in the sunroom. Decorating my home ...