Author Archives: sally

shabby chic painted pumpkins, it’s a DIY

Hello there cottage fix friends! I’m blogging in today with what I thought would be a super simple paint-your-own shabby chic pumpkins DIY. Due to unforeseen paint issues these little cuties took me most of yesterday afternoon. I have to admit I didn’t mind in the least, hard to complain about a glorious sunshine filled day spent out in the garden painting pumpkins. No complaints here! There’s magic in a pumpkin, don’t you think? I see witches and broomsticks, Cinderella’s […]

fall blooms on the sun porch and a bench

Salutations! How about a bouquet of bright pink blooms and an heirloom bench for a shot of shabby vintage style on the sun porch? It’s a rustic pine bench hand-built by my great grandpa Tipton; how funny that here she is all these years later adding a dose of charm to our sun porch for fall. I foofed this vintage beauty with a few shabby chic pillows to soften her up and add a little color. I hope she’s an admirer of […]

so how about fall?

Hello there! We have been enjoying some lovely mild and sunny weather here near the east coast which is so nice after the hard rain we had last week. The sweet fall air is slowly blowing in and I’m diggin’ it. Yes, I’ll take a week or two of crisp sunny days, oh say around 75 degrees or so, with a light northern breeze. Pretty please Al Roker! Grin! I tend to drag a bit when it comes to changing […]

the mother-load of treasure

Salutations my treasure hunting friends! How’s things? I’m checking in today with a few shabby vintage goodies from my road trip last week. A couple of my dearest friends and I went on a road trip to Glen Allen, VA to visit an antique shop we’ve been hoping to get to for a while now. Life just gets so busy you know, but we finally made it. Holy cow — we hit the mother-load of treasure, this junk store is […]

breezy lace in the front windows

Salutations! The cottage is feeling a little on the quiet side now that the kids are back in school and I’ve got the place to myself for a while each day. Good thing I’ve got Miss Paisley to shower me with never ending puppy snuggles whenever I’m willing to sit still for a moment. She happens to be taking advantage of blogging time right now and is here on my lap. She’s a funny little dog! Her kids are so […]

it’s a chandelier fiasco

Salutations fine ladies of blogland! I hope your decorating endeavors are working out much better for you than mine are for me. You guys remember my sweet little roadside chandy from last week, don’t you? The one I found while taking Miss Paisley on a stroll through our neighborhood. Well, Mr. Handy was so sweet this past weekend and offered to hang it for me in the dining room. I was so happy with myself and this chandelier find, but […]

accessories and road kill

I’m sure you’ve been losing sleep wondering where those bright blue accessories from the sun porch have disappeared to — I know I have. Painting the sun porch white has created sort of a ricochet effect throughout our little cottage and everything is all mixed up and turned around! It happens! Well, there they are. I decided to use the wicker chairs in the dining room all dolled up with the bright blue floral pillows. I mixed in a couple […]

cottage fix meets Paris on the sun porch

Hello cottage fix crew! My summer projects are happily shuffling along. I finally finished painting the sun porch white, well it’s more of a grayish white, I think. I like to think of it as a Parisian white, is that a shade? Anyway, I thought I’d go ahead and let you lovely ladies in on the little white sun porch with the little white painted bricks even though I’m not quite finished with the accessories and finishing touches. If we […]