Blog Posts - Antiques

When I shared the industrial-style coffee table a few months ago, some of you called it.  It just didn’t work with my style.  While I like the table a lot and it was very functional, it was too large for the space and the longer I lived with...

My desk-sitting days pretty much ended when I left the corporate world over 12 years ago.   Since then, I prefer to spread out on the floor or a large table, perch at the kitchen counter, or prop a laptop on my lap while I lounge on the sofa.  I ha...

I don’t know about you, but I love things with cubbies and drawers.  I know I’m not the only one who feels that way, because those pieces tend to be pricey when I do find them!  But, when I was out shopping before Thanksgiving, I trippe...

Interior Design Tips + Tools – Window Treatments + Lamp Shade Styles Today I am sharing some resources I found … continue reading...

This past weekend was very busy in Salem, with the monthly Derby Square FSA market and the annual Jazz and Soul Festival, the Antique and Classic Boat Festival, and the New England Kayak Fishing Tournament all happening. My husband participates in...

Greetings,I know things have been the tiniest bit quiet around here . . . but, I can assure you that we've been super busy here at 'tartan central!'  So - after weeks and weeks of painting, wallpapering, and general errands - I'm completely plea...

The only unified themes of today’s post are the season and the necessity of cleaning out the photograph folders on my phone, camera, and computer: everything seems very vivid this time of year so I snap, snap, snap away and now I must purge! Th...

George Vanderbilt’s 250-room French Renaissance chateau is a true marvel, the largest undertaking in residential architecture. Over a six-year period, an entire community of craftsmen came together to create America’s premier home and the environ...

August is the season of Americana offerings at auctions and antique shows, and I have my eyes on a few lots in upcoming auctions at my favorite regional auctioneers.I really don’t “need” anything, but that has never stopped me from...

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I took time for a Midsummer Tea.There are so many great DIY, decorating, and delicious recipes at the Home Sweet Home party each week.  All of you are so very talented!  Here are a...

Antique hat rack and exquisitely carved window, woodwork over one hundred years old!Pics by: NelsonlankaSony  NEX 6MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL:http://youtube.com/user/nelsonmangalagama MY PHOTOGRAPHS: http://panoramio.com/user/43888912...

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I had a Garden Picnic Tea where I shared photos of my garden.Then I shared what I have been making with all of my blackberries in Blackberry Season.There are so many great DIY, decorating, and del...

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I contemplated canning something with my blackberries in, Time to Can Tea. Then I followed through and will post tomorrow for the 6th International Can-It Forward Day; Making Blackberry...

I have featured maps on this blog many times: maps allegorical, anthropomorphic, and antique, maps featuring octopuses, spiders, relationships and myriad places and perspectives. An ongoing exhibition of pictorial maps at the University of Southern M...

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I brought the ocean to my tea in Tidepool Runner.  There are so many great ideas, decorating, and delicious recipes at the Home Sweet Home Party each week.   All of y...

It’s an intriguing challenge to characterize people by what they left behind, and potentially a foolhardy one.Yet sometimes (actually often) I can’t help myself. While cleaning out my study just yesterday I came across one of my favorite...

Anyone that has "moved" can tell you that there will be certain items, that no matter how much you loved them in your old home, that just don't work well in the new abode. The architecture,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for...

I hope you enjoyed your long weekend.  My three day weekend was actually an eight day weekend, since I took a week off to recover from the Lucketts Spring Market (and months of work leading up to it!)  I still did computer work…e-mail, blog...

Nazmiyal Collection: Where Technology, Customer Service, Hard Work and Antique Rugs Meet! I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts about Nazmiyal as a company, and about our collection of antique rugs. Nazmiyal Antique Rugs...

I have received a bunch of e-mails and comments asking about the fate of the leftovers from Lucketts.  As we did last year, we will list them all in the online shop, so readers who aren’t local and have a crack at purchasing some of the pieces...

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