Monthly Archives: June 2010

Ciao Bella classic chocolate gelato. Photo by Iain Bagwell.

We all scream for ice cream

By ADD | Published: June 24, 2010
My cousin and gelato advisor F.W. Pearce of Ciao Bella has published a book of recipes.  Now we can all churn out his world famous gelatos and sorbettos at home this summer.   I haven’t made ice cream since I was about eight, so this will be a DIY nostalgia trip. I spent a week traveling with [...]
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Beautiful flowers for a beautiful bride.

summer blooms

By ADD | Published: June 23, 2010
Nothing says summer like fresh peonies in a simple mason jar.  I spied these beauties at my sister in law’s picture perfect wedding last weekend and I scrambled through unpacked boxes the minute I got home looking for my own vintage mason jars.  I suspect that Scott may have purged them before we packed up [...]
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Master Bedroom Inhabited

By ADD | Published: June 22, 2010
Scott and I are having sweet dreams now that we’ve moved into our garden level master bedroom.  The room is delightfully cool in summer because it’s at ground level and the three windows look out onto our quiet, shady little garden. Before we renovated, the lower level was a 400 square foot rec room with a [...]
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This 1970's chair is another Granny goody.

Project: DIY Furniture Facelift

By ADD | Published: June 3, 2010
I received such positive response to my latest post about spiffing up Granny’s couch, that I wanted to write about another of Granny’s pieces, a 1970’s Chippendale style chair.  This faux bamboo chair had a black lacquer finish and a tan leather seat when it came my way a few years ago.  It was handsome, but [...]
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Our "new" sofa. Photo: ©Moya Mc Allister

Granny’s Sofa Gets A Facelift

By ADD | Published: June 2, 2010
Two years ago, when Scott and I married and bought our apartment, neither of us had a sofa that was worth the back ache of moving, so we immediately started shopping for a comfortable, quality, down-stuffed sofa for our living room that would last for years to come.   After test driving snazzy sofas at [...]
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