1st MAKEOVER MONDAY Linky party

Good day my friends.   I'm pretty excited and nervous to have my very first Makeover Monday linky party!  Share your room makeovers, furniture painting or whatever else you have been putzing around doing in your home.

Here are a few simple rules....

1.  Please make sure to link your post only and have a back link to my post.
2.  No advertising please or other link partys.
3.  You are ok with me using your post that you linked here to share on my blog or facebook that would have a back link to acknowledge you.
Thats it!  Hope you'll join in the party!!



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A collection of past vignettes I have done

Sitting here today pondering on what my next move decorating will be,  I thought that I would browse through some older photos to see what I had done in the past homes.  It's funny how my tastes have changed slightly.  From Victorian, primitive, and to now which is half traditional and half farmhouse.

As some of you may not know,  I have been an antique dealer for several years and have always had an interest in finding that one piece that is unique.  When I buy something I always go by what I love and how or where would I use it in my home.  It helps to think outside the box and find unusually clever ways to use and decorate with my purchases.

I still have my 4000 sf shop but will soon be shutting the doors so to speak.  It was a destination store and I had been very successful in running it.  Many great pieces left that I wish I would of kept for myself  but I needed to make a living and couldn't hold on to everything. 

When the recession hit and many were loosing their jobs, and the gas prices were going up around here as well as elsewhere it did hurt our business.  But when one door closes another one opens as they say!  We own the building that our business is in and I am always trying to figure out if there is something else that I would like to do there.  When I do figure it all out I'll be sure to let you know.

Anyways, I love to decorate with old and new mixed in.  Sometimes you just have to when you can't seem to find that one old piece that you want.  In todays market there are many places you can buy reproductions that are just as nice and sometimes a heck of a lot cheaper than the real deal!

Todays post is all about the many ways that I have created vignettes from the past and present.  I am only showing the best of them.  Others from way back I thought "what was I thinking?!"  You know just like a bad hairstyle from high school.  We won't even go there!  Hope you enjoy these and who knows, maybe you'll get an idea or two. 

There is one more thing that I would like to tell you.  I am excited to have my very first linky party here!  It will start this Monday the 17th.  I will be calling it Makeover Monday.  I do hope that you will join me and link up with your favorite home makeovers whether it be a new vignette, rearranged furniture to painting a piece of furniture, whatever you have done in your home, please share...everyone needs a little inspiration now and then! 


I've linked up with Jennifer Rizzo Fabulously creative Friday
                                 Inspire to be inspired
                                 Feathered nest Friday at French Country Cottage

On Common Ground~Be Inspired

Show and Tell Fridays at Romantic Home

Making home base

Amaze me Mondays~Dwellings of the heart

Here is one of my favorites here in the depot.  My husband made these shelves for me.  I Love them.  White ironstone, ahhhhh what can I say....I love them!  The only thing I hate in this is having a long cord hanging down the side.  But I think lighting plays a big part in decorating.  It softens things up.  I hate dark areas.

Adding a touch of spring into my home

Hello my friends.  It has been a pretty gloomy day here in Wisconsin.  Frigid cold, and more frigid cold!  I feel like a polar bear.  The winters here seem to get so much longer every year.  Well with that said I thought I would try to add a lighter feel to my home.

I felt the need (for insanity purposes) to bring a touch of spring inside to help with the winter blahs.  I had managed to bring out a few of my favorite bunnies to add to the vignette on the coffee table. 

As you probably already know, I love blues and whites together even the pastel blues.  Now I feel the need to paint something.  I have not figured out what yet but when I do I will be sure to post about it. 

What do you all do to brighten your home in winter?    

I've linked up with  http://www.jenniferrizzo.com
                                  Savvy Southern Style Wow us Wednsday
                                  Inspire me Tuesday
                                  A Joyful Cottage's Every room in the house party
                                  The Blissful bee
                                  Stone Gable mega linky party

Update on the OLD MILL RENOVATION

Diamond in the rough!  AKA....Money pit!!!

Hello my friends.  I have been neglecting updates on the progress of the Old mill. 
For awhile things were moving pretty slow.  Trying to find someone that would even want to tackle a grand project as this was not easy.  But we did!  He is the nicest man and my husband and I enjoy him and he is so easy going.  His name is Bob.  So when I mention Bob you'll know.  My husband Ross and Bob have been working day after day through the coldest of days, and it is finally starting to look like something other than a pile of junk.

As of now they are working on the outside siding.  We decided on vertical pine siding with batting (just like barns usually have on).  We wanted something low maintance.  No staining or painting every other year.  The pine over time will gray with age...Perfect! 

So I will caption each picture as you see them.  Enjoy!!!! 

Moving day.  Would you believe it ....not a one piece of board or window fell off during the 2 mile move from its original location.

And away we go....Just leaving its original foundation ready to go through the fields to it's new home!

Weee hours of the morning our mill was making its way through a corn field.  This was done to eliminate taking down a few power lines if we were to take the road instead.

 

Here she is a week ago.  What a difference a little siding can make!  It's starting to look like a home.

Hubby and Bob have crossed over to side 2 today.  We are also trying to figure out what style of windows to have.  It's a toss up between 4 over 4 windows which were original to this mill or 2 over 2.  We will see.  As soon as mother nature warms up I will take pictures of all the changes that have occured.  Stay warm my friends!

GROW YOUR BLOG PARTY

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Welcome to my blog.  So glad you stopped by.  My name is Theresa and I am so excited to be a part of Vicki's 2 bags full " Grow your blog party".  Check out the party by clicking the highlighted link and surf through almost 600 wonderful blogs.
 My passion is interior decorating.  I have decorated homes for friends, family and neighbors.  I have always had a desire to create cozy spaces in every room of a house.  I like to think outside the box.  It is my mission to give every reader of my blog ideas that can inspire you to not be afraid to try something new with colors, patterns, furniture arrangement, and re purpose old pieces and incorporate them into your home.

     My husband and I are also renovating an old 160 year old flour mill into our home.  I'll show updates on our mill as they come about.  We have also renovated an old railroad depot into our home that we currently live in until the mill is finished.

     My hubby and I also like to create useful pieces from odds and ends junk to something useful.  We have 2 wonderful dogs, a 2 year old silver lab and a 6 month old Golden retriever.  We have 4 sons all grown up now.  6 grandchildren that are the best!

     I hope that you will follow us on our journey as we create a home from an old dilapidated flour mill.  I also tend to rearrange and decorate my home often.  You just never know what I may post that has to do with my home, my life, or my style!  So stick around.  Look forward to making new friends!

     Today I have been redecorating my bedroom.  I purchased a new duvet and shams from the Pottery Barn.  If you don't know yet, it's one of my favorite shops!  And I also love old textiles expecially old ticking material.  I have this large old ticking mattress cover that I had purchased a while back from an antique store in my area that I think I will make a sham or two out of for the bedding.  I think it goes nicely.  As you will see in the pictures, I placed the old ticking material over my white shams to see if it will work....and I believe it will work fine.

     I am a huge fan of blues and whites together.  The duvet and shams material are sort of like a linen.  Does tend to wrinkle a bit.  Hope you like it.  Now I think I'm going to take a nap in my new bedding.