Antique Shopping February brings about one of my favorite yearly traditions – antique shopping with my husband.  The first year we moved into this house he suggested that we take the afternoon of Valentine’s day and go visit the antique store that’s around the corner from our house (and YES – it is both awesome and dangerous to have a huge antique store right around the corner from your house!).  We’ve gone every year since and every year I pick up a few special things.  This year I grabbed some absolutely beautiful pieces for the upcoming front room/dining room makeover.  These two botanical prints were honestly just screaming for me…

A Quick Entryway Update   With the temperatures outside still pretty frigid I’ve been using the winter to knock some smaller projects off my list, starting with some quick updates to my entryway and hallway.     First off, for those wondering the door color is Sherwin Williams Sensible Hue.  If anyone if thinking of painting the back of their door but doesn’t want anything too colorful I recommend going two shades darker than your wall color.  You will get a high contrast but in a more subtle way.  We had changed out the boob light last year for this beautiful glass and wood pendant I found at HomeGoods, and…

We are kicking off 2018 a few weeks late around here because we had a rough start to this year.  After starting the year not feeling great health-wise, me and my sons were involved in a very scary car accident on the first day back to school.  We are all TOTALLY OK and I am extremely THANKFUL and AMAZED that it wasn’t worse……..but the experience did leave me incredibly sore, tired, and honestly I was in pretty low spirits for a few days. Over the last weekend, though, I started to feel more like myself then I had in a while — as I physically felt better the cloudiness in…

Before I share my resolutions or my upcoming “wish list” for 2018  I wanted to take some time to look back at the progress the house made last year – what can I say, I’m a sucker for nostalgia. This year was CRAZY!!!  I took on a lot and accomplished pretty much everything I wanted to, but in all honesty it was TOO MUCH and it would have been too much without taking on a lot of side projects and officially launching Hilltown House.  But I’m in love with everything I did this year and very proud of myself not only for getting it all done, but also for taking…

24 days of Christmas Kindness This was our second year of forgoing the traditional count down to Christmas and embracing what I have coined our “Acts of Kindness” advent calendar.  You can read all about how this came about in the post I wrote last year, and I am so happy to report that the second year went even better!  I still targeted the idea primarily at my oldest son (next year I hope to be able to fully include the little one) and he is actually sad that the month is almost over and he won’t be getting his special notes from Santa any more.  This time I’m going…

When I first started my blog years ago I used to post “Weekly Top Ten” montages of all my favorite things for the week – in the spirit of helping myself focus more on the positive aspects of my life and just generally be a happier person (you can still find them under the Label “Top Ten”…they’re such a fun walk down memory lane!).  In that spirit, I’m trying out something new this week and writing up a short “Round Up” for the month of November.  TBH – A lot of other bloggers do something similar so I’m just jumping on the bandwagon here, but I thought it might be…