Need inspiration? Check out Pinterest.

Where do you find inspiration for how you arrange your home?  From friends, professionals, photographs, online, magazines or television, perhaps.  I am very visually oriented, so I love glossy photos that offer ideas for improving my surroundings.  If I am lucky, a photograph will provide a solution to a problem that I currently have. Enter … Continue reading Need inspiration? Check out Pinterest.

Do it yourself or get some help?

The generation that lived through The Great Depression of the 1930s was very independent.  Their motto was, “do it yourself, make do, or do without.”  My parents were of that generation, so getting help was not their first choice. Now, I believe the outlook is different.  We hire people to clean our homes, repair the … Continue reading Do it yourself or get some help?