With the recent showers and beautiful weather coming, it’s time to start getting our gardens started, preparing the soil and putting in plants…and we have just the thing for you to add color and variety! We have a wide variety of Annie’s Annuals plants, which are specifically suited to our area, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, etc.
We love Easter, with its egg hunts and colorful hidden treasures… children’s baskets brimming with goodies and the joy of getting together with friends and family. We have some beautiful, wistful and just plain fun examples of eggs to punctuate your Easter holiday decor! Fancy Eggs… […]
We’ve got new Bethany Lowe Easter decorations, and a wide assortment of Spring decor to help bring the season and holiday joy into your home!
In the early 19th century plaster figure making and bronze sculpture were pretty much two separate enterprises. Italian artists sold inexpensive plaster figures as itinerant tradesmen, but as time went on, some of them became specialists in making molds for sculptures. Plaster figures were used to decorate both grand country homes and more ordinary homes. They […]
Perhaps to honor French military hero Marshal Turenne this distinctive dish came into use in the seventeenth century in France. Most of the silver tureens of that era were melted down to finance King Louis’ wars and survived only in paintings. 500 years ago, most common meals in Europe we’re stews, chowders, broths or soups…and […]
What’s more fun than finding a great piece of furniture and incorporating into our home’s decor? An old-fashioned wood cook-stove, or a timeless dresser can be the piece that spurs a new look or theme to update the home’s look and feel. Perhaps a re-purposed item, […]
As an object of worship in several religions, mother and child figures are prominent. In Egypt it was Isis and her son Osiris or Horus; in India, Isi and Iswara. The veneration of the mother goddess Shing-moo and child was prominent in China and Japan. Greece had Ceres and Plutus, Rome had Fortuna and Jupitor-puer, or […]
In antiquity, the “court cupboard” was one of the most important pieces of furniture in the house. Because there were no banks or stock exchanges, wealth was invested on gold and silver dishes, chargers, platters and cups and these were displayed on a cup-board. Later, enclosed cupboards with vented doors, called almeries or aumbries were used to store leftover […]
After all the recent rains, everything is lush and green and Spring is in the air! We’ve just started Daylight Savings time again, springing forward to longer evenings…and we’re a couple days away from the annual celebration of St. Patrick’s day! In honor of this Irish/American tradition we grouped together some of our favorite “Irish” […]