Williams Sonoma Home

While up visiting Miss B recently,

we went to the Williams Sonoma Home store.

They had so many nice vignettes setup in the store.

Tons of blue and white!

Love the blue and white. It makes me want to

re-do my living room book cases back to blue and white again.

Most of the store still seemed styled for summer time.

Here's Miss B posing in front of the lamp selection.

Sunflowers with blue & white - yummy!

I took this photo b/c I liked the lighting inside the bookcases.

A nice color combo of coral, white and brown.

A wall vignette of mirrors, clocks and prints.

Just a touch of fall on the front table.

I'll be quiet while you visit more blue and white around the store.

We had a great time browsing the store and I hope you did too!

I'm joining Blue Monday & Tabletop Tuesday.

Rabbit Hash, KY

On day 2 of my visit with Miss B we were ready to venture out

beyond malls and shopping centers.

Rabbit Hash, KY was out destination.

Located about 1/2 hour from Covington, Rabbit Hash, KY

is famous for having a dog mayor.

Visit their charming website to read more here.

Off the interstate, most of the drive looks like this,

country roads winding up and down for miles.

Past fields recently harvested.

Small country churches

Rolling hills of farm after farm.

It was a beautiful day for a drive in the country. They weren't kidding when they said this was right

on the Ohio River. This is a picture from

our car maybe 30 feet from the waters edge.

When you think you are almost to nowhere,

you've made it! Now don't blink -

because you'll miss it! Here is Rabbit Hash's General Store.

An apparent favorite this day of the Harley crowd.

It was a great drive and even better chance to visit, but

this would not be a day trip worthy adventure, unless you wanted

a really cool place to visit and a really, really nice there.

I'm joining Outdoor Wednesday today.

Miss B's Home Office in a Closet

I went up to visit Miss B at her new apartment this weekend. While visiting she mentioned that her desk area was quickly becoming cluttered with law books, papers, etc.

She has amble closet space at the apartment, so we googled home office in a closet and got these pictures of ideas.

This was my favorite, but she can't wall paper so it was out.

This was also nice because of the color and lightening.

Off to IKEA we went to look at possible ideas.

Miss B did not like the orange, but this was a good temporary setup for the closet because you could take it with you at the end of the lease.

This fold down top was nice because of the work area it created.

These type file cabinets could be placed on either side

to provide additional filing storage

Boxes, baskets or containers could provide

more storage for the top two shelves that

already exist in the closet.

This black wood desk was my favorite, but I like

traditional and Miss B likes contemporary.

I especially liked the mini-lamps inside.

We got some good ideas. I'll keep you posted on the progress.

I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch

for Metamorphosis Monday.

Dining with Dolls

A recent trip to the lake brought us back to one of my favorite restaurants, Pattis 1880's Settlement. For more information about Pattis visit these posts here and here.

The room we dined in was decorated with dolls, which I thought was so charming!

This is a picture (above) of the doll directly above our table.





Here's a close up of the doll hanging below a garland of roses and wisteria.

And another doll in the corner of the room with lily and hydrangea.

I love Pattis food, but I love the atmosphere too!
I think I'm inspired to do a tablescape at home with dolls :)

Tomorrow is my "official" grand opening.

Wish me luck!

I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch &

Laurie at Bargain Hunting and Chatting with Laurie.