At Home......again

I mentioned last week, visiting my favorite home decor store, At Home, located in Homewood Alabama.  In addition to fabulous furniture, lighting, hardware, and dishes that is home decor, At Home also carries a great line of garden accessories, jewlery and art. Today though, I wanted to show you the latest must have furniture groupings in the store. Check out these out.....

Notice all the fabrics and textures! (click on picturesfor a larger view)

And because numbers are the rage in home accessories right now, I am sure there are many great uses for these block numerals...

I sooo wanted this raw linen pillow, with the vintage sunbathers on it, for my bed, but I passed.

It's one of those things that I didn't need, but if I went back for it would most certainly be gone. 

It does have my name on it...doesn't it? (Big Daddy, take note.)

Oh, if I could max out a credit card at a store, THIS is where it would be.

At Home

2921 18th Street South

Birmingham, AL 35209

205-879-3510

info@athome-furnishings.com

http://www.athome-furnishings.com/


Join me over at my cooking blog today, Plates and Places, where we will be discussing that Southern Staple, Buttermillk Biscuits. I share the history of biscuit making in my family, and the memories that goes along with them.

A MOST Informative Blog Post (it's not mine), Link Love & Product Suggestions

Because I LIKE it......

My friend Susan over at Between Naps on the Porch wrote the most informative post this week on secret tips for bloggers. It is everything you wanted to know on blogging, every question you always wanted to have answered but didn't know who to ask. It's the answer to what you need to know to make blogging easy and fun. Click here to read it.
I want to agree with what Susan said in her post about comments. So many times I want to leave a comment, and there is word verification...or worse yet the entire blog page will move to an entire comment page from the actual blog post, instead of a pop up window. This makes it difficult for your reader. So many times I want to continue to read a blog and leave a comment on each post, but because I cannot see the post, I forget exactly where my thought process was going on a comment and having to go back in forth between the post screen and the comment screen, I reluctantly give up. Making a pop up window is sooooo easy, just go to your blogger settings, click on comments and make the change in the comment form placement. Click save.

Another pet peeve that can cut down on comments, word verification. In the two years I have been blogging, I have yet to have a "robot" mess up my system, or anything else for that matter. It is not necessary, and again makes it easy for the reader to leave a comment. I do however, believe in comment moderator, allowing you to see comments before they are published. It's just a safety net.
I want to share some product recommendations that I recently discovered...

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Speaking of clean skin, I have been trying to drill into the head of my 11 year old daughter the importance of taking care of her skin today and explaining the importance of that action being the cause for good skin later in life. It is taking her some getting used to getting into a routine. She too uses the Dove body wash, but for her face she has been using Pond's Wet Cleansing Towelette's in the original formula. It is the perfect thing to slip into her gym, swimteam and cheer bag to remove the small amount of makeup (she has talked me into allowing her to wear) before and after workouts.
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(cough, cough) Under the weather....plan to get some rest and be back soon to visit all the Thrifty Thursday post. Thanks for the comments and emails. I will respond to you in good time, promise. Thank you for your time and visit to Bloggeritville, my friend!

Oh, Roll Tide!

Stay well, Have a great weekend.

Thrifty Thursday #32 and a Tablescape

It's #32 of Thrifty Thursday!

Hi! I am your host, Leigh. Thank you so much for stopping by and additional thanks to those who also participate in Thrifty Thursday! I am most delighted to have you join in..for it's YOU who makes it a "show and tell party". I also participate in Tablescape Thursday the host of that fun carnival is the Hostess with the Mostess...Susan of Between Naps on the Backporch. That's no lie or exaggeration, each week I visit Susan's porch and just long to be a guest at any of her tablescapes...especially those held on the porch.

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I mentioned on Tuesday my Saturday spent with my mom. We hit a huge neighborhood garage sale in Riverchase, and then went onto Culllman, Alabama for a day of antiquing and shopping.
I wanted to share my garage sale finds first. I found all of these at one garage sale....as well as ran into my sweet, sweet, and precious highschool friend, Amiee P...A great morning (Hey Amiee!)
I was thrilled to get these two lamps, both of which had a similarity to some Pottery Barn lamps, ones that I love but am to cheap to buy, take a look.

This one favors this PB lamp that retails for $199.00.

Of course, my lamp is smaller but cute as pie and cost all of $3.00.

This other lamp

also favors a PB lamp, that retails for $189.00 .

I love the numbers on the lamp, so I took my trusty paint pen...

and freehanded some numbers on the lamp.

Had I been more patient, I would've taken the time to pencil it out. I may spray paint it and stencil for a better more precise look. But, still...I got the look for $3.00! This lamp will go in J Smooth's bedroom.

Also at the same garage sale, I spotted this candlestick (please ignore the wires, lovely as they are.).

It's quite tall, measuring 24", it cost $5.00. I had plans for it. The look was fine, but didn't go with my decor, so I just took some white trim paint (the paint that has had me MIA on your blogs...I am still painting. One room turns into another room...and another....I am on a roll!)
I just dry brushed the paint on and rubbed around in the crevices.....

and wah-la....my new candlestick!

After the garage sales, Mom and I headed north to Cullman, making a stop at Southern Architectural Accents(see Monday's post). I LOVE this place! I could've to spent a fortune. But I didn't have a fortune, I had a budget. I came home with these 3 molding pieces at $4.00 each (that's them also in the after photo sitting by my candlestick).

I have yet to decide what I will do with them, but I liked their chippy paint and character. Any ideas on how to use them?

Today is also Tablescape Thursday hosted by the lovely, Susan of Between Naps on the Porch..

My favorite decor store is At Home, located in Homewood, Alabama. I have posted on AT Home many times. I really could move into the store, they have it all. I could do some serious damage to my bank account there, if Big Daddy didn't have me on such tight reins...and I had that money tree. For the next several weeks, I will be highlighting some tablescapes using dishes and tableware accessories from At Home.

Today's Tablescape is made from neutral tones, ones found in nature.
This tablescape is very natural.

Seagrass placemats, beachy tones of beige sand, turquoise water and white waves/clouds.
The glasses are all the same shape, but different patterns keep it interesting.

The centerpiece is candles int he same tones as the place setting, as well as an orchid in an earthy vase. A large mirror in the corner reflects natural light, making this table a peaceful place to enjoy a meal.


I invite you to stop by my food blog tomorrow for Foodie Friday!

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Summer is quickly disappearing. Lets go out into the garden and enjoy those blooms.

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