Some Of All Of It

Chinoiserie Chic

Love what caught my eye, on Pinterest, this week. This chair and wall paper...

Anastasia Sand Light Blue Rug

...with this rug!

Burberry Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show Details

Best schlepping bags I have seen in a long time! Great plaids and trims on this collection of totes. 

Clean and Simple Winter Decor Inspiration - Tidbits

Lines of a fireplace mantel. 

A HIGHGATE HOME BY BEN PENTREATH

You must seek this home out...theneotrade.com...I love the whole look in every room of this house.

SHELTER

Borrowed Light is a perfect blue, for the ceiling, on your porch.

Excuse me, my view is getting in the way

All encompassing view. Enough said! 

Debbie Barrick

A stack of quilts, is a summer cottage must, on damp mornings and chilly evenings in the porch swing. 

@allpeoplequilt.com

A basket full, of quilts, is even better next to the fireplace hearth.

Everyone is excited about coming to the cottage and chilling out! Bring your sweatshirts and jeans, this May is a cool one, fire in the fireplace weather. The sun is shinning, that's a plus! 

Craving Spring On The Peninsula

New scents in the shop this May Day!

"elizabethW", from San Francisco CA, is hand crafted, small batch apothecary. Smells so fresh and feels so light on your hands. Customer service gets a five star review, from me!

Green, blue and white, Mad Cap Cottage and hand sewn pillows!

Just thinking, sandy-beachy-sunny days with late evening sunsets reflecting the colors of the day. Packing for cottage life. 

Tasseled pouches, my shower cap, of course, and some of elizabethW in my bag. 

A pretty cottage bed to rest your city head! Always smells so good when you get into the peninsula. 

When you get up and have had your walk and coffee, come down to Anchor Cottage to shop our new products for the season. Hand picked with you in mind. 

This nightshirt puts a big smile on my face! Who could have thought it? Giraffes on water skies! Ha Ha!!

This wonderfully, silky soft quilt, from Pine Cone Hill, would make the best wedding gift. 

Looking back, into my favorite area of the shop. What a mess! All good, just the same, special orders of customers, a small chair to be recovered in Mad Cap Cottage fabric for the display I am working on. And, the red Radio Flyer wagon, an original, made in Chicago, that has been with me for fifteen years. I have two of them that I use to move props around, in the store. 

Customers can park behind the shop, across from the library, and come in, through the backdoor, when there is no parking out front. Makes it very convenient, when schlepping purchases out to the vehicle, instead of crossing M-22!  

Slow, but sure, the linen line is coming in. The price point is decent, and the way the fabric takes the dye is beautiful. The colors are really fabulous.

We are, just now, tipping the scales into spring. It is always a welcomed time on the peninsula. The ski is blue, the wildflowers carpet the earth and the sun shines.

Working On A Display

I sewed seven pillows, still have to stitch the bottom closed, for a display of Mad Cap Cottage fabrics in Anchor Cottage.

I have two more, display pillows, already in the shop. I also have Mad Cap Cottage wall paper swatches to put on the display table. Have some ideas and need to clear the "sale" table to have room to set up. 

Not to change the subject, but don't you love having a perch that delights you when you sit down to think?

I'll keep you posted on the Mad Cap Cottage display, in the meantime, enjoy the beautiful day!

Sunny Sunday Morning

Aluminium and Wooden

Inspiration everywhere I look today! Must have woken up with the "eye"! I have an area in the main floor of my home, similar to the one pictured up top, that would benefit by painting the exposed support this green. It has radiant floor heat and these tiles would look very tidy. 

Jenny Steffens Hobick

I stayed in an Airbnb, Murfreesboro TN, and she had slipped-covered all the "large" furniture pieces in creamy canvas. It is a great look for the warmer season. I like the chunk of lamp, at the end of the sofa.

Mercury Mosaics

This blue and white tile work with brass plumbing is making me sing the blues!! The color of the blue and that it goes all the way up the wall, to the ceiling, in this small bathroom, is very refreshing.

Pinterest

This post is, because, my little DIL remarked that she would like an island, in her kitchen, at her new town house. I think that taking down the wall between the kitchen and living room, and exposing the whole length of the area. All the way out french doors onto a patio in the yard is an option! It seems that her decorating project inspires me as I follow the decorating ideas on line. 

 

Gardening Steps

Learning something new! Rosemary and Lemongrass, planted together, keeps Mosquitoes away. This is something that you can bring into your home, to winter over, and enjoy the fragrance.

Sarah Jane Laursen

I may do the slip covers on my furniture this summer. I like it that much! Comfortable, clean and relaxed. 

Regina Célia

The combination of navy and white stripe shirt and pencil midi skirt with pumps, looks appealingly professional and comfortable at the same time. The look could become an uniform for this summer, adding dark wash jeans, navy linen slacks, French boat neck sweaters and a pair of SeaVees should do it! 

Inspired today!

What Can I Say?

Ravelry: KathyInIowa's Violet

After a major weather set back, Anchor Cottage is now open for the season! We were hit with thirty three inches of heavy, wet, icy snow for three days in a row. We are still digging out what we can stick our plastic snow shovel in (frozen, compacted slush) and move over to the side so the customers can make it up the sidewalk and into the front door! 

The sun is out, so come on down to Anchor Cottage, today and Saturday, we have a store full of interesting accessories for your home decor!