Author Archives: cathyboettner

Well, the last method that I found for starting sweet potatoes was a bust. But I found another one that seems to be working well. What this one recommended was taking a sweet potato that had started to send up shoots and placing it in a container with some water. I did this several weeksContinue reading “Starting Sweet Potatoes”

My oldest son’s girlfriend has a birthday coming up and I found a super cute MCM vase at the thrift store for $1–that really goes with the vibe she has going on in her house. She has lots of house projects coming up, so what she really needs is a gift card to a homeContinue reading “A Cute Gift Wrapping Idea for a Gift Card”

I found this cute bunny runner at the thrift store and I built a table around it. I started with my natural linen table cloth and then the runner. My little pink flowering plants in silver plated cups, 2 milk glass hens on next, little stoneware salt and pepper shakers, my favorite Smith and HawkenContinue reading “Pretty In Pink Easter Table”

Still working with my thrifted tureen, but I souped it up even more with some Easter eggs hanging from the curly filbert branches. This time I used a tablecloth with an all over pattern in blues, yellows, and greens. I added some Easter bunnies and milk glass hen on nests and a sweet basket withContinue reading “My Husband’s Favorite So Far”

There is an auction each spring here that raises money for arts education in our local schools. I have been doing projects for it most years. I found a chair at a thrift store in Atlanta for $2. I thought that the shape was really pretty and it would make a good desk chair, orContinue reading “Project for the Upcoming Auction”

In the spring of 2021, we planted 35 little forsythia bushes along our neighbor’s retaining wall, and then in the fall of 2021, we planted another 65. I don’t know if you can really tell how big these are, but they are probably 7′ tall. They are getting ready to bloom in the next severalContinue reading “Forsythia–Great Screening Plant”

I’m really loving my soup tureen full of flowers, so I did another table with some more thrift finds… I put down a paisley runner with yellow, blue and green and then added the tureen, but I put a curly filbert branch in it and attached some little faux butterflies. Then I added a blue/whiteContinue reading “Another Cute Spring Table…”

I promised a Spring table using the items I teased in the post about the soup tureen I found at the thrift store. I started with a beautifully embroidered pillow cover that used to have a matching coverlet that went with it. Then I added the soup tureen, some white pitchers of daffodils, clear juiceContinue reading “Cute Spring Table with Thrift Store Score”

I love to gather like items into bowls, jars, vases, boxes…and my latest addition is some vintage croquet balls. I just bought them from an online auction and they arrived yesterday. I put them in this fancy repousse silverplate bowl. I love the juxtaposition of the rustic balls and the more refined bowl. Here areContinue reading “I may have a problem….”