Welcome to fall on the farmhouse porch! I realized as I was taking these photos that a year ago, we still didn't have a lawn or land...

This year, I decided to keep my fall mantel decorating neutral and to combine elements from nature like pine cones, oak leaves, grape vin...

In the middle of the renovation, I'm still decorating for fall.  In fact, all decorating is in full swing here at the farmhouse. Th...

I started decorating the farmhouse for fall this week.  Yeah, I know. I can hear some of you groaning...                             ...

I love French food.  There's something about the sound of the words that makes everything sound fancy...and delicious. Take for exam...

Don't you just love weddings?                                                                      I do.  I mean it. I'm the ki...

I did some decorating on the front porch of the French Farmhouse last week.  To be completely transparent, I did it so that the neighbo...

Oh my gosh, I had an amazing weekend!  I spent Friday and Saturday in Roscoe, Illinois with a group of my junk-loving  friends and vendo...

Fall decorating continues this week at The French Farmhouse. I used a few more faux mushrooms (left over from my rustic fall grapevine mu...

Fall has arrived in Illinois. The days are sunny, the skies clear and blue and the leaves are just beginning to change.  Last weekend w...

Since it  is officially  "Autumn" and I've finally located the boxes with the decorating supplies in the attic, this week I...

This post is going to be short and (hopefully) sweet.  It's been a whirlwind weekend here. Actually, whirlwind is probably a bit mi...

My youngest and I were having a conversation tonight as I was preparing dinner.  It's fun to chat while I'm chopping or slicing or b...

Did you read the story of Cinderella as a child? Or, for that matter, do you still read Cinderella as an adult?  I do. In fact, I seem t...

It's hard to imagine that it's been a year since I started down the road to "blogger-hood".  Yep. 365 days. One entire tri...

I'm happy to say that I'm finally getting a little fall decorating done around my house but,  you know, decorating with Martha S...

 I'll bet that you thought that you'd be reading about my fall outside decorations today, didn't you? You probably though...

   Have you ever reached a point where you've decided that your Halloween "treat container" looks more gruesome than m...

A few photos of the event staging that "Nellie" and I did at her home/barn last weekend in preparation for her semi-annual Barn Sa...