So....this post is dedicated to my blogging through the years....
I thought I'd share some of my fav FINDS, BLOG PARTIES, VIGNETTES, ETC.
I began my first blog, Our Back Porch in October 2007. My focus was just what it still is today....decorating and home. Since I was of a young age, I took a great interest in home decorating. In high school, that is really what I wanted to be when I "grew up"! I had a typing teacher in high school whom I adored, and I found out that she use to do just that. I did a report on home design, and I interviewed her as one of my sources. I found out quickly that it would be quite hard to enter this career and remain in the small town in which I lived. I really didn't have a desire to move to a big city, so I put this idea to rest....however, it was a part of me....a BIG....CONSISTENT...PART.
From the moment I had my very first apartment, I spent so much time decorating and redecorating. When I married, and we bought our first home, I decorated and redecorated....and I've been decorating ever since!!!
"Country Decorating" was all the rage when I first married. I bought every decorating magazine as soon as it came out on the stands! I frequented antique shops, yard sales, flea markets, etc. and soon filled our home with all sorts of goodies from yesteryear! The decorating mags back then had a pen pal section. I soon made friends interested in the same décor...some of which are still friends today...and we would pack monthly boxes of goodies for each other! One of the most exciting times was when my pen pal request was printed in one of the mags! It was one of the best times in my life!
