Awesome Find!

OMGoodness!!!

I'm so flippin' excited!  This baby is coming to Chippy White Cottage on Wednesday!

I'll share more when she arrives!!!

Cottage Blessings,

My Heart Skips a Beat

I've always loved Valentine's Day since I was a kid.  I adored making a Valentine box each year in elementary school.  I would use foil, red lacy paper doilies, and heart cut outs in pink, red, and white.  I loved making Valentines for my classmates, and looked forward to receiving them, as well.

Giddy for Flea Markets

There are many things that make me giddy....but nothing more than a good flea market!  The Nashville Flea Market is open one weekend a month.  I've been going with my bestie for years, and never come home empty handed! 

There are several things to think about when preparing for your flea market jaunt.

Snow Day Project

Everyone . . . . ok, most everyone . . . . likes a Snow Day!  Am I right?  I thought so!  However when Snow Day 2 arrives, you . . . meaning I . . . . get a little stir crazy.  So let's back up a little . . . this is how it went down . . .

Wintery Decorating

Christmas is over but winter is not.  The red and green are put away, but now what?

I love the twinkle that my white lights give off...it's kind of magical!  That is something that I like to carry over in my décor after Christmas.  So I went on the hunt for some inspiration.  This is what I came up with...

Easter Bonnet...With all the Frills upon it

I remember always getting a new dress for Easter...many times it was made by my mother, who was an awesome seamstress! I loved playing dress-up as a little girl!  I would always get my momma's and grandmother's old hats and purses for dress up and fashion shows.  I would dress up in outfit after outfit...gowns and hats, and carry the wonderful old hand-me-down purses.

Stop and Smell The Roses

I love roses...and I love the way they smell.  I especially love the meaning of this saying. Unfortunately, I don't set aside time just for doing that and nothing else! 

We all have full plates at one time or another...sometimes we can't seem to ever get those plates clean!  Many of us are multitaskers much of the time!  But stopping and putting all aside for just enjoying the things around us in important!  Even if you have to "pencil in" time for "smelling the roses" we need to do that!

I love my home....it's comfy and cozy and full of love with my two pups!  After a long hard day, I have a wonderful leather recliner sofa to plop down on to watch a little tv. I have a nice cozy bed to snuggle up in at night! I have decorated my little cottage to my heart's desire.  I rearrange and redecorate often because that's just who I am and what I love.

Any Day Can Be Christmas

....Even if it's Valentine's Day!

I found some of the greatest treasures this week for a little of nothing.  Every day can be Christmas when you find little goodies like this!  It doesn't take much to make me happy!

Look at this box!  Plain and simple, right???

OMG!!!  You can't even imagine what lies within!

Something so fragile...beautiful....delicately sweet...

Take a look and see why I squealed with delight when finding these!

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Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder...

I'm pretty sure the title of this post is an idiom...Sorry, I've been teaching idioms to my fourth graders this week.  They are everywhere!  LOL

Anyway, I do believe that idiom to be true!  What I might find beautiful might be dreadful to some.  Personally I find anything  CHIPPY*SHABBY*PEELING to be glorious!  Let me show you what I mean......

How positively, imperfectly PERFECT is this door!?!
Let's see MORE...

All Moved In...

Ok, I said I wasn't going to do this...you know, the disappearing act...Ha!  But I did.  Eeeek!  Things got crazy busy in the spring getting ready for state testing...only to have it called off ( Yes!  I said CALLED OFF...as in NONE...which is a FIRST...and after all the time we put into computer skills so they could drag/drop, toggle between two articles, highlight, etc. because they were expected to do it on the computer, AND the program crashed every practice day!)

Then, all of my energy had to go into MOVING....not just my regular move of furniture in my classroom, at the end of the year, but MOVING homes again!  My year's lease was up on June 1, and I chose not to renew it.  The stairs in my townhouse were taking it's toll on my knees!  Also, my Emmy Rose needed a yard.  So the moving began again!  Now Emmy has a wonderful yard (which will soon be fenced) and I have a garage again...and a covered patio!

Chippy Shabby....and...A Dilemma!

While most women dream of expensive jewelry, designer clothes, tons of shoes...I dream of

RUSTY. CRUSTY.

CHIPPY.SHABBY.

If it has peeling paint....I'm overjoyed...

And if it happens to be white peeling paint....I'm ecstatic.

Welcome Friends...New and Old

Welcome to my Chippy White Cottage!

My life may not be perfect...but I find it beautiful...

"Beautifully Imperfect" if you will...

Here at Chippy White Cottage, I hope to share my vintage finds, apartment-turned-cottage decorating, and everything that I find beautifully imperfect!  So I hope that you will drop by my cottage often and even share your comments with me!

Cottage Blessings,