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Libby Wilkie Blog · 1d ago

FRIDAY FLOWERS: HYDRANGEA LOVE

Yes ma'am... it's true love! I A D OR E  hydrangeas.  We "inherited" one pink and one white when we moved here. Here is the pink one during the last month: P.S. I had wanted to add some neat frames around all these images, but don't have Flash installed yet as we
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 3d ago

NEW YORK CITY FROM A (DISTANT) SHORE!

As you may have gathered, I was in New York City for four days last weekend. After a ten hour drive we arrived in Weehawken, New Jersey. Yes, that's right. We stayed in Weehawken, just across the Hudson River from The Big Apple. Why? Well, it is something I've wanted to do for years! All the trade s
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 1W ago

RENT-FREE HOUSING!

For the birds, that is. We offered this very cute house, unfurnished, at 8 1/2 McDowell Square (we are at #8). It was vacant for about a week. We had lookers... some seemed "the right sort" and some seemed all wrong. By saying "wrong" we mean that they were too large to fit through this teeny tin
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 1W ago

SHOPPING AT FURNITURELAND SOUTH

Here it is. Yes, this is REALLY what you see when you drive up to Furnitureland South. The place is huge. If you've been to the Atlanta Mart, or over to Maison et Objet, or maybe the New York Gift Show, then you will know what I mean! So actually, this enormous "piece of furniture" really does serve
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 1W ago

SHOPPING AT FURNITURELAND SOUTH: TOMORROW

I had planned to do a post and show you what we saw and bought from  Furnitureland South But then Mother's Day, preparation for Surtex, the last episode of Desperate Housewives,  and lesser known events intervened! Come back tomorrow to see the transformation from this dining table:
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 2W ago

FRIDAY FLOWERS

It's Friday! almost... And time to take a look at some of the flowers in and around my house this week. My lovely pink roses: these are fading, and now, after the rain, the bush is just about bare. Such a short season! But I love the reflection in the silver cup here:  These snapdra
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 2W ago

YOU WILL LOVE SOMERSAULTS! (LATEST FABULOUS FIND..)

I guarantee you will love these! Somersaults Snacks These are my personal favorites! Crunchy. Salty. Chewy. Addictive.... Whole Foods had had a ton of these, but they've been sold out for weeks now. So... you can go to the "source" at Somersault Snack Co.
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 3W ago

AT THE BEACH

Close..... Closer...... Up Close..... We went to the beach for a 2 night mini-vacation. To Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina. A much needed vacation. And yes, it was lovely. These guys were willing to share the beach with me early one morning.. And now, back to
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 3W ago

PART III: ROCKS AND LANDSCAPING

Off we went in search of stones to line the garden area and roadway. This is THE place to find any kind of stone. Piles and piles and flats and pallets of rocks.... And here's the pallet that arrived, with our carefully chosen stones.  Just the right size! A whee
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Libby Wilkie Blog · 3W ago

OUR SOUTH SIDE GARDEN RENOVATION

We bought our house in the middle of a hot, hot, hot Southern summer. What did we know? We had never lived south of the Mason Dixon Line; in fact, we had lived well north of it. So we landed in this new climate... and one that we L O V E !  Are we born with a preference for a certain climate? Or is
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