A Drawer

This is our kitchen drawer. I'm posting on our kitchen drawer because this drawer makes me happy. I just love the colors and textures of shiny silver, wood, wicker and metal together.

I wish every drawer in our house offered such good feelings. They do not.

You may find it surprising that a lot of the items in this drawer are recycled. These items include: 

• The flatware in the oval wicker basket in the back of the drawer. This flatware comes from my Grandmother's house. It was her everyday flatware so every birthday cake, pumpkin pie, and home cooked meal was eaten off them. I love the pattern but especially the monogrammed "B." I married a Mr. "B" so the monogram still works!
• The wooden cutlery drawer this flatware sits in was my Grandmother's cutlery drawer as well. Love that.
• I picked up the square wicker tray (an old paper tray) at an antique store several years ago.
• The dark wooden cutlery drawer that sits in the wicker tray is something I picked up awhile back in Maine and have used it for over ten or so years.
• The rest of the utensils...ice cream scoops, serving utensils, knives, bottle openers...are all vintage items.

A Field of a Thousand Robins

We came across a field of robins the other day. Thousands of them, all in one field, gathering insects from the grassy earth. I have never seen so many Robins at once. You couldn't help but smile as these red breasted birds fluttered about in anticipation for Spring.

As our last week of Winter slowly winds into Spring, I leave you with this poem:

If there comes a little thaw

Still the air is chill and raw.

Here and there a patch of snow,

Dirtier down a marshy flood;

Ankle-deep you stick in mud

In the meadows while you sing,

"This is Spring."

-Christohper Pearce Cranch

A Desk Chair

This is our office chair. I love this chair. It evokes the fondest memories of the day I happened across it. It was a crisp fall day and I was driving through the little town of Dixfield, Maine. As I was driving through, I came across an old abandoned church operating as an antique store.

I stopped to look around and found this chair. It reminded me of a musical instrument with its wooden curves and bow-like spindle back.

What it is: beautiful solid oak desk chair

Where I got it: a church turned antique store in a small town

What I paid: $125.