Tag: 2008-07

  • How to Decorate a Boy’s Room With Thrifted Finds

    I’ve been talking quite a bit about thrifting, and I thought it would be fun to see how all this “stuff,” actually gets used. My son’s room has a vintage western theme, built within the basic cottage style of the rest of the house. So his room has the basic palette of cream and white,…

  • July Blooms in the Pacific Northwest

    Purple Clematis Vine Since the garden at Pear Tree Cottage appeared to be a blank slate when I bought it, there have been a few surprises. The biggest, and I mean that literally, is the clematis growing on the back fence, behind the pear tree that the cottage is named for. I had a hard…