News alert!  News alert!  Kay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic.  Interesting-ish fact announcement!  Interesting-ish fact announcement! If you’ve been sitting at home upset, fretting, weeping uncontrollably because you couldn’t see my house in Style at Home  … fret no more.   The stylish folks at Style at Home Magazine have released the article that features [...]

Style at Home Magazine Subscription WINNERS! Firstly, I would like to say thanks for all the entries!  They provided endless entertainment for me and whoever happened to be around me while I was reading them.  Many of the responses were read over the phone to my mom, Betty, who in between obsessing over her new [...]

I cannot find my fireplace tools.  The ones I  hid, because they were so ugly I wanted to make sure Style at Home didn’t shoot them?  I lost them.  Gone.  Poof.  I’m not all that broken up about it, what with them being … ugly.  But I’d better find some by October.  That’s the start [...]

If a magazine editor ever says they’re coming to shoot your house for an issue.  Don’t vacuum. There’s no need to vacuum. There’s also no need to paint the outside of your back door, lay stick down tile on the inside of your cupboards or  fix your leaky taps. Just a little heads up. You [...]

My house is going to be in Style at Home magazine and I feel like a complete fraud.  I am NOT the sort of person whose house appears in a respected decorating magazine.  I don’t have a decorator or a cleaning woman or even properly matching bathroom towels.  And I don’t have a bowl of [...]