Reflections...

Here is our glamorous pier mirror, the latest in our string of recent antique purchases, hanging in the ballroom. That about does in our furniture budget for this year, and the house still looks half empty.

Beautiful Weather!

We are in the middle of Indian Summer here, and it has been wonderful. We are approaching our color peak, and are enjoying the confluence of warm, dry weather and dazzling leaves while it lasts.

New Antique

We went kind of crazy in the past week and bought some nice antique furniture for our still-half-empty house. This first piece is a jelly cupboard that we picked up at the Tri-State Antique Show in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. [The jelly cupboard is in the "keeping room" off the kitchen, which is in transition with the leather couch gone to OSU and the TV relocated to the garret.] The next is a cherry dresser from a dealer at the annual Lebanon antique show [now in the pink bedroom with the canopy bed] and the last is a mahogany table from another dealer at that same Lebanon show [placed strategically in the entry hall]. It sure looks different around here.