Notes by Meg


  • Happy Monday everyone,Another before and after today but furniture style.A lovely customer of mine is on a mission to one at a time fix and change all of the things that bother her about her living space. Not necessarily with new items as was the case with this table, but just slowly pick away an...
  • Let's succulent

    Oliver and Rust hosted a great workshop last night with a crew of ladies all set to learn and grown their own masterful creations of succulents in their home.We don't have a huge space for workshops so we keep the numbers small but sometimes I think small is better because you are able to get som...
  • Good morning all.A simple post of interesting tid bits today. First up my biggest sewing job to date is done. Finito! I am happy to say it turned out fabulous, but I may be more happy to say it is done as 1 person and 20 cushions seemed like a mountain a few weeks ago. One of my customers is a ma...
  • We are full on dancing into the summer time right now and I am loving it and we are loving it in the shop. Even though there have been a few people asking for fall items already. There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead. As a retailer I feel like my days have been consumed lately with Christmas ...
  • Good morning everyone,A little bit of sharing tidbits of some things I have been doing alongside the shop lately.Custom planting and planters are a huge part of the store. People bring us their sad planters with half cooked plants or giant empty ones in need of some love. I just thought I would s...
  • Summer around the shop

    Hey all,Happy Friday!In the last couple weeks we have had the remaining bunnies of spring hop into their burrows in the basement and we have summer-ized the shop with birds, shells and anchors and all that goes with that.And since I also realized I haven't had a shop tour on the blog in quite som...

Blogging Since 2015

This blog is written by Meg and includes tales of the renovations/ decor changes of her home and the shop she owns in Fonthill, Ontario. It goes back many years, much before the shop was born. It is like one of those stacking dolls. It started with a couple of kids buying their forever home. It snowballed into renovations, which turned into garage shows and then a store. If you are new here, welcome! We are glad you stopped by.