Notes by Meg


  • Grey End Tables

    Good Tuesday morning to you all.Before I started the bedroom project I repainted our end tables. I bought them a few years ago from a local soap store already painted. They were starting to chip to reveal black underneath the cream spray so it was time to fix the shabby not chic look.I used Annie...
  • Going white in the bedroom

    Now that my mind hasn't been consumed with thoughts of shows and painting furniture, my brain has focused in like a scope on the parts of our home that have been niggling at me.The basement saw some furniture moving and a new table last week and now I have updated our master bedroom.Our room was ...
  • I Love Artissimo

    I hope you enjoyed your tour of the basement yesterday. Welcome back to some table details.Now if you have followed this blog for any amount of time, you know I do not love blue. It is not my favourite colour by a long shot. It's down there with pink and orange. I mostly feel this way about sky b...
  • Good morning everyone!The cool weather and a found table have moved us back underground.I also realized I hadn't really shown the basement here on the blog since about January.Yikes! Irresponsible blogger. I slap myself on the hand, trust me.Let's get back to some home decorating at Oliver and Ru...
  • We are into Thanksgiving Monday of our long weekend and are off to turkey #2 today. Of course turkey also means dessert. Maybe not directly but it is a direct association dessert, turkey.Thanksgiving weekend here also has many traditions, maybe not as heavily as Americans but there are still quit...
  • TGIF: Etsy Update

    It's Friday of the Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada.Last day of work and then a nice long weekend full of turkey and stuffing.In case you are in front of your computer and in need of some great vintage items or even some lovely new pillows to spruce up your decor it is time for a little etsy u...

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.