#10 - Join me on the terrace, won't you?

The Vault spelunking has taken a back seat this week to the flagstone patio project (small, with someone else's leftovers that will bridge a path between our deck and a stone planting bed).

So I turned to the Oracle Of Mom and opened the first box I reached into and here's what came out:



Now, this is a classic American decorating toolbox of information.

I found pages 42 and 43 most helpful as we're trying to figure out what to do out there in the back (and doesn't that watermelon look delish?):

Who knew there were so many options for re-doing your directors chairs?

Now, I'm not sure we're going to take on any of these projects, but oh, isn't it good to know we'd have this great blueprint to use if we did...

I think Mom had this page corner-folded for a good reason:

I remember when we moved to the "big" house from the "little" one, she totally decorated the whole place herself, and for their master bedroom she even made those "Roman" shades (the ones on the upper right corner of the photo above) out of sheets she'd bought. I remember being impressed even at 8 years old. Though she wasn't as talented a seamstress (or knitter, crocheter, beader, or quilter) as my grandmother, she was a creative being, that's for sure.

I swear, every time I un-earth something else from the Vault, it IS like opening a time capsule.

(Thanks, Mom. Oh, and happy belated birthday too).