TRINA HOLDEN

Seasons of Hospitality

In my childhood home, hospitality was both an art form and a well-developed science. With up to 4 teenage daughters at once, my mother could host dozens or just a few with style and grace. We were quite a team – one daughter loved to prepare gourmet meals, another’s specialty was homemade rolls. My younger…

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Bee Stings and Blessings

Five Minute Fridays – A few of my favorite things –  I can’t hear this phrase without the song starting in my head – “These are a few of my favorite things…” When I was, oh, 19 or so, I was involve in a production of The Sound of Music. It was all put together…

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Whimsical and Shiny – My Christmas Decorations

Several years ago I saw this lovely silver and gold themed Christmas tree in Pottery Barn’s catalog. I LOVED the mini picture frames with family photos all over the tree. I started watching stores for similar frames. Finally, I found them at the dollar store this year! Hooray! The sliver balls were in my stash…

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Sneak Peak and Storm Sky

I ran out on the front porch the other day to snap these photos of a chill, November day. I loved the contrast between the heavy sky, the shadowed hill beyond the lake, the grey trees and the bare meadow. Pretty vivid colors for November. I’ve actually been pretty anxious for November to be over,…

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Thanksgiving Buffet Display

 You know how much I love my antique buffet, even with the veneer peeled off by my children. Because, though they peel the veneer, they still can’t reach the top of it. It’s a place in my house I can set things on that they can’t mess up. So I try to decorate it seasonally…

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Table Makeover

Oh, it had gotten so bad. The plastic table cloth I was using to protect our stolen Stickely dinning room table was wearing out. It was stretched out and stained and it had a hole that Claire kept stuffing food into… It took me forever to get around to replacing it ’cause I used to…

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Mud Daubers

I believe in letting my kids have fun. But I confess I did not know they had gone out after the rainstorm to play in the mud until after I heard a little knock on the door and found my daughter slathered in fresh, brown mud. From hair to toes, and everywhere in between, she…

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