Posts Tagged ‘Amish Dining Room Table’

How To Make Spring Cleaning Day a Family Fun Day

Monday, April 13th, 2009

You carefully selected your custom Amish pieces to make your house a home, but after a long winter indoors your carefully decorated, but not so fresh, home is in need of a family spring cleaning day. Alright, your family may not be thrilled to hear you have decided to host a family spring cleaning / [...]

A Brief History of Holiday Christmas Wreaths: From Advent Wreaths to Amish Wreath Quilts

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

 
Wreaths on the door year round are welcoming sights but no more warm a welcoming beacon than at Christmas time. No matter if your wreath graces the door of an Arts & Crafts bungalow or an ultra contemporary modern design, a wreath says home. Today, wreaths are used all year long but particularly as holiday [...]

American Pie: The History of Pie On Our Thanksgiving Dining Room Tables (part 2)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Although your dining room table or serving cart may not hold any surpises or “lively” content, highly animated pies or “pyes” were often presented as live banquet entertainment in jolly old England’s 17th century. The nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence . . . four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,” was quite [...]

American Pie: The History of Pie On Our Thanksgiving Dining Room Tables (part 1)

Monday, November 24th, 2008

According to traditions and statistics the chances are good that your Thanksgiving dining room table will hold one or more of the five most popular pies in America – apple, pumpkin, chocolate, lemon meringue or cherry. With the average American eating at least six slices of pie every year it goes without saying that pie [...]