Monthly Archives: October 2009
Halloweenie Roast 2009 photos
Happy Halloween! We hope you and yours are having a terrific holiday weekend! Did you dress up this year? If you did, and you’d like to share your pics, email us at Mr.LetteredCottage@gmail.com. We’d love to see your costumes! We … Continue reading
The LC on TV
Research has proven that writing down your goals, and your plans to achieve them, is the best way to ensure that you accomplish them. Kevin and I started writing down our goals in January 2008, and we continually make sure … Continue reading
House Tour – Union Springs, AL
Earlier this month, we took a trip to Union Springs, Alabama. It’s a small, laid-back town located about an hour and a half southeast of where we live. Century-old Victorian homes line many of the streets around town, and the … Continue reading
Guest Bathroom Door Re-do
Remember this guy? We started blogging about it here, and today I’m going to cover the second half of our first True Value project. We used an frosted glass kit (the material comes on a roll) on the insides of both pieces … Continue reading
A Sunday Stroll to Small Town, Alabama
Happy Sunday to you! I’m meeting some of Kevin’s relatives for the first time today. They live in a small, country town in the types of houses you see in movies like “Gone with the Wind”. Wrap-around porches, wind-planked floor … Continue reading
Coastal Living – October 2009
Hello! Kevin and I have been invited to write a monthly review for Coastal Living magazine, and we are absolutely thrilled about the opportunity! With so many magazines going out of business lately, and because Coastal Living is one of … Continue reading
Holiday Greeting Cards from TLC
Greetings! As October winds down, Kevin and I have already started to think about the type of Christmas card we’ll send our families and friends this year. This is the card we sent out last year: That’s the ocean in … Continue reading
True Value DIY Blog Squad – Project One
We’re so excited to blog about our first True Value DIY Blog Squad project! A while back we blogged about wanting to use an old door on our guest bathroom. Well, fortunately for us, we just happened to have an … Continue reading
"I’m a Flea Marketeer" Linky Party
It’s show-and-tell time over at the Flea Market Style blog! Make sure to visit their fantastic blog to join their “I’m a Flea Marketeer” blog link party. I just joined by posting a link to one of my favorite flea … Continue reading
Nest Shoot – Behind the Scenes
Greetings!I promised some behind-the-scenes photos of our shoot with The Nest magazine, so here they are! ———————————————————————————- The excitement all started last Tuesday. Our prop stylist (Alistair) shipped us a bunch of Fed Ex boxes full of accessories… He and … Continue reading
Nest Shoot – Day Two & Three
Good evening! Yesterday morning my alarm went off at 6:00 a.m. and I was up and in the shower within minutes! Washing, blow drying and styling my hair is an hour and a half ordeal, and even though I knew … Continue reading
Nest Shoot – Day One
Hello! I’m happy to report that we finished our to-do lists last night around midnight and we were up in time to make ourselves look presentable (yes, I brushed) this morning too. At about 10 a.m., Alistair and Don (prop … Continue reading
The Nest magazine is coming to TLC!
If you’ve noticed the accelerated pace at which Mr. LC and I have been working on projects around here lately, I need to let you know that we normally don’t work quite this fast. We’ve got some exciting news to … Continue reading
The Lettered Pumpkin
I haven’t had a chance to do anything super crafty in a while, but I really wanted to try out an idea I saw on the Better Homes and Gardens website. Kevin and I don’t really decorate for the holidays … Continue reading
A Door with a View
We’ve wanted to replace our heavy, old front door for the looooongest time. The front side of it was pretty outdated-looking and the inside of it reminded Kevin of one you’d see in a cabin in the woods in a … Continue reading
A Sign from Susie
Remember when I said I wanted to put a long, old-looking sign above the Reading Room?Well, last week I drew a rough sketch of the sign I had in my head using Photoshop and sent it to my friend Susie … Continue reading
Vintage Cross Bottles at Greyfreth
Isa, over at Greyfreth is offering a special limited time discount for TLC readers. From now, until midnight on Friday night (Oct. 9th) all Vintage Cross Bottles will be available at 30% off, PLUS all “The Lettered Cottage” readers will … Continue reading
We’re on the True Value DIY Squad!
If you read our blog regularly, you know we LOVE a good DIY challenge. So when the folks at True Value asked us to be a part of their national DIY Squad we were pumped!Our DIY Squad team members are: … Continue reading
Pictures from the Past
Have you ever found an old CD, full of photos that you hadn’t seen in ages? I found one marked “Baby Maximus” today… These photos were taken the day after we got him. He weighed just three pounds! Nowadays, he’s … Continue reading
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