April Coker, Author

Category: home decor

  • Laundry Room Tweak!

    I’m falling down on my blogging job.  It’s been almost two weeks since my last post!  If I don’t watch it, I may get fired! I live in a small fifty-year-old wood frame house in the country, and there’s really no architectural design to speak of, other than rectangular boxiness with scrolly cabinetry with cool…

  • Dogwoods = Spring

    As I was driving to meet my sister Sharon for a day of thrift shopping, I searched for a blooming dogwood tree that was close enough to the road so that I could reach it if I stopped for a closer look. Okay, I confess.  I’ve been wanting a piece of dogwood for my home,…

  • Feeling the Love: Another Valentine Vignette

    I thought I was finished decorating for Valentine’s Day.  I mean, the kids are grown now, so I can’t say I’m doing it for them.  But my plain flat coffee table was bothering me.  With nothing to adorn it except an old vintage tapestry, it was becoming a dumping ground for newspapers and magazines and…

  • Getting the Booth Ready for Valentine Shoppers

    That title sounds a little presumptious, as if people are going to be flocking to Mary Lillian Vintage’s booth in Uniques & Antiques in Mineola, Texas to do their shopping for Valentine’s Day! Well, you never know. So I brought in a few things just in case. I made this rag garland with touches of…

  • A Vignette for Valentine’s Day

    Don’t you love that word “vignette”?  (Does the question mark belong before or after the quotation mark?  I am a certified English teacher and I can’t tell you!)   Anyway, back to vignette. It’s French for “little vine.”  It refers to a brief evocative scene or display or a little drawing on a page.  In…