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I am an unashamed Serial Decorator. I enjoy arranging and rearranging things throughout my home. Little vignettes like this make me happy.

The key to successful Serial Decorating is the possession of many multiple use pieces.

This is my console table under the stairs that we pass several times a day.

The blue Spode plate is epoxied to a crystal candlestick — a beautiful craft project and gift from my husband’s boss. Featured on the Spode plate are mini-photos that are near and dear to our hearts — my mother-in-law grinning happily at her first grandchild, my father holding his first grandchild, and a photo that you can barely see of my husband and I on a trip in Miami. On the battered copper tray is a slightly larger photo of my Opa (German grandfather) as a young man in the military.

The exquisite heavy stone cherub lamp is one of my cherished possessions. It was a lovely gift from my mother long, long ago. The red shade replaced the tattered paper one a few years ago. Completing the vignette is a vintage beaded lariat necklace tied loosely to the lamp finial.

I love items that can function many, many different ways. The copper tray used to hold coffee fixin’s next to the coffee pot in the kitchen. The Spode plateau has had many lives — candlescape, dessert server, potporri holder in the guest bath are three.

Really, I am forever rearranging items in our home, much to my husband’s dismay. He’d rather things just remain as they are — change is difficult for him. LOL. He just doesn’t understand the need to decorate! It’s a creative thing.