The Cottage Designer: Never summon anything you can't banish!

10 Random Things About Living in a Cottage

1. You may find a pair of shoes in the bread drawer.

2. Feather dusters are only useful as an accessory with a French maid's costume. Otherwise they are just displacing dust.

3. You learn to live with less.

4. The outdoors and indoors are one and the same.

5. There are certain times of the day when the sun casts its rays on every corner—a perfect time to sweep.

6. Friends and neighbors will stop by and stay awhile.

7. The kitchen stove is always being put to use.

8. Castaways will find a home somewhere.

9. Neighborhood pets sometimes consider your home their own.

10. There are no rules for how to grow the perfect garden.

Saturday, October 23, 2010