About Me

Hi!  I’m so happy you found my page.  I am a 40 year old woman, wife, mother of three, and passionately devoted beautifier of my surroundings.  I can’t help it!  I strongly believe that life is meant to be fun, beautiful, inspiring, and magical.  My passion for taking ordinary items and making them extraordinary began when I was just a little girl, and I would find designs in the grains of a piece of wood, or a puddle, or a cloud, or a tree.  That (and a few choice words from my Grandma Carol) led me to spending years as a makeup artist in the film industry.  Very fun!  And when I walked away from all of that to become a mom, those same impulses to highlight and transform and embellish the natural beauty I see around me everywhere turned inward to my own home: to my  yard, my walls, and eventually my furniture. 

Several years ago, a neighbor gave me two chairs she found on the side of the road.   I loved them, but they were in horrible shape.  The fabric was mildewy.  The frames were damaged.  And yet, I had to have them!  Though I didn’t realize it at that time, re-doing those two chairs that were bound for the landfill was the beginning of Peace Love and Lemonade.  My mission is, just as the old adage says, to turn lemons into lemonade.  I rescue old, discarded, neglected treasures bound for (and often already in) the garbage, and I give them a makeover and a new beautiful purpose.  And I love it!

Having now salvaged and redone chairs, couches, dining room tables, end tables, stools, ottomans, and anything else I can get my hands on (don’t you just love the “free” section of CraigsList?), I recently returned to school to learn how to do all of the re-upholstery myself.  With a garage full of other people’s “garbage” and a new emerging skill set, I am starting this blog to chronicle the ups and downs of dumpster-diving for furniture, the surprises (both good and bad) discovered when tearing things back to their bones, the joys of finishing a project and knowing that I’ve simultaneously created something beautiful and kept one more item out of our landfills.  Hopefully you will enjoy the process too. 

With no room left in my own home, I am excited to be selling my pieces on Etsy.  As soon as each is finished, I will post it on my Etsy sight, which you can always link to from here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/peacelovelemonade.  My blog will chronicle the story of each piece, the good, the bad and dare I say it, the ugly!  So please read it, and enjoy it, and contact me anytime to ask me any questions at all.  In the meantime, like we always say at Peace Love and Lemonade: Live Happy!

BIG LOVE,
Lenny