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Celebrating One Year of Success: A Memorable Locke and Key Associates Event with Kitchen Emporium

Locke and Key Associates, a leading real estate agency in Upstate South Carolina, recently celebrated its first anniversary in style with...

Art In The Garden - A Delightful Evening of Cocktails and Creativity

Art has the unique ability to inspire, captivate, and transport us to a world of boundless imagination. When art meets nature, the...

Riedel Crystal with Paso Robles Wine in the Garden with Locke & Key and The Kitchen Emporium

We are thrilled to invite you to join us for an exclusive ticketed wine tasting event hosted by Locke & Key Associates and The Kitchen...

Interior Design and Home Market Trends Report- 2023

My business associates and I traveled to Atlanta for the January AmericasMart gift and home exhibit both to stock our antique and gift...

Ultimate Grilled Cheese and Ham

After a week of hard work at both our jobs, me as a REALTOR and my wife as a music teacher we decided to have a spa / pajama day at home...

Winter Gardening?

Winter is a great time of cleaning the garden and preparing for the spring days to come when you never have enough time…

PF Chang's Coconut Mojito

My wife and I are not huge chain restaurant fans. We usually like to support local businesses, but one chain restaurant we sometimes...

Rose Quartz Martini

This is actually just the good old-fashioned French Martini but in our house we call it a Rose Quartz Martini because of the color. I...

Use Dollar Store Ornaments to Embellish Your Christmas Gifts

Every holiday season I trot to the local dollar store to buy ornaments to put on our packages. With simple gift wrap from Sam’s and a...

Christmas Joy with Inexpensive Gold Spray Paint?

Many years ago I was tasked with decorating our church with several large trees and with limited budget we had to find an inventive way...

Greenville, South Carolina and the Poinsettia?

Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) may not make you think about Upstate, South Carolina but for me as a native of the Greenville, SC...

Peppermint Ice Cream - A Locke Christmas Eve Family Tradition

My first taste of peppermint ice cream was at five years old in Kindergarten at Concord Elementary in Anderson, SC. My teacher, Mrs....

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