As if being included in House Beautiful wasn’t exciting enough today I popped over to the website and saw that my “What the Color Says” was in a preview slide show for the September issue. What a big surprise! All I can say is thank you House Beautiful. You made my [...]

This week we are giving a Sensational shout out to our favorite shelter magazine House Beautiful and their spectacular September 2009 Color Issue!

This is the very best color issue ever and you can only imagine how ecstatic I am to have been included.  Now don’t go telling Stephen Drucker but if he had been in [...]

t last night’s House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year event Ina Garten said that she sees the kitchen as the living room for the way we live today and I couldn’t agree more. This year’s kitchen exemplifies her philosophy.
Like the Barefoot Contessa I’m a rather relaxed hostess and love to focus on my [...]

Monday evening launched the 2nd Kitchen of the Year on The Rock (in Rockefeller Plaza, NYC). House Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Stephen Drucker, and Executive Publisher Kate Kelly Smith hosted a party celebrating this year’s House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year designed by the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten.
Ina was there and was absolutely gracious as she [...]

Disney’s World of Color Debuts.  Over the year Disney has done some remarkable things with color but they are touting their World of Color, scheduled to open in 2010 as a display of color like no other.  The 18-minute arrangement of music, dancing fountains, lighting effects and movie projections according the LATimes, “…blends the nighttime spectacle [...]

Thanks to a tweet from @tinydecor I learned that there is some very cool software that allows you to search the fabrics on etsy.com by color.
Check out morecloth.com for more details.  I’ve already had fun playing around with this neat tool.  I hope you enjoy it!

I was driving through a neighborhood in Georgetown last weekend when the sight of these roses caused me to come to a complete stop in the middle of the road…luckily no one was tailgating or it would have been ugly. I quickly came back to my senses and found a place to park so [...]

During the Historic colors pack a modern punch event hosted by Colonial Willamsburg and Pratt & Lambert I saw and learned so many things that I want to share that it is going to take a couple of post.  This is second and you can see the previous post here.

There are so many great color [...]

Sometimes the stars..or maybe more correctly the events on my calendar align and afford me an opportunity to be in the right place at the right time.  This was definitely the case last Friday.

I was speaking to Donna Shroeder at the Color Marketing Group conference in Seattle last month and she invited me to attend [...]

When I think of the color lavender I think of the palest tints of purple however lavender flowers have many variations of purple some very pale, others that are quite deep and a whole range in between that all come together beautifully.
Just like lovely lavender my mom has many wonderful qualities that come together too [...]