This past week I have spent a lot of time puttering about my yard. Picking, pruning, weeding- transplanting, seeding- it’s a real scene happening outside my backdoor. My fingernails are as dirty as my ripped rubber garden boots, my spirit is shaping up as well. I am a “Sybil” (i.e.one of multi-personalities) when it comes [...] Read more »
Sea Glass And The City
The beach-y culture that surrounds NYC might be surprising to some. I know it was to me when I first moved to New York. It would be a trip out to The annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island my first summer in the city that my eyes were open to the fact that you CAN [...] Read more »
LBRs (Little Black Rooms)
These last few weeks have been a bit crazy for me, so I am just now taking the opportunity to give a ‘shout out’ to all of my fellow color enthusiasts who joined me on April 29th for the Sensational Color For Your Home: Interior Color Consultant Certification course-taught for the first time (drum roll [...] Read more »
I’m Virtually Inspired, Thanks To Designer Pages
I love tearing inspirations from magazines, don’t you? Those genius Post-It page tabs that so many of my favorite back issues are overly marked with, can themselves be place under the tab: “little-things-in-life that make me happy”. Even when I’m NOT in the market for a room redo (I capitalize ‘not’ on the very off-chance [...] Read more »
Early Spring’s Sugary Colors
I just returned home from a pre-Easter week South of the Mason Dixon Line. The Cherry Trees were in bloom, as were the tulips, daffodils and (almost) an Azaleas or two. I ran into a giant white bunny-for real (see below) and ingested more jelly beans than I can remember. I screamed on a Tilt-A-Whirl, [...] Read more »
