I Prayed For Gray: Part 2

Catch up with I Prayed For Gray: Part 1 -Here So it’s Wednesday night and I have just discovered the most beauti-mus kitchen within the Grange Showroom (NYDC 200 Lex. Suite 201).  Traditional Home magazine is hosting the event, a bevy of talented designers have created vignettes throughout the showroom depicting ‘Chic Chateau Family Style’ [...] Read more »

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I Prayed For Gray: Part 1

Isn’t it funny how sometimes you actually pray for a rainy, gray day?  I know, I know, its usually the other way around…but after an almost month long string of amazingly clear and sunny days here in New York that have made “doing” very possible–I honestly don’t think I’ve stopped to take a breather in [...] Read more »

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My Color Personality Wake Up Call

This morning I thought it might be fun to try out some of House Beautiful’s suggestions on ways to discover: What’s Your Color Personality? as are featured in their current ( and wonderful) Issue. I figured a little colorful feng shui, chromotherapy and colorastrology could be just the ticket to jump starting  my self-professed Autumn [...] Read more »

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Peridot: August’s Birthstone

Pure and pretty peridot is a perpetual pleaser. It’s palette is paler than precious emerald and tourmaline, however; by no means paltry. For many it is preferable, perhaps because picking peridot for a bit of panache will not empty your purse. Read more »

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Is winning the Triple Crown a matter of colors?

Wow, sure wish I had placed a big bet on Mine That Bird in yesterday’s 135th Kentucky Derby. What a race, what a colorful event… what an amazing upset!!! In what felt like a Hollywood scripted ending- the ‘against all odd’ horse and the jockey with a ‘heart of gold’ came from behind in the [...] Read more »

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