By the time this post goes up I will be en route…traveling most of May… and of course the best part is spending time with my girls. My adventure got off to an early start, meeting up with...
Abundant patches of deep green… French Sorrel pushing its way up through the garden soil is a sure sign that Spring has arrived. This lowly garden herb has a long European history of detoxifyin...
Every woman needs a space of her own…make that multiple spaces…her own closet, her own bathroom and her own home office. My office is really my MacBook that travels with me from room to r...
No matter how many times a year I get to visit my daughters in New York and Paris and no matter how many times they come “home” to Santa Barbara, it’s still so very difficult being ...
flowers… roses and hydrangeas top my list of favorites… yet, there is something so elegant so alluring in the orchid… this flower of exotic mysteries is starting to feel like a comfortabl...
from a paint box of Easter colors… * * orchids in an antique french cachepot * * marbleized eggs * a palette of suffused pastels * reminiscent of a fanciful array of childhood Easter dresses… worn wi...
It was one of those love at first sight experiences…since I first laid eyes on a certain Country Estate, I have been trying to justify its purchase. I first visited it back in December… a...
Floral Delivery… Don’t you just love it when the doorbell rings and it”s your favorite florist with an armful of Flowers. I had a birthday recently and my sweet Paris daughter sent ...
Spring… seems the perfect time to reconsider that place where we live roughly one third of our lives… I don’t know why, but I am most at home in a French styled bed… It may be...
Another fabulous reason to resume my power walks… is the opportunity to wander through… the mesmerizing purple haze of… Wisteria… It’s blooming all over Santa Barbara ri...
Just like when they were babies, the first thing I do each morning is check in on my children. It used to mean a climb to the top of the stairs and down a hallway…now they are grown and far fl...
While the change of seasons is not dramatic in our mild Santa Barbara climate…if you are tuned in you can just feel that Spring is imminent… in fact…She has tricked my garden angel ...
Congratulations to Kari McIntosh of Kari McIntosh Design. Kari is the winner of the Paris Shopping Give Away and the beautiful Mis en Demeure hand painted vase and collection of Yves Delormé guest so...
Congratulations to Kerrie Mc Intosh of XXXXXXX. She is the winner of the Paris Shopping Give Away and the beautiful Mes a Mis hand painted vase. Kerrie is a designer living in San Francisco and has...
It is always fun to see how far the apple falls from the tree…both of my daughters began expressing their independent interior design preferences at an early age…the lavender color of the...
It has been a little over a year since I reinfused a small portion of my Blue & White collection… back into my own personal decor. It was as simple as raiding my prop storage and laundry r...
Did I tell you how much we loved hanging out with George and Brad in Cannes… it’s always so darn hard to choose between the two. Who get’s your vote for Oscar…
On the Veranda… this last May Loire Valley ~ France…. visiting with my dear friend Claude at his beautiful home. I will let you in on a little secret…while the Chateau is hundreds of yea...
I have a long standing love affair with Aquamarine perhaps it is my birth right… a Pisces through and through… Aquamarine is my birthstone and I seem drawn to all watery shades. Imagine m...
In a effort to rediscover my former leaner self, I have decided to give up dairy and all other animal products except for fish… so replacing that rather generous and indulgent splash of half &a...
Visions of Pink… ♥♥♥ slow dance through our February thoughts… ♥ ♥ choreographing a pleasing tableau of… ♥ rose filled rooms… ♥ sweet confections a la Marie Antoinette… ...
It’s been years since I remodeled my kitchen, but it’s easy to give it a facelift from time to time by just changing it up a bit… This is where a microwave used to live… durin...
When it comes to kitchens, have you ever wondered why we tend to hide all of the pretty things and leave the ugly stuff out on the counter tops. I decided long ago this would not be the case in my k...
I am continually amazed at the generosity of our blogging community. No sooner had I spoken off-line of our upcoming Paris Shopping Tours to a couple of bloggers, than they graciously offered to men...
After fielding many emails over the years asking me where to shop in Paris and to divulge some well kept secrets, the time has finally come to launch an official Guided Tour…and so here you hav...
I am sure you have had that dream… you know the one I mean…where you wake up in… and it’s Springtime… and you are literally dancing through the streets… (that is w...
Waking up in Paris…there’s an unspoken magic to it… especially when the morning light streaming through your bedroom window… mimics the sunset you witnessed the evening before...
Now that we have taken the tour of the charming little Paris kitchen, I thought you might like to get a look at the main living space in this Paris Apartment… one of the best things about this ...
being 22 years young… living in and being faced with not only an entire but also with creating a where there had been none… I am amazed at what my very capable daughter achieved without t...
I am thrilled to have such up to the minute children…who almost daily pull me out from under the rock I don’t even realize I am living under…New York daughter arrived in Cali on Sat...
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