Life is a plot line.We are born, time passes, stuff happens and then we die.End of story.(All photos by LBG.)When were growing up, many of us spend a lot of time focusing on the job, the salary, the ...
(Click HERE.)Thank you to Joslyn over at Simple Lovely for her post on some of my most recent favorite things. It was an honor to answer her questions. And I return the girl crush!
Los Angeles was injected with a exciting dose of exoticism last week.Uberblogger Maryam Montague was in town for a whirlwind visit to promote her brand-new book Marrakesh by Design.(Photo by Lis...
So this is totally last-minute but isnt life sometimes more exciting that way? Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson is giving an exclusive performance this Sunday, May 20th at 6:30 pm at one of my fav...
Happiness doesnt come to those who sit back and wait for it.It comes to those who fight for it.1. Unless you make make being happy a priority, it might pass you going in the other direction without y...
Im no good at math, but I have always loved word puzzles. When I was a kid, I could take a 24-hour road trip from Michigan to Florida with just "The Big Book of Cryptograms" to occupy me. (Fi...
One of my favorite bloggers, Patricia Gaye Tapp, is having an exclusive Tastemaker Sale tomorrow on one of my favorite websites, One Kings Lane. Her blog Little Augury i...
My husband teases me that I am like a nervous vicar when I cook, always slightly fearful that something is about to go horribly wrong ("The organist is ill! The vestry roof is leaking!"). Hes...
Maya is one of the first people I met when I moved to my neighborhood in Los Angeles eight years ago. One day she knocked on the front door, flashed her radiant smile and suddenly I was missing Manha...
Time: 10:30am, a few weeks agoPlace: Borough Green station, a 45 minute train ride from central LondonFor an Arcadian outing, it wasnt the most auspicious of beginnings. But this book is n...
Up betimes. Dressed fast and went down to breakfast because I wanted to snap a few photos of the lovely side room off the hotel restaurant. My God, is it ever laid-back, comfortable and sexy. Low sea...
We were there for eight days, but it went by in a blur, as great vacations are wont to do.(Photos by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti)After landing at Heathrow, we jumped into a taxicab and headed into the hea...
There was a golden carriage.(Photos by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti.)And a dinner with Winston.And an enchanting shop deep in the heart of Soho.And a teen-aged dandy with a sartorial spin on the past.And t...
(Photo by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti)Flying home today from London.Stay tuned for new posts (need to sleep a little first).x/Lisa
I was looking through a book on Old Master portraiture the other day and found myself completely fascinated by the way everybody posed back then. Their body language, their relationship with the pers...
(Photo by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti)"Stop by the house this weekend," I told him. "Ill whip up some cardamom scones, Ill ask you a few questions, itll be fun." I can talk to him like thi...
(Early morning writing session.)Someone asked me recently how I come up with ideas for blog posts.The answers easy.I think of you.When you leave a comment on my blog, I become the reader and you beco...
It was one of those weekends that by its very ordinariness became special. Piero made Jamie Olivers shepherds pie (from HERE) on Saturday and we invited a few friends over to enjoy it.(All photos by ...
Hurry out and nab the March Vogue with Adele on the cover.(Photograph by Jay Fitzgerald)Because Schuyler Samperton, one of my favorite LA interior designers, has done it again.The last time I had cof...
Commenter # 25: Steph said...Thanks for the inspiration Lisa. Life is change, and I think you have a fantastic book in you based on your talk for your next act. I am having a second baby in the next ...
Its never too late to have the life you want.(Available HERE. Or enter my giveaway. Details below.)Ive been waiting to tell you about this forever. Last year, I was invited by Barbara Machen and Jenn...
My chic red-headed friend Elizabeth just alerted me to illustrator Kyle Hiltons genius 2D facsimiles of some of our favorite Downton characters (Violet! Sybil! Mary and Matthew! OBrien and Thomas!) a...
Virginia Woolf called them our "secret deposit of exquisite moments" -- all the trivial details that when collected together constitute the sum of who you are.(Virginia Woolf by Ottoline Morr...
Thursday dusk, February 2ndIts been three long years since I last set foot in New York City.(Gazing north on Lexington Avenue toward the Chrysler Building.All photographs by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti.)M...
O, Manahatta. You get me every time.(New York City, 1942. All photographs by the incredible Charles Cushman.Click HERE to view his archive.)Interesting things may be forming on the horizon.Back in 36...
Pamela Fugate is a woman after my own heart.Available HERE.
Liberty has just unveiled their new season of art fabrics and Ive made up a test especially for you. Lets see how clever you are in divining the inspiration of the prints below.(Hint: In one of the q...
Ive been trying to eat healthy this year, I really have.(My Sunday Lunch:Roast rutabagas, parsnips and sweet potatoes with green salad.)In fact, for the last 15 days, Ive been following the "Clea...
The most fascinating ones are brilliant, maddening birds of paradise. Im thinking of three in particular.1. Amanda EliaschFamous quotes:"The Muscovites say that the moment a woman learns to be ug...
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is a creation of the mind.~Buddha(Sunrise on Rapa Nui, 2007. Photo by LBG.)Every ...
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